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This applies to Android 1.6. If you need to switch your phone to a new Google account, follow these two steps:

Main drawer » Settings » Applications » Manage Apps » Google Apps » Clear Data
Main drawer » Settings » Data Synchronization

Once you get to Data Synchronization, it will prompt you to create a Google account or login to your existing account.
Warning: This will re-synch all your Google data… GMail, Calendar, and Contacts.

Google Maps just launched an upgrade that includes bike trails layer and routes optimized for bicycles:
maps.google.com/biking

New WP theme released for iPhone and Android designed with touch-screen phones in mind:
bravenewcode.com/wptouch

Update: Just installed this theme on underblob. It is actually installed as a plug-in and not as a theme, which makes a lot more sense. The plug-in auto-detects user agent string and spits out the wptouch theme if you are viewing on a mobile device. This way it preserves your existing theme for peeps coming in on their desktop browsers. Pretty clever!

This mobile app by TAT uses facial recognition and social networks to present a layer of augmented reality over visual/video displays. Check it out:

Links

TAT.se
wikipedia/Augmented_Reality

Recently got the myTouch G3 phone with Android OS by Google. It is a lot of fun. I got it to speak French. There is an application that you can get from the Market called Rings Extended. It is free to download and install. Rings Extended allows you to assign ringtones from all of the audio files on the phone, not just the default Android ringtones.

Next, I went to Yahoo! Babel Fish since I can’t actually speak French myself. It traslates as best as it can from one language to another. Translate phrases like “incoming telephone call” to “appel téléphonique entrant”, etc. Copy the French phrase from Babel Fish and go over to AT&T’s speech-to-text demo page (see the links below). You can paste the text in and select to have it spoken in French by the Juliette voice and it will create a .wav audio file for you to download.

From here it gets pretty obvious… USB or Bluetooth your phone to your computer, copy the files over and then choose the ringtones for your different applications.

Now my phone sounds sexy and everyone thinks I’m super-cool when I get a call or (nerd) alert….

Links

Android OS by Google
Yahoo! Babel Fish
AT&T’s Text-to-Speech Demo

Separating the images from content using strip_tags in a WordPress Template to control the page layout. Using the CryptX plugin to encrypt mailto and email addresses so they won’t get picked up by spam bots. After installing the plugin, you can call the cryptx function directly from the Template to apply the encryption:

if ( function_exists ( 'cryptx' ) ) :
	cryptx ( $content, $text, $css, $echo );
endif;

$content is the string to encrypt.
$text is the string to replace the text inside the alt attribute of the <a> or <img> tags.
$css is the css class to assign to the link.
$echo is set to false to return the result in a variable, true to echo the result to the browser.

Links

CryptX plugin page: wordpress.org/cryptx
CryptX author’s site: weber-nrw.de
PHP function to strip HTML and PHP tags: php.net/strip-tags

So after you login to your Facebook profile, if you click on the “Applications” tab in the bottom left corner of the screen on the bottom control bar, you see this page full of applications. Although none of them are flesh-eating reptiles, you can find a way to add your Titter updates to your Facebook shizzle. If you are still reading this, you may understand…

• Facebook -> Applications -> Browse Applications
• At the “Search Applications” field at the top right, enter “Twitter”
• Add the top result application entitled “Twitter”
• Add it, give your Twitter login, allow to access your profile, add the box, etc. money, to the from world is full of champagne and bacon.
• Congrats, you survived.

SMS text messaging is the most widely used data application on the planet, with 2.4 billion active users, or 74% of all mobile phone subscribers sending and receiving text messages on their phones.

– en.wikipedia.org 2009.01

Trying to figure out how to email a grocery list to our street team, we ran across this list of major US cell phone providers and how to format emails to send text messages:

Replace the {number} with the 10 digit phone number of our recipient and now we can hand down our directives to the street team without ever picking up the cellie. Booyah!