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How To Make Free Calls From Your Computer With Google Voice

About three weeks ago, I finally got an invite for Google Voice, the new phone-managing service from Google that I’d been itching to try out since before it was even called Google Voice (back then, it was called GrandCentral, and I still wanted it really, really badly).
Google Voice has a ton of great features, and [...]

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Categories: Google, The Web, software

Palm Mojo SDK Released

Its not everyday that you have a phone that lives up to its hype, a few that have in recent years has been the iPhone, Razr, Omnia, Touch HD and more recently the Palm Pre. But the big difference between all these phones is their OS. iPhone runs Apples mobile OSX, Omnia and Touch HD [...]

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Categories: Gadgets, Mobiles, Palm

Use your computer as a phone for free

I recently discovered a really cool feature in Vista (I think it isn’t available quite so readily in XP), which allows you to transform your computer into a phone really easily. Of course you’ll need a bluetooth capable mobile, and a bluetooth capable computer (or an adapter), but once you hook the two together you [...]

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Categories: Mobiles, Tutorials Basic, Uncategorized

  • Author: joshua
  • Published: Aug 12th, 2008
  • Comments: 6

Opera Knew Best All Along

This report by Mashables’ Paul Glazowski caught my attention whilst reading my feeds the other day. It’s called, ’Opera Mini’s Continued Success Rests on Smart Product Placement’ and describes the current success of Opera with their mini browser:

“It’s not a perfect, or even moderately good analogy, but I find myself thinking of Opera Mini as [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox, opera, software

  • Author: joshua
  • Published: Jul 9th, 2008
  • Comments: 4

Flash on your Phone

It’s pretty well documented at the moment that Adobe wants Flash on the iPhone and Steve Jobs doesn’t think it’s good enough.
What’s interesting about all this is that now the iPhone has sparked significant interest in web browsing via mobile devices, the race is on for developers everywhere to tap into that growing market.
Skyfire is [...]

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Categories: Browsing

  • Author: joshua
  • Published: Jun 12th, 2008
  • Comments: 15

The iPhone

With the kind of reality distorting statement we’re usually only accustomed to hear from Apple keynotes I’d like to present the exclusive on the iPhone: It has 3G and you heard it from us first.
Apologies for the cynicism, I don’t hate the iPhone, or any Apple product. I think they’re great, but just not the [...]

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Categories: ask the readers

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Mar 21st, 2008
  • Comments: 2

Quickly Remove USB Devices

USB devices in Windows can be configured to be optimized for quick removal or performance. If the first option is chosen it is normally no problem to simply unplug the device from the computer without removing it safely. If however the latter is chosen unplugging the device from the computer can lead to data corruption and data loss.

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Categories: Operating Systems, Tools, Windows, software

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