The Leader In Technical News and Commentary
I think the instant messaging applications are starting to get big again, or perhaps it is just because I am starting to use instant messaging apps more frequently. Either way, there are quite a few of them out there so it is always important to be a little different than the others. How much more d
[ read more ]
I wrote about FruitfulTime TaskManager the other day and thoroughly enjoy the software. Their software is amazing and has only made my hectic life a lot easier. Remembering tasks is a pretty hard job and we might end up forgetting some important things and the consequences could be drastic. The
[ read more ]
Remembering tasks is a pretty hard job and we might end up forgetting some important things and the consequences could be drastic. The best way to remember and manage tasks is to have a to-do lists. Now I’ve tried many to-do programs and honestly, they all do the same thing – organize what you
[ read more ]
I have spent a number of years following backup services and discovering new ones. Some are good, some are bad, but one that slipped under my radar was a service called SpiderOak. I was contacted by Ethan Oberman, co-founder, for this relatively new service and I was, of course, ready to experience
[ read more ]
The people over at PCPhoneSoft.com have come out with a new plugin for the magic jack to unlock some advanced features that have been long requested. Magic Jack has been in the news a lot especially since they recently released information on the new version of the product which has been dubbed
[ read more ]
First off, this is the article that almost didn't happen. If you don't want to hear this, just skip down to the "All That Aside" heading below, but I encourage you to first read through my little "aside" here first so you can understand what's happening in this article since it doesn't follow stan
[ read more ]
So I was sent a VMware disk image containing the recently-released alpha version of Google Chrome OS and asked to write a review. I can only imagine that I was asked to write this review because of my charm, lack of sarcasm, and tendency to write reviews that don't piss people
[ read more ]
For those of you who haven't been invited to beta-test Twitter's redundant waste of time new ReTweet feature, I've got the full skinny here: you're not missing much, and nothing innovative is brought to the table here at all. Twitter's Retweet (beta) feature: note the "ReTweet" link next to th
[ read more ]
Ever noticed in Gmail, Twitter or Facebook how the last portion of the URL (the so-called "hash") changes with each navigation, while the actual URL remains the same? This unique AJAX technique, employed by some of the top current Web 2.0 apps, has many benefits besides usability: it actually sav
[ read more ]
When I was a kid, I would take foods that tasted really good by themselves and mix them all together - sometimes in a blender. And it was fucking nasty. I look at Google Wave as Google's technological way of repeating the same experiment: take Docs, Orkut, Gmail, Wikipedia, and IM, stick the
[ read more ]