All Posts Tagged With: "Internet"

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What New Features Does Skype 2.6 Beta Have For The Mac?

Less than 5 months after releasing their 2.5 version for the Mac, Skype has just announced that Mac users can now begin to download Skype 2.6 Beta. With additional touches of quality and compatibility, Skype 2.6 Beta is not yet as sophisticated as the 3.2 Beta version for Windows, or is it?

15Apr2007 | Scott | 1 comment | Continued
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BlackBerry 8800: The BIG BlackBerry Pearl

With similar look, casing and trackball style d-pad as its smaller counterpart, the Pearl, the BlackBerry 8800 looks like a BIG BlackBerry Pearl.
The BlackBerry 8800 has kept the push email with attachments, Bluetooth, push-to-talk and PIM functions but has added some new features like a built-n GPS with TeleNav support, a microSD card slot [...]

13Apr2007 | Scott | 4 comments | Continued
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Vote For Twitter Shutdown Day

This Saturday is Computer Shutdown Day - anybody want to help me promote a Twitter Shutdown Day? How about a whole week or a month? Imagine it - a whole day without having to read about Twitter.
I’m getting really tired of reading about this pointless service everyday. I’m just amazed that [...]

21Mar2007 | Everton | 5 comments | Continued
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Join The Bloggers United Folding@Home Team

After posting earlier this week about an academic who had created his own supercomputer out of eight PS3s, I’ve just learnt that Sony from March 23rd all PS3s will be able to help the Folding@home program. I think this is a great move and I’m sure that this will add much needed processing power [...]

16Mar2007 | Everton | 6 comments | Continued
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Twitter - Is It Driving You Mad Yet?

Twitter sounds like one of those services that I really need to avoid. If you haven’t come across Twitter yet, it’s:
‘A global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: What are you doing? Answer on your phone, IM, or right here on the web!’
It’s been getting a lot of [...]

13Mar2007 | Everton | 11 comments | Continued
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Share Your Tips With Tipstrs

One of my colleagues pointed out a new site to me yesterday called Tipstrs. The idea behind the site that it allows readers to pool their knowledge by sharing tips. Tips are submitted into categories and readers can, you guessed it, rate and comment the tips.

10Mar2007 | Everton | 3 comments | Continued
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‘Adult’ Spam Hits All-Time Low

I don’t clean out my spam folder so that I can see how quickly how bad the problem has been over the last 30 days. At the moment I have 16568 emails in my spam folder, that’s a whopping 552 a day.
According to a report from Symantec ‘Adult’ spam hit an all-time low in [...]

8Mar2007 | Everton | 2 comments | Continued
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JobFavors.com: Get Paid To Do Favours

I love reading about new services like JobFavors.com that attempt to either create new markets online or make existing markets more efficient.
The goal of JobFavors is to connect people who need a favour doing, with someone who’s willing to do it in return for a bit of green. The site is community based so [...]

7Mar2007 | Everton | 7 comments | Continued
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ScrubIT: DNS Based Security Services

ScrubIT could prove to be a popular service with network admins who have to manage increasing numbers of mobile workers. What ScrubIT does is filter web traffic by adding DNS rules that can block access to adult sites or other known phising or malicious sites.

6Mar2007 | Everton | 2 comments | Continued
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Zopa - P2P Money Lending

I always like to find on the net positive stories about friends and people I used to work with. The latest is a fantastic interview with David Nicholson, one of the co-founders of Zopa. David and I both started our careers at the same strategic management consultancy firm within a few years [...]

27Feb2007 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
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