Mon, 27 Feb 2006

America's Best Mobile Pix

While there is certainly better applications about to hit handsets across the globe, America's Best Mobile Pix is still a quick fix for your social ranking needs on the go.

This software is a mobile HotOrNot / RateMyFace style application, which allows you to rank (between 1-5 stars) girls, guys, cats, hairstyles, and other random topics that change month to month. The winner of each social contest recieves a $100 visa gift card or something of the sort. Not too shabby.

America's Best Mobile Pix claims to be "family friendly", but I really doubt it. Some of the photo submissions are very edgy, which makes you wonder if they do any filtering or approval at all. I tested this application today while on the bus, and I was supposed to be ranking "interesting pictures". These images ranged from sunsets, artistic images, trees...and up pops up something that exceeds my "PG" rating I try to keep my blog entries at. Very embarrasing.

Nethertheless, most of the content is pretty tame, especially in the "baby" and "cat" section. You can simply flip through images and rank for hours and never get bored. Its a real time killer and my wife gets a kick out of all the dorks in the guy section. If you have seen the intro to "MySpace The Movie", you probably could relate.

Sometimes the application is slow and hangs while it is waiting for a response from the server. While the application is very chatty with data services, Vision really isn't this slow, so I suspect it has something to do with their "pix" servers.

Oh, yeah, and you can tell a bunch of clueless bastards without any pop internet culture in their blood wrote this software. Apparently, they think that "pix" is singular form for one picture...sorry guys...its "pic", pural is "pix". It also sports this really nutty softare description on the website, which is down right confusing. I wonder if they know what the purpose of a "?" is...or maybe people really talk like this on IM and i'm just too old for this.

"New! See & vote for America's Hottest Girls, Hunkiest Guys, Cutest Babies, Funniest Kids and More!? Submit your own pix and WIN prizes!? Easy & fun to use.? As featured in USA Today - you can also rate all pix and be the contest judge!? Download now!

This wonderful piece of software is $2.99/mo (free, thanks to my monthly vision credits -- suckers).

P.S. The last post from me (Voip Bounce Back) was written from my MM-7400, MidpSSH, and Pico -- on a 1.5" x 2" screen. Oh and there is no keyboard on the phone either. Mobile blogging at its absolute worst.

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Voip Bounce Back

I have been playing with a voip-based call back system. It's a little bit evil because it uses an 800 number to capture your caller id without answering the call. It then stores your origionating number, calls you back at a very cheap rate, and gives you a dial tone.

This is very useful for payphones, because 800 numbers from payphones can be very expensive. Just as long as they are the inbound type.

So far, so good. It's making a cheap calling card. Too bad i didnt have it last week. This week i have a working phone.

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