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Wednesday Links #7
Dec 1st
Back, due to not demand whatsoever, it’s the return of the critically uncelebrated Wednesday Links post!
1. Like Pop, snakes will occasional try to eat themselves. Unlike Pop they normally end up having to have their jaws dislocated.
2. Up to 10,000 mobile phones are left in Taxi cabs in London every month. At least 4 of them are returned to their owners (on a good month).
3. Make do and Mend: Sugru can be used to fix, hack and bodge your stuff back to full working order. It is a flexible silicone material that ‘cures’ in 24 hours.
4. The 8th most popular search term in Google.co.uk this year? Google. (What is the world coming to?)
5. Daisy Lowe, Lily Cole and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley feature in the 2010 Pirelli Calendar which was shot by controversial snapper Terry Richardson.
Pay As You Go Hack: Free Unlimited Calls for £3.33 pcm
Nov 13th
If you already have a 3G enabled mobile phone you never need to pay for calls again. Using Skype’s VOIP application you can make free unlimited calls to anybody else with the same set up without the need for phone credit. You can also use Windows Messenger Live Mobile to send instant messages in place of texts. Surprisingly this is all legit and positively encouraged by 3 Mobile.
Here is how it works:
Step 1.
Sign up with 3 and they will send you two free SIM cards for use in unlocked (or 3 compatible) 3G phones.
Step 2.
Give the other free SIM to someone else i.e. whoever you call most often.
Step 3.
Top up every 90 days in order to keep receiving free stuff (Skype and WMM). You can still use these when your credit runs out.
Step 4.
Use Skype to make calls and Windows Messenger Mobile to IM.
If you top up £10 every 90 days you will be paying around £3.33 per month. This credit can be spent on calling people who don’t have Skype yet. You also get an allowance of free 3 to 3 calls, free voicemail, some free texts (I’m not sure how many) and a mobile internet each time you top up.
I haven’t actually used this service so I can’t vouch for how well it works (I have never used Skype for calls before) but £3.33 a month is a lot less than I pay at the moment. More details at Three’s free SIM cards page.
60% Of The World’s Population Has A Mobile Phone
Mar 4th
There are now around 4.1 billion mobile-phone subscriptions around the world and 60% of the population now owns a mobile phone. This figure has been increased by the huge popularity of mobile phones in developing countries. According to The International Telecommunication Union who conducted the study 23% of the world’s population now has internet access.
Around two thirds of the Mobile Phones in use are in developing countries. Whilst smartphones and cameraphones become the norm in developed nations phones are often shared or support multiple SIMs elsewhere. Being connected offers benefits including the ability to open a bank account or at least be contactable where other systems are not in place.
“The spread of mobile cellular services and technologies has made great strides towards connecting the previously unconnected.”
ITU
Soon we will be able to pay for goods using a mobile phone as well as having constant internet access. Mobile phones will become even more ingrained as part of our day to day life keeping us connected at all times. This is, depending on your point of view (and perhaps age?) either a very good or very bad thing.
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