Back in the day when I tried some of the original internet telephone services with my 56k (if you were lucky) dialup, internet telephones (software phones) were pretty much unusable. I never tried again until recently. I admit it – I’m a total techno geek. But when it comes to internet telephones, I’ve been a ...
Okay, so this is probably one of the coolest things I’ve seen done with the Google Maps API! Check out your neighborhood and find out how much money your neighbors are making ...
How NOT to email. I must admit – I use some of these in my emails. ...
Bummer – I use this service quite often. Paypal is one of the great things that’s come out of the internet. I received this email from them today: We are writing to let you know that PayPal’s BillPay service will be discontinued in early August, 2005. If you currently use BillPay, you will need to ...
There’s been speculation that Google uses the term “Public Beta” a little loosly. If you think about it – it’s gmail service was unveiled in a beta fashion. No hype, just word of mouth and folks touting the service. About a year later it’s one of the most popular free email providers on the ‘net ...
Do yourself a favor and go install Adaware and Free AVG, before a virus or 500 spyware tools install themselves on your computer. Adaware has been a savoir more times than I can count. I’ve set it up on my parent’s computer and run it at least once every two weeks, as unbeknown to them, ...
This is really freaking cool: webaccelerator.google.com Google caches the web already, and they’ve got amazingly good net connections with amazingly fast web servers. Now you too can harness the POWER OF GOOGLE! By installing this browser plug-in you can access pages through Google’s cache instead of from the server the site your browsing is served ...
I love friendster. I haven’t always felt this way. The service struggled with slow servers, timeouts, and errors for a couple of years. Now they seem to have finally gotten their act together and put together a quality product. It’s getting better all the time. My rommmate only has a computer setup so he can ...
What’s up with the ‘net these days? The other day the MS Office website was on the fritz, and now Blogger! Granted, Blogger tends to have a bit of a reputation for this stuff, but it’s owned by Google – presumably, one of the most reliable websites in the nether … so what’s up with ...
I guess it happens to the largest of websites. I snapped this screen grab last week – it was a weekday in the middle of the afternoon: ...