Thursday, March 17, 2011

Pandora Radio Is REALLY REALLY AWESOME!

I know I sometimes have a glacial mindset and am slow to new things, but I've realized how awesome Pandora internet radio is!!!!!!!! You choose a radio station that's based on an artist or song, and click a thumbs up to hear more songs like the one you've heard, or thumbs down for one's you don't want to hear as much. Pandora learns your tastes.As you listen to other 'stations', eventually after awhile you can just play the quickmix station and it will play varied music from all your stations. Essentially it's a customized radio station. Even Satellite radio can't beat that! If you want to follow me on Pandora, I'll follow you back,



http://www.pandora.com/people/justgold79

Saturday, March 5, 2011

Syncing Android, iPhone, Blackberry, Windows Mobile, Outlook and Gmail Contacts

Funambol is open-source, has an outlook plugin,  as well as apps for android, blackberry, windows mobile, symbian, iphone, and generic java micro edition phones! 

Your contacts, notes, calendar and pictures are online at http://my.funambol.com/


IT'S THE ONLY FREE SYNC APP I'VE EVER FOUND THAT CAN BACKUP MY BLACKBERRY'S NOTES WITHOUT A USB CABLE! AND THAT'S GREAT BECAUSE I LOST A FEW IMPORTANT NOTES (EG GREAT BUSINESS IDEAS) BECAUSE I WASN'T DOING DAILY BLACKBERRY DESKTOP MANAGER BACKUPS THROUGH USB!


Since they just released the Blackberry app, I've noticed the web interface isn't always online. Also the blackberry app and the service is still beta, so continue using Google Sync or m:IQ (eg miqlive) as well!


You can even host your own funambol server, in case you don't want your phone's data "in the cloud"! If you run your own sync server you can even synchronize with Microsoft Exchange, Google Contacts, Zimbra, or Yahoo!.

I cross-posted this from my post in the Gmail Help Forums.