Now in public beta, GeoGraffiti is a free “Verbal Bulletin Board” that grants you to record and share location-specific voice notes, or “Voice Marks”, whether you’re on the go or in front of your computer. Find a new coffee shop that you love? Call up GeoGraffiti, and leave a Voice Mark to let the world know. Want to warn people where the crack houses are? Voice Mark!
Once you’re registered, any Voice Marks from your mobile phone will be automatically associated with your account and added to the map, where others in the community can rate and respond.
Adding a new location through the site is swift and easy, but doing so over the phone is currently a bit of a chore. If you initiate the Voice Mark over the phone, its placement is only accurate to the zip code. After you record your Voice Mark, you’ll click your way through a series of menus to properly tag your recording - it’s easy to follow, but listening through the options takes a bit too long. It’d be nice to be able to store unpublished voice memos onto my account to be tagged and accurately positioned later.
It’s a rad idea, and could end up being a mega useful on-the-go resource as the userbase grows. Check out the video demo, or just skip it and go right to GeoGraffiti.
While Yahoo! Go 3.0 has been available for most popular smartphone platforms for a few months now, Windows Mobile support has been sorely lacking. Fear not, WinMo users - your days of Yahoo! Go 3.0 fun time are here. Windows Mobile phones have been added to Yahoo! Go’s large ol’ list of supported devices.
If you haven’t already, be sure to check it out. It comes with support for Yahoo! Mail, Flickr, sports scores, stocks, RSS, weather, and can be customized by way of widgets.
(Got a device that isn’t on the list, but still want the Widget-y goodness? Check out Plusmo, a free J2ME widget application. It’s not quite as pretty, but it gets the job done.)
To combat the red ring of death and other problems that plagued the 360, chip evolution and improvement has been an important consideration for Microsoft. The Falcon revision, for example, has improved things slightly. Microsoft, then, hopes with this next update, codenamed Jasper, will let them put the rash of console problems behind them. Microsoft […]
To combat the red ring of death and other problems that plagued the 360, chip evolution and improvement has been an important consideration for Microsoft. The Falcon revision, for example, has improved things slightly.
Microsoft, then, hopes with this next update, codenamed Jasper, will let them put the rash of console problems behind them. Microsoft is setting up provisions to begin updating the Xbox 360 with a 65nm GPU late August. This information is backed by a report from CENS, saying they already contracted with a few company’s to build the new chips.
It is also known that the Falcon chips are depleted, so that paves the way for a quick transition to Jasper. Reports are also saying that the next update after Jasper won’t happen for a year after its release.
Introducing yourself is always kind of awkward, isn’t it? It’s tough to try to explain who you are without coming off as cocky or arrogant. I usually tend to go straight from my name to how extraordinary I’m at skee-ball, which for some reason turns people away.
My name’s Greg Kumparak, and I’m the new editor for MobileCrunch. I hail from San Luis Obispo, land of tri-tip sandwiches and drunken frat guys. I run an independent blog/community about Helio over at Heliocity.net, and have done some freelance IT consulting for Helio in the past.
I’m a geek to my very core. Gadgets, games, whatever - I’m absolutely fascinated with anything that has buttons to press. My credit score is beginning to feel the burn from my love for gadgets
Need to holler at me? Shoot me a message at greg at crunchgear dot com
Here’s the latest CrunchGear-themed crossword puzzle. You can find the answers to the clues spread throughout this week’s posts. Enjoy! CrunchWord Puzzle for Friday, May 9th
Here’s the latest CrunchGear-themed crossword puzzle. You can find the answers to the clues spread throughout this week’s posts. Enjoy!
This is the saddest thing I’ve ever seen. Since getting a Pleo a few months ago, we’ve basically given the bugger a name and gotten to know its personality. To watch this Combot tear Pleo up at Maker Faire is like watching a wolf eat a mouse — it’s no contest Basically Ugobe donated Pleo for […]
This is the saddest thing I’ve ever seen. Since getting a Pleo a few months ago, we’ve basically given the bugger a name and gotten to know its personality. To watch this Combot tear Pleo up at Maker Faire is like watching a wolf eat a mouse — it’s no contest Basically Ugobe donated Pleo for this contest and they put it in with Vicious Verdict, a combat robot used for Battlebot contests. Once VV winds up a tiny, all hell breaks loose. Very, very sad… and kudos to Ugobe for making a device that humans can love.
A lot of factors come in to play when it comes to how much people spend on electricity each month, but given the movement towards towards eco-friendliness and the poor say of the economy, it seems like an interesting question. Plus, most of us are probably running a fair amount of gadgets around the house which can bring those bills up in a hurry. Electricity usage can fluctuate wildly throughout the year, so to keep things easy I have narrowed the question down to a single month. So, how much did you spend on electricity in April?
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That’s right, with the Fantasea Line FS-51 Housing for the new Nikon Coolpix S52 and S52c cameras, you could toss it in the ocean without any worries. Even if it happened to leak it’s still protected by its one year flood Insurance policy (your pics are probably hosed though). Another great thing about this is that […]
That’s right, with the Fantasea Line FS-51 Housing for the new Nikon Coolpix S52 and S52c cameras, you could toss it in the ocean without any worries. Even if it happened to leak it’s still protected by its one year flood Insurance policy (your pics are probably hosed though).
Another great thing about this is that while it’s in the case you still have access to all the camera controls and features. The price tag for this is $245, so for $500 (camera is ~$250) you could have yourself a nice underwater point and shoot experience. It’s better than that ziploc bag you’ve been using, anyway.
While Apple and Lenovo may have started the latest thin laptop trend, Engadget reports that Dell is entering the ring with their Inspiron 1435, 1535 and 1735. The three laptops are stated to share a similar design, with a graduated thickness from 1 to about 1.5 inches. With processors up to Core 2 Duo 2.16GHz, each model will support optional 3G and slot-loading Blu-ray. It sounds good so far, but we’ll have to see how competitively they are priced if/when the first of the models hits later this month. [Engadget]
A lot of factors come in to play when it comes to how much people spend on electricity each month, but given the movement towards towards eco-friendliness and the poor say of the economy, it seems like an interesting question. Plus, most of us are probably running a fair amount of gadgets around the house which can bring those bills up in a hurry. Electricity usage can fluctuate wildly throughout the year, so to keep things easy I have narrowed the question down to a single month. So, how much did you spend on electricity in April?
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