Archive for the 'Technology' Category

Skype got it’s start, in a way, from the work at home business community. After all it was promoted to link Ebay buyers and sellers. Lots of us use it for a low cost VOIP solution. Computer to computer, the calls are free. But some people just don’t like it. They think it attracts viruses [...]

This is cool. A web designer had to work at home because of a sick child. Here name brand cable internet is down. She can’t work. She goes through the voice mail jungle and gets no help. She can’t work. Customers can’t contact her. So she uses her Blackberry to log on to Twitter, leaves [...]

You can see why here… which came from here… This is from the Olympics in Bejing reportedly. It’s a great reason to make sure you are using a human editor when trying to communicate to people who speak a different language! Human translators- use this picture in your marketing!

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]