My New Kia Soul- Contest

UPDATE: The name “Schlossenburger” won!

All right, so it has been a little over a week since my last post about my new car. As promised, below is a poll where you can vote on your favorite name for my new car. I picked my top 5 choices out of over 20 name ideas that were submitted. If your name is chosen then you will win a mystery prize. (If you are on facebook you will need to go to naterocks.com to view the full poll) The poll will end in a week or two.

(poll has ended)

Also, I am currently having fun on my family reunion.

  • Schlossenburger

Nate’s New Car- CONTEST

The people who know me well will know that I used to drive an old 1993 Chrysler Plymouth grand voyager SE. Well it broke and thanks to the government we could get more money for it then it was worth, so today we took it to Glendale KIA (they were actually super nice and non-pressuring) and gave them our old mini van and left with a BRAND NEW 2010 KIA SOUL!!!!!!!!! There are pictures of it below.

Anyways, I am having a contest to name it, this week I will take name suggestions and next week I will post a poll where people can vote on names. If you would like to suggest a name put it in the comments below or email it to car@NOSPAMSnaterocks.com (remove the NOSPAMS).

Also, for the people that know my sister, do not tell her about the new car as we are going to surprise her with it when we get her from camp.

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Setting Up Google Voice on Android (G1)

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:
google_voice_setup

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

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.

Summer

I normally make this post a bit earlier in the summer. The reason I make this post is a left over habit from when I used to play neopets. During that time I ran one of the most popular on-site sites and later moved it off the neopets site making it one of the most popular off-site sites. Anyways with a site so popular I got around 50 messages a day on neopets. They ranged from fan letters, to hate letters, to people asking me for advice, to people wanting me to give them free neopets items. During that time neopets set a limit of 100 messages per person, so naturally during summer when I went on vacation for a few days my inbox would become to full. To help explain to visitors why they could not email me I set up a page with my summer schedule. Here is that schedule.

Until August 14th I am working at CNES at UCLA and from Aug 16 to 23 I will be at my family reunion.

:)

WebPage Downloader

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