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Does your new Windows Mobile phone no longer work with your bluetooth headset or bluetooth in your car? Try the JETware Hands-free Extension. Worked seamlessly for me!

They offer a free 30-day trial before purchasing. Give it a shot and get it here: http://www.jetwaremobile.com/

The JETware Hands-free Extension provides additional functionality to the built-in Windows Mobile support for the Bluetooth Hands-Free Profile. The Extension allows hands-free devices to:

* Read contacts from the Outlook phonebook (“ME” phonebook)
* Read contacts from the SIM (“SM” phonebook)
* Read the list of dialed calls from the call history (“DC” phonebook)
* Read the list of received calls from the call history (“RC” phonebook)
* Read the list of missed calls from the call history (“MC” phonebook)
* Filter contacts from Outlook phonebook based on Outlook contact categories
* Limit number of contacts returned from any phonebook
* Activate Microsoft Voice Command 1.5 or 1.6 voice dialing over Bluetooth
* Use custom ringtones through your Bluetooth device
* Show battery charge level
* Show signal strength
* Show roaming status
* Display carrier name
* Read message headings from ActiveSync, SMS, or other mail provider
* New message notification
* Delete messages
* Read SIM serial number (used to automatically select display language)
* Read GSM phone IMEI number
* Read phone default phone number
* Read current time from phone
* Improved Caller ID
* Beam multiple contacts to your hands-free device at once
* Support for device specific settings, downloadable from JETware
* Online activation using your phone's data connection or ActiveSync

Note: All features are subject to the capabilities of the Bluetooth hands-free device to which the Windows Mobile phone is connected. Many Bluetooth hands-free devices do not support all of the above features. See the documentation of your Bluetooth hands-free device to determine which features will be used by your device.

Free CD Burning Software alternatives to Nero

Recommended:

CD Burner XP
CDBurnerXP is a free application to burn CDs and DVDs, including Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs. It also includes the feature to burn and create ISOs, as well as a multilanguage interface. Everyone, even companies, can use it for free. It does not include adware or similar malicious components.

InfraRecorder
InfraRecorder is a free CD/DVD burning solution for Microsoft Windows. It offers a wide range of powerful features; all through an easy to use application interface and Windows Explorer integration.

ImgBurn
ImgBurn is a lightweight but advanced CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray burning application that everyone should have in their toolkit!

Looking to email blast cell phone numbers for free? Look up a number's phone carrier via these sites:

http://www.telcodata.us/telcodata/telco
http://www.primeris.com/fonefind

Once the phone carrier is determined, add the relevant mobile email addresses to the phone number.

Alltel yourphonenumber@message.alltel.net
AT&T yourMmodeUsername@mymmode.com (changed from yourphonenumber@mobile.att.net)
Cingular yourphonenumber@mobile.mycingular.com
Nextel yourphonenumber@messaging.nextel.com
Sprint yourphonenumber@messaging.sprintpcs.com
SunCom yourmobilenumber.sms@tritonpcs
T-mobile yourphonenumber@tmomail.com
Telus Mobility yourphonenumber@msg.telus.com
VoiceStream yourphonenumber@voicestream.net
Verizon yourphonenumber@vtext.com

Find free edu blog links via Google search.

Type: inurl:blogs inurl:edu

Why are .edu links so important? .edu links belong to educational institutions, therefore many links referenced from them are meaningful or resource links to additional meaningful material, therefore search engines take give them credibility. In addition, they are less likely to have spam which also gives them more priority by search engines like Google.

How to get links from .edu domains relevant to your website's topic

Easy to do with Freecoder toolbar!

Get it here: http://applian.com/freecorder4/

A Japanese marine biologist and educator named Masamichi Hayashi has developed a new aspect of education. He has created some one hundred life-like, hand-made fish bots constructed from all kinds of recycled objects, including everything under the sun from discarded rainwear to windscreen wipers.

A few of the larger fish bot models can open and close their mouths and eat artificial “prey”!

Read more here: http://www.weirdasianews.com/2010/01/20/children-learn-sea-life-teacher-fish-bots/

Speak to your Moshi Alarm Clock with no training or programming!

Moshi Alarm Clocks are equipped with Technology that Listens™. Moshi's Technology that Listens™ or Voice Control (VC) Technology utilizes a unique blend of two speech recognition models resulting in a user-friendly interface that allows you to speak to your alarm clock with no training nor programming.

More here: http://www.moshilifestyle.com

Link: http://www.reuters.com/article/wiredGadgets/idUS2965808920091214

Having played with it briefly myself, this phone is amazing! The video on my post, http://www.galido.net/blog/index.php/coolblog/2009/12/14/jingle-bells-played-backwards was captured by this particular phone.

Has great potential to beat the iPhone. Google's new "Nexus One" Smartphone is Andriod-based, so now's the time to start developing your own Android apps as they are said to work on this phone! Said to be sold unlocked by Google themselves so that you can use with any GSM carrier.

More Links:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/14/technology/companies/14gphone.html

http://blogs.zdnet.com/cell-phones/?p=2731

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/connect/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501833&objectid=10615470

Link: http://www.galido.net/blog/index.php/coolblog/2009/12/14/jingle-bells-played-backwards

See original post: Jingle Bells Backwards

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92zf7w4lP08

This is an SEO tactic experiment using an existing popular search term/video, "Backwards Jingle Bells" (a term that gets about 12k queries/mo.) and putting in my own "Jingle Bells Backwards" video to "leech" off that search. So here we go.

Step 1 - Anchor Links:
Now implementing some SEO by putting in some variations of anchor text linking to the videos. This will help Google pick up my videos with the search term "Backwards Jingle Bells" and "Jingle Bells Backwards". (note: there are duplicate videos with unique links for exposure and to be able to repost on various sites, both linked here)

Backwards Jingle Bells

Jingle Bells Backwards

In addition to these, I will do the same concept on other high ranking sites.

Step 2 - Post video/content relevant to the original video and use the same titles and similar tags:

We've created our video content and I've posted the video content on Youtube (the guy playing is me). I use the same titles as the original video, along with some similar descriptions. Now I wait to test and see what kind of traffic this picks up. I will post results in a month.

Update: Keyword "Jingle Bells backwards" takes the lead! Amazing!

Credits: Taken with the new Google phone (not yet available to the public) by my good friend MC. Clear video!

The original "Backwards Jingle Bells".