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Charge Motorola RAZR with standard USB cable from PC
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I have been charging my RAZR with a standard mini USB cable hooked up to my laptop. This keeps me from toting around an extra charger to work where my RAZR will inevitable run out of juice before I leave that end of the day. All you need are the right drivers and a mini USB cable, which most people have from digital cameras or mp3 players. If not a trip to Radioshack or Kmart will get you a cable for less than $3.00. Meanwhile Motorola charges over $20 for their “special” cable. Simple instructions below.
1. Download the driver, unzip to a folder.
2. Plug in phone with mini USB cable too computer USB port.
3. Will auto detect and ask for drivers.
4. Point install to folder and let it do its thing.
5. Your phone will now charge with a cheap mini USB cable.
I am not really sure where these drivers originated they have been on my PC for a while, but I am sure they are free and open source. For all of those surprised that I use a RAZR, keep in mind, mine is heavily modded and until I can get a smart phone in a smaller flip factor it will be phone of choice for no other reason than its light weight and durability.
Ok now for the drivers…
WinSnap makes screenshots easier, and automatically resizes
Screenshots are a way of life for me, and any product that can make that happen in as little steps as possible gets my mention. This free for personal use software lets you take a screen shot of virtually anything on your screen and repost. Some of great features are automatic shadow effect, auto-resizing, as well as watermarking.
Qumana blog publisher, one more alternative to Performancing
Its not that blogging that is hard, its getting content, formatting the content, and then proofing the content that is hard. WordPress is quick and easy but it could be better. In comes utilities like Qumana, which aspires to get you to put their ads in your blog but whether or not you add the ads from Qumana we have a powerful blog publisher here. I set up my blog in a matter of minutes and was posting highly formatted blog posts in minutes. There were a couple quirks in the WYSIWYG view that showed text breaks at a larger break than on the web but for the most part I was able to create a post in record time.
Note this post was created in Qumana
Highly recommend.
Justblogit, quick web page blogging from small Firefox Extension
Justblogit is a Firefox extension I have found just recently. After installing it you browse as you normally would until you come across a website that you find interesting and want to write a blog entry about it, all you have to do is right click on the page, and you will immediately be taken to the JustBlogIt “add a post†screen.
You can configure JustBlogIt to work with a number of blogging programs, including my favored WordPress and additionally Blogger, Drupal, LiveJournal, Movable Type, Radio Userland, TextPattern, TypePad, journalspace, b2evolution and BLOG:CMS. Pretty extensive for 20kb extension.
Is it better than Performancing? Probably not but options are options and with Performancing’s recent false start of being acquired my eyes are looking for alternatives.
WordPress Plugin - Bring back your Archived post on your Wordpress main page.
Resurrect your old Wordpress archives with a Wordpress plug-in called the Archivist. This highly customizable Wordpress plug in brings back your old posts back for another run. This keeps your users looking at new or slightly warmed over content when you are busy making a living. It also allows your visitors easy access to once great posts that have been gathering dust making you no money. It posts a old archive post in the number 2 position on your page (customizable). We here at Noheat think that is a super cool way to keep your content dynamic even when your brain hurts from looking for new content.
Phone in your blog posts and much more with Evoca
Now you too can phone it in. Literally! Call in to Evoca and record your message that you get later on the web. You can automatically create a podcast feed so that every time you call in you update your podcast. Or post voice posts to your blog. Even better call in, leave a voice post, and have your voice post transcribed for you and receive as text. Want to get voice messages from your blog just post the Evoca Browser as a widget in your blog and now people can call in leave voice comments on your blog. Evoca is free for the first 60 minutes $4.99 for an extra 200 minutes.
