Posts Tagged ‘phone’

Get your Droid to look like your Droid in Mac OS X

Monday, December 28th, 2009

I’ve been enjoying my Droid for almost two months now and during that time, it’s been connected to my MacBook repeatedly as I experiment w/ the ‘right way’ to move music/movies back and forth (still haven’t found the right solution; that’s a post for another day).

I suppose you could call me “visu-anal-ly retentive”. It irked me a little that my Droid was represented by a default, generic drive icon on the desktop and in the finder. I decided that I ought to try putting together an icon to represent the red-eyed wonder.

After a few minutes of searching, I found an image that I thought would work as an icon w/o looking too lame. I threw it into Acorn, cut away the background pixels, and saved it as a 512×512 32-bit PNG (w/ transparency). I thought I’d be able to export the image as an icon directly from Acorn… alas, it was not so. More searching revealed a utility called ‘Img2icns’ and it did just the trick. Here’s the icon I ended up with.

Once you’ve got your icon, right-click on your Droid in a finder window and select ‘Get Info’. Then you can drag your icon right onto the ‘Droid’ in the Get Info dialog. That should do it. You should now see something like this:

Week 1 with Droid

Sunday, November 15th, 2009

I’ve got to say, I’m still overcome with surprise and wonder that this powerful little device was a birthday gift (thanks, mom & dad!) What a shock!

From the few seconds it took to tell my Droid that, yes, I have a Google account and provide my credentials, I was in awe. All of the sudden, all my contacts were populated over the air. No importing CSV files with mismatched fields. No screwing around with synchronization conduits and cables. It just worked. And it was fantastic.

It’s been somewhat fun making my iPhone-owning friends jealous of how easy it is to toggle wifi or bluetooth on or off. If only I could say the same about the camera. Perhaps the speed/quality issue will be resolved in the fabled Dec 11 patch?

I’ve thoroughly enjoyed using this phone over the last week. Best phone ever.

Worldmark by Wyndham

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

For the love, what do I have to do to get these Worldmark by Wyndham people to stop calling me? I’ve never been to one of their ‘pitches’; haven’t signed up for any of their ‘vacation giveaway’ lists. I’ve actually added the number below as a contact on my phone called “Do Not Want” and set the ringer to ‘none’. I called this morning and left a message demanding to be taken off the list. And yet, still they call.

Stop calling me, 916.285.7644!

UPDATE 2.25.09 11:08am: called the number again, got another number that I could call to speak to a ‘live agent’: 1.800.365.7814. Called… it’s been busy for at least a half hour.

UPDATE 2.27.09 2:03pm: called the 800 number listed above… it’s now “no longer in service”. fantastic. called main number (916.285.7644) and left another message… this time w/ a more ‘irrate’ feel to it.