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Month: April 2010 (page 2 of 3)

Measure the Intelligence of Your Twitter Followers

stupid fight thumbnail How smart are your Twitter followers?  How do your followers stack up against the followers of other Twitter users out there?  Fret and worry no longer, for now you can learn the answers to these important questions, using Stupid Fight.  Stupid Fight is a website that allows you to input two Twitter usernames, and compare the "intelligence" of the followers of those users.

If you haven’t noticed already, my tongue is firmly in cheek while writing this post.  Stupid Fight is a real site, though, so read on to learn a bit more about it, and how it measures the intelligence of a Twitter follower.

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How to Use Your Scanner as a Fax Machine

ringcentral Do you want to be able to send faxes from home, without having to install another phone line, or share your current line?  How would you like to be able to receive faxes anywhere that you have an internet connection?  Or how about sending a fax via email?  That is all possible now, using online fax services.  The online fax service I’ve been using is RingCentral, an internet telephone service that also offers faxing.

Why RingCentral?  After a couple of years of coping with the flakiness of fax over VOIP, I decided I wanted a solution that was more reliable. I also needed a solution that was simple, since I wouldn’t be the only one using it.  RingCentral’s price was right, too, compared to other online fax services.  Read on for my impressions of RingCental, and an explanation of how I I set up RingCentral’s fax service, so that I could easily use my Fujitsu ScanSnap S300 and my computer to send faxes.  If you want to print faxes, you’ll also need a printer. Read more


Opera Mini for iPhone: First Impressions

Opera Mini for iPhone | First Impressions | 40Tech When I heard, yesterday, that Apple had approved the Opera Mini browser for iPhone, I was a bit more than surprised — I was shocked. Apple’s track record in rejecting any app that might interfere with their business plans or control over their userbase seemed to scream that there was absolutely no way they would let a competitor browser into their little empire. It was an exciting prospect: a blazingly fast, low data-impact, full-featured browser? With features that Mobile Safari is painfully lacking like on-page search? Oh I had to see this for myself! In my testing, I discovered a lot of cool features — unfortunately, though, I came away from my first few runs of Opera Mini more than a bit disappointed.

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5 Diverse Options for Your Browser Start Page

desktop firefox addon preview Your browser start page, also known as your Home Page, is a launching pad of sorts.  The first page that you see when you open your web browser, your start page can impact your browsing session in a couple of ways.  First, the type of page you use as your start page can impact the speed with which your browser starts.  Your choice of a start page also affects how quickly you get down to business even after your browser is open, as it can help you access other content faster.  With those two sometimes competing interests in mind, let’s take a look at five types of browser start pages.

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What’s On My iPhone — Part 3

What's On My iPhone Part 3 | 40Tech Following up on the first and second what’s on my iPhone posts, I continue my micro-reviews of my rapidly expanding app list, proving that my app addiction knows know boundaries. I have no idea how the fact that iPhone OS4 will allow some 2160 apps on the iPhone will affect me. My wife may steal the thing and hide it on me… In any case, this instalment will feature my Reading-for-Entertainment, General Info-Gathering, Alternative Communications (as in: I don’t use them very often), and Other-Stuff-I-Use-But-Not-a-Lot iPhone apps. Micro-reviews, all – enjoy!

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