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
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
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
Enjoying the new location
We had our first gathering at Aquila's and Priscilla's last Monday and some of us will be there again tonight. We decided to only reserve the meeting room for presentations and since we don't have one tonight, we'll just sit socially.I would like to begin opening to folks who would just join us online while … Continue reading Enjoying the new location
EPCUG on Facebook
Most of our members are of the "Older" persuasion and so we are not as involved in the Social Network scene all the kids. But maybe we should give it another look. We now have an EPCUG Facebook group where we can share our calendar, news and a Forum with Facebook members as well as … Continue reading EPCUG on Facebook