While California tech companies frolic in Silicon Valley, New York City does it in its Silicon Alley.
If you’re in town next week, come mingle with the Yawkers at any of the Internet Week events and festivities, which kick off on June 1st. Most of the events are free to attend.
See the Full Schedule of events [...]
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While you’re cruising the aisles at the Big W, you might want to stop by the electronics department and inquire about the rumor Walmart is going to be selling the Apple 4GB iPhone for 99 buckaroos. Then come back and tell me.
Heck, next time I stop by to cash my check, I’ll pick [...]
The Mobile Internet: QR Code Marketing & Life on MARS
Published by October 1st, 2008 in Technology. CommentsThe internet is going mobile — moving from the computer screen to the cell phone screen. QR codes were designed to take advantage of this trend. QR codes are the newest bar codes– point your camera at one and you are connected to a website (or whatever message is encoded, such as a [...]
Firefox Add On: Add to Search Bar Makes for Easier Search
Published by June 7th, 2008 in Firefox, Technology and Tips. CommentsHere are my 3 common ways to get around the net:
I use the Search Bar (located to the right of my browser box) to store search engines like Google, Ask and …ah… well, that’s it for search engines. But what’s really cool is using it to store other sites I commonly search such as [...]
Tazti Speech Recognition Software: Tasty Searching With Your Mouth
Published by May 14th, 2008 in Search and Technology. Comments This post is meant to accomplish 2 things:
1. Tell you about tazti (”tasty”) speech recognition software and how to get it and use it.
2. Show you how video can communicate better than the written word. So, if you’re in a hurry, skip these words and jump to the video….you will be AMAZED.
I posted [...]
Schedule a Free Wake Up Call or Telephone Reminder from Your Computer
Published by April 14th, 2008 in Technology and Tips. CommentsDo you have to get up at a certain time to make that important meeting and don’t trust your mental alarm clock, think the wake-up call guy is out to get you, or that you might forget to set the alarm clock to a.m.? Try Wakerupper.com, a free service you can program online to call [...]
Will Real Estate Go to the Dogs? or The Case for a Metasearch Engine
Published by April 14th, 2008 in Real estate search and Technology. CommentsRealogy just dropped 500,000 of its real estate listings on Trulia. (They will also be feeding their house listings to Zillow, AOL, Google Base, Frontdoor and other real estate portals). Windemere and Prudential have also jumped on the online syndication bandwagon to make their massive databases of home listings available to consumers. [...]
