Tips and Tricks for the LG800g

I finally upgraded from the LG500g.
Interactive Tutorial for Tracfone LG800g HERE
Yes I am still using Tracfone, it suits my living “Life On The Cheap,” lifestyle and the triple minutes I get on the LG800g with every  airtime purchase means that if I purchase 60 minutes (One Hour) I get 90 minutes (three hours) of talk time, and any purchase over 30 minutes is valid for 90 days as well.
Texting is much easier than on the LG500g which has a mini keyboard with very tiny letters on it. I like using the virtual keyboard.
The touch response if good but don’t expect what you get with an iPhone
I added a 4 gig micro sd card and via the micro Usb I am able to download 3gp mobile movies and video to my cell phone [I recommend that you download these file first to your computer and scan them for viruses BEFORE transferring them to your phone and playing them. So far I have 10 movies and 15 songs plus about 30 photo, and I have only used 59 MB of the 4 Gig hard drive. Cool

Tips and Tricks:
Downloading and transferring videos from You Tube.
If you want to download videos from You Tube the best downlhelper for me is offered as an extension for Firefox. I use Video Download Helper. Get it Here.
You can download YouTube videos directly in Mobile 3gp format and if you connect the LG800g directly to your computer with a mini usb cable, it will act as a removable hard drive, so you can transfer the video file directly to the “videos” folder. Remember when you’re using Video Download Helper on Firefox to download videos from YouTube  select “media” then select the “Mobile” option [3gp]. 

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Flash is on Life Support and Adobe is Pulling The Plug

The BlackBerry PlayBook was marketed as a Flash-capable tablet.

(Wired.com) -- In an abrupt about-face in its mobile software strategy, Adobe will soon cease developing its Flash Player plug-in for mobile browsers, according to an e-mail sent to Adobe partners on Tuesday evening.
 
And with that e-mail flash, Adobe has signaled that it knows, as Steve Jobs predicted, the end of the Flash era on the web is coming soon.
 
The e-mail, obtained and first reported on by ZDNet, says that Adobe will no longer continue to "adapt Flash Player for mobile devices to new browser, OS version or device configurations," instead focusing on alternative application packaging programs and the HTML5 protocol.

Sh*t That Siri Says

Siri, the voice-activated personal assistant on the iPhone 4S, has an unpredictable sense of humor.

Early adopters of the iPhone 4S, which has sold more than 4 million units since debuting on Friday, have no doubt taken Siri for a spin.
The voice-activated "personal assistant" is a talkative tool that helps schedule appointments, send and receive messages and perform any number of other routine tasks.

But for iPhone owners presented with the sci-fi dream of a computer that talks back in a robotic female voice, the temptation to test the app's more random -- and existential -- sides has been pretty overwhelming, too.

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