Cell Phones

Free Mobile Search

May 7, 2008

Ever need a question answered when you are away from your computer, and only have a cell phone? ChaCha is a free mobile search service that responds to queries asked via telephone or send as a text message (SMS). To ask a question, either call 1-800-2ChaCha or text your question to 242242 (C-H-A-C-H-A on your [...]

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Twitter Wants to Know What You Are Doing

November 20, 2007

“What are you doing?” Twitter is a micro-blogging social networking site that asks that one question, and gives you 140 characters to broadcast an answer to all your friends, family and co-workers. Intrigued by the possibilities? Here are a few guides to get you started: MasterNewMedia’s Twitter – A Beginner’s Guide , Caroline Middlebrook’s Big [...]

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Cell Phone Camera Tips

December 12, 2006

Disappointed with photos you’ve snapped with your cell phone? Here are three pointers for improving them. Use the entire frame, don’t just focus on the center. Adjust the brightness level if the image on your display seems too dark or too light. Place your subjects off-center for a more interesting layout. For more tips, read [...]

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Google Maps Mobile

August 15, 2006

Google Maps Mobile has just announced a free download for your cell phone that will display real- time traffic in thirty metropolitan cities. To learn more, visit the site from your home computer. To download the free mobile phone application, visit the site from the web browser of your cell phone.

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Cell Phone as Modem

March 21, 2005

Most cell phones can be used as portable modems, allowing you to access the Internet from your laptop. You will need a connection kit (usually a data cable and software such as those sold by Gomadic ), ISP login details, and a data plan to pay for your usage. Although most cell carriers only offer [...]

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Google SMS

October 19, 2004

Google SMS (Short Message Service) gives short answers to text queries from your mobile phone. Just send your search as a text message and get retail locations, phone book listings, or dictionary definitions in response. For example texting “Starbucks 92014″ to 46-645 (GOOGL on most phones) returns two locations of the ubiquitous coffee house within [...]

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News To Go

April 13, 2004

Even if your handheld offers Internet access, it is often slow, expensive, hard to read, and difficult to navigate. A lower tech way of getting news, movie listings, weather and sports on your PDA or smart phone is through your daily computer sync. You do sync every day, don’t you? AvantGo offers thousands of free [...]

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Sending Text Messages

January 20, 2004

To send a text message from your computer to a cell phone used to require that you knew the recipient’s cell phone provider and the exact syntax of their address, such as 1234567890@mobile.att.net. But with Telefilp you can reach almost all mobile phones with one easy to remember syntax: 1234567890@telefilp.com . The Telefilp service is [...]

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Dictionary and Thesaurs

March 18, 2003

For those times when a dictionary is nowhere in sight, but your email-enabled cell phone is handy, check out the free dictionary and thesaurus email services from Wordsmith.org. To access, send an email to wsmith@wordsmith.org with a command (“define” or “synonym”) followed by your word in the subject line. For example to get a definition [...]

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News Alerts

January 28, 2003

News junkies who want breaking news in their email box or on their mobile phone can sign up at Yahoo! News or The New York Times. Both free services allow you to customize your alerts with keywords.

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