Find your lost, stolen, or misplaced phone! - Find My Phone

Have you ever lost your phone? I have. It happens. With this neat app I just installed from the Android app store you can send your lost cell phone a text message and it will automatically respond with its location and a link to a relative location in Google Maps.

Virgin Mobile Punishes Customers For Company Mistakes.

So as you may already know I have been going through much trouble with my new LG Optimus V cell phone from Virgin Mobile. We have been going through trial and error trying to figure out what the exact problem is. After a month of having, and paying service for, a defective cell phone they have come to the conclusion that the phone needs to be replaced.

The Pirate Bay Is Down - July 2011

So I heard that The Pirate Bay is down. I am not sure why but you should all know that it's not just you.

Someone probably tripped over a power cable or something. They should be back up soon. I'll let you all know what I find out! Just use the social network links in the right sidebar to follow for updates!

UPDATE: Looks like The Pirate Bay is back online!

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Juice Defender Crashed My LG Optimus Launcher

The LG Optimus V doesn't have very good battery life. I was already doing what I could to try and prolong the life of the battery. I had finally came to the conclusion that it was time to let an app conserve my battery power.

I had read around online and found Juice Defender. I downloaded the ultimate version of it and it was working perfectly. I was already noticing slightly more battery life before I had to recharge it. Last night I turned the phone off as I always. This morning I turned on the phone and the home screen launcher would continuoisly crash rendering the phone useless.

To fix this I turned on my phone, went to the android market on my laptop, and downloaded and installed launcher pro. This allowed me to use a different home screen launcher on my phone. Once usinging Launcher pro I wanted my old launcher back that I had gotten use to. To get it back I un-installed Juice Defender and everything started to work normally again!

Let's hope that my phone continues to work and that Juice Defender will fix this problem on the LG Optimus V.

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Happy Birthday Twitter!

Today, July 15 2011, marks the fifth year since Twitter was first opened to the public. It was originally called Twttr inspired by Flickr. The original idea behind Twitter was a SMS driven social network. It was designed to be mainly operated through plain 140 character text messages.

On July 15, 2006 there were 244 tweets sent in the entire day. That is the total that is sent in one tenth of a second today. The website took 16 months to get to 600,000 users. Now that's how many people sign up on an average day.

This was the original blueprint for Twttr  that was drawn by Jack Dorsey.

Twitter Facts

• Twitter was originally called Twttr after Flickr. This was because it was originally designed to be used through cell phone with a 5 digit American SMS short code.
• The first Twitter Message was published by Jack Dorsey. It said, "just setting up my twttr"
• Twitter made not a single dime in profit for the first three years of its operation. 
• Twitter means "a short burst of inconsequential information"
• An average of 150 million tweets are send per day.

 

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How To Take A Screen Shot On Android Optimus V

I was searching for an easy way to do this. I had found a method which required me to download and install an Android SDK and have my phone connected to my computer in order for it to work.
So this new way to do it is with a very small app from the Android market called "Shoot Me"
The description of the app says that it requires the phone to be rooted but I was able to take screen shots on my LG Optimds V with no problems.
So try this on your phone and let me know how it works!

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Another handy tool is this Android VNC Server. You can remote control your phone wherever you are!

Clearly English Isn't His First Language - Virgin Mobile Customer Support

I have been in contact with Virgin Mobile about my new cell phone recently. This is because I received a broken charger with it and they said that they would send me a replacement overnight. Well it has been about a week and this is their response.

Hi Andy,


   I've apologize at this time your orders still stuck in submitted status will contact the wwarehouse via email to see of the chargers backorder..

Teareney F.
Social Media Team

That was their exact response. You would think that they could at least spell check their e-mails before sending them...

I just want my charger. I will be leaving on vacation soon and would really like to not have to plug my phone into my laptop every time I would like to charge it.

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Bad Power Adapter - Android LG Optimus V

My new Virgin Mobile LG Optimus V Android phone has recently stopped charging. It was strange because I would plug the phone with the provided USB cable into the provided wall charging unit and it would start to charge. Then minutes later if you show the phone not charging but the battery widget I use said that the phone was still plugged into the wall. So I am not sure what exactly is going on.

I tried the phone on my computer and it charged just fine. So I tried using a spare wall wort usb charger that I had for an old mp3 player and it's charging just fine. The only problem now is that it takes forever to charge. This is probably because the original LG charger had an output of 5.1 volts at 700mA and my old charger just has an output of 5v at 600mA. It isn't much but when you factor in the total output wattage you are looking at a .57 difference in watts. I guess that could be enough to cause slow charging...

Anyway I am currently sending emails back and forth with someone somewhere with virgin mobile. I hope that they can send me a replacement by the end of the week because I will be going on a trip next week and I would like to have a charger that I can rely on.

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MSI 870A-G55 Gaming Series Motherboard Review

My new computer had this great motherboard inside of it. So far I have had no problems with it. It provides fast speeds, easy overclocking, and some neat features. The board was also not very expensive. I only spent about $90 at Newegg and it also had a rebate but I didn't want to go and star ripping the UPC off of the box.