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curtism — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:17:45 +0000

Posting video with WordPress application on Motorola Xoom

My first take on making a mobilewiseguy theme song

curtism — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 13:09:16 +0000

My brother downloaded a program on his PC and made this for me on his first try in 5 minutes. We hope to week it up and expand on all the capibilities of this music program.
Thanks Bro!

Video Talk

curtism — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:02:00 +0000

Yesterday I went to a presentation for Video Talk. The company is a multilevel company that sells a technology to use video in emails, web shows, video conferencing with up to sixteen users and presentations.
The meeting was all about how much money you could make but nothing about the technology behind the service.
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I found a technical guy who showed me how it works and it did work great. I had a email sent to me and in the email the video was already embedded with a great customized template. I also went to a site that had the videos on it and the both work flawlessly. The videos work with Flash so it won’t work on iPhones or iPads and that seem funny because the company gives out iPads as prizes.

I like the concept and the compensation package but I think they will have to battle all the new free technologies like Skype, Tango and others for this growing market.

There price is $49. 99 per month for all of the features. I can do some of the services they offer now for free but not as fancy as the embedded video or the template but I can do for free.
The best feature was the 16 person videoconferencing but I did not see a example of that service.

I am working on making my skinny legs bigger while wearing my Verizon Wireless energy cap

curtism — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 15:47:28 +0000

My brother told me the other day that I have the strongest chicken legs he has ever seen. So I decided to have a video taken of myself doing the leg press machine at La Fitness in Tampa. I wore my Verizon Wireless cap to also try and promote myself as the Verizon Guy in Tampa but the person taking the video did not do the best job. I was hoping by posting this video to Youtube, Qik, Facebook and this Blog I will get a lot of hits promoting my business selling Verizon Wireless Products and Services in Tampa, Florida.
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video blogging using youtube

curtism — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 15:48:45 +0000

I want to do quick video post using my cell phone to take the video and then uploading from the phone to YouTube so it can be used on my Blog.

My options are I can take a short video now with my Blackberry Bold 9700 and MMS the video to YouTube. The video is sent as a multimedia message to YouTube and the anyone can see your video on YouTube. After the video is uploaded to Youtube it can be link to websites and or Blogs.

The issue I have is that a MMS video is only 30 seconds and the quality is not as good as the higher resolution videos that can be taken with the Blackberry Bold 9700. A normal video can be a few minutes long or as long as you have room on your media card.

I have a few other ways to upload longer and better quality videos to YouTube. First is to take a good quality video with the phone which is recorded on the SD card. Then take my SD media card use the SD adapter to upload the video from my laptop or desktop to YouTube.

Secondly is using my Motorola Backflip it let’s me upload videos taken with it directly to YouTube without the 30 second restriction. I am sure it has something to do with Google owning Android mobile operating system and Youtube. My first test was a 5 minute video I took waiting for the draw bridge to open.

I have told clients about that option with Android Smartphones but there success has been with videos under 30 seconds when the video is a few minutes long they have to have a WiFi connection for the video to upload.

I found a fix for that using Qik. I used to use Qik with my Blackberry Bold 9000 but now that I use a Blackberry Bold 9700 the Qik application on the 9700 is not supported. I still download the Qik application through my Blackberry browser and used it to upload the video that I already had taken.
I am going to caution anyone who does this, it is not supported.I know that I have to stop right after and close the application and then I do a hard reset but I am the Mobile Wise Guy of Cell Phones. After uploading the video I embed it into my Blog.

The video below was taking at Universal Studios on New Years Eve 2009 with my Blackberry Bold 9700.

high speed chase in Tampa causes innocent death

curtism — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 14:36:40 +0000

Last night my girlfriend was coming back to Tampa from Fort Myers. She call me to tell me that a SUV and a few police cars passed her on the Skyway Bridge going over a hundred miles an hour. She said it was like being in a scene from the show cops. This morning on Bay News 9 I saw a story on that police chase and someone got killed because the SUV ran a red light.
I would like to know what is the policy for police chases. This could have been my girlfriend who got killed because a teen stole a car and was wanted suspect for some robberies. What is more important catching a robber or someones life.
The Skyway bridge is two lanes and for six vehicles to pass by you going over a hundred miles an hour puts your life at risk six times. She saw the white Lexus with the suspect go by then she saw a few police cars and one SUV police vehicle speed by her.
Besides the 16 year old going to jail for vehicle homicide the police should be sued by the poor guy’s family who got killed.
I am sorry to say there must be a better way to catch criminals and not put more people at risk. A stolen car is a material thing that can be replaced a life is precious to many.
WATCH VIDEO FOOTAGE HERE FROM BAY NEWS 9

sight seeing in West Palm by boat

curtism — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 02:36:22 +0000

My mom had won a sight seeing boat trip at her church. The sight seeing tour was along the coast of Singer island in West Palm Beach. Four of us had went my mom , niece, nephew and I. I drove up from Pembroke Pines to meet them in Wellington and then we drove to the charter company which was located in Rivera Beach.
I don’t have much to write about the cruise. It took about two and a half hours and was very entertaining. I learned that I am not making enough money to live on Singer Island and I saw homes by Celine Dion and owners of big corporations like at&t. I do have some pictures I want to post on this Blog. So I hope you will enjoy. All pictures here was taken with my Blackberry Bold 9700.

mother’s day mom and I went to a casino

curtism — Mon, 24 May 2010 15:16:53 +0000

Pompano horse track

Hardrock winnings

The wheel spin for the players card.

