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Contacting your provider directly
The following numbers and prompts may or may not be current. Please contact me with additions or corrections.
T-Mobile: 877-537-7389
Verizon: 800-922-0204, press 4 at 1st menu and 5 at 2nd menu
AT&T: 800-331-0500, press 0 at each prompt, ignoring messages
Sprint: 800-777-4681, press 1
Save your minutes by skipping voicemail prompts
T-Mobile: press #
Verizon: press *
AT&T: press *
Sprint: press 1
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ICE: In Case of Emergency
I lost my cell phone recently flying out of SeaTac airport. Imagine my surprise when my kids emailed me to say that someone at the airport had found it and called them. How? I have an ICE entry in my address book. ICE was conceived by British paramedic Bob Brotchie in April 2005 as a way for emergency workers to determine who to call when someone is unable tell them. Simple create an entry named "ICE" in your phone's address book that lists who you want contacted. List more than one person designated as ICE1, ICE2, ICE3, etc. It's so simple, why not do it?
311 (instead of 911)
311 is a special telephone number in many communities in Canada and the United States that provides quick, easy-to-remember access to non-emergency municipal services or a Citizen Service Center. Dialing this number allows city residents in certain cities to obtain important non-emergency services through a central, all-purpose phone number quickly and effectively. 311 is available in several major American cities, including: Akron, Albuquerque, Austin, Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Hartford, Houston, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Mobile, New York City, Rochester, Orlando, Pittsburgh, San Antonio, San Francisco, San Jose, Somerville, and Washington, D.C.
IMEI number
Type *#06# into your cell phone and it will display your phone's 15-digit IMEI number. Write the IMEI number down so you can give it to your provider if your phone is lost or stolen. Even if a thief changes the phone's SIM card, your phone can be disabled by the carrier.
Cell phone as baby monitor
How to create a baby monitor with a cell phone. Not that this sounds like particularly good parenting to me.
Cell phones help me remember
I use the camera in my cell phone as digital ink. A pocket polaroid. To capture the cover of a book so I can search for it online later. Why reach for paper and pencil? To record an address or landmark I want to search using Google Maps and/or Google Earth. To remember the exact name of a pepper or tropical fruit I buy on a whim in the store. Something that's new to me. Using that always with me camera as a memory aid or snapshot of what I want to recall and act on later. Quick & easy.
