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Make money on your old cell phone - Flipswap! 2008-07-07 11:13:24 Everyone has an old cell phone
that’s just lying around and collecting dust on a shelf somewhere. I’m no exception to that statement. So what can you do other than to wait for a friend who needs your older less-featured phone? Well, Flipswap it, of course!
Flipswap makes it easy to give mobile phones a second [...]
Animoto.com - Create cool videos online 2008-06-30 13:56:15 I came across
Animoto.com a little while back but did not have time to give it a try. Looking back in my bookmarks of sites to re-visit, I decided to give it a shot to see just what it would create with my pictures and music. Here’s what I got with some of my [...] Read more:videos
, online
Wordpress 2.6 Beta 1 - new features 2008-06-27 08:06:52 Just like every other blogger out there, I’m always on the look out for a new release of Wordpress
. I enjoy blogging very much, but the technical part has always been my favorite hobby. There is no better way to do that but to install new wordpress sites for customers or upgrade my own with [...] Read more:features
Google 411 available in Canada 2008-06-26 10:18:29 Google’s popular free 411 service GOOG-411 (
1-800-4664-411) is now available
in Canada
. The toll-free directory service that uses Google results to give people phone numbers and addresses of local businesses launched in the States back in April of last year. Since then it’s added an SMS maps service that will send you a link to [...] Read more:Google
Spiceworks 3.0 - Free IT Management Software 2008-06-25 12:08:01 I have covered
Spiceworks in the past and actually not that long ago. But after writing about it, I started using it in an actual production environment and I love it. Version 3.0 was already in the works and, after 2,500 beta testers have gone over it, it has now been officially released. My installation [...] Read more:Management
, Software
, Management Software
Last day at the office for Bill Gates on June 27th 2008 2008-06-23 16:06:53 Microsoft’s most famous Founder, Bill Gates
, will be stepping down from his duties on Friday, June 27th 2008.
Bill Gates was a Harvard University dropout. In 1975, he co-founded Microsoft with his friend Paul Allen and took the world by storm with his software we all know. He made billions of dollars and totally revolutionized the [...] Read more:office
Firefox 3 Download Day - Guiness Record 2008-06-22 10:08:49 The team that created Firefox
3 were so sure that the community was impatient to download their newest browser, that they asked Guiness
to measure their downloads and set a new world record. So they went ahead and declared June 17th as Download
Day. The period is actually from 11:16am(PDT) on June 17th to 11:16am(PDT) [...] Read more:Record
Firefox 3 is now Available! 2008-06-17 14:44:32 Just a quick post to let everyone know that the long awaited Firefox
3 is now
available for download from Mozilla. This new version has been in the works for a long time now(actually, 34 months to be exact!) and the entire Firefox Community has been watching and hoping for the final release. Boasting some [...]
System Information for Windows - siw.exe 2008-06-13 16:55:50 Every once in a while, comes a cool application that becomes a must-have in your toolkit. I work on the road a lot and connect to many customers’ machines remotely as well. I very often need to know what hardware is in their machine and I don’t want to have to install any [...] Read more:System
, Windows
, System Information
Go!Animate - Create online animations easily 2008-06-06 10:14:55 If you want an easy way to create and share animation online
, without having to learn Flash and similar tools, Go!Animate offers a great way to get started and let the world know about your incredible animation skills.
New features of the Apple iPhone 3G 2008-07-20 16:12:42 By now, it’s old news that the iPhone
3G is available, but I’ve seen a couple already and wanted to take a look at the new features
that make this phone what it is. One of the great things about this launch is the availability in more countries than before. It’s available here, in Canada, [...] Read more:Apple
Download and Convert videos, units and files - youconvertit.com 2008-07-18 12:55:44 Whenever you need to convert units
to something else, you probably just Google a converter and run the first one you find. That’s what I do. But last time I did that, I came across
Youconvertit.com. The difference with this particular site is that you can use it as a one-stop shop to convert/download/send many [...] Read more:Download
, Convert
, videos
, files
Chicks please! - Chickipedia.com 2008-07-09 08:23:50 I’m pretty sure I’ve said this before and it’s no secret that I like beautiful girls. Actually, most guys do, they just don’t show it as openly. My girlfriend’s hot.. really hot… but my guy-nature can’t help but notice when a nice girl walks by. Every time I see some hot girl on TV or [...] Read more:Chicks
Control your computer with your mind 2008-07-08 08:52:42 This must be one of those sci-fi fantasies everyone has at least thought about once in their life. There have been a few products which have brought us closer to mind-controlled computers being a reality, and now there is actually a product that will be available on the retail market.
