With Skype now allowing free calling out to all locations in the US and Canada, you could save a ton of money your high speed Internet connection and Skype’s VoIP technology.
With this little gizmo, you can turn existing home phones into Internet phones allowing you to now call out for free to land lines in US and Canada and worldwide with other Skype users. Create a virtual second line using Skype and this VoIP Stick.
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A new consumer device, called the Spam Cube, claims to stop 96 – 99% of spam regardless of your computer platform or the type of e-mail you use, and it plugs right into your home network. Oh yeah, and it works without a subscription. Now my interest is piqued. Works without a subscription, without updates? As a sys admin who has worked with SpamAssassin, the Open Source community’s venerable spam tagger, I’m really curious. What sort of magic algorithms is this little company using? Will it still work well in a few years, or even 6 months? The war between spam and spam-recognition has been something of an arms race or of escalation. Everytime you think you’ve contained 99% of it, spammers seem to come up with a new method to avoid your spam-blockers. So how does Spam Cube do it? I really have to try this to believe it, but at $150 a pop, I’m not about to shell out that much for it. So far, Gmail does enough of a decent job for me not to worry about more than 5 spams per day.
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Are you having issues with your wireless working in all areas of your house? You can use the coax cable run throughout your house to help distribute your 802.11b/g signals for better connectivity throughout your entire house. Read on to see how this nifty gizmo works.
Two days in a row we’ve now featured gizmos that better utilize infrastructure wiring (power and network over Ethernet and now extended 802.11b/g coverage using exisiting coax cables. Again, I’m still waiting for Power Over Wireless…
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Wouldn’t it be great to just have to worry about either power or ethernet connections rather than having to worry about both? D-Link’s Power Over Ethernet Adapter allows you to provide power to an ethernet device over the same ethernet cable. For example, let’s say you want to add an IP camera to the babies room, you only need to worry about having an ethernet connection in the room. Of course, you could go the other route and get a wireless camera, but wired solutions are always more predictable.
Now I’m just waiting on the technology for Power Over Wireless!
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2006 is shaping up to be a “dog” of a year at best for Google.
The year started with a bust for Google when their much anticipated announcement at CES turned out just to be a pack of software readily available via the Internet. Google Pack does gather all the software in one place and now apparently the Google Windows applications are coming to Linux.
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ExtraLabs Software unveils Feed Editor 3.4, a fully-fledged RSS editor that offers you an easy way to create and maintain RSS feeds and podcasts, now with 50% off the regular price
ExtraLabs Software today announces the release of Feed Editor 3.4. Designed for the Windows OS, this application enables you to create, edit and publish RSS feeds and podcasts surprisingly fast and easy. Compared to other RSS editors in its category, Feed Editor combines an unprecedented number of features, including a support for various RSS formats, a podcasting support, a WYSIWYG HTML editor, an XML editor, an RSS Feed preview, an FTP upload and publishing, automatic date management, and an ability to convert CSV or HTML to RSS and back and others. All this is delivered in an intuitively transparent user interface that has been meticulously written in collaboration with usability groups and real end users.
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As much technology as we have access to in the States, sometimes we fall way behind our counterparts in Europe and Japan. Take for example, the rollout of 24Mbps broadband in the UK by BE Un limited for only £24/month which is roughly US $42 at today’s exchange rates. You can get a package that limits you to 1GB of downloads for £14/month. This broadband technology is based on ADSL2+ which runs over the same copper wires to your home that you use for your existing DSL and/or phone line. Currently, I pay approximately US $50 for a 768kbps DSL line. Obviously I’d pay $42 for 24Mbps!
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New York and Los Angeles, Jan. 24, 2006 – – The JuiceCasterâ„¢ Network (http://www.juicecaster.com) – the world’s first Personal Broadcast Network – is launched today by Juice Wireless – an award winning creator of interactive mobile applications. JuiceCasterâ„¢ enables any consumer to quickly and easily create, distribute, and access original multi-media content – called JuiceCasts – including text, pictures, audio and/or video, from virtually any digital device, from PCs to cell phones, iPods and more. The JuiceCaster Network integrates the JuiceCaster functionality on a large range of content driven web sites, so that any user on any web site in the network can easily find and experience any JuiceCast created by any other user on any other site in the JuiceCaster Network.
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With the holiday season and my trip to CES, I was a little – ok, a lot – behind on my blog intake. I just caught this on the Google Blog – a new feature in your Personalized Search – Trends. This is neat; it shows your top searches, the top sites you visited, and the top clicks, along with bar charts showing numbers over time, and related searches. In case you don’t know about Google’s Personalized Search, here it is in a nutshell: get an account with Google and they will keep track of your searches; you can then login to the Personalized Search page to see your past searches. From there, you can click on Trends, or go straight to it using this link.
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Wired and Wireless Models in 160GB, 250GB and Add-Your-Own-Drive Configurations
SUNNYVALE, CA (December 19, 2005) ‹ Actiontec Electronics today announced a new family of wired and wireless Network Attached Storage (NAS) appliances designed to simplify rich media access on home networks. The new Actiontec Network Attached Storage and Wireless Network Attached Storage devices enable video, music, gaming, photo and data files from multiple PCs and premium Internet multimedia services to be loaded onto and retrieved directly from the appliance, eliminating complex file share setup procedures as well as the need to keep home computers running to make files available 24×7.
Once loaded, the files are always accessible to any PC or networked digital set-top box in the home, without having to keep any computer always powered.
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