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I was pondering about some everyday products we use. There are so many things we use that we never asked for, but one day they came along and we suddenly can’t live without them. You look at products like the T.V., automobile, and yes cell phone, and you think about how you lived without them.

Now if you knew me several years ago I was almost always ranting about not having a cell phone and how I didn’t need one. Things changed a little bit, I changed jobs and all of the sudden my staff needed to reach me. So I had two options; stay home and field all the calls from there or buy a cell phone and be able to do what I needed and still be reached.

So as time passed I used new things like text messaging, internet on my phone, GPS, real E-Mail and so on. Not only did my phone allow me to make and receive calls it allowed me to throw away the map. It allowed me to leave my laptop in my bag, and using Viigo it allowed me to have all my RSS news feeds “hand” delivered to me. So now my cell phone is as much a part of my job as my computer.

I am sure there are people out there that try to think out of the box, and think about what would be really cool on a cell phone, but not expected. I use things like TwitterBerry to update my Twitter account. I use Vlingo to dictate text messages and e-mails. So do some research or ask us for suggestions and get applications and tools that are useful for you. Remember next time you think that the cell phone has not given you new uses, think about what you use as an alarm clock or watch.

I was browsing the web today and I came across a new application for the Blackberry called Vlingo. I still am not too sure on how to pronounce it (maybe a mix of Vlad and Lingo?), either way it is a really great voice based application. You basically have to just download it here and change a few settings to allow it to work properly.

You can do a few different things with it. So far all I am sure you can do is Web Search (Google or Yahoo), send a text message, send an e-mail, make a note, new task, new memo, voice dial, and open applications like camera or address book. So you may have just read the list and said to yourself, “So I can do about everything?” Yes! You can do so many things with Vlingo and it is really great for those of us who have to multitask and do not always have those few extra seconds to type things into our phone. So again you can download here to start trying it, or type m.vlingo.com into your mobile web browser.

I love to search things on my phone using Google and I have found I can find almost anything that way. Vlingo is kind enough to allow us to choose Google or it also integrates Yahoo One Search into their search options. I tried it and the voice recognition they use is pretty solid. Watch the video here to see how it works. Do yourself a favor and dowload it. Give it a shot. If you do not have a Blackberry to use it with click here and we will help you with that too.