These Scam Sites make me sick, here comes another one called Quibids.

Quibids.com.

Stay away from this you will get burned, and loose money. The thing that makes me sick about Quibids is that a news company would pick up the story and promote it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gup5kiD9r60

I keep living by a simple rule, whatever sounds too good to be true is probably a scam. Quidbids Scam is all I can say.

I can't use their logo in my post, because it is a registered trademark otherwise I would. If you want to purchase items at a good cost check out companies like:

Tigerdirect , NewEgg etc.

Here is a very short and sweet article. I am going to name the top 10 Apps you should have on your smartphone.

So here is my quick and dirty short top 10 android apps you must have for your Android device.

1. Nettalk - Free long distance calls in USA and Canada over 3G or Wi-Fi , basically uses up your data call as much as you want. The voice quality is not the greatest but who is going to complain about free.

2. Waze - Social GPS, report police, report accident know about accidents. This is a live GPS that always gets updated from other drivers and shows you where police traps are, very good GPS probably one of the best GPS apps I have seen.

3.  VLC Media Player Pro - play movies on your tablet, but also use it as a LAN streaming server, and what I mean by that is that you are able to access your computer with your tablet and play movies right on your tablet by streaming, no more annoying transfers  of movie files onto your tablet.

4.  TouchPad - a neet keyboard for android with various language packs, you can have a language packs from various countries  the neet thing here is when you use SPEECH-to-TEXT it recognizes the accent of your selected country.

5. Talkatone - another app that allows free calls over Wi-Fi or 3G same as nettalk not sure about voice quality I have not tried calling anyone yet.

6. Skype - make video calls and voice calls, pretty much everyone knows Skype

7. Viber - free international calls but only Viber to Viber users, not a biggie here for the simple fact that the other party must have viber also installed on their phone.

8. eBuddy - combine all your messenger  into one Yahoo messenger, MSN, Facebook Chat etc. No more running 5 different communicators to drain your phone battery and resources just run one makes sense.

9. A general flash light get this, any flash light will do why? - because many times you will need light, drains battery but hey if you need it you need it.

10. Ubersocial - Twitter to the next level if you tweet you must have ubersocial makes tweeting as 123.

Wherever you live, there is a difference between owning internet technology and using internet technology. This point is made very well by Tayo Solgabade, the blogger for whom this post has been named, Check out his post “The Need to Use PC and Internet Technology More Productively in African Societies” for more information – the basic point he makes is that people love to own net technology for its own sake (as they would a fast car or a big house) rather than for its actual potential.

Here in the UK (and the USA) we have access to a whole new generation of net technology. The revolutionary net services that were started by Comcast Xfinity and AT&T Uverse allow us to connect to the web in multiple ways from a single line or signal. We can deliver work, ideas and personal thoughts across time zones to users from all parts of the world, all of whom are using different kinds of communications equipment.

Within our own country’s boundaries, we can even fuse the kinds of communications equipment we use to make our whole net experience more productive. This is the same both for home and business users – and increasingly for home/business users, whose consumption of packages like the Comcast Xfinity connection is explicitly so they can run a household where work and pleasure take up equal parts of the bandwidth.

Bandwidth, of course, is crucial to the whole experience one has of the net – and to the use one makes of it. Speed is essential for opening up the work and play possibilities of the net in a way that allows us to use the technology more productively. And this is where the Comcast Xfinity connection and its siblings comes into effect.

New generation high speed internet connections offer a real prospect of using the net for life, rather than in rationed portions. With a Comcast connection, or an AT&T connection or a Verizon or Time Warner connection, net users can fuel a whole household of use: from learning, to play, to entertainment, to the provision and collection of information necessary for making money (work, by a more simple term – documents and files and secure payment information and whatever else it is you need to earn your daily bread). And it is all done through a simple cable (or a satellite signal).

As with all new technology, we have to be careful not to confuse productivity with overuse. Mr Solgabade’s point, in his original article, is that there’s a huge difference between buying a computer to show you are wealthy enough to do so, and buying one to use it to widen your horizons. The same is true of technology like the Comcast Xfinity connection. Buy it because you can and there’s a real danger that your family will “overeat” on digital junk food, consuming hours of endless pointless nothing in the name of show.

Buy it, on the other hand, because you can see the opportunities for streamlining your family’s use of the net into a much more interactive and controlled way, and you will not only get more from your time online but you will free up extra time offline to enjoy the real world.

About The Author:

Lisa Jane is associated with various internet security related companies as their freelance and staff writer. She has been linked with some of the best web media companies and offers various ways for internet solutions. She excels in writing articles related to comcast xfinity internet security, internet plans, comcast deals etc.

This is pretty exciting. Infolinks has launched an in-text advertising. What in-text advertising means you can create your own unique add, with a relevant title, description and url and drill down and define specific keywords.

You can sign up here for the program:

https://advertisers.infolinks.com/sign_up/register

This new program seem to be very user friendly, and as easy to setup as Google Adwords. You can segment your market geographically as well.

You get real-time reporting to see exactly how your money is being spend, this is good news for advertisers and publisher it will help both parties.

I been using infolinks for a while, and I beleive it's a great way to generate extra revenue or promote your business. It is very exciting to see and know that right now we have a Google Ads alternative.

Infolinks  In-Text advertising  will deliver campaigns across 250 billion pages of content and have the ability to reach over 350 million unique visitors, therefore we are not talking about a small network of advertisers.

I think this is pretty big exciting news.

And for bloggers like me don't forget that infolinks is fully compatible with allot of blog platforms like:

Joomla, Drupal, WordPress, Blogger.

