Recent Posts Tagged With 'web services'

• Is Google working on an official GDrive for cloud storage?

  Posted on Monday January 19th, 2009 at 20:52 in internet, google, Web 2.0, web services, utilities

  Just about everyone with a GMail account likes the sound of apps like GmailDrive and Gspace for Firefox, but some users are hesitant to use them. What if google decides to pull the pin on apps like these? What about my data!? An official GDrive has ...

• Skype 2.8 Beta for Mac brings screensharing and more

  Posted on Thursday January 8th, 2009 at 06:40 in voip, freeware, video, Macintosh, web services, utilities, beta

  If you're a Mac-using fan of Skype you'll probably be quite excited about version 2.8 beta of their ubiquitous Voice over IP application. Bringing in a raft of new features, the beta includes the ability to screenshare between machines - a feature no...

• GetIt combines the power of three Windows apt-style updaters

  Posted on Thursday December 4th, 2008 at 13:41 in freeware, windows, open source, web services, utilities

  As I've mentioned before, I'm a fan of apt-get. It's an extremely easy way to get tons of new applications installed on a new Linux installation. Plenty of similar options exist for Windows, but one stands out.GetIt combines the power of three Windo...

• Backblaze offers truly no-hassle online backups

  Posted on Thursday December 4th, 2008 at 13:12 in internet, windows, Macintosh, web services, utilities, commercial

  Many users have the same problem when it comes to configuring a backup application: they forget to add one important file or folder to the job. Backblaze - a new online backup service - thinks they have a solution to the problem.Unlike most applicat...

• Frengly does translation, but does it beat Babelfish?

  Posted on Friday November 28th, 2008 at 07:01 in productivity, web services, utilities

  The biggest players in the online translation game are Yahoo! Babelfish and Google Translate. They both have their unique charms, but a site called Frengly might offer a little competition. Its selection of languages isn't quite as extensive as Googl...

• WhitePages.com buys Snapvine, will provide free voicemail

  Posted on Wednesday November 19th, 2008 at 13:41 in search, internet, voip, Web 2.0, web services

  WhitePages.com has announced a deal to purchase Snapvine, a company that provides voice applications for social networking sites. WhitePages plans to continue offering Snapvine's current services, including tools for "voice blogging," leaving voice c...

• Twellow the twitter directory

  Posted on Sunday November 9th, 2008 at 05:05 in search, internet, web services, social software

  With Twitter, you generally follow people you know or at least have heard about from others, but that limits your social circle. Twellow attempts to change how you find people to follow by indexing all the publicly available messages floating around ...

• Googleholic for September 7, 2008

  Posted on Sunday September 21st, 2008 at 01:43 in internet, google, Web 2.0, web services

  Welcome to Googleholic, your weekly fix of everything Google! In this, "Happy 10th anniversary, Google" edition: A decade of Google Germany hates Google Chrome Picasa and Picasa Web Albums get updated Gmail code base updated for IE 6 Google ti...

• Googleholic for September 12, 2008

  Posted on Sunday September 21st, 2008 at 01:43 in internet, google, Web 2.0, web services

  Welcome to Googleholic, your weekly fix of everything Google! In this mega-huge-fantastic edition: YouTube and Pulitzer Center launch journalism contest More iGoogle bling Gmail Labs introduces new Reply options Open source sample Android applic...

• Utterz trades in one cow pun for another, becomes Utterli

  Posted on Friday September 19th, 2008 at 22:36 in Web 2.0, web services, social software

  Utterz, a mobile service for sharing photos, videos, and audio -- most people know it as a place to crosspost audio tidbits to Twitter -- recently got a total identity makeover. Well, not quite total ... the site is now called Utterli, which is a sli...