November 2010

GOOG-411 Dies With The Rise Of The Social Consumer

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Directory assistance is going extinct like the phone book.  How we search for businesses has changed dramatically in the past few years as consumers are becoming more social. GOOG-411 shut down on November 12th.  It was a free, voice-activated directory-assistance service. Call the number and say the business name or category along with the city and [...]

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Square For The iPhone. Easily Accept Credit Card Payments With Your Phone

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Square is an application that allows anyone to easily accept credit card payments.  Square works with the iPhone, iPad, and Android phones. Quickly and securely accept card and cash payments for your business, service, charity – even to sell your couch. A free Square card reader makes payments even faster. Generate email receipts. With Square [...]

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Google Voice iPhone App vs HTML5 Web App

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Apple has approved the Google Voice iPhone app.  This is great news for iPhone users because you can now receive push notifications for text and voicemail messages. Apple had previously rejected the iPhone app becuase they said is was too similar to the functionality of the iPhone’s built in calling system.  That didn’t stop Google [...]

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2011 Will Be The Year Of The Tablet. 15 Alternatives To The iPad.

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Apple’s iPad has not had much competition until now.  That is starting to change.  Everyone from KMart to BestBuy is entering tablet computer market. An army of new tablet and slate PCs are hitting the market.  Not all of these machines will compete head-to-head with Apple’s iPad but all are trying to get a piece [...]

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10 Google Chrome Extensions To Make Screenshots

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Google Chrome Extensions let you add extra features and functionality to Google Chrome.  There are extensions for just about everything from stopping Facebook from tracking the webpages you go to (Facebook Disconnect),  getting notified of new Google Voice Messges (Google Voice), to finding new movies to watch (Flixster Movies).  You can customize Chrome with the [...]

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How To Make And Receive Phone Calls On Your Desktop With Google Voice

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Google Voice provides you with a single phone number that you can give out to friends, family, and colleagues.  That one number can ring all of your various phone lines (home phone, cell phone, work phone) at the same time.  This allows your to take incoming calls on whichever device is most convenient to you. [...]

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Box.net Now Offers 5 Free Gigs Of Cloud Storage

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Box.net now gives users 5 free gigs of storage, up from 1 GB.    This is enough space to store 328 appraisal files or 500 real estate photos.  This assumes that your appraisal files are around 3200 KB each and that your photos are 4 megapixels.  You would be able to store around 285 photos is [...]

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