Posted in google on December 6th, 2007 Comments Off
Google finally added the capability for you to chat with your AIM buddies through Google Talk, a long overdue enhancement. Here is how you add your AIM buddies in to gtalk. Signing into AIM in Google Talk
Posted in best-of-web, sports, tv on November 8th, 2007 Comments Off
This site could come in handy for watching the big game or late breaking news when you are away from your TV at work or traveling, etc. Also could come in handy to watch a sports event on a channel that you can’t or don’t have on your TV. Check it out, pretty cool. Only [...]
Just found this sweet application called myFairTunes that allows you to EASILY convert your purchased iTunes music to mp3 format, DRM-free. I justed downloaded it and it worked like a charm, wish I found this sooner! Oh and of course it’s free! The creators of this program stress that you don’t use it to illegally [...]
Posted in google on September 24th, 2007 Comments Off
I’m not sure if I’ll every personally use it, but it definitely rounds out the online office tools suite. With Gmail and Gdocs they now have an online equivalent to Microsoft’s Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. If you have a Google account you can access via http://docs.google.com And here is a quick note and screencast [...]
Posted in techie on September 6th, 2007 Comments Off
On Wednesday Apple released info on the next generation of iPods while also announcing a $200 price cut on the “high end” iPhone dropping the price from $599 to $399. The biggest news on the iPod side was a new series called iPod Touch (pictured) which has a similar design to the iPhone without the [...]
Posted in firefox on August 21st, 2007 Comments Off
Lifehacker recently made a post pointing out the top 10 Firefox features that don’t require an extension. Most Firefox users probably are aware of most of these although I need to check out the keyword bookmarking, I haven’t played with that yet. Now for those of you still not using Firefox be sure to check [...]
Posted in google on August 20th, 2007 Comments Off
I’m actually shocked it took this long for such a high profile company to do this. Geico had a similar lawsuit against Google two years ago but lost. It all revolves around how companies can use trademarked words from rival companies to trigger sponsored links to their own website. Here is the story about the [...]
Posted in techie on August 17th, 2007 Comments Off
I saw this story this morning and felt it was pretty interesting, especially for someone like me that is an avid Wikipedia user. Although honestly I don’t necessarily care that the CIA may have been editing wiki entries on the war, I just think it’s more funny that this is now a news worthy story. [...]