Transfer AIM to Your Cell Phone
Submitted on October 20th, 2007 by admin
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Everybody text messages now. Text messaging is the natural, mobile extension of instant messaging. A link or hybrid between text and instant messaging would seem ideal. We are getting closer…
AIM now allows users to forward IMs to cellular phones.
When forwarding is enabled, your IMs will be transferred to your phone during the following circumstances:
- When the AIM server sees you offline
- When you manually select “Forward to Mobile” in your Away menu
- When the AIM server detects that you are idle
After you are on the service, you can also control forwarding through text messaging the AIM server via your cell phone.
By sending your AIM screen name and password to 265023, you will be sent directions on enabling and disabling the forwaring service.
Facebook Friends Photo Collage Easter Egg
Submitted on October 18th, 2007 by admin
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Labnol discovered an interesting Facebook easter egg.
Step 1: Login into your Facebook account and click the Friends tab
Step 2: Select the drop-down box and click the list separator (–) in
that drop down…
By following these directions, you get a great photo montage from your facebook friends.
Check out all the labnol facebook photo collage directions and screenshots.
Tags: facebook, easter egg, photo, montage
Quick Twitter to Cellular Tutorial
Submitted on July 15th, 2007 by admin
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Twitter is a web service that allows you to post super short messages. People typically use it to update their social circle about what they are actively doing. By integrating this with your mobile phone, you can always know what your friends are doing and they can always keep up with you.
After setting up an account, go to http://twitter.com/devices and setup your cell phone. Once you setup your number, you need to validate by sending the provided code to twitter’s number 40404. Sending an SMS to 40404 will be the way you communicate with twitter with your cell phone for now on.
View your friends’ accounts on twitter and add them as friends. To them, you will be listed as a follower. You will receive any of their updates via SMS to your cell phone. If they wish to receive your updates, they will need to add you as a friend as well.
Two common commands are use in chatting on twitter through SMS.
The “at” symbol or @ publicly directs a message to somebody else on twitter. Its format is the following: @ name message
For example, I responded to one of qmchenry’s updates with a laugh: @qmchenry LOL. Such a post would be shown publicly on my twitter page.
The “d” command sends a private message to one of your friends. Its format is familiar: d name message.
For example, if I wanted to send a private message to my buddy, I would do the following: d qmchenry This is a private message.
If you are getting overwhelmed with twitter messages, you can turn them off by texting “off” to 40404. You can turn them back on by texting “on” as well. You can also turn off twitter updates automatically through the notifications area of twitter.
Several twitter bots are starting to be released. Once you add them as friends, you can direct message these bots to receive information. For example…
Stocks -
d stocks stocksymbol
For example d stocks aapl would respond with information on apple’s stocks
Forecast -
d forecast city, state or d forecast zipcode
For example, d forecast 27713 provides weather forecast for Durham, NC
I can be found on twitter here: http://twitter.com/davak/
10 great tools to help you Twitter better
Submitted on May 7th, 2007 by admin
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So you’re completely obsessed with Twitter and want to get the most you can out of your experience? How about trying some of these tools to enhance your experience!?
Share your life w/ Jaiku
Submitted on May 7th, 2007 by admin
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Over the last few months, not only have I not had much time to update TipMonkies, but I also haven’t followed web 2.0 applications much at, more than likely due to the former reason, so I was very excited to get back into “the scene” and learn about a somewhat new service called Jaiku which aims to bring everything from your real life and your web life into one place. For those of you who have been using Twitter (yes, a review of Twitter is forecoming), you may find many of the same features in Jaiku, but if you’ve never used the service here’s what you should expect.
