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Cool Uses Of Common Technology Tools

We always find ways to entertain ourselves, don’t we? We started out as kids, creating worlds and characters out of multi-colored Lego blocks, and a lot of us did not stop even as we grew up and grew older. The difference is that today, we get to play with more interesting toys – our gadgets. Here are some of the coolest uses of our beloved devices, and some tips on how you can maximize them.

Google’s ever-changing homepage and whatnots

As if being the Internet god is not enough, Google makes it more fun for us to search for restaurants or pieces of information by changing its iconic logo to mark significant dates or to celebrate significant people. This effectively arouses the interest of visitors and places Google again and again on the top of their list of cools. And who can forget Google’s April fool pranks such as the infamous “Helvetica vs. Comic Sans” joke? Makes us all want to work in their even-cooler office.

Maximize it: Aside from hovering over the Google image on its homepage every time it changes, you can go deeper by clicking on it and reading the information shown on the links Google shows. Who knows, maybe as you enrich yourself, you can be half as cool as Google.

Voicemail messages set to music by One Hello World

What started out as a student project has developed into an interesting avenue for people to share how they feel. One Hello World turns voicemail messages into poems by setting them to music. It’s cool how its creator effectively redefined voicemail, even as it becomes unpopular especially among people who prefer texting. This places voicemail back in the loop of tools that are relevant and highly useful today.

Maximize it: Think of ways of how you can use your voicemail number to your advantage.  You may do something similar to One Hello World if you have the talent and the time, or you can simply use a voicemail number for your business at least. Newer voicemail features are now available in both personal plans such as those from AT&T, as well as in business plans like RingCentral’s http://www.ringcentral.com/voicemail/index.html. Enhanced voicemail features work well for mobile professionals and business owners on the go.

The iPhone as a full band of instruments

There are a lot of YouTube videos that show musicians toying with multiple iPhone units, each representing a musical instrument. You may think that you can’t do it because you’re not rich enough to own several iPhones, but you have to admit that there’s some mean talent behind such interesting pieces. For one, you need to know how to play instruments and how to make music. Moreover, you need to be savvy enough to make iPhone apps work so well. Hands down, that is cool.

Maximize it: There is an endless list of cool things you can do with your iPhone, or with any other smartphone for that matter. From business tools to games and hobby apps, you literally have everything at the tip of your fingertips with the robust functionalities of a smartphone. It’s just a matter of how much you’re willing and able to use it creatively.

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11 Comments

  1. Prakash

    February 29, 2012 at 3:39 am

    iPhone is really a big brand of instruments as well as entertainment.
    Nice post thanks for sharing it…………

  2. Tracyann0312

    February 29, 2012 at 6:23 am

    I am interested in Voicemail message set to music by hello world. You can easily tell to others what you want them to tell. Nice list, another great idea popped into my head again to know the common technology tools. I think I will use it someday.

  3. stella

    March 2, 2012 at 4:46 am

    tools ever help me out to solve common issues and i believe these tools very important for internet applications

  4. stella

    March 2, 2012 at 4:49 am

    tools ever help me out to solve common issues and i believe these tools very important for internet applications…i like your post..thanks for it

  5. Nishadha

    March 2, 2012 at 6:46 am

    Although I agree that iPhone offers large number of tools to increase your productivity I think most just get caught in games and cool looking apps and waste most of their time. It is amazing the amount of apps some of my friends have that they hardly use.

    • Bill Hollins

      March 2, 2012 at 8:16 pm

      Yeah, I’ve noticed myself doing the same thing. Many of my apps are barely used at all.

      • Danny

        March 6, 2012 at 4:49 am

        Hahaha yeah exactly. There are a lot of cool apps that you just get because they are cool and you can show off to your friends how cool your phone is. But aside from that you will barely ever touch it 🙂 .

  6. Fersamal

    March 2, 2012 at 8:43 am

    The iphone rocks. It has amazing musical instruments. We can pick it up and have fun playing. Iphone is great sample of new technology. I like to listen its Harmonica. It has a great feature of select a tune from iPhone’s music collection to add some ‘bone too.

  7. angel reyes

    March 9, 2012 at 10:11 am

    As the time passes by our technologies are advancing more and more. Phones are now more useful and and more advance. I think the first highest phone that had been release is the Iphone of apple corp.

  8. Alex

    March 17, 2012 at 10:28 am

    Thanks to Steve Jobs for introducing the iPhone. It really is a good technology as well as an interesting innovation in this advancing world of technology.

  9. Felicia Corrine

    May 4, 2012 at 12:57 pm

    Google rocks always. The Smartphone applications are really getting than the computers. These tools you have listed are very important for online businesses.

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