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This article was written on August 24, 2006 by CyberNet.

Tutorial Thursday

Text messages are becoming a very popular way to communicate with your friends and family. Well, the messages may be fun to receive but sending them is not treat. You have to sit there pounding numbers until your thumbs hurt like they did when you would play Super Mario Brothers on Nintendo. Maybe you are fortunate enough to own a Blackberry which means it isn’t quite as bad, but those are still some small keys you have to press.

There are free services that you can use such as Google’s Send To Phone that offers a simple form to complete in order to send a message to a user. That works great but I have some computer monitoring software that alerts me when my IP address changes at my house. Instead of sending it to my email address I wanted to have it send the new IP to my phone which meant that I couldn’t use Google’s handy form.

Doing a little research showed me that cell phone carriers have setup email addresses that will convert the email to a SMS text message and send it to your phone. All you have to do is find your carrier in the list below and send an email to the designated address.

• Alltel:     0123456789@message.alltel.com
• AT&T:     0123456789@mmode.com
• Boost Mobile:     0123456789@myboostmobile.com
• CellularOne:     0123456789@mobile.celloneusa.com
• Cingular:     0123456789@cingularme.com
• Nextel:     0123456789@messaging.nextel.com
• Omnipoint:     0123456789@omnipointpcs.com
• Qwest:     0123456789@qwestmp.com
• Sprint:     0123456789@messaging.sprintpcs.com
• T-Mobile:     0123456789@tmomail.net
• Verizon:     0123456789@vtext.com
• Virgin Mobile:     0123456789@vmobl.com

NOTE: Make sure you replace the “0123456789″ with your 10-digit mobile phone number.

That is great if you are setting up alerts or sending a message to yourself, but what if you are sending it to a friend and you don’t know what cell phone service they have? TeleFlip will take care of that for you. Just address a message as 0123456789@teleflip.com and they will do the dirty work. TeleFlip does limit you to sending no more than 100 emails per month but they do not require you to register. I would say that is a pretty good deal.

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The MHL Consortium wants to banish HDMI ports from our phones in favor of its Mobile High-Definition Link connection, and the tech has found its way into handsets like the GSII and the EVO 3D. But until now, there were no TVs to connect to. Toshiba’s latest in the Regza line, the WL800A, is the lone set in its 2011 lineup to pack the 5-pin port that pulls 1080p from your mobile device and puts it up on a 46-inch or 55-inch edge-lit LED panel. Best part is, the MHL connection pushes power back into your phone at the same time video is streaming — so you don’t have to worry about your phone dying on you in the middle of your mobile movie marathon. Currently for sale in the land of Oz for $2,329 (46-inch) and $3,179 (55-inch) AUD, the WL800 won’t be coming to America. However, now that the GSII has landed stateside let’s hope some MHL-equipped TVs follow suit.

Toshiba’s new Regza WL800A HDTV hooks up with your smartphone via MHL originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 31 Aug 2011 05:22:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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According to ComScore, out of the 82.2 million people in the US with a smartphone (up ten percent from last quarter), Android came in first as the biggest platform yet again, capturing a whopping 41.8 percent of the market like a boss. In a not-so-close second, Apple was able to snag 27 percent, followed by RIM in the third place spot with 21.7 percent — down 4 percentage points from last quarter. Pulling up the rear is Microsoft with 5.7 percent, and lastly Symbian with a grim 1.9 percent — both down when compared to the previous three months. As far as US hardware manufacturers goes, Samsung is still on top with 25.5 percent of the market, while LG got 20.9 percent and finally Motorola with 14.1 percent, down 1.5 percentage points from before. Apple was able to snag some standing in the OEM space with a 9.5 percent share, while BlackBerry-maker RIM only captured 7.6 percent. As the battle wages on, looks like Androids, iPhones, and BlackBerrys (oh my) are still on top — at least for this quarter. Check out the PR after the break for the full scorecard.

Continue reading ComScore calls Android top dog, Apple pulls further ahead of RIM

ComScore calls Android top dog, Apple pulls further ahead of RIM originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 31 Aug 2011 04:09:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on February 13, 2007 by CyberNet.

When we last talked about DivShare, they had just introduced file searching ability, and MP3 streaming. We left off when they were getting ready to allow users to embed MP3’s onto their blogs or websites. So, here we are a few weeks later with several new features which is why DivShare continues to get two-thumbs up from us.

They’ve only been around for two months, and yet they already have 14,000 registered accounts, and they’re hosting 100,000 live files.  Another interesting stat is that they just filled up their first terabyte of storage, so they’ll be adding a second storage server.

The newest feature that was just introduced yesterday is the Upload Progress Bar. Before, there was an animated bar that kept on moving so that you knew it was still active, however there was no way of knowing how much it had uploaded, how much was left to download, and the amount of time it will take. The image below shows what the new progress bar looks like. This will be especially useful with larger downloads.

Another recently added addition is the Referer Tracking which will let you know who is linking to your files. DivShare will track the five most recent refers for every file that you have uploaded, and that information will be displayed on your download page.

Now, going back to the embedded MP3 onto blogs or websites, this feature went live January 28th. This feature alone sets DivShare apart from many other file sharing websites. The player looks great, and uses Macromedia’s Flash to play the file.

With all of the new features, we’re left to wonder what will come next.  They’ve already given a clue by saying to get your avatar’s ready, because they’re going social. But aside from that, it could be just about anything.  Could video uploads possibly be next? They already allow 200MB uploads which is plenty of room for many movies.  It would be great if they didn’t restrict the size for uploads in general, because then they’d be a truly unlimited service.

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Remember that crazy wearable 3D display concept Sony was showing off at CES 2011? Turns out the company is actually going to make it, and the HMZ-T1 is scheduled to be released in Japan on November 11th. While the design has changed slightly since we first laid our eyes, and heads, on it, the specs appear to be the same, with two 1280×720 0.7-inch OLED panels mounted in front of each eye giving the wearer an experience similar to viewing a 750-inch screen from 20m away, as well as 5.1 surround sound from headphones integrated into the Head Mounted Display (HMD). You can see the helmet above, as well as the processor unit (complete with HDMI input and output, so you can take off the helmet and watch on TV) that it must remain tethered to. Pricing is expected to be 60,000 yen ($783 US). Check out the press release and our hands-on video from CES after the break and decide if living out a Geordi La Forge-style fantasy is worth it.

Continue reading Sony’s head-mounted 3D visor is real, HMZ-T1 arrives in Japan November 11th

Sony’s head-mounted 3D visor is real, HMZ-T1 arrives in Japan November 11th originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 31 Aug 2011 01:29:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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