How much texting is too much?
Posted by Ben in Cell Phone on December 26, 2009
If your hands, specifically your thumbs, experience daily pains and sores, it might be time to put away the keyboard and pick up the phone.
Texting; the form of communication through words on mobile devices. Why do we text? Its not at all faster than making a phone call, and unless your a teenager, you probably haven’t mastered your phone’s mobile keyboard yet. The CTIA’s latest figures state that American’s with cell phone sent a over 740 billion text messages in just the first half of 2009. Do the math; that 4.1 billion texts daily, about 17 texts per person with a phone.
With more texts, fewer users were actually making phone calls, dropping the average call time from 3.13 minutes in 2007 to 2.03 minutes in 2009. Don’t get us wrong though, more and more minutes are being added to calling plans, and normal phone calls still take place on a daily basis. And with all those extra texting and voice plans, your bill on rose 2% this year to a$49.57 a month… and we don’t think most people have data plans at that price!
So how much is too much? Well if we consider that some don’t text, we can’t make our number too high. And with one 14 year old Florida girl sending over 35,463 text messages in a month (1,182 per day), we can’t make it too high either. Wireless companies usually charge around $10-$15 for about 200 text messages, about 7 texts a day. But for approximately $20-$25, you can get anywhere from 1000 to unlimited from your provider. At 1000 a month, you’d be sending 33 a day, just a little too much for those who would rather call. So what’s the magic number? We’d say 500 texts per month, about 17 per day. Any less and I’d congratulate you for actually using your phone for its intentions, but anymore… and I might not ever give you my number.
d°light Huggable Pillow
Posted by Evan A. Martin in Homeware on December 11, 2009
Available in white, pink, or gold, this unique pillow is probably one of the best night lights your going to find.
Want to cut down on the amount of light and electricity you use at night? How about the d°light Huggable Pillow that only uses four rechargeable AA batteries, or an AC adapter. After four hours it fades out and turns off. It would be a great gift to yourself or a friend, I could see myself using this for camping or reading a good novel before bed. The warm light would leave you in a good mood before dozing off. It’s made in Japan by Diana Lin Designs and made from warm colored LED lights, 100% polyester eyelash fabric and satin. Not a bad at just $159.00, it would be perfect for events like the 4th of July, and Earth Hour – next March 27th 2010. Take a look at it here.
Posted by Evan, for Riley Burton.
Appulo.us gets too popular; new “Troll Bridge”
Posted by Ben in Application, Websites on November 18, 2009
Appulo.us was designed and is maintained by Kyek, and provides a solution to the "get rich quick" scheme pulled by most wannabe developers; saving you time, money, and frustration.
As Kyek described in his long documentation for the reason of this troll bridge, its pretty obvious that some of you are there for the wrong reasons. For those of you that are unfamiliar, after you jailbreak your iPhone or iPod Touch (which I will not condone in anyway), after patching the installation file can install what are known as “cracked .IPA’s”. Very basically, n .IPA is the extension used by iPhone and iPod Touch applications. When you download an app, your username and login credentials are added to small details inside the app so it can only be installed on your approved devices (computers that you have authorized).
Well some clever guys out there, who are actually the good guys, though the App Store was corrupt (like most of us) and decided to “patch” these apps so you could obtain and run them without purchasing them. The idea behind it was that you could “demo” applications that you thought looked cool without having to fork out the money. In the event you love the game, tool, what have you… you go to the App Store and purchase it to support the developer. If it sucks, you delete the app and thank Kyek and others for saving you from spending some money on a app that sucks.
Back on topic, Appulo.us, the main source for finding these cracked .IPA’s recently put up what they call the Troll Brdige. Now its only temporary as they are trying to move to more powerful servers, but in the meantime, instead of not letting anyone use it, those in the inner circle of Appulo.us can get access by answering a short, daily trivia question.
In conclusion, its not that the question is hard, and its not there to piss you off: its there to give you a better connection to the site! Honestly, if you don’t know the questions or have any respect for the people who figured out how to get free apps, you really shouldn’t even have the right to use Appulous, but obviously that’s not in my control.
Enjoy Appulous, thank Kyek (and others), and support your developers!