Posted on October 31st, 2006 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
We tried out a device called the “Spracht Aura Mobile BT.” (Spracht? Where’s my German dictionary?) This lets several people talk into a cell phone at once; no crowding.
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Posted on October 30th, 2006 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
We found another service for making free phone calls over the Internet; it’s free to many countries and nearly free to the rest. It’s JaJah.com, and using it is reminiscent of the old phone systems that used an operator to connect your call.
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Posted on October 29th, 2006 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
Titanize is the easiest backup yet. (Watch us jump up and down.)
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Posted on October 29th, 2006 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
Logitech has some free software to add video effects to what people see when you’re using your webcam. Instead of your own face you can use a cartoon character that smiles when you smile, frowns when you frown.
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Posted on October 28th, 2006 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
The new Fantom hard drive provides a terabyte for $546.
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Posted on October 27th, 2006 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
If you haven’t blogged yet, don’t fee bad about it; we’re all over-blogged and counting. Estimates run between 10-30 million blogs and rising. Postings to these blogs run about one million a day. According to a survey by Insight Express nsightexpress.com, only one percent of us would miss blogs if they all disappeared tomorrow. One fourth of all users would severely miss the web and e-mail, about the same as those who would miss TV.
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Posted on October 27th, 2006 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
Yep, there’s a new Nancy Drew mystery game, and some day we’re going to solve one of these (if we live that long). The latest is “Nancy Drew: The Creature of Kapu Cave.”
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Posted on October 24th, 2006 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
If those execs at Hewlett Packard had only paid $5 a month for self-destructing e-mails, they wouldn’t be in the mess they’re in now. And that goes double for Congressman Mark Foley.
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Posted on October 22nd, 2006 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
Sign on with the new BlogTalkRadio.com and you can record your own radio show from your telephone.
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Posted on October 22nd, 2006 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
A new free Web browser is our new favorite. It’s called Maxthon . This browser keeps a record of where you’ve been. When you reopen it, a message asks if you want to start again where you left off in the last session. If you had a dozen Web sites open, they’ll all be there again, each with its own tab.
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