You’re heading into a meeting, a restaurant, or a lecture and you want to turn your phone to Vibrate Only mode so you don’t disturb anyone if you receive a call. So what do you do? Press the volume button to open the Volume screen and then press the Volume Down button multiply time until [...]

I don’t know about you, but I come across a lot of words when I’m reading that I don’t know the  meaning of. But I’m either too lazy to pick up that heavy dictionary in the next room or I don’t have one handy (like on an airplane). So I searched the Web looking for [...]

I didn’t see it coming. Though I have always been interested in technology and was typically an early adapter, there were no indications of what would happen to me when I bought my Fuze back in November of 2008. It all began when I decided to buy a new phone from AT&T to replace my [...]

As many of you have learned, when you install the new beta Opera 9.7, the browser tab in TF3D2 (not sure about old TF3D) doesn’t work. Well, with help from David (Special) K, I found two possible solutions. The first one involved a post that David on December 29, 2008. He provides detailed instructions on [...]

Have you ever had an urge to time something, but didn’t have a stopwatch handy? Maybe you want to see how long it will take you to eat ten hot dogs during a game at Fenway? Or you bet your buddies that you can down that pitcher in less than 30 seconds? Or your wife [...]

Like just about everyone I know who has a Fuze, I find the two installed dialers pretty inadequate. Mostly, they are just two small even for my medium-sized hands. So I searched xda-developers and came across iDialer from Supbro. Yes, it is a ripoff from the iPhones, but you have got to admit that, even [...]

Like many businesspeople, you probably take great pride in being a multitasker. You talk on your mobile phone, send email, check the stock market on line, and perhaps even read a letter and jot down notes for an upcoming meeting all at the same time (or so you think). Why do you multitask? Well, how [...]

Back on April 24th, DavidK introduced us to BikeDashboard and TrackMyRun, two GPS-enabled apps that allow you to monitor, measure, and map your cycling and running adventures, respectively. As a triathlete, I’ve used both and found them to be excellent tools for endurance athletes with only a few minor quibbles not worth mentioning. At the [...]

Are you someone who is writing an email, doing some math on the calculator, checking Red Sox scores on the web, and looking up a contact…all at the same time? And isn’t it a pain, after being in several apps to have to return to either the Today screen or the Start Menu to get [...]

If you get the reference, you’re probably pretty old, but I will make this a little trivia contest to see who can tell me the specific movie reference. The winner gets…the satisfaction of winning and knowing that you possess largely worthless information! With all that said, the point is this: What were Microsoft and HTC [...]