Grant Laird, Jr. Blog

 ASL Video – Approx 5:16 Minutes Long

Grant discussed about newest cell phone called T-Mobile "G1" Phone based on Android technology.

Of course, every phone has its own pro and con including G1 phone. He feels that this phone is going get better and better over times. Gmail is awesome and easy to use.

One negative about it — vibration is not strongest at this time but he feels it can be fixed easily. He’ve contacted couple Android developer about it. We will see how it goes next few months hopefully.

If you have G1 phone, please share your thought with us!

Note #1: According to DVTV, Grant mentioned about $35 a month unlimited (data plan) — Again, T-Mobile doesn’t offer unlimited data plan without voice package for this device yet but if you are on family plan, you can add G1 phone for only $35 a month unlimited. Yes, it is unfortunately.

Note #2: Click HD if you want to see better quality of video.

Grant Laird Jr.
http://blog.grantlairdjr.com

Not too long ago, Grant discovered hidden premium fee on T-Mobile (Sidekick II) thru monthly statement online. Same thing goes with his Sprint Treo 755p, unfortunately.

Grant probably lost few hundred dollars because he’s not paying attention to statement carefully. He looked up Google and discovered that he’s not alone. Many people got scammed out of it, too. He may get some money back but who knows.

This is real example at http://myluvcrush.ca/ and others – you can look at it but do not put your cell phone number on it. It will automatically take small fee from your cell phone bills.

Once a while, please check your statement online (or mail out) from time to time. It shouldn’t be that hard to notice when there’s hidden fee in it. (price difference, etc.)

Does anybody have similar problem as ours?

Grant Laird Jr.
http://blog.grantlairdjr.com

ASL Video – 11 Minutes Long

Workshop at WordCamp 2008 – Dallas

Credit: John Pozadzides – http://onemansblog.com/

How to improve your own wordpress website with many tips:

• Add printer plugins – this way it will print perfect post this way rather than print whole crappy with themes in it on your printout.
• Updated profile/picture – yes picture of yourself!!
• Add links on footer; i.e. www.crazytech.com or one of your favorite link.
• Add MyBlogLog – you can sign up at www.mybloglog.com
• Add Top Commenters on sidebar – use your widget to put up there
• P-Metrics? Check it out!
• Add Amazon advertising with your own reseller account
• Use tags!!
• Check out Viddler – supposed to be better quality video
• Check out Woopra – www.woopra.com (beta version)
• Use hyperlink with several words instead of 1-2 words
• Email Subscription – RECOMMENDATION!! (subscribe2 plugins) — FeedBurner is also good optional
• Select partial RSS Feed instead of full
• Open comments all the times; do not require register
• Submit your post at www.Digg.com – its free
• Use FastStone program for optimize & resize pictures. its free!
• Use WP Super Cache plugins – better loading and speedy
• Add image on every post; at least one rather than boring text only; Try www.weburbanist.com
• No begging!!
• Donncha plugins – designed for no zone advertising for preferance visitors (interesting suggestion here)
• Stick with better and/or best tools such as webcam, avoid cheapass equipments
• Use unique name for each images — use fire_house_dallas.jpg instead of img0001.jpg
• Check out more cool info at OMB plugins list here

Feel free to make comments what you think of this tips to improve your Wordpress. Again, I haven’t try them all — it may be necessary for you to do little further research by yourself.

Updated 4/12/08: More details about WordCamp Dallas where I attended such as video and pictures – check it out!

Grant Laird Jr.
http://blog.grantlairdjr.com