Here’s a great way to block phone numbers on your cellphone. Of course, it only works for text messaging but could be useful if you get spam on your cellphone.

* AT&T: Log in at mymessages.wireless.att.com. Under Preferences, you’ll see the text-blocking and alias options. Here’s also where you can block messages from specific e-mail addresses or Web sites.

* Verizon Wireless: Log in at vtext.com. Under Text Messaging, click Preferences. Click Text Blocking. You’re offered choices to block text messages from e-mail or from the Web. Here again, you can block specific addresses or Web sites. (Here’s where you set up your aliases, too.)

* Sprint: No auto-blocking is available at all, but you can block specific phone numbers and addresses. To get started, log in at www.sprint.com. On the top navigation bar, click My Online Tools. Under Communication Tools, click Text Messaging. On the Compose a Text Message page, under Text Messaging Options, click Settings & Preferences. In the text box, you can enter a phone number, email address or domain (such as Comcast.net) that you want to block.

* T-Mobile: T-Mobile doesn’t yet offer a “block text messages from the Internet” option. You can block all messages sent by e-mail, though, or permit only messages sent to your phone’s e-mail address or alias, or create filters that block text messages containing certain phrases. It’s all waiting when you log into www.t-mobile.com and click Communication Tools.

via nytimes

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More aliases: Firefox keywords

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

I keep on with my productivity little tricks. This time I’m sharing some of my firefox shortcuts. I’m not in the mood for explaining how to actually install these, so check out the excellent article Firefox and the art of keyword bookmarking, if you need help.

# Dictionary search dict http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=%s


# Yahoo finance stock

fi      http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=%s
# Wikipedia page

wp      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s

slang   http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=%s
# Search in MySQL website/manual

my      http://mysql.com/%s
# BitTorrent search

bt      http://www.yotoshi.com/?keyword=%s

code    http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=%s
# Ruby documentation

ri      http://www.google.es/search?hl=es&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aes-ES%3Aofficial&hs=3zt&q=%s+site%3Aruby-doc.org&btnI=B%C3%BAsqueda&meta=
# Google search (experimental version with keyboard shortcuts)

g       http://www.google.com/search?q=%s&esrch=BetaShortcuts
# Google search (I'm feeling lucky)

gg      http://www.google.com/search?q=%s&esrch=BetaShortcuts&btnI=Lucky
# eBay search

ebay    http://search.ebay.es/search/search.dll?satitle=%s
# Post current page in delicious

pkd     javascript:location.href='http://del.icio.us/koke?v=3&url='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&title='+encodeURIComponent(document.title)

# My delicious (with tag support) kd http://del.icio.us/koke/%s as https://www.google.com/adsense/report/overview gr http://www.google.com/reader/view/ fb http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/myfeeds ga https://www.google.com/analytics/home/

By the way, I haven’t typed all these urls. In your firefox user dir (~/.firefox or ~/.mozilla), there should be a places.sqlite file.

Some sqlite love actually helps

sqlite> SELECT k.keyword, p.url FROM
	moz_bookmarks b
	JOIN moz_places p ON p.id = b.fk
	JOIN moz_keywords k ON k.id = b.keyword_id
	WHERE b.keyword_id IS NOT NULL;

MySQL: Planet MySQL

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