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If you are a JAJAH user with a Twitter account then you can make calls using your Twitter account and what more the service is absolutely free. JAJAH@call is on beta-launch now and it allows you to make calls without revealing your number and without seeing the number of the person you are calling. You will only need your Twitter username.  Send a tweet with “@call @username” for making a call to any person on Twitter. If the called person wishes to continue your call then a free 2 minute call is allowed. The only condition is that both tweeters have to be JAJAH users. The username is the name used in Twitter.  You can use JAJAH@call on desktop, laptop or on your mobile phone. Use it on Twitter directly or on Twitter clients like Seesmic Web and desktop, TwitterBerry BlackBerry, Tweetie or Twitterfon iPhone and Twidroid Android.  JAJAH@call showcases how easily we can bring telephony into the social media environment, where operators can now participate, said Trevor Healy, CEO of JAJAH.   This is true as consumers nowadays tend to check their tweets or their Facebook messages even before checking their voice mail or email which is even later.

Combining a data card and a music gadget is what many of you would have wanted. Yes, it is possible that your iPod can be used as a hard drive or flash drive to store and transfer data files. Conveniently carry your files and music on one device. Combine work and play. For transferring music files to iPod use iTunes but you will not be able to see the songs iTunes copies to your iPod. Follow these steps to use iPod as a hard drive. Connect your iPod to your computer, open iTunes and select iPod icon in the source pane. Click on the summary tab and select “enable disk use” or “manually manage songs and videos”.  For automatically updating your iPod with the iTunes library select “Enable disk use”. If you have the iPod shuffle, click on “enable disk use” checkbox and set the Storage Allocation slider to show the amount you require for audio files and the amount you want to be used for data files. The iPod disk icon appears on desktop and in Finder window and My Computer/Computer in Windows. Double click on icon and drag files to or from iPod window to copy them. Be careful to eject iPod first before disconnecting it from your computer.

Apple iTunes has gotten a face lift with version 9 just a few days back. So, how’s the response been? What are people thinking about it so far? What features are standing out? iTunes LP, Home Sharing, and Genius Mixes with better syncing have all gotten rave reviews. You can now find, buy, and make the most of good music, movies, TV shows, and of course apps, for your iPhone and iPod Touch. With Home Sharing you can transfer songs, movies, and TV shows to other computers at home. Artists get to share their creations with fans who would be interested in everything a music album has to offer such as art, lyrics, liner notes, photos, and videos. Definitely very cool. Plus, you can now enjoy visual features like live performance videos and interviews too. iTunes LP opened with Bob Dylan’s and Norah Jones numbers besides others. iTunes Extras offers movies with documentaries, deleted scenes, interviews, and interactive galleries. Noted movies now on the list include The Da Vinci Code, Batman Begins and such others which are sure to excite you. As a family you get to watch five iTunes libraries on the home network and add new purchases to their library. Enjoy having your own DJ which can generate up to 12 mixes of songs from the iTunes library with the Genius feature. You can also organize your iPhone apps in iTunes and can get the same layout on your phone. Get precut ringtone downloads with more than 20,000 ringtones from the store for $ 1.29. So, if you still haven’t gotten around to downloading iTunes 9 go and get it. What are you waiting for? Apple iTunes has gotten a face lift with version 9 just a few days back. So, how’s the response been? What are people thinking about it so far? What features are standing out? iTunes LP, Home Sharing, and Genius Mixes with better syncing have all gotten rave reviews. You can now find, buy, and make the most of good music, movies, TV shows, and of course apps, for your iPhone and iPod Touch. With Home Sharing you can transfer songs, movies, and TV shows to other computers at home. Artists get to share their creations with fans who would be interested in everything a music album has to offer such as art, lyrics, liner notes, photos, and videos. Definitely very cool. Plus, you can now enjoy visual features like live performance videos and interviews too. iTunes LP opened with Bob Dylan’s and Norah Jones numbers besides others. iTunes Extras offers movies with documentaries, deleted scenes, interviews, and interactive galleries. Noted movies now on the list include The Da Vinci Code, Batman Begins, and other blockbusters. As a family you get to watch five iTunes libraries on the home network and add new purchases to their library. Enjoy having your own DJ which can generate up to 12 mixes of songs from the iTunes library with the Genius feature. You can also organize your iPhone apps in iTunes and can get the same layout on your phone. Get precut ringtone downloads with more than 20,000 ringtones from the store for $ 1.29. So, if you still haven’t gotten around to downloading iTunes 9 go and get it. What are you waiting for?

