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Priyank Patel - Google+ - Got Galaxy Nexus from rogers a week back. I am really happy…

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Got Galaxy Nexus from rogers a week back. I am really happy with this phone overall. Battery life could be better but there are not many smart phones in market which get good battery life anyway.

One interesting problem, I was facing on nexus. Took me couple of hours of troubleshooting on phone and quick google search to resolve my issue.

Problem: Google Voice search and voice dictation or anything with voice would not work. It always threw "Server Error" at me. It was working after I changed the default language from "English (US)" to "English (UK)". Funny. As soon as I change the language back to English US, google voice search was back to server error. Even with English UK I wasn't getting good success rate of recognition.

Solution: Under Account and Sync. Disable google contact sync and voice search with English US will work. I am not sure what the problem is but this is the only way to fix it.

Frustrating and interesting at the same time. Check out the following link. I know link is for razr maxx but it fixed issue on my galaxy nexus. Give it a shot if you are getting this issue.


#galaxynexus #nexus #samsung #rogersEdit

(Google) Voice Search "Server Problem" on razr maxx - Page 5
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Running out of space in Gmail ? - Try FindBigMail to look for huge email messages

I started noticing that I am running out space on my gmail account, even though space in gmail is supposed to be unlimited. I am approaching dangerous limits of usage in my gmail account. I was looking for a good way to find the size of email message, but there is no good way to look for that in gmail web app. 

Only thing you can do is to download all your message in thunderbird/outlook and check the size of the message there. What a bummer !! Google please implement size column in the gmail and give us a search operator to look for messages.

But until google does that, FindBigMail will help you. I plugged in my gmail address and gave access to my account and then after 15 mins or so, following results came up. It categorizes and tags the messages with appropriate labels. Works like a charm (if you are comfortable giving 3party webapp access to your gmail account :) )

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CoffeeCompany Wifi Headlines

CoffeeCompany WiFi headlines.

Holland’s largest chain of coffee shops is called CoffeCompany. They wanted to attract more students, so they installed WiFi in some of its stores near universities. The problem is, lots of students just come into the store for the WiFi but hardly look at the menu.

So CoffeeCompany decided to move the store’s menu into the WiFi menu of customers’ laptops. They periodically changed the wireless network name from the normal “CoffeeCompany” to hard-selling headlines. So as students looked for a network, they found menu lines such as “mmm….YummyMuffinsOnly1,99″

This is beyond awesome.

Now this is cool. Providing free wifi and getting your message across at same time. Nice way to get wifi users to buy one more coffee. :)