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WILLIE STYLEZ TECH REVIEW => Google Voice now has OPEN SIGN-UPS!

Goodbye invites, hello open sign-ups!

You no longer need an invitation to sign up for Google Voice. Anyone can now sign up at google.com/voice.

via google.com

What Does STYLEZ Think?

First, I have one thing to say... I LOVE gVOICE (aka Google Voice)! It's the BOMB! Where else (since they bought the competition) can you get a FREE telephone number, with the ability to Call or Text your peeps all over the US of A AND Canada!? Only gVOICE! Up until now, you had to have an invitation to this great program, and now it features number porting (take an existing phone number and move it to gVOICE), choose your own number feature, Calling from Gmail, mobile clients (for iPhone, Blackberry and of course Android), and MORE! Run over to http://google.com/voice and get your FREE gVOICE number today!

That's what Stylez thinks. What do you think?

Filed under: FREE Google Technology gVoice telephone texting
 

WILLIE STYLEZ TECH REVIEW => #Paper.li virtual Newspaper by @SmallRivers #Cool #HOTTECH

What Does STYLEZ Think?

Last night my wife was checking her twitter feed and discovered a few mentions about her latest author interview on her blog site, LexiFlint.com. One of which included a "Top News Story" from a news site called WDWPUB: Thriller Daily! I was very surprised that a news site had already jumped on the blog posting, seeing as that my wife had only just posted it a few hours earlier!

So then when I inspected the site, it turned out every "news headline" or story was actually just a very well formated summary listing and link to the actual information. This intrigued me further to discover who created such a great, innovative website, and I noticed that "Bob" was the "editor" of the paper! From my experience, guys named "Bob" don't create great things like this and ONLY list themselves as Bob! Usually they have cooler nicknames like AstroBlur or Crash&Burn or ... WillieStylez! LOL!

Anyway, I dug a little deeper... ok, didn't have to look to deep since the top of the page showed this:

Paperli

So I clicked it and ended up on the Paper.li website and found out that it was a SUPER COOL and FREE, new web service that let you "Read Twitter and Facebook as a Daily Newspaper"!

The site is very well organized and setup to allow you to auto-authenticate using Facebook or Twitter credentials (I think more and more I appreciate that function on most websites, one less password to remember!). Once you setup your new account, you are off and running with the ability to create multiple "newspapers" using everything from, your full Twitter feed, twitter lists, hashtags and in beta testing, Facebook feeds! It even includes a cool widget you can post on your other websites and blogs:

Williestylezdaily

The newspaper is generated by Paper.li using a link aggregation function which essentially takes all of the links people have posted in your selected feed and summarizes, categorizes and even generates thumbnail and/or photo previews from the links! Plus there's two really cool sections that generate picture and video feeds! All in all, it's a great (and cool) way to get a bird's eye view on a topic or feed and may become your favorite way to read YOUR Twitter/Facebook timeline!

So that is what Stylez thinks! What do you think?

P.S. Don't forget to check out MY Paper.li site @ http://paper.li/WillieStylez

Filed under: FREE Technology review web gems
 

REVIEW: S2P (Slide 2 Play)

S2P (Slide 2 Play)

S2P is a stylus-free MP3/MP4/M4A/AAC/WMA/WAV/M3U/PLS/ASX player application. It simply lets you browse your music files & play. It fully integrates with S2U2; & supports A2DP & AVRCP. 
S2P image S2P image

 

via A_C S2 Applications

This has got to be the COOLEST and BEST media players for the Windows Mobile platform, and best yet, IT'S FREE!!! I downloaded it, and first thing I notice is that it has that familiar, if not slightly dated, iPhone interface. HOWEVER, that is a good thing because it makes it VERY easy to navigate, especially on touch based devices such as the HTC Touch HD and the HTC HD2. I have both phones and tested this on the HD2 with no issues. I liked that the OpenGL (3D flipping and sliding) and WVGA screen were both supported by the v0.83Beta and it QUICKLY discovered and played my music, unlike the HTC Media Player (which would take 30 seconds to 4 or 5 minutes to play EVERYTIME) that comes standard with those phones. I had to actually disable the use of the HTC Music tab on my HD2 because it kept crashing my manila (HTC Sense). Anyway, make sure you check out this AWESOME media player TODAY, and with a price like FREE, it definitely can't be beat!

If you download (or have already downloaded) and use this app, please comment with your thoughts! Thanks!

Filed under: FREE Music Software review tools
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