Free Cloud Services that you can use with your Android Phone!

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There are Several Cloud Services out there!

We’ve got so many options out there that we sometimes don’t know where to start or how to start.  I’m about to change all that with you on this post.  We will be discussing which cloud services are best and which ones look to be the most reliable when it comes to be using with your android phone.  Remember, this isn’t a substatute for having full backups but at least you can have your files where ever you go.

The Cloud Storage Apps I’d Recommend!

So I want to help people find the free storage options and also maybe not have to worry about paying for any money for storage so here I we go:

 

  • Ubuntu One Files — Ubuntu One Personal Cloud the freedom to access and enjoy your content your way Your Personal Cloud Ubuntu One gives you 5GB of free storage for all your files.
  • Browser for Skydrive — Gives you a 7GB free unless you got the 25 gb for being a loyal skydrive user.  You can register and use Skydrive and figure out if you qualify for the 25 gb upgrade.
  • Dropbox — Dropbox gives you 2 gb with the option to get 18gb more with referrals. I don’t know if it works or not because I’m haven’t used Drop that much but I do like the fact that you get 2 gb of free storage.
  • SmeStorage — This isn’t free App but it is free 5 gb using Amazon S3 service.  You have to pay 4.80$ for the android app but I think it is worth it.   I haven’t had much time to play with this service just yet but it looks like it lets you use multiple free services in one and saves you time and money with your storage options.
  • Sugarsync — SugarSync Have you ever been away from home or the office and realized you need a file that is on your computer? (Free 5 gb of storage)
  • Box — Box for Android and Android Tablet lets you view and share files from anywhere! Box provides simple, secure sharing from anywhere.  (5 gb free)
  • Opendrive — A powerful cloud based drive accessible from anywhere. OpenDrive is a free service providing you 5gb of cloud storage to view, share, and collaborate on your documents.

There are seven android apps that I’ve found but I’m sure you can find more if you look but these look promising, in my opinion and I thought I would at least get people a chance to use all these free services to get more than 40 gb of free storage for your Android device.  If you know of some new ones, then by all means leave a comment and let me know!  I’d love to find out more free options that people recommend!

Paul Sylvester

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Free Ipad scams sent through text messages!

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Another Spam Text message!

Just Like the Wal-mart text spam, I thought I would at least make people aware of this new spam text message!

Phone Numbers: 

(901)833-6335

Attn: You have been selected to receive a FREE iPad – go to www.freeipad.com.winr.biz/ and enter promo code: “IWON” to claim your iPad. HURRY!

So I used my free Tool to find out who the provider is and they say that it should be Cingular Wireless (AT&T).  It is looking like AT&T is having problems right now because they seem to be constantly coming from numbers that are on the AT&T network.  

You can report this text by forwarding it to abuse@att.com.   I also tell them what number it comes from.   I am hoping this is making the spammers look somewhere else because it is looking like new numbers each time!

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What people will do for a little privacy!

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Nothing has changed!

Once in a blue moon I find these gems and I want to share it with my readers. This camper is parked in front of a house and I am just had to get a picture with my HTC Inspire 4g.

This post was done with the phone also, thanks to Squarespace android app. I would love for you to share this post with your friends and family.

Paul Sylvester

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Walmart Text Spam and How to fight it!

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Interesting text messages!

I’ve had a long weekend doing some stuff and I happen to get two different text from two different numbers, with the same text.   Now you if you’ve been an avid reader of this blog, you know I REALLY HATE SPAM!  I even talked about blog referrer spam and how it just looks bad on companies.  

Text Numbers So far:

310-435-9136

214-600-2674

You have been selected for a $1,000 Walmart GiftCard, Enter code “FREE” at http://www.walmart.com.xxx.biz/wm/ to claim your prize: 161 left!

Why spammers are using text messages now?

Most of the time, the reason spammers are going to text spamming now is that it is far easier to spam you on your text message then to use email.   Hey let’s face it who is going to report the spam and who do you report it them too?  These are the reasons why spammers are going to go this route, it is much harder to block or report these spam messages and they know it.  So I figured if they are going to send messages my way, I’d send messages to the right provider and thus I went back to my old post about reporting text message spam.

