View OpenOffice files on the Iphone/IPod touch for FREE

Here is how it is done, long winded but might be needed in a pinch.....

1. Go to the ipod app store and download quickoffice connect (free)
2. In quick office connect select edit, then add email attachment option. Then select edit again and add google docs.
3. Go to your email account and verify both services.
4. Once you have verified both, email "files@quickofficeconnect.com" the email with the ".odt" openoffice file attached to it.
5. Go back to quickoffice connect on the ipod
6. Go to email attachments
7. Select the folder with the arrow option at the bottom (move), select the .odt file that you wanted to view, select move, then select the drive icon with the "G" (google docs). You just moved the attachment to google docs. Pat yourself on the back.
8. Go to safari and type in "docs.google.com"
9. Select the file, to view, which you just uploaded via quickoffice and select it.
10. View it already!


Done.


P.S. Once the app is set up, verified etc, this becomes a much shorter process!

DIY ipod touch, iphone, post-it dock

Here is a dock I made from an old "post-it" note holder. It was ideal because it was weighted.

DIY iPod touch 2g mic (will also work with iPhone)

Here is a link to the video.

My ipod touch turned into a Amazon Kindle.

Wow, this is cool. Although I can't afford their books and prefer my local library to Barnes and Noble, this allows me to preview the first chapter of new books for free!

Thanks, Amazon.

Ipod touch, iphone, external battery charger, DONE!

Here is a video on how to make an external battery charger for the ipod touch and iphone. There really aren't to many of these around because the ipod touch is a bitch to make a charging cable for because it needs multiple resistors as well, to tell the itouch it can draw power. But I found a ipod connector which had those reistors all prepared for me so I just hacked it up for my purposes!

Parts List:
1. Ipod emergency charger link
(note: the one I used cost 5 bucks at a store called "5 and below", if we could just find somewhere to get the tip, because that is all we need, for a buck then that would be ideal.)
-Dealextreme.com has this one which I think would work as well. Under 5 bucks and FREE SHIPPING!

2. Radio Shack "AAA" battery holder link

3. Soldering Iron
(note: not requires you could just twist the wires together and tape it over)

4. 4 AAA rechargeable batteries
(note: can be had at the bankrupt circuit city for 4 bucks!)

5. A suction cup
(note: picked mine up at the grocery store)

Pics below:

DTMF on Fring for iphone, ipod touch

So I ran into the problem that I needed to type in numbers to dial extensions, using skype out, on fring (with my ipod touch), which fring doesn't support at this time. Well, I tricked the ipod to dial them.

I held my ipod touch mic, up to my computer speaker, and used this website to generate the tone's for the numbers and it worked.

So to get it straight: I dialed the number on fring, let it answer and ask for the extension, then I hit the numbers on the DTMF generator on the computer, the extension then dialed.

Now this wouldn't make sense considering I had a laptop computer sitting there and normally I would be using skype on it BUT, if I record my laptop playing those tones, and dump that mp3 onto my mp3 playing cell phone THEN, when I need to dial that extension on my ipod touch, I play the mp3 through my cellphone speaker into the ipod touch mic and BAM! a cheap call made, which required an extension, which otherwise would have cost.

I know this is not a long term solution (FRING!) but it will work in a pinch!

P.S. I would have posted this on the fring community forum but for some reason it kept rejecting me logging in, until it locked me out (TWICE) (FRING!) so in a fit of frustration, I created a gadget blog, to tell the world about this trick!

P.S.S. This will also work to check voicemail.

More tricks to come as I figure them out!