If you need help monitoring your cell phone usage, or if you are tired of building up huge cell phone bills, this might be the service for you.
MinuteWatcher is a service that tracks your usage and sends you periodic warnings and forecasts. These give you a chance to adjust your mobile phone usage before you receive a nasty surprise on your phone bill the next month.
This service is FREE and is available to all the major US carriers.
Wiffiti is another great innovation in cell phone text messaging. It consists of plasma screens installed at various locations onto which you can send text messages from your mobile phone. You can either respond to a text message or simply throw in a thought or a quotation. It is really like a graffiti wall, and you can also follow the conversations on the web at Wiffiti blog.
While the messages get smaller over time, it is also possible to agree or disagree with them on the Wiffiti screen via your cell phone. You can make the messages bigger to have them remain on the screen longer, or smaller to have them fade away faster.
There was even a marriage proposal on Wiffiti, and it was accepted!
There is a currently a Wiffiti screen installed in Someday Cafe (Davis Square), Toscanini’s (Cambridge) and Good Time Emporium (Somerville).
“Its new Vizrea Snap service can automatically move pictures among a phone, PC and the Web. No heavy lifting required. You just need to load software on a computer and compatible phone.
Images from the phone show up on your PC and the Net. And you can use your phone to peek at pictures stored on your hard drive.
Vizrea also organizes pictures, audio and video clips and blog text into “collections” that can be shared. Under that scenario, Vizrea has copied images onto its own servers.”
Article at: Cell-phone photos in your PC
Vizrea Snap is free during the trial phase. Check it out if you have a compatible phone. I don’t see cellular phones as big competitors to digital cameras though. The quality just isn’t there yet, and as digital cameras are becoming cheaper and cheaper, I’d think people would use the digital camera on their phone only to send a quick snapshot to another phone.