Posted on January 31st, 2008 by Joy Schwabach
Spokeo regularly checks 36 social networking sites for people who are on yourSpokeo e-mail lists and posts their current social site activity and photos on your screen. (Joy discovered one of her nephews this way.)
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Posted on January 29th, 2008 by Joy Schwabach
The charmingly named RememberTheMilk.com provides a to-do list you can share with others. It’s so easy to use you don’t even need to read the instructions.
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Posted on January 28th, 2008 by Joy Schwabach
This column is being typed on a Merc Stealth keyboard made by Ideazon.
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Posted on January 27th, 2008 by Joy Schwabach
Here’s a novel twist: It’s Texas Hold-em poker played against famous historical figures like Genghis Khan, Napoleon, Dracula, Abe Lincoln, Stalin, Cleopatra and many others.
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Posted on January 26th, 2008 by Joy Schwabach
We got a Virtual Phone Booth noise-canceling headset from Plantronics, and to our utter amazement, it worked.
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Posted on January 25th, 2008 by Joy Schwabach
“The Essential Blender,” edited by Roland Hess; $45 from Blender.org.
Blender is one of several high-end graphics and animation programs that are available free.
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Posted on January 24th, 2008 by Joy Schwabach
A Vumber is a phone number from any area code you select that is then linked to your home, work or cell phone.
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Posted on January 23rd, 2008 by Joy Schwabach
We’ll look next at a ridiculously priced device for playing with your Microsoft Flight Simulator X. (It also works with other flight simulator software.)
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Posted on January 22nd, 2008 by Joy Schwabach
FileMaker has released Bento, a $49 version of the FileMaker database for the Mac’s Leopard operating system. FileMaker is a really great database program, and this is an easy-to-use version for people who don’t have severe database demands (which is most of us).
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Posted on January 20th, 2008 by Joy Schwabach
A podcast is a kind of Internet broadcast that you can hear and watch on your computer, an iPod, MP3 player or a number of similar devices.
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