Forget the old days of calling the operator or 411 for a businesses phone number. Call 1-800-GOOG-411 to get connected with local businesses or to get directions to your favorite restaurant. For full details of what you can do with this visit the Goog-411 page.
You can send a text message from your phone to 46645 or G-O-O-G-L and type weather followed by your zip code to get current weather information. For many other uses of this service such as movie times, addresses, stock quotes, etc. visit Google SMS.
On most cell phones you can press the send button to bring up a list of recent calls. Highlight a number in the list and press send again to make the call. This makes it quicker to return a call.
When looking for a digital camera. One of the things you see is the amount of megapixels the camera has. This is not the most important thing to look at in determining the best picture quality. To get the best picture quality compare the sensor size on the different cameras you are looking at.
Google can be used just the same as a calculator to enter a math problem. Google will calculate it and give you the answer. To do this just go to google and enter the problem like 2 + 2 = and it will return the results as 2 + 2 = 4. You can even do more advanced problems like (8 x 4) + 12 = which returns (8 x 4) + 12 = 44
One fast and easy way to speed up your PC is to uninstall any of those programs you don’t use anymore to free up disk space and system resources.
One free tool that helps you do this is CCleaner
http://www.ccleaner.com
Improve Vista performance by using ReadyBoost. Readyboost is a new feature where Vista can use the free space on your USB drive as a caching mechanism. Your USB drive must support ready boost to use this feature.
Did you know you can disable all those annoying popups you get when trying to install software or updates with Windows Vista. All you have to do is disable the User Account Control feature under the user account properties.
Just about everybody these days has more than one email account.. if you use Gmail for one of your e-mail accounts… did you know you can add all your other e-mail accounts to Gmail and access them all from gmail.com?
Go into your Gmail Account Settings and click on Accounts.
Sometimes iPods freeze up and the easiest way to get a Nano to respond is to move the Hold switch to on and off and then press menu and select buttons for about 6 second until the Apple logo appears.