Shortcuts for Google Voice Actions App in Android

Voice Actions Android App is like Siri App in iPhones but has been there for a long time in Android phones.Here are some short cuts, you can use to get the most of it. Voice Actions is built in Android phones, so you can use it right away without any other download.

• Send text messages
  Say "send text to [recipient] [message]*"
  e.g. "send text to Allison Miller Running late. I will be home around 9"
• Listen to music
  Say "listen to [artist/song/album]"
  e.g. "listen to the decemberists"
• Get directions
  Say "navigate to [address/city/business name]"
  e.g. "navigate to the DeYoung Museum San Francisco" or "navigate to 1965 Page St."
• Call businesses
  Say "call [business name] [location]*"
  e.g. "call Pizzeria Venti Mountain View"
• Call contacts
  Say "call [contact name] [phone type]*"
  e.g. "call Allison Miller home"
• Send email
  Say "send email to [recipient] [subject]* [body]*"
  e.g. "send email to Mike LeBeau How's life in New York treating you? The weather's beautiful here!"
• View a map
  Say "map of [address/city]"
  e.g. "map of San Francisco"
• Go to websites
  Say "go to [website]
  e.g. "go to Wikipedia"
• Write a note
  Say "note to self [message]"
  e.g. "note to self grocery list banana milk eggs pizza"
• Search Google
  Say "[your query]"
  e.g. "pictures of the golden gate bridge at sunset"
  Learn more

Do you use any other shortcuts for Voice Actions app?


Also, try a similar app, Voice Actions Plus App from Pannous.

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$15.95 Ebook is free today at Amazon: '51/50: The Magical Adventures of a Single Life by Kristen McGuiness'

$15.95 fiction Ebook is free today at Amazon: '51/50: The Magical Adventures of a Single Life by Kristen McGuiness'. It has 4 star reviews in Amazon.

51 dates. 50 weeks. That was the social experiment Kristen McGuiness—single, living in LA, and entering her thirties newly sober—embarked upon. McGuiness thought facing her struggle with alcoholism would be the hardest part, with love coming easily afterwards. It didn’t. Rethinking her previous dating strategy, she embarks on the ultimate social experiment: 51 dates over the course of 50 weeks, and a chance to claim the life she thought was supposed to be hers.

Dodging CHAs (Cheesy Hollywood Actors) and men with self-diagnosed RAD (Relationship Anxiety Disorder), McGuiness is determined to find the "perfect guy" by being the "perfect girl." But McGuiness, like all of us, has her own issues to contend with: a longing for the wrong kind of men, a penchant for swearing, and a difficult relationship with her father in maximum-security prison. But as the year progresses, McGuiness begins to develop a new hope for her future—the dates transform into truth-seeking missions, and point her toward a life with satisfying work, a supportive family and, with the help of a local shaman, a comforting spirituality. Told with wry humor, pathos, and an engaging lack of self-pity, 51/50 is a moving adventure.

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Get $10 Free credit for Kindle e-Textbooks in Amazon

Amazon has a special offer in their e-Textbooks section. Go to this link and enter ETXTBOOK to get $10 Kindle book credit in Amazon. No purchase necessary.

If you received a confirmation that your code has been entered successfully, your $10 credit is now in your account and will remain there until it has been applied towards the purchase or rental of eligible Kindle e-textbooks or until it expires at 11:59 p.m PST on January 9, 2012.  

Search for your textbook in the search bar on top of this page. Verify that the Kindle e-textbook that you want is eligible for this promotion. All Kindle e-textbooks eligible for this promotion will have the following message on the product page.

Please note the code works only for e-Textbooks not the regular Kindle ebooks. In this link there are some text books under $10 on many subjects. 

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Try Kiva.org for Free With a $25 Starter Gift

I received an email from Kiva.org, a micro-lending site, where I have lent for more than 3-years with great results. You can try and see how it works with the $25 gift at http://kiva.org/ladieshomejournal (New Lenders only). It is available only for a short period of time.

The message reads the following:

"Now your friends and family can try Kiva for free! 

Kiva and Ladies' Home Journal have partnered to make a small number of free trials available for new lenders. Since you're so good at sharing Kiva, we're giving you a chance to tell your friends first. 

All you need to do is share the link below with your friends, family, colleagues, classmates, or anyone else you can think of. Just post it on Facebook or Twitter, send it in an email, paint it on your house... you get the picture. If they're quick, they'll be able to make a loan for free. 

The link is: http://kiva.org/ladieshomejournal

The free trials will get snatched up quickly, so don't wait. Nothing says "Happy New Year" like a few new Kiva lenders! 

Thanks for a great 2011, and here's to an even bigger and better 2012 for all of our borrowers."

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Monopoly Android App free in Amazon

Amazon.com: Monopoly Game App for Android is free until end of today.

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Jack Dyson's CSYS LED task light lasts 37 years

The CSYS LED task light is a project undertaken by Jack Dyson, son of the famous James Dyson. Like father, like son, Jack Dyson is another design wizard. Here he has created this special LED lamp that will last 37 years and with mechanized rollers, you can move up or down, rotate any direction to suit your needs.

The CSYS LED task light is a dimmable LED task light which marries the latest technology with sleek design.  It is designed with innovative positioning, refined thermal management and electronics systems producing a bright warm white colour with astonishing efficiency. The thermal management heat pipe technology cools the LED’s to ensure peak performance from the LED’s for 37+ years.

The one limiting factor for this product may be the price. According to Uncrate, the CSYS LED task light costs £550 about $860. But if we do a cost-benefit ratio, the savings in energy alone will be much more compared with other CFL and incandescent lamps.

More photos of the task light are shown below:

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Migrate Data with Ecquire Productivity Tool For Businesses

Ecquire is a Google Chrome extension and a good productivity tool for businesses. Whenever you encounter a contact in Gmail, LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter, you can add their data easily to SalesForce, Highrise, MailChimp or Google Docs with a touch of a button, instead of copy and paste.


Move your data from:

* Gmail
* LinkedIn
* Facebook
* Twitter

And with one click, store it in:

* SalesForce
* Highrise
* MailChimp
* Google Docs

Migrating data to Google Docs is free but for unlimited data migration to others, Ecquire charges a nominal fee of $5 a month.

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