If you want more information on this great service check out:

http://www.infolinks.com

or you can go straight to the signup page here:

Infolinks Marketplace

I felt like Rogers was simply ripping me off. I was paying about $12 dollars with their "Value Pack" = "Take my money Pack".

Anyways I did something unique. I cancelled Rogers voicemail and i did a conditional forwarding on my Rogers number.

What conditional forwarding is, it doesn't forward all the calls it simply forwards a call based on certain number of times your phone rings or if you don't pick up or send a busy signal to it.

For a full list of forwarding codes for rogers refeer here:

Call Forwarding

Or simply google your network to find out. I simply did a call forwarding on Busy/No Answer and left the default amount of rings.

Here are the steps to get you going.

1. Go to Youmail.com and create a free account

2. Verify your phone. If you are in Toronto the Youmail voicemail access number is simple 416-800-1111.

3. Now setup your Forwarding to this number by doing *004* 4168001111 # and dial this number. (You should get a forwarding on return message)

4. You are not setup, you can have custom greeting in Youmail and I have tested it works perfect, if you do not have a caller ID - Youmail will even tell you what phone number the call came from. Why pay $12 dollars when all this functionality is free.

Note: I tried Virgin/Bell it doesn't work with Virgin not sure if it works with bell. My girlfriend is with virgin mobile so it didn't work for her. Youmail stated that they don't support this network when I tried to create an account.

If you want Voicemail transcribing you can purchase the Youmail premium account which comes out to like 3 dollars per month if you buy an annual plan and use the following coupon code to get 10% off:

COUPON CODE: Summer

I didn't buy it, because I didn't find a need for it.

Note: Call Forwarding will use your local minutes, what I did I added 4168001111 (YouMail.com number to my Rogers top 10.) - but the usage of minutes should not that much it's only when people leave you voicemail's

Cheers!

This is pretty cool, this little neet website Bribespot.com let's you track bribes around the world. It's kind of sad how money rules our world.

I just zoomed in on the map and checked one of the bribes for Romania it was kind of sad to see this.

Luckly Canada had no bribes yet, there was a few bribes in USA but they were very simple ones like cutting the line at a bar or a restaurant, which is not as huge as the Romania one.

Well if you are bored at work, check out Bribespot.com to find the latest bribes or maybe add one yourself to the list.

Now there is a lens for Galaxy SII to zoom in with your camera phone. This zoom offers capability to zoom in 10X.

It is manufactured by a Japanese company called Thanko costs about 1980 yen which is about 25 dollars USD.

They also mention on their site that this lens is capable of zooming in while doing an HD movie.

You can also install this nifty cool docking station that looks like a NASA project

Now more pics how this nifty thing looks like:

The story is an iphone 5G prototype was left behind at a San Francisco restaurant.

Police have been contacted and stated this is the second time they had to perform a search for a missing device left behind.

I am sitting here, thinking while I write this. Why would you carry an iPhone 5G prototype around to a bar where you have drinks and you are under the influence of alcohol, chances are you can loose it.

I am also wondering if the employee of apple got canned for this, loosing such an important device, I am also wondering who's hands the device is in as well.

Last year the Apple iPhone 4G device was sold to gizmodo by to man for $5000 dollars and these man were charged with misdemeanours charges.

This is interesting to see, I am wondering if the device will appear on any technology review sites.

iPhone 5g prototype video has been floating around on Youtube.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzsBwnv_dAg

Rumours are confirming that Apple's new iPhone will be released this September, I am curious to see if that is going to be true.

The following video above I think is hyped up and full of it. I don't think the iPhone 5G will be able to sport all those features. I hope on one thing a battery that is not internal, it would be nice to buy back-up or replacement batteries.

I also hope the new iPhone does not have any reception problems on it's release day or bugs.

There is people that think that 4G means that the phone will work on 4G networks, I am sure Apple is thinking of this but 4G as of now stands only for 4th Generation.

This is interesting story building up around the new iPhone and newtechevolution is here to follow the news.

According to news floating around "Deutsche Telekom" is taking pre-orders on the iphone 5G. I am not sure if there is any truth to this it's all rumours at this time. Will it really be called 5G or 4S who knows as well.

Many of you must wonder if they can use Skype Vide on their device. Well I have a Sony Arc android phone it does not have a front facing camera only back camera and there is no skype video for it at this time. (which for me is not a huge disappoitment)

Many of you out there may be wondering does Skype video work on my Android device?

Skype officially released a list of supported Android devices with video calling and the list can be found here:

http://blogs.skype.com/en/2011/08/skype_21_for_android.html

Skype says, do not worry if your device is not on the list simply go to Skype settings and select "Video Calling" and then they turn around and say:

"Unfortunately, if you cannot see the video calling settings, it means your Android phone does not meet the minimum requirements needed to make Skype video calls. Please be aware that video call quality may not be as good as on a certified Android device and only the back camera of the device will work if your device is running on Android 2.2 (Froyo)."

In my opinion the Skype support for video calling is not that great at this time. I think the Android community is not too happy, with Skype's turtle decision to support Android devices.

This could be one of the reasons for me to switch to an iphone 4G device, what have been your experiences with Skype?

Mine has been great until I couldn't use Skype properly on my Android. I am also on the Rogers network using the Sony Arc device and let me tell you there is tons of dropped calls quality sucks and I would rate the Skype experience on my device 6/10.

Nettalk is offering a service where you can make Free calls in USA and Canada from your smartphone.

Nettalk works on the following devices:

• iPhone
• iPod Touch
• iPad
• Android
• Blackberry
• Windows Mobile

I installed on my Sony Arc and it works great.

The interface looks simple to use and soon as you install the app you are ready to use it. Works on 3G or Wi-Fi!.

Check out nettalk at http://www.nettalk.com