For those of you at the meeting two weeks ago I mentioned a beta service at Google called Google Voice. Since that meeting it has opened up and received an update from David Pogue at the NYT.In short, Google makes phone numbers available to forward calls and voicemail to your phones, home, business, cell, whatever. … Continue reading Google Voice Update
Windows 7 RC vs. Ubuntu 9.04
This week's meeting is not our normal presentation night, that would be the second week of the month. But your group president experienced a laptop loss due to his cat's getting spooked and kicking it off a table. So after making a purchase from Craigslist.com and finding the operating system was pirated I wiped it … Continue reading Windows 7 RC vs. Ubuntu 9.04
Face to Face with Facebook
The plan is to share experiences with Facebook's social networking site. Stats suggest 100 million folks log in to Facebook every day!WHY!For those of us who still enjoy real time sharing, in person, LIVE, we're going to look at this phenomenon and see what we can do to use it or not miss it.Everyone is welcome. … Continue reading Face to Face with Facebook
Bing vs. Google
Bing & Google :: Add-ons for FirefoxMicrosoft is now offering some competition to Google search with its new Bing.com website. In the interest of studying them both I wanted to give Bing a try. My browser, Firefox, has a search field in its upper right which you can add search sites of your choice. But … Continue reading Bing vs. Google
No Meeting on Memorial Day
Let's spend Monday celebrating and remembering all that made this country great.United we stand.We can meet at the cafe again next week.
Dropbox – Easy Network file sharing
Dropbox: Now Effortlessly Syncing Files For 1 Million MembersTechcrunch now confirms the value of a program/service I have spoken about at our meetings. Dropbox just surpassed one million users this past month and is planning to offer peer to peer sharing for offices.If you are looking for a simple way to share files on several … Continue reading Dropbox – Easy Network file sharing
Dropbox – 2 gigs Useful sharing still free
Dropbox - Home - Secure backup, sync and sharing made easy. I've been missing our meetings while laying on my back recovering and one thing I found that made my time alone useful was this program , Dropbox.This is a file sharing program that will install on Windows, Mac, or Linux operating systems. Then by … Continue reading Dropbox – 2 gigs Useful sharing still free
Online DimDim meeting tonight?
Image via WikipediaWhether you can get to the Aquilla & Priscilla's cafe tonight or not I will host an online meeting using DimDim.com's conferencing service.I would rather be with you at the cafe tonight but I am down with a back injury so I need o stay horizontal tonight. I still invite you to go … Continue reading Online DimDim meeting tonight?
DimDim.com Conference
Dimdim: Web conferencing that just works!We just finished a meeting both at the cafe and online, with DimDim 4.5I hurt a nerve last week and still can't walk very well so I logged into DimDim.com from home and started a meeting with this online conferencing site.There are quite a few services like this but most … Continue reading DimDim.com Conference
Lastpass.com Password Storage
I have long wanted to get my wife to quit using the old Gator (Clarion) password keeper that I (and others) consider spyware.There are a number of Open Source products that just don't seem as convenient as Gator and Roboform works great but costs $30.So I came across Lastpass recently and have begun researching it. … Continue reading Lastpass.com Password Storage