iPhone Ninja move for telemarketer calls

How many times have you answered an unidentified phone call only to realize it's a telemarketer you've heard from before?

Here's something cool you can do those calls: Once you hang up, press the little arrow to the right of the incoming number in your iPhone's "Recent" calls history. Tap the "Create New Contact" button to create a person called "Telemarketer" in your contacts.

Next time that number calls, you won't even have to think - your iPhone will display "Telemarketer."

Start adding all unwanted numbers to this contact with "Add to Existing Contact". Eventually, your "Telemarketer" contact will have a few dozen phone numbers associated with it, and you can ignore all of them in confidence.

Web meeting with Adobe

This is a screenshot from a recent Webinar hosted by Jive Software. They had four speakers interacting in a mock version of Jeopardy - with moving slides, and full audio. It worked pretty well.

They also had a live chat window in the lower left, and it was pretty interesting because instead of just taking questions in a queued/moderated way like LiveMeeting does, it actually was an open chat room session, and the moderators and several viewers were getting into some rowdy side-discussions!

Safari is the bumblebee

I love this error page. It comes up every time I log into the expense coding system. It's pretty ominous, and encourages me to use one of these other options for a browser. 

The old quote says "

"Based on weight ratios to wing power and wind resistance, the bumblebee should be incapable of flight, yet, the theory says, the bumblebee doesn’t know that, so it flies anyway."

So what do you do here? Just click "Upgrade Later" and go on ahead. Safari doesn't know it's not supported, and so it works like a champ.

Supercool use of neoprene

Well, you don't see this every day.

These Built Bags neoprene-skin-cases at Koyono are some of the most interesting I've seen. The backpack seems like something that a future human-cyborg robot-flesh organism would wear, if those creatures actually carried 17" Macbooks (of course they will). Seems like you should wear that with a speedo and carry a speargun, a la Thunderball.

Not sure I have the muscles or skintone to do that, but the green laptop sleeve is certainly an option. Stick your cables and chargers in the expanding slits just like you're feeding some mutant underworld sea anenome, and pack the whole extraterrestrial glob under your arm to your next meeting. Definitely a way to turn heads.

Fwd: Mac support group: Cool application launcher

One quick tap on the power button also gives you this Restart/Sleep/Shut Down menu. At least it's defaulted to that. You can program it to sleep when you hit it . I didn't know about the key combo.

 

Another cool trick when you find an app not responding (Like Entourage) is Apple(Command)+Alt +Esc to pull up the Force Quit menu. It's sort of the Mac version of the Ctrl-Alt-Del command in Windows.

 

Also -- John -- not sure you saw my note about Apple ` (right above the Tab key) for toggling through windows in a single app.

Man we need a blog/wiki to post this stuff.....:)

 

 

On May 8, 2008, at 7:45 AM, Andrew Dunn wrote:

Hey John, I just tried citrix over VPN from home – works fine.  Not sure what changed but I'm glad that it did.

Question for the group: I have the Microsoft MSN Live client installed and it works great EXCEPT when I'm on the VPN.  Seems weird because I know with the windows version it works regardless of being vpn'd or not.  Interested to see what others are noticing?

Also wanted to share my favorite keyboard shortcut: control-eject.  This gives you a restart/sleep/shut down menu similar to windows.  At the end of the day I just Alt-Q every app and then ctrl-eject to close 'er down :)

cheers, Andrew


On 5/2/08 11:50 PM, "John Hegarty" <jhegarty@gci.com> wrote:

Hi -

Pretty Nice.

On the Citrix while VPN'd issue.  Seems as if this now works from several locations, home, hotel.  Nice to have this functionality back.  I'd like to see what others find.

Andrew – you mentioned a keyboard short cut to browse files within an application,  that is Alt tab gets you to excel but is there a shortcut to tab through all open excel docs?

Thanks,

John


On 5/2/08 11:23 PM, "Andrew Dunn" <adunn@gci.com> wrote:

Adding the applications folder to the dock works pretty well, but this little tool is more like the old Windows start bar.  Gives you a nice hierarchical menu up on the menu bar to access all your apps.

http://softbend.free.fr/himmelbar/index.html

 

Re: chat to text

MSN Messenger doesn't do the auto Chat-to-SMS relay. It only works
with AIM.

Definitely recommend getting a free AIM account. You can download
pidgin to have both your AIM and MSN accounts in one application.

Then just add a new buddy called "+15035551212" which equals your
friend's cell phone number and ping it to send an SMS right to their
phone. They can reply to the message directly, which will appear in
your chat window.

On May 20, 2008, at 8:40 PM, kedwards wrote:

> How is it I add a TN to my MSN so I can send text messages to any
> phone directly from MSN? I've done a quick Google for it and can't
> find anything.

Mobile Evernote

Impressed more and more daily by Evernote. Check out the mobile versions. I turned my friend Arthur onto it recently, as he's been using Remember The Milk for several months. He's also got a T-Mobile Dash running Window Mobile 6, so I'm curious how he likes the Evernote mobile app.