August 7, 2010
VoIP, or voice over IP, can save you a lot of money. Services like Skype offer free calls overseas to other computers and really cheap rates to overseas phones. That’s all well and good, but frequently using such services results in complaints on the other end about poor VoIP audio quality. If you find yourself [...]
September 7, 2009
Although Google Wave has got a lot of media attention, here’s the executive overview if you’ve missed the beat. Google Wave is both a communication and computing platform developed as a replacement to a whole array of web-based services: email, IM, wiki, social networking. One of its most important features is the seamless integration of [...]
August 18, 2009
As a writer who publishes primarily on the Internet, I find myself in need of an easy method to conduct interviews almost every month. Most of the time the interviewee is perfectly content to answer my questions through email, which saves me a lot of time and effort. However, there are times when the person [...]
May 12, 2009
Everyone ought to record their incoming and outgoing calls, as well as keep chat logs. Why should we let homeland security have all the fun? This should be done for the same reasons as keeping letters, even though they’re a dying practice. Two main reasons, actually. The first one is emotional, as a keepsake. There [...]
March 23, 2009
Gizmo5 provides a free service much like Skype, that allows you to make free PC-to-PC calls. In addition to providing many of the great things that Skype provides (free PC-to-PC calls, instant messaging, regular phone calls with great rates, etc), Gizmo5 provides an instant conference calling service. You don’t need a Gizmo5 account to use [...]
January 1, 2009
File-sharing is a complicated beast. Some files are too big to send in emails; some need to be seen by a lot of people; some need to be private; some should be public. There are a ton of different applications that want to be the host for all of your files, but drop.io stands ahead [...]
June 13, 2008
Acrobat.com is a collection of web applications from Adobe which includes lots of cool features. Acrobat.com claims to offer the first real online word processor, web based file sharing and storage, ability to create PDF’s, online screen sharing and web conferencing. Lets take a look at all of these one by one, shall we? 1. [...]
January 14, 2008
Another quick guide from MakeUseOf, this time it’s on group calling and conference apps. The ones that are simple, quick to setup, free, and probably something you would want to use. What do you get? Make instant calls to a group of friends, video chat with play mates, schedule conference calls with colleagues, live brainstorming [...]
December 20, 2007
Let’s face it, the 2 main constants in the working world are Blackberries when it comes to mobile and Microsoft Outlook when it comes to stationary. With Flock taking over the Social world for the browsers, Outlook support is getting rather social too. Here I want to go over a bunch of useful Outlook add-ons [...]
June 14, 2007
From basic all-accessible (students, PR folks, etc) multi-person live brainstorming dashboards TO feature-rich, techy diagram creation tools. Basic Mind-Mapping Tools (1) ImaginationCubed – awesome looking, simple to use, live brainstorming tool. Invite your partner and share single dashboard to create mind maps. Draw, add objects, type, etc. (click to enlarge) Features: Demo live collaboration send [...]
