Twitter is a highly useful tool to obtain information and to interact with people. The service is very accessible through the web, SMS and IM, although IM hasn’t been working for weeks as of this writing. Yet, the only question is a simple one: …
Truphone is a VoIP service, but not of any kind, it’s a mobile VoIP service based in U.K. I have been using it with great satisfaction since mid-June. It’s currently in beta and is you sign up before September 30, you can make free calls to 40 countries. The catch is that your phone to be connected to the internet.
Pownce is an online service that launched during the last week of June 2007. It lets you send things to people, like links, files, events and messages. Sure you can do that with email, but where’s the fun in that?
Twitter is what I would call a status updater. It wants to answer the question “What are you doing?” You can let other people know what you are doing and you can also find out what others are doing.
The Apple Worldwide Developpers Conference 2007 has started and it will last the whole week. In case you missed Steve Jobs’ keynote, Engadget has a minute-by-minute coverage with text and images.
You may also notice that Apple.com has a new design. The …
Do you ever read terms of services, privacy policies, user agreements, trademarks, privacy statements, legal notices, and other legal documents like that? Do you even read the whole contract when you sign for a job or do you read the long boring text that comes with the softwares you install?
Money is spent on lawyers to write those things and you should really read it all; every word and every punctuation. Yes, punctuation matters a whole lot. A lawsuit could be won just for a period or a comma.
I really like the ability to work online. What it means is that there is no need to install anything, and that leads to the ability to do things anywhere on any machine which allows tremendous flexibility.
When Internet Explorer 7 was released, I thought that it was great. Finally, Microsoft is updating its browser. I didn’t download it until a week ago.
From any user’s point of view, it’s great. IE finally has features that other browsers already have had for …
Writely and Google Spreadsheets have merged to become Google Docs & Spreadsheets.
It looks very Google-like which isn’t surprising, but there’s also a feeling of the original Writely. There is consistency between the speadsheets and document interface. It’s all as easy to use …
I just noticed that Google added more links at the top left on Gmail and Google Calendar. I wonder why they just put those links on those two services. The only thing I …
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