The February 1st issue of eWeek magazine has an article that discusses the 25 technologies that have changed the way we work, play, and live. I’m not going to re-type the entire article, but how many of these do you remember? 1. 3G Broadband 2. 802.11g 3. AJAX 4. Amazon Elastic Clompute Cloud 5. AMD64 6. BlackBerry 7. Blade Servers 8. Bluetooth 9. FireFox 10. Gmail/ Google Apps 11. iPhone/ iPod 12....

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Most cell phone carriers have a way to send an image to their customers. Use the following email address formats: Alltel – number@message.alltel.com AT & T – number@mms.att.net Bell Mobility (Canada) – number@1x.ball.ca Boost Mobile – number@boostmobile.com Cingular – number@mms.mycingular.com Fido (Canada) – number@fido.net Rogers Wireless (Canada) –...

Do you need to resize your images into Avatars or just make them more web friendly for your website? Don’t have Photoshop or don’t want to mess around Photoshop Elements? Try http://shrinkpictures.com.  They let you select any image up to 6 Megabytes in size – then select basic re-size options and Viola! a resized image ready to go. There are many utilities on-line today that perform...

Probably NOT! AbeBooks Weird Book Room has 101 titles in it. Most of these would not make it to the gift list for ourselves, our friends, or our relatives.  On the other hand… Well, you can judges for yourself. Check out the Weird Book Room for yourself!

I’m not sure anybody really knows that answer, but there is a website called KnowEm.com that will not only give you categorized links to 350 of them, you can check you user name and/ or register on them as well. Go check this out, you might just find something new and very useful to you… I did.

I just found clicker.com. This new site brings together a huge variety of Internet based Movie and TV sources underneath a unified interface. You can search movies, TV shows, music videos, and webisodes all from one place. You can even create play lists, so you can go back and watch content you’ve located at a later time. No longer do you have to use any number of Favorites or Bookmarks from...

Over the summer it dawned on me that my wife and I watch about 60 hours of television programming a month.  A privilege which costs us about $100 per month. In our case that $100 included an High Definition signal, and a DVR (rented from the cable company). After a little research, I replaced all of that with a used Mac mini computer, an Elgato Eye TV 250 plus tuner, a set of Bose Companion speakers,...

The FreeCycle Network keeps track of local free-exchange groups whose goal is to keep your used stuff out of the landfills. You can get rid of your unsed stuff and get some more stuff that you might not use! Not a bad deal if you ask me.

Swap Your Books Instead of Buying I came across a reference to BookMooch. It’s a book-bartering system that enables you to give away your unused books for points and then “mooch” a book from someone else. This is defiantly worth a look.