Back In Action
I’ve been stuck without a working PC for way too long now. I’m back.
I was relying on a cheap ($120.00) tablet or My smart phone for email an such, but My Polaroid T7 internet tablet sucked so bad for typing because of the incapability of its insensitive touch screen that the attempt was pointless. And although I managed some email with My DroidX, I do not recommend counting on a smartphone (of any type) for managing your digital life. They can enhance your mobile life, but to rely on them as a digital answer is going well beyond what they are capable of doing.
I would like to grab an Asus Prime Transformer to replace My broken netbook PC, but at least I have my Sony Full HD Laptop working again. The power supply (the AC converter) went out on it and now I am using a 3 prong version from Batteries Plus while I await My order for the Sony stock replacement (which isn’t the one that it came with, as My computer has become obsolete).
But at least I can blog again. And I will in the future. Let Me tell you, cheap tablet touchscreens suck and tiny smartphone touchscreens are better, but they are still so tiny that they are too much of a chore to use.
I have lots of Android apps and hardware to recommend in the future, and I’ll be reviewing the Polaroid T7 as well as the Pandigital Planet (that I had been stuck with for 3 months), some android accessories that I think are cool and lots of cool apps, games and even some apps that need their creator(s) scolded.
I’ll be writing again, soon!
Glad to be back.
Crap, WordPress has changed. This will take a great deal of getting used to. I hate advertising. I’ll look for a non-spammy alternative. Maybe Tumblr…
BApps.com up for Auction
BApps.com is available for sale to the highest bidder at Sedo.
This domain WILL BE SOLD at auction as the reserve price has been met.
The auction for BApps.com will conclude on May/05/11 @ 05:51 AM Eastern Standard Time.
When the nameservers are reset by the new owner (or the transfer authority @ Sedo), the old blog will expire. It could be replaced by another should the new owner want one at the same old address, but that, of course, will all be up to the new registrant.
I have moved a couple posts to blog.widgetdroid.com and most of the rest I have moved here to domainating.com. Still updating a few with Categories and Post Tags.
Google Voice Takes Over
The other day my friend showed me how he had setup Google Voice on his Droid Incredible. He even had a widget that displayed what was transcribed after voice recognition tried to interpret his voice mail messages.
Eventually, I thought that it was a good idea and I thought I’d give it a try, thinking that I could always revert to my Verizon Voicemail if Google Voice didn’t work out for me.
To my surprise, I was getting a great deal more hang-ups and fewer voice mail messages with Voice than when using Verizon’s voicemail. On top of this, it appears that Google’s voice recognition technology, which works well on my DroidX for short sentences, is often fooled or stumped when interpreting any other message left me, probably due to its longer length.
That said, the voice recognition for Voice is at least attempting to do something when it comes to those longer messages which would stump the android 2 device, but it does seem that the longer the message left, the more silly that the Google Voice transcript became.
However, because of all of these extra hang-ups, I decided to to revert back to the Verizon default voice mail system. Unfortunately, Google Voice seems to have hijacked the answering system. Although I have used the Settings menu to set my Call Settings for Voicemail Service to “My carrier” and I am using the *86 number which is the default for Verizon’s Voicemail Settings. And Google Voice is still answering every single call that I miss.
I can’t find any other Voicemail settings in my DroidX. I even went down to my local Verizon store where I bought the phone and they can’t tell me what’s wrong. So now I have to call Verizon’s support line (which is what they were going to do at the Verizon store, but I didn’t have enough time to hang around at the time).
Verizon Support: Uninstall Google Voice.
I uninstalled Voice.
Verizon Support: It still goes straight to Google Voice.
Me: “I didn’t know it was going straight to voice.”
Transfered to a new Verizon tech support guy who took off call forwarding.
Me: “I had call forwarding?”
OK, now my voicemail is working again. If you are a business, you might want to stay away from Google Voice, but if you don’t like it, stop the call forwarding. That might require a call to a tech. I was told that I can always put call forwarding back on if I want it.
I’m glad this Verizon tech knew what was going on. Glad its over with, as well. 
I’m not so sure that Google Voice is a good idea for business after all this. At least you know what to do after reading this should you not like it. But taking some calls straight to voicemail without ringing? That indicates a problem in the business world. Not so sure I would like it doing anything like that for a personal phone, either.
Always something. I’m glad this little dilemma is over.
Update (May 1st, 2011): Google Voice has taken over my VoiceMail functions once again. I am so busy that I don’t have time to address this with Verizon. But Google Voice is answering my missed calls all over again (for at least a week now) and we had this fixed at one point. GRRRR…
The reason its a problem is that people are hanging up when Google Voice answers where they usually leave a message with Verizon VoiceMail. That sucks.
Busines Card Reader
If you have ever wanted a Business Card Reader (BCR), I just bet that it would have to be something handy. This is one of those cases where, if you were offered a program that you would install on your computer that would scan in business cards, you probably wouldn’t even bother with it unless it was free, am I right?
Well, the reason is simple, it just isn’t convenient. Having to take a business card home and scan it in just to have it available with all its contact information is actually more like a huge chore. But now-a-days we are all walking around with smartphones and finally, the convenience we require is available as a little app for our Android or iPhone!
Check out my article which covers the Android based version of the CamCard – BCR (western) which I absolutely love on My DroidX. But note that there is also a version for the asian market (Chinese/Japanese/Korean characters), another version for business, and that there are also alternate versions of each for the iPhone market as well.
With the convenience of hand held devices, the Business Card Reader has finally become a reliable and useful reality.
Business Apps: Password Safe
Although I have already reviewed Kuff’s Password safe on my android apps & widgets blog called Widget Droid, most readers here probably don’t realize that Kuff’s Password Safe is also the very best Password Safe/Vault application on Windows machines, as well.
So here is a link to my article on the very best Password organizer and encrypted safety app on the market…
What’s the Very Best Password Safe?
Just remember the master password that gets you into the program.
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