Based on the latest developments in [...] Read more:Control
How to change the index location on Google Desktop 2008-07-23 22:00:40 I’ve been using GoogleDesktop
for quite some time now and never really bothered to look at the size of the index that it generated. Last week, I noticed my computer getting slower, so I realized that my c:\ drive was almost full. After looking around for something out of the ordinary, I found that [...] Read more:Google Desktop
USB 3.0 is coming in 2009 2008-08-20 12:07:58 Everyone has at least one USB device or, at least, most people know what USB is for. The USB standard has been around for many years already and it quickly became a standard in the industry because so many manufacturers decided to produce equipment that use it. Now, Intel has released the specifications for the [...]
Yahoo! Buzz goes live for everyone! 2008-08-19 20:48:48 As we have
previously covered, Yahoo
! Buzz is a service that allows you to submit stories that you find interesting and ranks them according to popularity. Very often compared to Digg and the likes, Yahoo Buzz offers similar features and will publish the top stories for every category on the front page of the Yahoo! [...] Read more:everyone
Google Chrome in Beta 2008-09-03 09:46:06 If you haven’t been hearing about
GoogleChrome
all over the place since september 1st, then you probably didn’t go on the internet since because that’s all everyone is talking about. Just like every other blog out there, this is our mandatory Chrome post ;-) Google Chrome was released in beta yesterday and has already [...]
How to choose a USB key 2008-08-29 09:46:11 There is no sure-fire way to shop for a key. You will need to decide on the capacity you need and think about some of the features you want, then try to find the best value for money and buy it!
Some useful info on USB keys…
Once you have chosen the capacity of your key [...] Read more:choose
Google Street View makes some people unhappy 2008-08-27 15:29:59 Google may be praised for some of the services it provides and it may be denounced for others. This is the case with its “Google Street
View” service, an option derived from
Google Maps and
Google Earth.
The Street View allows you to obtain 360 degrees images of locations in several important cities in the USA, [...] Read more:Google
, makes
, people
, unhappy
Adobe Air showcase - Refreshingapps.com 2008-08-24 15:03:09 I may have been somewhat silent recently, but it was vacation time for everyone, and it doesn’t mean I wasn’t still looking around for new applications. A friend of mine spoke to me about this site and I went to take a look. It turns out that it is a very interesting site [...] Read more:Adobe
, showcase
Genius Professional Driver - No more driver headaches. 2008-09-28 09:34:08 Genius Professional Driver is a small software that prevents you from wasting time trying to understand why your computer is slow or suddenly freezing when you install a new device…
What does it do? It backs up and updates the drivers of your computer and suggests new ones…
It will automatically download the latest drivers for the [...] Read more:headaches
Happy Birthday Google! 2008-09-27 15:18:19 It was approximately 10 years ago that Google
became the search engine we all know today. It was not always the way it is right now, but the philosophy was there from the beginning.
Google has put up a really cool
timeline that any fan will find very interesting. You’ll find a plethora of [...] Read more:Happy
, Birthday
, Happy Birthday
Facebook is growing fast.. maybe too fast! 2008-10-31 11:41:03 As I have said before, I always enjoy looking into numbers for some companies because they are usually so impressive, they sometimes sound unbelievable.
Techcrunch has an article about the speedy growth of Facebook
and increasingly huge requirements to operate their site.
Last year, Facebook had a reported $450 million of funding to expand and operate. [...]
Vista User Account Control (UAC) Tool 2008-11-27 13:27:05 The very first time I tried Windows Vista
, I was annoyed by the UAC right away. User AccountControl
(UAC) is a that feature of Windows Vista that makes it so you are never actually logged-in as an administrator. Instead, whenever you need to accomplish a task that requires admin rights, you need to confirm [...]
How to create a Favicon.ico 2008-11-26 10:25:41 My friend
MK007 sent me a very cool link a couple of days ago and I thought it would be a great tool to share. One of the tips that I see very often to help popularize a blog or any website, is to have a “favicon”. The Favicon is the little icon that appears [...] Read more:create
Comparing advertisement budgets from Apple and Microsoft 2008-11-23 16:08:25 The very popular (and often funny but not necessarily true) TV ads from Apple
mocking Vista have generated a lot of talk. Discussions are usually about the facts that are presented in the commercials, naturally divided between Windows-users and apple-users. The facts in the commercials are sometimes true but also very debatable because [...] Read more:advertisement
, Microsoft
Adobe Flex will become Flash Platforms 2008-11-17 12:24:39 I’ve been following the development and the evolution of Adobe
Flex ever since it first appeared as a beta, but its marketing has always been uncertain. The way it was referenced and named was sometimes inconsistent and the name itself made it a little difficult to search for in some cases.
Adobe Flex will retain it’s [...] Read more:Flash
, Platforms
Microsoft Launches its Online Store for US Customers 2008-11-15 11:10:14 There are a number of things that are bound to happen as internet connections and instant access to products become more and more available. One of those things is that packaged software could eventually become a thing of the past. I’m not convinced on the fact that this will happen very soon, but it could [...] Read more:Microsoft
, Store
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