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Setting Up Google Voice on Android (G1)

Nathan Schloss — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 23:58:52 +0000

As part of my summer internship I was given a G1 phone for the summer. Also, I recently was invited to the google voice beta. Naturally I wanted to use google voice on my G1 and thankfully google recently released a G1 app for voice. This guide will walk you through the setup process for a normal google voice user and will also walk you through setting up your phone to use google voice for voicemail only.

1) Go to the android marketplace and search for “google voice”

2) After the app installs follow the on screen instructions until you reach this screen:

At this screen, pick the 1st option if you want to use your google voice number as your main number, and pick the other options if you want to keep your current number as your phone number.

3) If you picked the first option in the last step then congratulations, your google voice account is now setup and will act as your voicemail box (go to step 8). If you want to keep your current number as your main number read below.

4) Go to the home screen on your android phone.

5) Hit menu the settings, then go to call settings, the go to call forwarding.

Image from engadget.com

6) In call forwarding you are going to need to change the bottom 3 settings, when you click them you will see something like VM: +1##########, you want to change all of the #’s to your google voice number.

7) Go to the google voice website and then go to settings, then enable the “do not disturb” setting.

8) Enjoy google voice.

PS: If you do not yet have google voice go to http://www.google.com/voice to request and invite.

Dispicable

Nathan Schloss — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 01:42:45 +0000

Around passover MTV aired two very good holocaust ads. They are here and here. Both of the ads are good at making people think.

It looks some anti-semites realised this too and modified parts of the ads to talk about the “holocaust” of the palestinians and to claim that the real holocaust never happened. I won’t link to these videos but if you use the related video feature on YouTube you should find them.

This got me thinking and I searched holocaust on YouTube, I have never seen such anti-semitism in my life. It really made me think about how many people out there who would like me dead. It also made me wonder why YouTube has done nothing about this. Youtube’s terms of use like Facebook’s state that it is forbidden to upload hateful and racist content, yet both of these sites have a lot of stuff against Jews and almost nothing up to refute the hate and obvious lies. Also both of these sites do almost nothing to remove anti-semitic content and they do a lot to remove anything that might be even remotely considered to be hinting at the fact that the palestinian Arabs are wrong. It is despicable.

New iGoogle layout

Nathan Schloss — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 04:23:07 +0000

I really hate it when developers change something when the old system worked just as well if not better than the new one. Mozilla did it when they got rid of the lock icon if FireFox and it looks like google just did when they moved the tabs in iGoogle.

The old iGoogle had tabs at the top of the page, like almost every other website.

Old iGoogle tabs

However the new iGoogle has moved the tabs to the side.

New iGoogle tabs

If you are like me and want the old tabs back then follow these 3 easy steps…

1) Go to http://www.google.co.uk/ig?hl=en

2) Click the sign in button in the top right corner and if prompted sign in

3) Enjoy the old iGoogle tabs and update any bookmarks or homepage settings

Google Translator Works for Hebrew!!!!!!!!!

Nathan Schloss — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 06:29:49 +0000

For the longest time the best online Hebrew translator was milon.co.il. Unfortunaly milon.co.il can only translate one word at a time. However it looks like Google Translator now works for Hebrew!!! Let the homework cheating help commence.

Google Chrome

Nathan Schloss — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:21:21 +0000

I just finished installing google chrome. It is very good looking and seems to render pages correctly. However there are a few minor annoyances that I have encountered so far. The first is that google was not kidding when it said that this is a minimalist browser, there are not many menus and there is no search bar. Rather most navigating is done from the address bar (which will take some getting used to). Also one thing that really annoys me is that when i click my middle mouse button nothing happens, in IE and FF when i click the middle button i get a nice scroll circle, I do not get this in GC. Additionally I can’t seem to get spell check to work.

I have only using the browser for 1hr so far, which is not enough time to fully evaluate it. Expect a full review in a week.