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Keep Your Home Phone – Eliminate The Bill

By Justin Voelker on November 27th, 2011

Working for a software/services company headquartered over 600 miles away means a lot of long distance calls to clients.  A cell phone plan with 700 minutes does not last very long with 4 or 5 hours of phone calls in a single day.  Adding a land line to my TV/Internet bill would cost around $40 [...]

Steps to remove VCast popup

Disable Verizon V CAST Popup on Android

By Justin Voelker on June 30th, 2011

Tired of plugging your Verizon Android phone into your computer only to have a browser window automatically open to Verizon’s V Cast webpage? Here’s how to stop it from happening.

Steps for securing Gmail

Secure your Gmail with HTTPS

By Justin Voelker on March 27th, 2011

We use our Gmail for everything.  Well, some of us do.  For those of you using your Gmail dozens of times of day and even for you occasional users, securing your Gmail account is an absolute must. Not only does our Gmail contain potentially sensitive correspondence among friends and family, but what about all of [...]

Steps for securing Facebook

Secure your Facebook with HTTPS

By Justin Voelker on March 9th, 2011

Facebook has over half a billion users–roughly the number of people that lived in North America in 2008. With so many users, it is no wonder that Facebook users are targets for malicious activity.  Make this one simple change to make sure you aren’t the next victim. Your banking website is encrypted in order to protect your finances and [...]

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Handcent SMS

By Justin Voelker on October 28th, 2010

Face it, Android’s “messages” application is lame. The limited options give you just enough functionality to send/receive messages. Handcent SMS gives you all the options you could ever want and more.

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ShapeWriter Keyboard

By Justin Voelker on October 1st, 2010

Stop typing your emails and text messages letter by letter and start sliding from key to key. Shapewriter helps you speed up your typing by allowed you to slide from one letter to the next without picking up your finger.