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
Today Zune realised the new Zune 4.0 software. Here are my initial impressions…. (this is by no means a full review)
I like:
What I do not like:
My overall impression:
The software got some much needed improvements and took some of the best things about Zune 1.0 and put them back into the software. But something that I think that Zune got really wrong is the fact that they got rid a lot of the support for older Zunes. Even thought the Zune HD is dramatically different I am sure that old Zunes would be able to play movies and certain apps just fine. The fact that older Zunes were so well supported was something that separated Zune from Apple and made them way better.
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.
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.
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.
