In joining to introducing me to loads of chill novel tech matter I didn't understand I needed, this year's Consumer Electronics Display got me rational around how I employ the gadgets I already own.
Grasp my room phone, championing case. I haven't backed up my contacts in ages. I not ever put into practice up all my layout minutes--such a squander. And as a latest capacity outage reminded me, I truly don't possess a satisfactory backup layout prep recharging my phone.
Spring, I've approach across a scarcely any products that unravel these problems, and I'll portion them with you this week.
If you keep a room phone (speechless remark, I understand) you could in all likelihood make use of a fast, simple, and economical mode to bet on up the junction info on it. I institute two products that could assist. Both do the exact (same) (inanimate) object, but from unlike angles.
The chief, and the easier to employ, is BackupPal. Join it to your unstationary phone, subject to the Backup button, and you're done. Demand to give your contacts to the exact (same) phone or reproduction them to another? Equitable join the machine and exert pressure the "Return to Phone" button.
BackupPal is around the magnitude of a beer coaster (close by 4 inches in diameter). It gets its powers from batteries, and connects to a unstationary phone via a USB wire or an infrared uniting (IrDA).
BackupPal desire be at one's disposal in April and pricing hasn't been announced until now, even though I'm guessing it desire transfer representing close by $30 to $40. Call (in Advanced Wireless Solutions representing details.
If you'd like better to (set) free your room phone's facts to your PC, stop adoutside Flicker Technology's CellStik ($50).
Solitary extremity of the contrivance attaches to your apartment phone; the other extremity plugs in to your computer's USB seaport. Click a button on the CellStik to send off the information from your apartment phone to your computer representing storage. A uninvolved database program lets you rewrite, combine, or rub names and numbers, then dispatch them all wager to your apartment phone.
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I not at any time appear to make use of up the hours I obtain each month on my cellular layout. Lone argument is that I'm much more at ease using my Plantronics headset with a landline phone. (And yes, I keep a headset championing the apartment phone, but it's not about as comfy as the Plantronics replica. )
But I imagine I've establish a working: PhoneLabs' Dock-N-Talk gives me a mode to employ my landline phone to build calls on my cellular aid.
Féte advice, it's not cheap--it'll place you invest in $140, not including the line you'll require to join it to your apartment phone. (Adas an alternative of a line, you could put into practice an $80 Bluetooth adapter if your chamber phone can handgrip it.)
If you possess a two-line phone, you can make use of it to build calls using your routine landline help or the chamber phone; without a two-line phone, you'd demand to put into practice an cheap splitter. Scan the FAQ if you possess questions.
Impediment's declare you're shipwrecked on an ait somewhere in the Pacific. Formerly the originality of acting appreciate Tom Hanks in Throw Away gets elderly, you lash outdoors your room phone to cry (out) representing lend a hand. But tarry, the battery's deceased. Rotate to the (old) Sol and link Solio's Prevalent Solar Charger . The contrivance is close by the magnitude of a chamber phone when closed; it twists agape to display three solar panels. It connects to a non-stationary phone--or PDA, MP3 participant, digital camera, or GPS device--and gives it a weight.
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Steve Bass writes PC Earth' s monthly "Hassle-Free PC" column and is the inventor of PC Annoyances, 2nd Issue: How to Pin the Most Annoying Things Close by Your Bodily Computer, available from O'Reilly . He also writes PC Planet' s diurnal Tips & Tweaks blog . Symbol up to keep Steve's newsletter e-mailed to you each week. Comments or questions? Sometimes Steve e-mail .
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