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I want one of those! At CTIA Wireless 2007 I got to play with it a little, just a few minutes though.
Trusted sources tell me that: 1. the battery life is about 1 day with moderate use of all features, 2. the software is still fairly buggy.
Here is a full review.
You can buy a SIM-free [...]
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At the moment I can see these services being of use when on the move:
The Cloud
FON
T-Mobile Hotspots
BT Openzone
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Finally regular TV is (more or less) properly ported to the Internet. And even better, it is fully on demand. It is ad-funded but the ads are short and only one per interruption as opposed to a 5 minute commercials break.
http://joost.com/
The beta was launched on Saturday 14th April 2007. A beta is a beta so [...]
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This tool makes it easy for me to keep track of my encounters with attempts and successes at decent venues, restaurants, etc.
Google Maps and Google Local combined are very useful tool and the new feature My Maps is especially handy for you can add anything you find in the search quickly and easily to your [...]
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Big kudos to EMC for putting this very rich list of state-of-the art web tools together!
Now, when will I have time to check all these out??
http://emcons.net/blog/index.php/2006/12/17/so-much-for-20/
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Look no further:
http://www.kayak.co.uk/
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You might already know that JotSpot has been acquired by Google. New registrations are not available while they are migrating to Google.
I can’t wait to see the rich-web wiki functionality that will further enhance Google’s offering. Unlike MediaWiki, JotSpot’s product offers much more functionality including online document and spreadsheet etc.
These features are well known ever [...]
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I finally found a free online WebDAV host for calendars so now instead of publishing your iCal calendar to .mac you can change the setting and publish it (or several, in fact as many as you like) to icalx.com. That’s how simple the migration is. Click the calendar in iCal, in the menu click ‘Calendar’, [...]
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I stumbled across this by accident and find it to be very useful: Google Coop
http://www.google.com/coop/
Essentially this is a composition of three tools:
1; create your own personal search engines (without ads even if you are NFP)
2; get personalised preferred partner related results above all other google search results
3; refine search results
The main problem I spotted [...]
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Everyone knows it, everyone loves it, still for my records:
The best tool for keeping track of all those great internet sites we find and happen to loose if not bookmarked and for all the times when we want to search our bookmarks but can’t because they are on another computer, here is the remedy:
http://del.icio.us/
My bookmarks: [...]
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