This Mother’s Day my mom wanted to go to a casino. A few weeks earlier she went to Hard Rock Casino in Hollywood with her seniors group from Palm Beach and she enjoyed herself so much that’s what she wanted to go to a Casino on Mother’s Day.

So this Mothers Day we were going to take my mom to the HardRock casino. She had won $157 last time and started only with $15 that was given to the seniors to start them off.

We did go to a Casino but ended up at the Isle Casino in Pompano Florida. The Isle casino is also a horse racing track.

My mom wanted a players card that tracks your gambling and gives you points from the amount of money you spend. When the casino gives you the card you get to spin a wheel for a prize. The prizes range from $5 to start gambling too $500 cash.

My mom spun and got $5 on her card to gamble. It just missed the $500 prize by centermeters. When I spun the wheel the people in line cheered I won the $500 cash.
We are not big gamblers we only played the penny machines. It took us an hour to play about $25 dollars. The casino had a Mother’s day buffet that everyone was raving about. It was $16.95 per person for the buffet. I asked my mom if she wanted a Roti which is one of our favorite Trinidadian foods. She said yes but where were we going to get a Roti.

I knew of a resturant that was about 20 minutes away Joy’s Roti shop. So off we went to Joys Roti shop. I ordered 2 Rotis and other Trinidadian foods for my sister and her family. They drop my mom off at the casino but did not stay because of her kids. Instead they went to a movie a few miles away. After eating we headed back to the casino to gamble a little more.

We played a few more penny machines lost $10 then moved on to the high rollers machine the 5 cents machine. The $10 dollars we put in it was gone in seconds and that was to rich for our blood. My mom saw a penny machine when we first got to the casino that she wanted to play but when we went to that machine the same people were playing that machine for hours now. So we went looking for another machine but the machine we picked was in a tournament area and we were kicked out. On the way out we saw the original machines we wanted to play was empty now.
We hustled over to the machines and my mom picked one but I said use the other one of the two. We put $20 in the machine and that $20 went to $23.15. The second spin that machine gave us 20 free spins that paid us $796. I instantly cashed out the receipt and told my mom I would give her $20 more to play.

That $20 went down to $4 and the back up too $44. I cashed out again and told my mom let’s run away because we are ahead and our luck might run out. She hesitated, the gambling bug caught her. It did not matter to me I was firm and we left the casino with over $1300 in winnings and all we spent was little over $40. So my mom and I enjoyed our day at the isles casino on Mother’s day.

I renewed my domains on godaddy before price increase

curtism — Sat, 15 May 2010 13:05:24 +0000

I renewed about 17 if my domains a few days ago because on July 1, 2010, Verisign will increase prices for .COM and .NET domains, so I beat the increase. So renew now for savings.

It looks like it would be around 50 cents more per domain starting July 1st. Frank found a coupon code online that save me another 10% at the check out, so that was real cool.
Godaddy winner notification from twitter
Plus I won a tank top from Godaddy on twitter.

Verisign

handy logs fitness app

curtism — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 20:53:39 +0000

This is a cool way of tracking your workout progress. Handy logs fitness app on the Blackberry app world. The application is free and you can sync it with there website allowing you to track your progress online and from your Blackberry.

Today was the first day I tried it out. I entered each set of each exercise after the set with the reps, weight used and a description of the exercise equipment used.

Below is a sample of what I get from Handy Logs. I copied this information using the Bolt browser and pasted the info into the WordPress application on my Blackberry.

New entry First Previous 8 to 22 of 22 Date & Time Exercise Sets Reps Weight (lb) 04-23-10 07.06 Tricep Pressdown 3 11 110.00 Detail 04-23-10 07.03 Arm Curl 3 11 130.00 Detail 04-23-10 06.54 Incline Press 3 11 160.00 Detail 04-23-10 06.52 Incline Press 2 11 140.00 Detail 04-23-10 06.51 Incline Press 1 11 120.00 Detail 04-23-10 06.49 Incline Press 5 7 135.00 Detail 04-23-10 06.46 Incline Press 4 7 120.00 Detail 04-23-10 06.43 Incline Press 3 7 95.00 Detail 04-23-10 06.42 Incline Press 2 7 70.00 Detail 04-23-10 06.38 Chest Press 3 10 150.00 Detail 04-23-10 06.34 Chest Press 1 11 110.00 Detail 04-23-10 06.34 Chest Press 2 11 130.00 Detail 04-23-10 06.29 Chest Press 4 7 140.00 Detail 04-23-10 06.28 Chest Press 3 7 115.00 Detail 04-23-10 06.26 Chest Press 2 7 70.00 Detail