Archive for the 'Technology' Category

I mentioned upgrades to Yahoo Instant Messenger.
Now with Google provide ad serving technology to Yahoo, they’re going to start integrating Yahoo IM with Gmail’s talk capacity.
I really just assumed some big player would buy out Pidgin.im 
Maybe Google’s working on that.

With Skype, working from home with international customers and distributors just got  much easier. It used to be, for example, in network marketing, you would have the opportunity to build “internationally” with your company, but the costs of communication were exorbitant.
With Skype’s “Skypein” numbers available in major market countries, it’s possible to have local numbers […]

From what I read, it’s “OLD PEOPLE” who use Instant Messaging!
I guess I’m old… I use it through Google itself and Gmail’s ability to use AIM. But here’s a good article with some practical tips on the business use of instant message software.
Pidgin.im is a multi protocol software that handles virtually any IM system you […]

How do you make PDF Files fast and preferably FREE?
Web Worker Daily suggest Primo Online
Personally when I need this, I use a friend’s copier that scans to PDF for signed documents.
But most of the time I use Google Documents for word processing files.
This service lets you make PDF files for more file types than […]

Here is the tower after yesterday’s construction. Still no internet service, but the tower is high enough to reach over the crest of the hills and get a signal from town. (They used a “cherry picker” truck to determine that it would be the right elevation before building it in case you’re wondering…)

Now… will the […]

There’s no shortage of search results on the internet.
But are they reliable?
Can you send your children there to find information for homework without worrying about some predator posting his or her trash on the website?
FindHow.com is a new website aiming to offer reliable search results for “how to” information
According to the About page, the site […]

I really didn’t use IM till last year… a 70 year old friend of mine introduced me to it believe it or not! So I started using AIM. Then when Google Mail connected with the service, that works pretty well for most of my contacts. I’ve never gotten into Yahoo Messenger, but I’d sign up […]

Visuwords.com is an “online graphical dictionary”. It can help you spot synonyms and choose just the right word to get your web page copy or article out of those verbal ruts you and I can so easily inhabit!
Here’s the results for the word “buy”.

This is an interesting post from Jim Edwards.
Businesses need to make money.
But customers expect more and more free stuff. Young people today, in fact, believe there is no such thing as proprietary information… nothing (information wise) they think should have to be “paid” for.
So that’s a tension… how do you deliver more and not go […]

I’m not trying to be rude here, but can you say “Kindle”? This really doesn’t sound any different. They’d probably be smarter just to solicit more books to publish and sell them through Kindle’s network!
his is from Dane’s Blog
BizJournals:
A Birmingham entrepreneur’s plan to make books available via mobile phone was selected as the […]