LG Shine (not so shiny)

So, guess what…

I broke my 4th phone last week, GAH!!!! Let me describe my cell phone history…

1st Phone

Samsung SGH-D407 – This was probably the best phone ever. Simple, sturdy, small. I, the idiot that I am got this July 2006 as a birthday gift for myself. The reason i was an idiot was that i bought it full price with a pay-as-you-go-plan. I bought 80 dollars worth of pay-as-you-go cell phone cards. I look back at my life with a sad face. This lasted me 5 months before I decided on going a 3 year contract with the LG chocolate TG800 slider.

2nd Phone

The LG chocolate was by far my worst phone on earth. Hard to use, battery lasted not long at all, the music player was definably not the greatest, text messaging was near impossible, and the damn thing scratched WAY to easy.

3rd phone

This phone was incredible. I got the student plan with solo mobile, 35/month, including 1000 text messages, 100 daytime, free incoming, unlimited weekend and weeknights after 5pm. I get the phone for free AND I’m on a monthly contract, meaning I can cancel whenever I want. There is nothing that can get better that that That phone lasted me 2 months, before foolishly jumped into a swimming pool only to realize 10 minutes after splashing around the phone was in my pocket. I returned to the T-Booth where I purchased my phone.

4th Phone

They had one more phone left at the store. SO i had to cancel my account, activate another one, to take advantage of the deal AGAIN.

5th Phone

So last week I cracked the screen on my Nokia 6275i. This led my into a bell world store to look for a 3 year contract, discounted phone. I chose this. I hate it. It has nearly identical interface and software as the LG Chocolate, and i cant do that again. Sure it has a stainless steal battery cover and front cover, but the hinge is plastic, I defiantly do not enjoy the flat keys, and personally, a cell phone CAN be too thin. I’m gonna return it tomorrow morning. The warranty says i can return or exchange within 15 days, or 15 minutes of use, whichever comes first. I used 21 minutes, so I hope they don’t check that.

6th phone (soon to be hopefully)

This is the Sanyo 7050, this thing wil withstand my brutal punishments, It is military certified, so I’m sure it can take a beating. I’ll write a more detail review once I get this bad boy.

RamRod out…

Google Pages

So, you came back from a trip, and took a few pictures and would like to share them with some family and friends. You COULD go through the trouble of burning them onto a cd and sending them. You COULD email them, but where is the fun in that? Why not make a website? YES you can now have your own virtual web space to do what you please. With the internet bringing people together, and making and maintaining a website being easier than ever, now is the perfect time.

Google Pages would be the perfect answer for those people don’t want to spend hours creating a website, or for those who haven’t really made one before.

Welcome to your home screen.

From here, as you can see, you have all your pages that you have created and that can be linked from one to another. Every website has a home page. This cannot be deleted. When someone types you sites URL, it will take them to that page, so make that one as flashy and pretty as possible

One the right, you have files that you can upload. You can upload any files you want. You do have a limit of 100MB so keep that in mind.

This would be your site editor. From the home menu, when you click on a page, it will take you to a screen like this. You have all your editing tools on the top. You can insert links, images, videos, PDF files… ANYTHING. Any files you have hosted with Google Pages will be linked to from the links button.

This is the part where Google Pages shines. To make it customizable yet easy to use, changing your sites layout is a breeze with the Change Layout button on the top right. This would be the hardest part if one were to create a site using html coding n such. AND YOU CAN MANUALLY EDIT THE HTML CODING. Now advanced users can completely customize their Google page.

Changing your websites theme is easy too, and they have plenty of them. One will certain to suit you. Another cool thing about this is why make one page? Each Google account has 3 website they can create. One could be your school site (like mine), another can be your family actions website, and the third be some sort of website with adult content. :S HEY, why not?! Google allows it. It simply needs to be disclosed with Google. Don’t worry, your parents wont find out. There are many customizable settings like which parts of the world you would like this site to be mainly viewed, or parental controls, or why don’t you password protect your site so only certain users can view them. The sky is the limit with this great free site builder by Google.

Check them out.  —>  http://pages.google.com/

What will they come up with next?

Check my school site with all my notes and such. This tok me about 5 minutes to learn and create. 3 of the minutes took to upload all my content.

roman.lech11.googlepages.com