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Monthly Archives: November 2008

How to import contacts into android phone

Export contacts from Outlook or Outlook Express (or any other app) to csv format and then import to gmail. That should do it for most users.

http://www.google.com/contacts

While you are there, use the find duplicates functionality. You…

Look up the caller ID of the person calling you

Whitepages looks up the name of the incoming caller in real time.

User “Caller Lookup” if you want a free app.

You might then see the name of the person even when they are not in your contacts.

Spy on someone

Use “noise alert” to call you automatically when there’s noise.

Reach a human on customer service lines directly

Use Dial zero

Signal someone in a nightclub

Use strobelight

If you don’t know which club to go to, use wertago to find one.

Find a movie, add it to your netflix queue

Use phoneflix

Send tweets to twitter

Use twidroid or twitli

Store the location information with the pictures you take

Start camera > menu > settings > store location

This will get the image to show up in the proper location in map view in picasa.

Track and share your location

Use Firepin

Find the names of songs you hear

Use shazam