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05/02/2010 23:22 #51493

Nexus One magic
Category: mobile
The nexus one is magic in a lot of ways. One of those it the support for google voice. The way it works, you get voicemail, the voicemail is translated into text and then sent to you as email or text message.

Sounds awesome, right? Sadly, though I found it is not very accurate. This particular voicemail is pretty is from Rite Aid telling me that my medicine was ready for pickup. It is supposed to say "This is your rite aid store" What is especially weird is that it is also a robot talking. Apparently, google's speech-to-text translator cannot understand robot voice very well.

Here is the mp3

::DOWNLOAD SOUND::



Here is the translation:

Hello, this is your wife the door. We are calling to remind Paul Visco. There's your order is ready you can pick up your order until May 16th 20 parents this message will be repeated this is your wife needs door. We are calling to remind Paul Visco. Did your order is ready you can pick up your order until May 16th 20 padding this message will be repeated this is your wife needs door. We are calling to remind Paul Visco. Did your order is ready you can pick up your order until May 16th 20. Hey in.



lilho - 05/03/10 10:26
I agree with Heidi. Your wife seems to need door very badly.
fing - 05/03/10 07:46
I use Google Voice and have it answer my cell phone messages. It is nice to have the message emailed to you. I do find that even though it is wrong most of the time you can still make out what is generally being said.
heidi - 05/03/10 00:11
Your wife needs door!!!! Very important!

04/30/2010 21:02 #51482

Iphone OS user photo path
Category: mobile
I needed to get to the old photos on my iphone before giving it to (e:Terry). Unfortunately, they they will not transfer to iphoto anymore. It seems like once I got over 900 in one folder it didn't want to sync on any mac. Anyhow, thankfully I had jailbroken it, so I just SCPed the photos from the iphone to the computer. The problem was trying to find the photos. I used updatedb and then locate. Find could have worked but it would have taken a while because my iphone was packed with so much crap.

Anyhow the point of the journal is to tell other people looking for the same data that it is in /private/var/mobile/Media/DCIM
fing - 05/01/10 11:47
I am very glad that you like your Nexus One. Gives me hope for when it is time for me to get a new phone. However, I may have to stick to the Roswell policy unless I want to go out on my own.
tinypliny - 05/01/10 10:18
I guess they chucked out the "our-everything-is-always-intuitive-and-we-rock-so-much-everyone-must-praise-us-without-criticism" when it came to iphones.

04/28/2010 22:12 #51470

nighttime photo 2
Category: mobile
this was a particularly tricky nightshot of a dim lamp in the dark
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metalpeter - 04/29/10 17:08
That is a tough shot. For those that know more about this then I they could give a much better reason. As you add light through a flash then the picture gets brighter and you don't see the light from the light.. Also if the camera focuses on the light and reads that as the light level then every thing else is super dark.
tinypliny - 04/28/10 22:14
Very cool lamp - looks like it has molten volcanic lava.

04/28/2010 03:35 #51465

So ready for bed - nexus one tether ya
Category: mobile
I spent the last hour rooting my nexus one so i could tether and write this sentence. Interesting sidenote: once you have tethering enabled both fedora and windows can tether with USB. On fedora it is even easier than windows. I plugged in the phone and it shows up in the network manager as a internet source.

There is no way to get it to work on the mac. For that you have to use a wifi tethering option which sucks because its way less secure, slow and requires extra power to run.

It also has a flash and this picture was taken in darkness to give you an idea how good that works in dark.
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The best part is being able to listen to streaming radio n the background. I am sure the new iphone will do that out of the box too.
paul - 04/28/10 23:08
I love it!
tinypliny - 04/28/10 20:47
Try taking shots of food. It makes food look glorious an seductive!
zobar - 04/28/10 20:40
So how do you like it so far?

- Z

04/26/2010 20:26 #51456

Cleaning up


Because I was so sick all weekend and then ended up at cat houses in
the tour, I was ready to suffocate by today. Therefore, I spent all
day wearing a gas mask which actually helps in these situations.

My favorite is ricola and a gas mask.

We had to clean up for our block club home tour afterparty which is at
our house. I dusted each spindle on the stairs which takes forever.
Getting rid of some dust should help my allergies.

We also added a full size couch to the side parlour and it actually
fits. Once the fireplace works I may never leave the room.
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lilho - 04/27/10 14:00
i like, my fav for extreme allergies is flonase... it works better than anything else. now i just need an inhaler and i will have to allergy cure match made in breathe easy heaven!!!
heidi - 04/26/10 20:46
The couch looks awesome. (Does the den look bare?)