1. Online tech support.
2. Two computers, one monitor.
3. Internuts: Evite.com , MyPunchbowl.com, babelfish.altavista.com
4. “DV Rebel’s Guide: An all -digital approach to making Killer Action Movies on the Cheap”
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Talk is cheap, and getting cheaper. We took a look at VoiceStick, a memory stick that does phone calls. It turns out to be very popular with soldiers overseas, but anyone can use it.
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We tried out a specialized PowerPoint compression utility by the name of NXPowerlite ($45 from NXPowerlite.com).
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We were browsing a travel Web site the other day and got a lot of help from Yoono, a scrolling toolbar thatfits onto Firefox. Scrolling across the top of our browser window were related sites, such as Gridskipper and SeatGuru , which we’d never heard of, along with the more familiar names like Travelzoo, Expepdia and Travelocity.
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We were having trouble with a backup drive and called for tech support. What we got was the president of the company himself (it’s a small company). “Ah,” he said. “I see what the problem is: Just rename the ‘delete(underline)me.exe’ file to ‘backupkey.exe’ and move it to the root.”
Sure. Anybody can follow that. We’ll pass it on.
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This is definitely cool, as they say. It’s called the BackupKey, from TurnKey Technology. It is a pocket-size hard drive that connects to a USB port and requires no software.
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We recently tried out the new PowerAid Mobile from US Modular, a backup battery that comes with five adapters that fit cell phones, iPods, Treo PDAs and many other devices designed to take their charge from a computer’s USB port or a wall outlet.
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Searching for our cell phone charger, we found a wonderful new search engine called Retrevo.com. This turns out be an engine for just consumer electronics, and it finds lots of hardware. You can use it to find a product, research a product and troubleshoot a problem. Price deals are published every day.
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Onlinenewspapers.com and AmericanFolklore.net.
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Seventy-eight percent of Web users use a broadband (high-speed) connection. That’s up from 65 percent a year earlier, a Nielsen/NetRatings study reports, and moving toward 100 percent.
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