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mGinger – Earn money reading ads on your mobile

mGinger – Earn money reading ads on your mobile
mGinger is a new concept in the advertising world. You get paid for reading sms ads on your mobile phone. Well I know it sounds too good to be true. But if you study the concept and give it some thought you will begin to realise that it can really work. How does mGinger work? [...]
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31st May 2007 is Google Developer Day

31st May 2007 is Google Developer Day
Last month Google announced what will likely become an annual event – a Google Developer Day that will take place in 10 cities around the world on May 31st. Bret Taylor, Group Product Manager for all of Google’s developer products shares with Ed Burnette of ZdNet a preview of what the Developer Day will be [...]
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Gmail doubles maximum attachment size to 20MB

Gmail doubles maximum attachment size to 20MB
Gmail has recently doubled the maximum size of attachments to a mail from 10MB to 20MB. This is definitely good news. But you need to remember that if your recipient is using a service that does not allow such large mails then there might be problems. So it would be safe to send to other [...]
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Sugarcodes – Makes searching the web easier

Sugarcodes – Makes searching the web easier
Google is great for searching the web for any kind of information and the Google greatness of the Google interface is in it’s simplicity. But sometimes we do not want to search the whole web. We may want to search only a particular website for that special information. For example you may want to check [...]
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Sputtr – makes your web search fast and easy

Sputtr – makes your web search fast and easy
Sputtr is a new and convenient way to search the web. It is not a search engine by itself. It is actually built from a collection of search engines and all the social sites that are out there. It lets you find things faster and only from places you want. Apart from Google and Yahoo, [...]
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Where do people carry their mobile phones?

Where do people carry their mobile phones?
Nokia has been conducting street surveys between 2003 and 2006 on where people carry their mobile phones and why. Over the period more than 1500 people from over 10 cities have been interviewed. The main purpose of the survey was to find out the relationship between missing calls and where the phone is carried. The [...]
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Low Tech job ‘portal’ helps people find job

Low Tech job ‘portal’ helps people find job
The other day I found this box (what you see above) right in front of our office. It is a very simple and practical way to help people find jobs. You’ll find a book of resume forms. Anyone looking for a job has to just fill in their resume and drop it into the box. [...]
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DQ links for April 11, 2007

Web Applications skrbl.com – An online whiteboard. Write notes, draw, upload pictures, share files. Collaborate with friends on the same screen. Talkr.com – Audio chat instantly. Tweeto.com – An online task manager. Add tags to tasks, color label tasks and track active/completed tasks through RSS feeds. Software Coolexon Dictionary – 60 Languages in a 3MB [...]
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Peepel joins the online office suite race

Peepel joins the online office suite race
Peepel is the latest entrant in the online office suite race which already includes players like Google, Zoho, Thinkfree etc. The first thing that strikes you when you see the interface is the web 2.0 ‘ish’ look compared to the more formal looking Zoho or Thinkfree office suites. Peepel office suite basically has a spreadsheet [...]
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Microsoft unveils new technology for mobile browsing

Microsoft unveils new technology for mobile browsing
Microsoft recently unveiled a new mobile technology, called Deepfish, designed to offer mobile users quick and convenient Web browsing that more closely resembles the experience of browsing the Web on desktop computers. Dr. Gary William Flake, a Microsoft Technical Fellow and the founder and director of Microsoft Live Labs says; Deepfish provides users with a [...]
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Cricinfo 3D – Live Animated Cricket on the Web

Cricinfo 3D – Live Animated Cricket on the Web
If you are a cricket lover you would definitely have heard about Cricinfo.com – a great web site to get the latest scores, textual commentary and a lot of good info about cricket in general. And now, Cricinfo has added a revolutionary new way of following a match near live on your computer called cricinfo3D. [...]
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Can Windows Vista activation be postponed indefinitely?

In an earlier post, I had written about how you can continue to use Windows Vista without activation upto 120 days. But now it looks like that 120 days can become 360 days or even indefinite. And unbelievably, you can do it with just a little tweak to the Registry. This workaround was discovered by [...]
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A $10 pan works as good as a $20,000 Satellite Dish

A $10 pan works as good as a $20,000 Satellite Dish
Why pay $20,000 for a commercial link to run your television station when a $10 kitchen wok from the Warehouse is just as effective? This is exactly how North Otago’s(New Zealand) newest television station 45 South is transmitting its signal from its studio to the top of Cape Wanbrow, in a bid to keep costs [...]
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Voice-Mail-To-Text Now Available For Skype Users

Voice-Mail-To-Text Now Available For Skype Users
Skype users can now have their voice mail messages delivered to their e-mail and SMS addresses through a voice-mail-to-text service offered by SimulScribe. Utilizing its proprietary voice-recognition algorithms that transcribe voice mail to text, the service works with wireless, networked, and voice-over-IP services. SimulSribe has recently extended its service to Skype users too. The system’s [...]
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