A while back I wrote an article for MakeUseOf.com titled 5 Sites To Learn How To Repair Your Own Computer. In it I complain about the repair prices of the “big box stores.” Well, as it turns out I found an interesting video depicting some investigative reporting done on the topic of PC repair. Check [...]
I just read an article about Gmail’s latest outage. It was the title that caught my eye: “Why you should be glad about Gmail failures.” As someone who is using Gmail, the title kind of got my proverbial goat. As it turns out, the article was less about boasting on Gmail’s failures and more about [...]
If you are not familiar with it, Delicious.com is what is called a social bookmarking site. This means that users can save bookmarks on the site, organize them according to topics by using tags, and then share them with others. The interesting thing about Delicious.com is that as people bookmark and share sites they come [...]
A Guest Post by Brett Barner of GodlySheep.com and @Godlysheep about Trillian Astra.
Instant Messaging (IM) clients are a dime-a-dozen nowadays. Though IMing seems so ’90s, it is still useful today. The big issue with IM clients is that unless you and all of your friends get together and decide universally what IM service you [...]
OK, those of you who know me know that text messaging sometimes gets on my nerves. As you can tell from past articles, such as the one I wrote on the topic of texting while driving, I have a view that texting CAN be useless and even dangerous. Well, as it turns out, Google is [...]
Admittedly, I am new to the gmail scene.
I’ve always used Hotmail, even before Microsoft took them over. Yes, way back then. I have been hesitating, then hesitating, and even hesitating to move to another webmail service. There are many things I don’t like about Hotmail, but, hey, there are also many things to get used [...]
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I’m kind of interested in the capabilities of Google Picasa Web Albums‘ to track people down in photos using facial recognition. I tried it out with some good success while tagging people in my own albums. I also did a review and how-to for MakeUseOf.com. Today I was thinking of [...]
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I’ve noticed how quickly news travels now, especially when there is a video involved. Remember the incedent with Ryan Moats and the police officer? How about poor old lady being tasered? Many of us have seen these videos and have our own opinions about them but just think back 5 to 10 years [...]
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I just heard the story that Google Voice is in the process of figuring out how to monetize Google Voice (besides the selling of overseas minutes). In the past Google has been pretty inobtrusive with their advertising. Their ads on sites are generally off to the side and not very distracting.
Since I’ve been [...]
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For years I’ve been using Morguefile.com to find photographs for free.
Morguefile.com is an interesting site because they have free photographs hosted there that you can “copy, distribute, transmit… and… adapt.“ In fact, attribution is not even required (a kind word for the author is always appreciated but not required). Most photos for my [...]
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