Archive for the 'communication' Category

Task List coming in Google Calendar?

Monday, May 15th, 2006

downloadsquad point out the news that a task list is likely to be coming soon to google calendar.
Garett Rogers over at Googling Google discovered a few weeks ago that there is some dormant code in Google Calendar that appears to have only one possible use: completable events, otherwise known as tasks. For me, this is […]

speedfiler

Wednesday, March 29th, 2006

Download squad has pointed out an interesting application for those of you who use Microsoft Outlook for your email. If I decide to move back to Outlook then I might give this application a try but for now I will stick with gmail.
“The last couple of days I’ve been testing a new, tiny application called […]

firefox tips and tricks

Sunday, March 26th, 2006

Chris Prillo has given a heads up to a ebook over the blog firefox facts.
“There are many different aspects to Mozilla’s Firefox, do you know about them all?
Firefox Facts is the definitive guide when it comes to using the world’s most famous alternative browser. Inside the pages of this eBook you will get tips and […]

del.icio.us implements private bookmarks

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

The del.icio.us blog points out that del.icio.us the link sharing web site now allows you to save links that are private. Could be handy! Particularly as the geekyinfo daily links are generated automatically from del.icio.us – so, now if I want to save a link that is not of a geek nature then I can […]

turn a regular phone into a skype phone

Friday, March 17th, 2006

gizmodo has a post about a USRobotics adaptor that will allow you to turn a regular phone into skype phone.
“Imagine a world where you can use the same phone to make both regular calls and Skype calls. Does such a world even exist? Thanks to USRobitics and their recently announced USR809620 it sure does. It’s […]

windows live messenger beta

Wednesday, March 15th, 2006

Microsoft has opened up the windows live messenger beta. I have been using it for some time and quite like it but what is weird is that I thought the original beta gui look was much better.
“Be the first to trial Windows LiveTM Messenger
The new Windows LiveTM Messenger Beta is the next-generation MSN Messenger and, […]

foldera

Friday, March 3rd, 2006

Marc Orchant has posted about the forthcoming foldera – an online organizational tool that looks very promising.
“I read this morning that Foldera, an online organizational tool that virtually no one has seen, has already had 400,000 people sign up for access to the public beta whenever it is finally made available. That’s a remarkable number […]

gmail return address

Saturday, February 25th, 2006

Lifehacker points out an article from Zdnet that mentions that google have upgraded gmail with an incredibly handy feature – that of being able to set your reply email address as the same as the one that it was sent to.
This is an absolute godsend to me who manages a number of email address – […]

gmail skins

Saturday, February 25th, 2006

I have just moved to using gmail as my perfered email client after resisting moving to a web based email client for so long. But, Gmail just works. It is particularly handy for those on a notebook – no more messing around with smtp servers depending on where you are!
If you too have moved over […]

Skype 2.0 for Mac Intel-Only

Sunday, February 12th, 2006

The Mac Observer has an interesting report on how the new version of skype will only be supported on the new intel based Mac’s. I wonder if this is a sign of things to come. Will more and more applications start to write only for the intel based mac’s. Make sense I guess from an […]