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Linux Mint

Nathan Schloss — Tue, 04 May 2010 05:23:09 +0000

Very often I get people asking me what Linux distribution I use. I used to be a big fan of Linux Mint, but in the past year I have moved to Ubuntu.

This is why I no longer use Linux Mint.

Follow me on Twitter

Nathan Schloss — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:54:31 +0000

Follow me (Nathan Schloss) on twitter. Click here to go to my twitter account.

To: The Internet

Nathan Schloss — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:31:06 +0000

Dear Internet,

I am writing you this letter to inform you that today I will be speaking at the TED event in San Francisco. I will be speaking around 7:30pm PST during the Pete Conrad Award speech. If you want to watch me live go to http://www.tedxsf.org. But you already knew that…being the Internet and all.

-Nate

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.

WebPage Downloader

Nathan Schloss — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 07:02:16 +0000

I just made the source for the WebPage Downloader public, you can get it from http://naterocks.com/php-coding/webpage-downloader/.