Douglas Rehfeldt

Stop SOPA

Ξ November 17th, 2011 | → 0 Comments | ∇ politics |

Help to stop SOPA.

Remembering those who have served.

Ξ November 11th, 2011 | → 0 Comments | ∇ politics |

I salute the veteran survivors and often think of those who gave everything performing their duty.

Block Telemarketeers on the iPhone iOS5

Ξ November 10th, 2011 | → 0 Comments | ∇ ramblings |

The number of telemarketing and robo-calls to my mobile phone have increased lately. Enough so that I decided to spend a few minutes working out a way to block these calls. Unfortunately, I can’t just block a number on my iPhone and AT&T like I can with the “landline” and Ooma. A quick internet search turned up a workaround , but I wanted to update the information for iOS 5. Matt’s process is simple:
1. Create or download a ringtone that consists of a few seconds of silence.
2. Open iTunes, connect your iPhone, and import this as an additional ringtone
3. Create a new iPhone contact named “Telemarketer”, which becomes a blacklist, and choose the new silence ringtone as the custom ringtone.

Every time a telemarketer or robo-caller calls, just add that phone number to this contact.

I also edited the new contact making the following changes:
4. Assign a vibration of None.
5. Assign a text tone of None.
6. Assign a custom contact image.

my telemarketer contact image

While this isn’t really blocking the caller, it is a good work around. Thanks Matt.