TweetCaster review

Tweetcaster is an ok twitter app, however it has issues that bother me.First, the ads are poorly placed and very easy to accidently click them.This leads to the other problem, it seems to be to large to stay in memory and takes a while to load and is generally slow. I find these issues to be irritating enough that I am going to uninstall it after I complete this post. I noticed that the developer seems to be routing the ads through their own servers to avoid ad blocking.

Location : 7671-7715 Yorkshire Dr, Reno, NV 89506,

T-Mobile data problems continue

I just spoke with customer service again about the data problem at my home and they determined that it is a problem with the cell site. I tried to tell them this a month ago. They have no eta on a fix, it could be days or weeks. This has been going on for over a month and a half now. This is now well past the point of breach of contract on their part and I could get out of the rest of contract, I am wondering if it is time to look at other providers.

Location : 7671-7715 Yorkshire Dr, Reno, NV 89506,

Stupid spammers

I had a spammer post a link to his warez site as a comment to my last entry.  From trying to read their post, it was clear that English was not their primary language.

Due to this, I disabled anonymous comment posting and enabled comment moderation.  I did not want to moderate comments on my blog because I wanted to allow a free and open disscussion on the topics I post. 

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Location : 7671-7715 Yorkshire Dr, Reno, NV 89506,

More review of swype on my G1

I have been using swype for android for about a week now and I am pleased with it so far. If you use the on-screen keyboard a lot, it makes entry faster and smoother.

The built in dictionary is large and it is not difficult to add new words. I am not sure how to remove custom words; however, I have not had a need to remove one yet.

I am curious about the price structure for the release version, I am getting used to this text entry system and would not like having to give it up because they set a price point that is out of reason for the product. There is a very large potential customer base for this software and I feel they would make more by selling at a lower price, with more copies sold than a high price and few copies sold.

Overall, this is a nice software package that I would recommend to anyone that has an android based phone.

https://beta.swype.com/android/create

Thanks to Andrew Spellman for turning me onto this software.

Location : 7671-7715 Yorkshire Dr, Reno, NV 89506,

Review of twicca, a twitter app for android

I have been using twicca for a couple of weeks now and feel it could replace Twidroid except for the lack of url shortening.  To me this is a deal breaker due to the inherent length limits with twitter. I will continue to watch it and if they add url shortening, I will look at it again.

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Swype update

I have been using Swype for a short time and like it. It is software I would pay for, it would be worth it.

Location : 7671-7715 Yorkshire Dr, Reno, NV 89506,

Testing swype input method beta

I am testing Swype beta input method for android.  It is very slick so far, just slide your finger over the letters of the word and if it is not sure it gives you several choices.  It also seems to learn as you use it.  I am impressed so far with it.

Location : 7671-7715 Yorkshire Dr, Reno, NV 89506,

The ongoing T-Mobile 3G data saga

I just got off the phone with a T-Mobile customer service rep.  I did not have to go through all the normal tests and I have another trouble ticket number in my file.

An engineer from T-Mobile is supposed to contact me within 72 hours to make arrangements to come on site to troubleshoot the problem.  I am not optomistic that they will contact me.

The saga continues....

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Location : 7671-7715 Yorkshire Dr, Reno, NV 89506,

T-Mobile data problems ongoing

The edge connection has been working at the house for a couple of days now. I waited before reporting this to confirm that it was stable.  The big problem is that I STILL do not have 3G service here.

I have not heard from customer service since last Wednesday and have never heard from an engineer.  Considering that I have been told by customer service reps several times an engineer would contact me, this is becoming a bad joke.  It was this level of failure that convinced me to switch carriers last time.

I is getting really frustrating that they seem to keep trying to blame it on my phone when my wife's phone has the same issue and we both have the same problem inside and outside.  Every time I speak with them, they want me to walk through the same set of troubleshooting steps again, it seems that they are doing the same things over and over expecting different results.

I will follow up with them again today and see if they want me to do their standard troubleshooting again, proving their standard procedure of blaming the customer's equipment.

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