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Lizden · Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 11:54 am Post subject: No Internet? No problem!

OK...so you REAL techies may know this already, but I was quite proud of myself yesterday & today!

Because of the 2 feet+ of snow & howling winds we had here, our cable & internet was out from Sunday afternoon through about 2 hours ago.

I really wanted to get a certain audition out yesterday so I figured there HAD to be a way to transfer an .mp3 from my PC to my Crackberry & then email the file over 3G.

Well...there was & I did. Laugh

I installed the driver from the Blackberry CD
Connected the included USB cable to the phone & the PC
The phone was recognized and then I just used the phone as an external hard drive & copied my .mp3 onto the phone's media card.
Then just attached the file to an email I sent from my phone.

I also sent out an urgent telephony job that way, about an hour before our connection was restored.

It won't work for huge files, and the upload is of course a bit slower than Broadband, but for auditions & small telephony files it works great!
Laugh

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Deirdre · Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 1:58 pm Post subject:

Yay! Go Go Gadget Phone!
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samowry · Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 2:04 pm Post subject:

Nicely worked around my dear. Well done.

Moe Egan · Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 2:55 pm Post subject:

Yay Liz!
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asnively · Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 4:48 pm Post subject:

Wow. Way to be a problem solver! Very awesome! (Stay warm!)
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bobsouer · Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 10:24 pm Post subject:

Liz,

You are one smart cookie!
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Eddie Eagle · M&M Joined: 23 Apr 2008 Posts: 2393

eggselent!
That's how I upload my custom ringtones to my phone.

CC Heim · Backstage Pass Joined: 27 Sep 2010 Posts: 401

yuppers. she's a smart one, that lizzy lou!

JBarrett · Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 5:20 pm Post subject:

Werd.

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voicy1stef · Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 11:59 am Post subject:

Dang you're clever Liz. I've just copied and pasted your instructions to my netbook for future investigation.

Merci beaucoup! thx a bunch!
Laugh

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ConnieTerwilliger · Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 5:22 pm Post subject:

Being savvy about technology - it is one of the new tools of today's voiceoveristas.
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Bruce · Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 9:21 am Post subject:

Speaking of being savvy in this tech age, the NY Times recently had an interesting list of things a person of low to moderate tech knowledge should know and consider doing:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/30/technology/personaltech/30basics.html?_r=1&src=me&ref=general

As someone once said about the new societal Big Wave of the Internet and technology: "We learn how to ride it, or just watch from the beach."

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