By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] June 30th 2008 was the day that Microsoft officially pulled the rug out from under Windows XP. It was the day that the OS was given its gold watch, its long service medal and told to sod off and retire because it was hogging Vista’s limelight. But as this […]
By Mark O’Neill
Contributing Writer, [GAS]
With Twitter’s downtimes becoming less and less of a joke, lots of people are migrating to Friendfriend. I’ve been at Friendfeed for quite a while now but the site suffers from the same problem that most aggregation services suffer from – excessive noise.
No, I don’t mean Led Zeppelin being played at full volume or the screams of passionate love making. What I mean is lots of duplicate entries cluttering up the page – yes, that kind of noise! This can be a big problem if you’re on Friendfeed and you’re following several hundred people. If someone posts the same link several times, it can be enough to get you unsubscribed – and it’s easy to do. If you digg a link, then stumble it, then add it to your Delicious account, then talk about it on Twitter, then blog about it….there’s 5 identical links right there.
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] Now that Firefox supports bookmarks with tagging, you can now import copies of your Delicious links back into your browser with the help of this importing tool. It’s very easy – in fact, once you’ve made backup copies of your Delicious and Firefox bookmarks, putting it all together is […]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] I’m sure you’ve all been in this particular nightmarish situation. You get up in the morning, and as soon as your brain wakes up, a tune begins in your head. What is the name of that tune? Where does it come from? Why the HELL does it not go […]
By Mark O’Neill
Contributing Writer, [GAS]
Here’s one for all you wordy blowhards out there who go totally nuts at Twitter’s 140 character limit, yep all you people that think that Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” is just a bit of casual light reading for a Sunday afternoon.
If you absolutely love to write on and on without any kind of restraint whatsoever, you now can! TinyPaste will give you a free text box in which to write your huge masterpiece unhindered and without any character limits. You can then post it online wherever you want.
By JR Raphael Contributing Writer, [GAS] The road trip is about to be revolutionized. Chrysler has just introduced an in-car WiFi system that’ll let you surf the net while on the go. Uconnect Web — unveiled at a company event in Detroit today — will be available for all Chrysler, Jeep, and Dodge models by […]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] When Google revised the PageRanks recently, my blog got bumped up to a 6 and that has got me thinking about starting to sell some advertising space. But if I was being truthful with myself for a moment, I would admit that I am a really lazy person sometimes. The idea […]
By JR Raphael Contributing Writer, [GAS] Gmail is taking new steps toward becoming a large-scale client solution. In what’s billed as one of the world’s largest Gmail rollouts ever conducted, an Australian school system is dumping its Outlook setup in lieu of a completely Gmail-based e-mail system for its 1.3 million students. The transition — […]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] While idly browsing online today (as one often does on a Sunday afternoon), I had a look at the options on the new Stumbleupon toolbar for Firefox 3 to see if anything new was there. I was intrigued to discover this: It turns out that you can export ALL of […]
By Mark O’Neill
Contributing Writer, [GAS]
I have always been a bit of a sucker for new toys and gadgets, especially ones on the internet and Twitterfone is now officially “my new toy”. The invite code has been sitting in the wreckage that is called my email inbox for the past couple of weeks now and it was only today that I finally got around to activating the code and seeing what Twitterfone was all about. As soon as I did so, I got that gleam in my eye and my girlfriend said to her friend who was around, “uh, oh, I know that look…..I’ll never get Mark off the computer now!”
So what is Twitterfone all about?