It seems like almost every carrier is doing a top 5 (some even 10) list. With these lists they allow you to add 5 to 10 “friends”and no matter what carrier/provider they use, you can call for free and not waste any of your minutes. They all seem to have their own little names. AT&T calls it the “A-List” and Verizon calls it “My Fave Five”. But in the end it’s all the same.

Most of you are thinking, yeah, we know this already, but as I was changing some setting in my beloved Google Voice account I noticed that they allow you to change the number that appears when you received a call from someone. You can have either their number display, which is of course the default and what most people would want. But they also allow you to always have the google voice number show up with every call.

So my workaround is why not just add your google voice number to your top 5 list and give everyone that number. Then change it so that all incoming calls come from your google voice number and never waste your minutes on incoming calls again.

But thats not all, google voice allows you to make outgoing as well, by calling your google voice number, then dialing the number you want to call. So no wasting minutes on outgoing calls either.

Okay, now I know for some of you this just wont work. A lot of us love to always know who is calling before we answer the phone, but google helps with this as well. Google Voice give you control of what numbers you want to ring straight through, but it also give you the ability to have callers announce themselves first and/or just announce their number or name (if in contacts) and then gives you the ability to answer or send to voicemail.

Also, keep in mind you can still give out your real number to the other 4 in your list and anyone else who is worth wasting your minutes on. This workaround is meant to be given out to all those that call you constantly and love to talk for hours or perfect as a business line.

If you think this is something you could really use and want to give it a shot, I have 2 Google Voice invites to give out just leave a comment below and I will pick 2 at random and send out the invites later this week. Just be sure to add the tag “I want an Invite” to the beginning or end of your comment.

So it took me 3 years and 11 months, but it has finally happened! I was actually able to talk work into buying me a Mac Mini to use as my full time computer!

The Mini is an amazing little device, not the most powerful, but more then enough for coding websites, doing some minor video editing and installing a virtual XP box so I can still troubleshoot all the annoying phone support calls I get.

Most of you know I have been working with the Hackint0sh installer and actually had a decent amount of luck with it, but no matter how much I put into it, my performance always seemed lacking. I am sure if you built your PC with just the right equipment you may actually not even notice.

I have had the Mini for 3 work days now and I just finally got everything I believe I need installed. And the thing is still running like a top. Lets just say I am one happy employee.

Anyways enough about it here is the unboxing if your interested. Sorry for the poor camera work I really need to get one of those tripod things for my iPhone.

This has gotta be the best iPhone costume I have ever seen. If only I had the money to make my own.

I have gone through a few different cases for my iPhone and I think I have finally found my favorite one. It’s the Slider Case by Incase.

The case is very slim and light, but gives me a better grip and feels more comfortable then just the plain iPhone or other cases I have used in the past. I think the best feature is how seamless the two pieces lock into place, it doesn’t give you a awkward bump like other cases.

The case is roughly 35 dollars and offered any many different colors and styles.

The main issues with the case, like many others, is that it does trap dust in the case which can cause some minor scratching of the chrome bezel. I have found this to be a livable side effect of having the phone protected.

I would still love to find a full (all over) seamless case for the iPhone so if you know of one please feel free to let me know. I have tried the naked case by casemate and was left very unhappy.

When I first saw the TomTom app for the iPhone, back in July, I was very excited. I’ve always wanted one mainly for the Mr T voice addon.

Well when I got the App on Monday and there was no option for other voices I was pretty upset so today, I decided to look into things and luckily enough I was able to do it myself.

Check out the video. (video quality will increase when YouTube gets done processing the video)

I haven’t had luck with all other voices, some just crashed the app, but personally I only care about the Mr. T voice.

Enjoy!

Today Apple released their own iDisk App for the iPhone. I know there have been some 3rd party apps that work similar, but I personally a fan of free apps and as other Apple created ones this is free as well.

The app works great you can quickly browse through your iDisk folders to view documents, pictures, and even watch a movie. You can also start or stop sharing a file and add or remove public folders to your iDisk

This App may make me use iDisk a little more often in the future. Hopefully they will add an upload button so I could quickly upload IMages or videos into the folder I prefer instead of publishing it like the Photos app does.

The question is what is the future of the apps that are already doing these feature?

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