Here’s a pair of items about Wi-Fi access: – Milwaukee Wi-Fi provider ready to start building network (WI Technology Network) – “Installation work on Milwaukee’s Wi-Fi network could begin in a matter of weeks, representatives …
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Not Worried by Wireless Piggybackers? Think Again
Yesterday’s Wisconsin State Journal had an interesting article about piggybacking whereby computer users use someone else’s unprotected wireless Internet connections. For the most part, piggybackers don’t consider the practice stealing. And most piggybackees weren’t too …
Skype, P2P Internet Telephony (VoIP) Network, Offering 10 Minutes of Skype Credit Today
Do you Skype? Skype (rhymes with “type”) is a proprietary peer-to-peer Internet telephony (VoIP) network. Basically, it allows you to call people for free using your computer to connect to theirs. SkypeOut is a paid …
Your Very Own E-Nagging Service
In any relationship there is a fine line between reminding and nagging. When does too much of the former turn into the latter? Are you once, twice, three times a nagger? I’m sure that my …
Send a Voice Recording via Outlook
From inter allia: Have a long message to send to someone, and just don’t feel like typing it? Enter WaxMail, a program that records your message in MP3 format and then attaches it to an …
Chat Comes to Gmail
Some Gmail (Google email) users now have access to nifty new tool – an embedded chat client. Unfortunately, it hasn’t made its way to my Gmail account just yet. But, according to SearchEngineWatch, it’s pretty …
AOL & Yahoo to Charge for Bypassing Spam Filters
From the New York Times: America Online and Yahoo, two of the world’s largest providers of e-mail accounts, are about to start using a system that gives preferential treatment to messages from companies that pay …