Archive for the 'Technology' Category

CNET has published the best and worst technology of 2007
Hopefully BEFORE you’ve gone out and bought too many of these losers for the holidays. (And before someone bought one for YOU!)
Boy, some of these dogs really bark!
I especially liked reading the Web 2.0 hits and misses.

Postaroo.com was once listed as a top free classified ad place having an Alexa Rank of 43,471
They’ve now gone offline and their url redirects to some “hot daily offers” site.
Spend your time looking to use Craigslist if they accomodate your sales strategy!

A Taiwanese firm is unveiling a $299 Laptop!
It uses flash memory instead of a resident hard drive and operates only open source software to keep the price down.
I told you before about the $100 laptop project for school children and predicted we’d see one on the shelves of Wal Mart too. The way things […]

Don’t get your hopes up as I did when I saw the headline. You’ll only run your home office on this if you’re adept at reading by light from your wrist watch at night.
This discovery however means that the company may be on the brink of creating a long life battery - I’d say […]

Email taking you all day? Here’s 20+ Firefox Plug Ins To Manage Your Email
I thought the tools to help you create temporary “throw away” emails was a great idea to help you cut down on spam!
If you use GMail, you’ll definitely want to know about these scripts to improve GMail’s functionality.

The dream of the Web 2.0 world is that everyone will keep their data on a remote sever somewhere and ultimately have stripped down laptops and internet accessing devices that no longer require internal storage.
It reminds me of the report of Google getting into online medical records. I suppose they’ll serve Adsense ads while people […]

Why pay $400 for Microsoft Office when, as an individual, you can get the same functionality for free?
Good question according to the co-creator of Hotmail.
It’s invitation only at this point and you can request one at Live-Documents.com 
Though there are already online tools like Google Docs, this promises the SAME “feel” and functionality of Microsoft Office.
Plus, […]

It’s not just home businesses that are trying to cut corners. “Name brand” software  as you know is incredibly expensive… that’s why Bill Gates is rich of course. Forbes.com ran an article on using open source software to cut down on expenses.
One of the software packages they mention is Open Office  which is a free […]

I really like the cool list of portable applications towards the middle of the page!
From WIRED
Even the lightest laptops won’t fit in your pocket. But these days, you don’t need to lug around an entire computer just to get some work done. In fact, you can carry your entire PC desktop on a USB […]