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Hot Apps: JAJAH For Phone-To-Phone VoIP

Regular reader Pat sent along this article from Small Business Pipeline: Throw away your long-distance telephone bills and computer headsets. Well, almost. I’ve looked at computer telephony services in recent years, and the just-released update from upstart JAJAH is my personal choice. It’s incredibly easy to use: enter phone numbers for you and your destination, …

Keeping track of your money

No, I’m not talking about budgeting. I’m talking about tracking where your money goes. Literally, where has it travelled. This site has been around for 7-8 years now, but I just learned about it the other day. If you visit Where’s George, you can enter the details of your money, and see if it is …

Writely – The Web Word Processor

Back in March Google purchased Writely, an web-based word processor. When I first heard about it I went to the website and filled out the form to be notified when I could register. I still haven’t heard anything yet. But Chris learned that if you have a Writely account and then add someone as a …

BreakTheChain.org – Stop Junk E-Mail and Misinformation

Found on the Office Tips and Hints Blog… I’ve mentioned the Museum of Hoaxes before, and most people are familiar with Snopes.com (the Urban Legends Reference Pages). I just learned about a similar site that specifically tries to debunk chain letters: BreakTheChain.org is your source for common-sense evaluations of e-mail chain letters, helpful tips and …

Make your GMail Signature For Free

I think I’ve mentioned something similar to this before, yet I couldn’t find it, so here it is. The site has 3 images to choose from. You enter what your username is, and it puts it in the image for you. This displays your email address, but hides it from email harvestors (or spambots). Make …

Online SiGGy Maker

User Bars:These are the so called User bars 🙂 , you can use them as your email or forum signature, it also helps in hiding ID’s from spambots. Have you been on a blog or bulletin board web site and noticed users who have nice graphics as part of their “signature”? Well, GFXedit.com has a …

Free Printable Coloring Pages

I found this at FreeAfterRebate.info… If you have small children or work with small children, then you should check out FreePrintableColoringPages.net. They claim to have over 1,800 pages to download and print. The pages are in categories and all seem to be in PNG format. Even if you have children that are a little older, …

Computer books based on pictures, not text. Free.

FREE DOWNLOADS! For a limited time, In Pictures books can be downloaded for free. We think the best way to promote them is to let people try them. If you like them, spread the word! Learn with pictures, not words. In Pictures computer how-to books are based on pictures, not text. Most computer books contain …

Animator vs. Animation

I normally don’t pass along stuff like this, but this is simply amazing. Someone has made a flash animation of a cursor drawing a stick figure in an image editing program. The stick figure comes to live and fights the cursor. It’s very well done! I won’t give away who wins. Check out Animator vs. …

DeathForecast.com

I read about this at CNet. Deathforecast.com has a several questions you need to answer and it then tells you when you will die: Find out when you will die. Our death forecast estaimes your date of death based on questions that we ask you. I tried it and it says I will live until …