Read below the note posted on AT&T as an update to the claimer earlier this year that MMS would be available on the iPhone. I know a lot of people have been waiting on this! We know many of our iPhone customers are eager for an update on our rollout schedule for Multimedia Messaging Service MMS. We’ve been working for the past several months to prepare our systems and network to ensure the best possible experience with MMS when it launches – and that launch date is: September 25 for iPhone 3G and 3GS customers. MMS will be enabled through a software update on that day. We know that iPhone users will embrace MMS. The unique capabilities and high usage of the iPhone’s multimedia capabilities required us to work on our network MMS architecture to carry the expected record volumes of MMS traffic and ensure an excellent experience from Day One. We appreciate your patience as we work toward that end. We’re riding the leading edge of smartphone growth that’s resulted in an explosion of traffic over the AT&T network. Wireless use on our network has grown an average of 350 percent year-over-year for the past two years, and is projected to continue at a rapid pace in 2009 and beyond. The volume of smartphone data traffic the AT&T network is handling is unmatched in the wireless industry. We want you to know that we’re working relentlessly to innovate and invest in our network to anticipate this growth in usage and to stay ahead of the anticipated growth in data demand, new devices and applications for years to come. We thank you for your business and look forward to keeping you updated on our initiatives.

All you music lovers keep an eye or ear out for the new Rhapsody app on the Apple iTunes App Store front. RealNetworks a digital entertainment services company is planning to release this new music app for the iPhone and iPod Touch. If you are a proud owner of any of these devices then you can feast your ears on music as you will be able to access more than 8 million songs. The company will also offer free trials of the service. However the price of the new app is still a secret. Music lovers may not cringe to spend on this app, however. RealNetworks is also developing a streaming music app for Google’s Android platform an iPhone competitor. RealNetworks plans to go still forward and tackle other mobile operating systems and operator app stores. There is speculation about Apple’s stand whether it will accept the entry of Rhapsody app as it may consider the streaming service a direct competition to its iTunes digital media storefront. But RealNetworks sources believe Apple will accept Rhapsody as iTunes is set to become huger than what it is now and it does not make sense rejecting a streaming music app at this stage. Apple is however silent on this issue. iTunes sales may be affected in the long run as many believe although it is a little early to think on these lines.

Apple and Google better watch out. Android and iPhone operating systems are under attack from none other than Microsoft, the software giant. If sources in the Taiwan handset industry are correct, then Microsoft will soon be releasing Windows Mobile 6.5 by October first week. This will be followed by an upgrade to the software platform in February next year that will have a touch interface. WinMo 6.5 will be released along with Microsoft’s Windows Marketplace for Mobile app storefront. If you think Microsoft will phase out WinMo 6.5 when it launches Windows Mobile 7 then you are in for a surprise… that is not the company’s modus operandi. Microsoft will only bring down the price of WinMo 6.5 so as to take on the Android platform, while the new WinMo 7 will target the iPhone and Apple’s mobile operating system. Say what? Yes, that’s right…Microsoft will make two operating systems available to developers and handset makers at the same time. This dual-platform strategy of introducing Windows Mobile on October first followed by Windows Mobile 7 in fourth quarter of 2010 is aimed at having a better standing in the mobile market taking on both Android and iPhone operating systems in one shot.

  Google has done it again! A new app for android users has just been released, and its making a splash, or maybe making a sound would be a better way to put it. The application, aptly named "Listen" pulls podcast and audio to your android phone. I downloaded the app so that I could have a better idea of how it works, and its a pretty simple app.  There are thousands of podcast ranging from politics to coin collecting. And if you arent sure about what you want to listen to there is a popular search button that can help you on your way. Streaming doesnt stop and start a lot which can happen while buffering. Also you can browse through podcast no strings attached, but if your a committed podcast listener you have the option of subscribing to your favorites.  There is also a listening que that allows you to list the order you want to hear your audio clips in and play them without subscribing. You are also able to download podcast to listen to later.  One of the features that I personally like is the share feature. It makes sharing your beloved podcast that much easier. It can send them to an outside email source, GMail, messagingtext,mms and of course twitter. There maybe other ways to share but that would depend on what other social networking apps you have downloaded on your phone.    Some would try and pit Googles "Listen" against the iPhones iTunes and while iTunes is great for syncing your podcast you have to know exactly what you want to listen to. But with Googles "Listen" you have a wider, on the spot search enabled app.  I was also interested in seeing if audio books were available on the app and I did find some! This was awesome for me because there are some moments when I really would love to read but cant. This app opens that avenue up for listeners.    I downloaded this app to get a feel for how it works but in the mean time I found that I really enjoyed it. So If your a heavy podcast follower or maybe youve just begun to test the audio clip waters this would be a great app to download.

