Applications for the Apple iPhone aren’t taking up the internet bandwidth and space. Actually only one company have developed an VoIP (Voice over IP) application, the Israelian company fring.
If you haven’t heard about fring, then perhaps you know one of the people behind it - Avi Schechter. He was one of the founder of the once very popular chat-program ICQ. I still remember my ICQ number 7914159, which was stolen by a hacker some time ago.
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Last week I asked Adam Ostrow from Mashable and Readburner to show me his desktop. This week it’s Amber MacArthur’s (aka Amber Mac) turn.
Amber is co-founder of MGI Media, but you might know her from G4TechTV’s “Call For Help”, Webnation, commandN or net@night podcast, which is hosted by Amber and Leo Laporte. It runs on Leo Laporte’s own netcast network known as TWiT.tv (This Week in Tech). Net@night (previously “Inside The Net”) is published every Thursday. The topics range from Amber’s links to Web 2.0 entrepreneurs.
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As expected I received 2 free Skypephones today courtesy of 3’s PR machine, as part of the new 3 Skypephone service launch today in the UK. The new mobile will allow users to make free calls to other Skype users, as well as free instant messaging. It’s a cute little handset, but I’m struggling to see how users will use it.

There have been several rumours over the last couple of days that Skype will be launching a branded mobile phone in partnership wih 3 in the UK, Italy, Hong Kong and Australia.
I’ve just received an invite to a pre-launch event for an ‘exciting new product from 3′. The PR person tried to be cryptic, but I think the last sentence below gives away too much info:
A few weeks ago, I received my new laptop and had to install it from scratch. Although it’s a time consuming process, a new PC installation is a great opportunity for you to search the web for the best (and most reliable) apps for your PC. The good news is that you can grab most of those apps for free.
For your convenience, I prepared a list of my free software recommendations. The beautiful thing about these applications, is that they provide state-of-the-art performance, functionality and support for free. Thus, i recommend that you install them all on any PC you use. So let’s get started.
Here are my top 15 free apps for your PC:
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