THREE ON A CELL PHONE

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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FREE PHONE CALLS

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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BACKING UP ISN’T HARD TO DO

Titanize is the easiest backup yet. (Watch us jump up and down.)

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A NEW WEBCAM FOR YOUR

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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THE FANTOM STRIKES

The new Fantom hard drive provides a terabyte for $546.

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THE NUMBERS REPORT

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.

IT’S A MYSTERY TO US

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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NO PEEKING

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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YOU’RE ON THE AIR

Sign on with the new BlogTalkRadio.com and you can record your own radio show from your telephone.

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A BROWSER THAT STICKS WITH YOU

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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