ita !, have you ever played around with Tasker? It's expensive for an Android app, but it is pretty amazing. I'm looking for cool things to do with it. Right now, I have it doing the following:

• it automatically turns on my ringer whenever I am near my house (within 50 meters or so, using Net location, not the more power-hungry GPS) between 8:00 am and 8:00 pm (since I often forget to turn my ringer on when home from work.)
• Along similar lines, it automatically silences my phone from 9:00 p.m. until 6:30 a.m and whenever I am at work.
• I can text myself with the command "tasker announce" and it will play American Idiot at the loudest possible volume.
• I can text myself with "tasker location" and it will silently turn on GPS, get the best fix it can, and send me an e-mail with the location.
• I plan to learn the phone number that I get a call from when my house alarm goes off, from my alarm monitors, and have it always ring when they call, regardlesss of the setting of the phone. I will set it up with a custom ringtone that slowly increases in volume to avoid too much embarrassment, but I never want to miss that call.

I am trying to think of other things I want to automate.

Oh, that's fantastic, Gris. That's exactly what I need.

I have a Fujitsu scanner that changed my mind on scanners and I am in love with it. I actually own two. My office doesn't even have a copier. We just scan, save, and print everything. One of these days, I mean to make the office paperless but we aren't quite there yet.

Oh, that's fantastic, Gris. That's exactly what I need.

It takes some practice to get things going - like most super-flexible programs, it's fairly complicated. Lifehacker has a couple of good tutorials that you should be able to find.

Yeah, I'm totally okay with configuration. I'll look up the tutorials. I mean, I'm the kind of person that reads car manuals.

So, Siri thinks I'm my sister. Does that mean I have to give her my new phone?

Yes. Yes it does.

People tell me that my sister and I sound more alike than we look alike, so I suppose that's not uncommon.

Meara, you don't have to do what robots say, unless we're talking about Robocop or a Terminator.

I now have an Android phone and I want to scan book barcodes to get the ISBN number and information, both to finally catalog my library and to sell some books. I want to be able to have import the book information to some kind of catalog on my PC. There is a scanning app that uploads to Good Reads. Is anyone else that crazy? If so, any suggestions?

I wonder if there's one for Librarything.

Ooh, that would be so great. It's weird that our phones are now like our own CueCats.