Archive for January, 2008

President Bush Endorses Tuesday Night Tech

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Tuesday Night Tech Show Returns

Tuesday Night Tech once again returns and that means it’s time for the best LIVE party on the internet! Your TNT hosts Bill ‘Dr. Soos’ Soucy and Mark H. Delfs comb through their mostly-disturbing Google Newsreader Tech Stories and bring you the best (and usually comical) stories of the week. Fire up your browser and [...]


Adium Chat Improves Menu Bar Item, Corrects Your IM Grammar

Mac OS X only: Free, open source multi-client chat application Adium has released a new version rife with new and improved features. The most notable change is the Adium menu bar item, which now provides access to all of your contacts (Option-click for a contacts-only drop-down), accounts, status, and current chats. Another feature that apparently [...]


VoIP For iPod Touch is Here

The Touchmods team have released version 1.0 of SIP-VoIP for the iPod Touch. This hack will allow the Touch to make phone calls over its WiFi connection. Although named version 1.0, it is most certainly still a beta, and will take some special magic on your part to get things going.read more | digg story

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Touch Typing at Keybr.com

Free web app Keybr.com is a simple touch type practice tool that shows you how fast and error-free your typing is through an escalating series of exercises. Like a web-based version of previously mentioned Windows-only tools TypeFaster and RapidTyping, Keybr.com could help you make the switch to a Dvorak layout, or learn to switch from [...]


Free Help Setting up Your Router or Firewall

PortForward.com is proud to offer help setting up port forwarding on your router or firewall. Many Internet users are not aware of how to configure their router or firewall in order to use applications like Peer-to-Peer file sharing (PtoP), Internet Games, Web serving, FTP serving, WebCams, IRC DDC, and Instant Messaging such as AIM, ICQ, [...]


2008: Web 2.0 Companies I Couldn’t Live Without

This is a list of the products I tend to use daily. Some are for work, some are for fun, and some are useful for both. But I use most of them every day, or nearly every day, and I would not be as productive or happy without all of them.read more | digg story

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Top 10 Obscure Google Search Tricks

When it comes to the Google search box, you already know the tricks: like searching for exact phrases in quotes like “so say we all” or searching a single site using site:lifehacker.com gmail. But there are many more oblique, clever, and lesser-known search recipes and operators that work from that unassuming little text box.read more [...]