         Hey Readers, if you read my previous blog, I stated that I would be going more in-depth on the "Big Brother" fear today. I decided to take a look into not only which other phones were sending and receiving its users data but also the far reaching consequences of information sharing. My search results are rather disturbing.    I mentioned yesterday that the Palm Pre had received many complaints  about its info sharing, but a lot of phones are transferring its users information, Palm Pre just got caught. Our obsession with convenience has now turned into a crisis of privacy. The technology age has now met with the "microwave generation" which has effectively wiped away our former guard of personal boundaries. We share passwords, credit card numbers, family pictures, home and business addresses and personal conversations daily over multiple avenues most often via our cell phones. Most of us dont blink when prompted by our phone to enter our email password or user name, as long as it makes reading, sending, and receiving our emails faster, easier, and more convenient. We dont stop to think about what is in our emails, what personal data our handy communications device has just gained access to. Let me not be misunderstood, I am self described cellaholic, I dont go anywhere without my phone. I could never be the person to tell anyone to "rage against the machine" and "burn all cell phones", because I wouldnt last a day without mine, but I will say that maybe we should all become a little more conscience of how much we share. Which leads me into my next point.    For most of us, using our phones as a mobile office, home phone, emergency life-line, as well as an entertainment hub is the norm. We "Share" information through email, tweets, YouTube, Myspace, Facebook and many other social networking media, and if you have a phone which has "Apps" you probably have an app for each one of the previously mentioned networks. We share a summary of who we are as people with just a click of a button or in some cases a swipe of a finger and thats just in the "About Me" section. So how can we be surprised by our cellphone companies gathering information about us, when they feel that they have given us warning that they will? On the other hand we have seemingly been desensitized about sharing our personal information. Being inundated with the ever present question "What are you doing?" , or "Whats on your mind?" and repeatedly answering can and has had an effect on our psyche. So to have our phones gather more information from us seems to be the logical ending. But this cellphone spying can become quite radical, even dangerous.    In my search for insight for this blog I found myself plastered with sites offering products, software, and simple spying accounts. All with the sole purpose of spying through a cellphone. I was disturbed to find that not only can your calls be monitored while your on them, but also your text messages, emails, and you can even listen to someones conversation if the phone is off with out the person knowing! The software is virtually undetectable and relatively low priced. This has far reaching consequences for anyone concerned about their privacy! I was shocked to find that the easiest and best phone for the software to work on is the iPhone. This may not seem shocking at first glance but if you do a little research youll find that Apple based its early marketing on revolting against "Big Brother". One of their most well known commercials, which you can watch via YouTube, is their attempt to showcase themselves as heroes against conformity and the ever present surveillance and domination of a Big Brother-like villain.  This is was startling revelation for me since they too collect information from their cellphone users now. Now in all honesty I dont fully disagree with cellphones having access to some information especially GPS, since in some cases it can be used to save lives. But I do believe that we should all take a good look at the way we freely share information about ourselves via Internet and cellphones. But who am I to judge, Ive checked email from my phone six times and tweeted twice since I began writing this. The decision, at the end of the day, is yours.

Thanks to some innovation, you can now get your Safari Apple bookmarks on your Palm Pre. Yet another reason why you dont need to be tied to the iPhone if you dont want to. Im sure Apple is not going to be happy about this just like the whole iTunes sync availability on the Palm Pre as well. So heres the details: Mark/Space just announced availability of Fliq Bookmarks in the Palm Beta App Catalog starting today. Fliq Bookmarks lets you use Safari bookmarks including bookmarks folder and bookmark bar to view your favorite sites on your Palm Pre. Fliq Bookmarks works with The Missing Sync for Palm Pre to copy bookmarks from Safari on the Mac to Palm Pre. The list of bookmarks can be viewed in Fliq Bookmarks and opened using its built-in web browser. So, are you catching on yet? This means that you can sync contacts, calendars, music, ringtones, and photos too in addition to the bookmarks between your Mac and Palm Pre. The Missing Sync is compatible with all the Mac applications that you already use on your computer - iTunes, Address Book, iCal, Microsoft Entourage, iPhoto, etc. For those of you PC people out there, a version of The Missing Sync for Palm Pre for Windows XP and Windows Vista is in the works. source: press release

Want to record calls on your iPhone? Here is a great app for you. Retronyms announced the new version of Recorder. This app provides call recording so now you can keep an audio record of important meetings and interviews done via the phone.

As the iPhone SDK does not have a feature to record, your iPhone calls the Recorder using an external service connected to the telephone network for call recording. One drawback is that the Recorder service can be used only for outgoing calls originating and terminating in the US as of now.

Although there will be a per minute fee for the service, it is expected that many users will adopt it as call recording is one shortcoming recognized in the iPhone and is certainly keeping away possible business customer base that Apple is so keen to go after.

Also, call recording is now possible as Apple recently released a new in-app micropayment service as part of its iPhone 3.0 update. You will be able to purchase call recording through your existing iTunes account with the updated OS. Go and download now for only .99c at the Apple App Store.