Author Archives: Dennis Bournique

Geogad – Free Audio Travel Guides

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Geogad.com is a Siicon Valley start up whose product is mobile travel guides.  Each guide is  a walking tour about an hour in length presented using maps, images and audio.  There are currently 15 tours covering San Francisco, Vancouver BC, Savannah, GA and New Orleans.  Initially the tours were available in two formats, on the web at Geogad.com or as a zip file containing a one page PDF walking map and about 50 MP3 audio clips.  You load the MP3s … Continue reading →

ZeroRubbish Portal Lives Up to it’s Name

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ZeroRubbish (zerorubbish.com) is a comprehensive mobile portal which combines a mobile link directory, multi-search engine, chat rooms and forums with social networking features including profiles, guest book and shared personal link directories.  As the site’s name implies, submitted links pass through an approval process to eliminate adult and low quality content, non-mobile sites and other “rubbish”. No registration is needed to browse the directory, follow links and use the search engine. Registered users get access to chat and forums and … Continue reading →

Mark Your Calendars – Mobile 2.0 is Nov. 3rd

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My favorite one day mobile conference, Mobile 2.0 will be held in San Francisco on November 3rd. I’ve attended the last two Mobile 2.0 conferences and consider it a don’t miss event. What’s so great about Mobile 2.0?  It’s an affordable ($250) , intimate (a few hundred attendees) gathering that always features a great selection of speakers.  Here’s a partial list of this years panelists and speakers: Russ McGuire, VP, Strategy, Sprint Ozzie Diaz, Chief Technologist, Wireless, HP Tatsuki Tomita, … Continue reading →

Mjelly Adds Downloads and Mobile Sites

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Free ringtone site mjelly.com (mobile m.mjelly.com) has branched out.  In addition to its funky collection of sound effects,  old school phone ringers, cartoon and TV themes, rave and metal tones; the site now offers downloadable applications and games and a mobile site directory. The new content sections are pretty small so far.  Right now mjelly lists  21 app downloads and 54 mobile sites compared with 352 ringtones. But the apps and sites are all well known, high quality ones like … Continue reading →

1and1 Hosting Has Gone Sour For Me

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I’ve been using 1and1 shared hosting for about five years. Until last month it was great; fast, cheap, reliable and when I did have a problem it was fixed quickly, usually in less than an hour. January thorough August this year I averaged 2 hours/month  downtime as measured by host-tracker.com.  That works out to 99.7% uptime which I consider pretty good for shared hosting.  Then things started to go downhill.  September saw nine hours of downtime and in the first … Continue reading →

AT&T Pulling the Plug on Unlimited Prepaid Data!

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Remember the $19.99/month unlimited MediaNet data add-on for AT&T’s GoPhone Pay as You Go (PYG) plans that the carrier launched in April?  Well, it looks like the party is almost over. Phonenews.com has confirmed that the widely rumored demise of the plan is true.  November 11th or 12th is the last day that you will be able to purchase the feature. You can currently stack up to three $19.99 packages for 90 days of service. Assuming that that Nov 11 … Continue reading →