Archive for October, 2008

In “Send SMS Text Messages from your GMail Account”, tech blogger Amit Argarwal shows us how to use a feature from Gmail Labs to send SMS text messages through the Gmail interface. Go to your Gmail Labs settings and enable the “Text Messaging (SMS) in Chat” feature. The facility is currently available only for US phone [...]

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FileMenu Tools is free software for Windows that specializes in cleaning up and adding functionality to the right-click context menu. The software is able to remove unwanted items from your right-click menu, and has a number of built-in utilities for working with files and folders. FileMenu Tools lets you remove unwanted items from your right-click context [...]

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“Ten Comments You Think Are Cool And Insightful But Aren’t” by Mike Arrington of TechCrunch illustrates the importance of conducting yourself in a graceful manner online, whether you use your real name or post anonymously. Funny thing about the Internet — it comes with a sense of detachment and an illusion of anonymity that makes it [...]

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Google has released Google Earth for the iPhone allowing anyone with an Apple mobile to “carry the Earth around in your pocket”. They promise all of the same global imagery and 3D terrain, as well as the links to photos and Wikipedia articles found in the desktop version of Google Earth. In addition to porting over [...]

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TwitterFeed is a service that will take a blog’s feed and automatically publish the updates to one’s Twitter account. All you need to do is sign in to TwitterFeed (you must use an Open ID) and give the service the URL to your feed. TwitterFeed will then keep tabs on your blog, and push the [...]

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“Outlook 2007: Automatically Close Original Message After You Reply or Foward” by Tech Recipes shows you a simple setting in Outlook 2007 that may be able to shave time off your e-mail workflow. If you forward or reply to lots of messages, then this can be a real timesaver. By changing the configuration of Outlook, you [...]

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“10 Tips to Keep Your Notebook Safe When Traveling” by tech blogger Chris Pirillo is a collection of helpful notes for preventing your laptop from being stolen on the road. Three of my favorites are: “Keep It On You”, “Back Up Data” and “Use a BIOS Password”. Keeping your laptop on you at all times is [...]

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“How To Repair Your Crashed or Hanging Vista Sidebar” by The How-To Geek is a step-by-step tutorial on how to fix a frozen Windows Vista sidebar. If you install a lot of different Vista Gadgets you might have come across a situation where your Vista Sidebar no longer is working correctly, or possibly even crashing or [...]

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Reader Mikey Strikes tipped us off that eBay and Live.com are running a promotion that gives 30% cashback to buyers of certain eBay items. In order to qualify for the discount, you must purchase an item on eBay using “Buy It Now” within 60 minutes of clicking a paid search advertisement on Live.com marked with [...]

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The RichardSolo 1800 is a portable charger for the iPhone that allows you to resurrect your depleted iPhone battery no matter where you are. The RichardSolo plugs into the bottom of your iPhone, and is held in-place with a special brace while your mobile charges. The official product page says: There’s nothing quite like it. It [...]

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