Archive for the 'Software' Category

SkypeOut now FREE for US & Canada!

Monday, May 15th, 2006

From digg.com

Yes. It is really very, very free. There’s no prepayment, no minimum use, no subscription, no monthly fee, no nothing. You just download and install Skype and then you start calling. Both the caller and the number called must be in either the US or Canada. There are no strings attached.

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Things I’m desperately waiting for

Friday, April 28th, 2006

One downside of the internet is that you can hear about things so far in advance that the anticipation can become just downright annoyance.

SplashpadTake the Splashpad for instance, which allows you to charge your low voltage devices like phones, cameras and PDAs wirelessly. I heard about this beast over a year ago and I’m painfully reminded that it hasn’t released every time the charger on my phone stops working (I’m on my third charger now.

Or how about Allpeers, the forth-coming extension that adds BitTorrent compatability to Firefox (Opera has had this for sometime now, built in).