Geeky Info

Google Calendar looks like it has finally been released. After much rumours it is here.
Have a play yourself and enjoy.
Google Calendar here

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 […]

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 […]

Ed Bott a while ago now wrote an article that I am linking up as I think it is worth bookmarking for future use. It is an article of some of things you should consider in setting up a new PC and transfering your files and settings to the new computer.
This article is for a […]

Well, here is a cool program for the mac. It allows you to access your delicious bookmarks quickly and easily by the mac menu. As a big user of delicious that is very nice. The geekyinfo daily links come from delicious.
“Delibar is a Delicious client, it will be store all your bookmarks in the […]

The web apps scene is certainly hot at the moment. Google the all-conquering web company has confirmed that the rumoured Gdrive is just around the corner. I am surprised they have not done this sooner. Seemed a logical step.
“With infinite storage, we can house all user files, including: emails, web history, pictures, bookmarks, etc and […]

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 […]

A friend of mine emailed me details about his home theatre pc project a couple of days ago and I thought it was worth sharing for those of you who are thinking of setting up a computer for your own music, video use on your TV.
Hardware: I had 2 leftover Athlon XP 1900+ (2.2GHz thoroughbred […]

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 […]

Josh’s Windows Weblog gives the heads up on the new Microsoft Windows Defender (Beta 2) for Windows XP
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Specific features of Windows Defender Beta 2 include:

A redesigned and simplified user interface – Incorporating feedback from our customers, the Windows Defender UI has been redesigned to make common tasks easier to accomplish with a warning system that […]