I’m looking for Android Apps that do this!

I’ve been searching around for an app that does this, but most of them just block it and don’t really report it! I’d really want to make it hard for the spammers to want to send text messages.   Right now the cost of sending text spam is low but if it starts to make it less profitable they will go somewhere else to spam.

Some of the Apps that I will try are:

 

  • Handcent SMS — Handcent SMS is a powerful free sms/mms tools for your android phone.  The most popular messaging app on the Android Market, Handcent SMS is a powerful, customizable, and free SMS/MMS app that fully unleashes the messaging potential of Android devices.
  • Mr. Number Text, Call & Block — Text and call the people you love. Block everyone else.  Mr. Number is a messenger, dialer, and contact manager with built-in call and text blocking (free application) and automatic reverse lookup for numbers you don’t know (Caller ID).
  • Phone Spam Blocker —  NUMBERCOP blocks spam calls and text from 50.000 telemarketers & scam artists Getting SPAM CALLS or TEXT SMS SPAM ? NUMBERCOP is the easiest way to block them. NUMBERCOP knows 50.000 spamming phone numbers: Phone scams, phishing calls and annoying telemarketers.  NUMBERCOP blocks spam calls and text from 50.000 telemarketers & scam artistsGetting SPAM CALLS or TEXT SMS SPAM ? NUMBERCOP is the easiest way to block them. NUMBERCOP knows 50.000 spamming phone numbers: Phone scams, phishing calls and annoying telemarketers.

As you can tell some of these that I’ve found do check caller ID but I am hoping that it will be easier to find the carrier that is being used to spam but at least these do have some ways to block text spam SMS.   My only hope is that someone app developer will come up with a way to report text spam messages to the right company and thus making it extremely hard to send text messages and the cost would out way spamming people.

Paul Sylvester

 

 

 

 

Sprinkle a little Bit of Love and water! (Game Review)

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Sprinkle Over View: 

Using a water cannon mounted on a crane, players must adjust the height and angle of the cannon to fight fires, move obstacles, spin wheels and activate traps in this challenging water-physics based puzzler! But squirt carefully as you will run out of water and the less water you use, the more drops you earn! Sprinkle is available for devices running Android 2.3 or greater! Using some of the most realistic water physics seen on an Android device yet, Sprinkle is a brain-teasing game that will have players straining to figure out each puzzle and obstacle.

Using a water cannon mounted on a crane, players must adjust the height and angle of the cannon to fight fires, move obstacles, spin wheels and activate traps in this challenging water-physics based puzzler! But squirt carefully as you will run out of water and the less water you use, the more drops you earn!Sprinkle is available for devices running Android 2.3 or greater!  Using some of the most realistic water physics seen on an Android device yet, Sprinkle is a brain-teasing game that will have players straining to figure out each puzzle and obstacle.

See Video for examples!

My thoughts:

Nothing in this game is anything but dull, you are constantly trying to fight a ever increasing amount of difficulty in solving these puzzles.   I am using my HTC Inspire to play this game and I must say that it works really well when it comes to playing the game.  I’m really happy with it myself, but the only downsize is the smaller the screen the hard it is to adjust the cannon and the possibility to hit the home key or the something like that.  I’ve had a really good time playing this over the past few hours and I thought I would just have a good time posting about it. It’s definately a challenging game where you have to think out your plan to solve a puzzle, and save the lives of those little android guys.   I really don’t know what they are called but this is a really interesting game and I would recommend it to those who want to people who like to solve puzzles. If you want to play this game it will cost you a little money but the price is really reasonable to play this game! On Android and IOS, it’s $1.99.

If you want to play it, you can play it on Your Iphone, Ipad, Ipod touch and Android Devices Version 2.3 or higher.

 

 

 

 

I hope you have as much fun with this game as I do, I am loving it!

Paul Sylvester