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The concept has been in use in the land of the ever technologically advanced Japan where people have been using their cellular phones to pay for everything from a can of soda, a bowl of noodles or a ticket to ride the trains as you go to and from work. Now, the concept is taking aim on a bit larger market, the micro-pay system called Boku. The system works by having you pay with your cell phone rather that having to pull out your wallet, look for your card, present it, it gets swiped and you sign the receipt for your transaction. Besides, we always seem to have our mobiles in hand, ready for the next call or sms, and it makes sense. Read the rest of this entry »

Everybody knows that the world evolves around some major search engines, either Bing, Google or Yahoo (and some other minor ones) but there is growing competition on the internet when it comes to real-time searches. These aggregators present you up-to-date information regarding the social net, Twitter being one of the best examples of the social internet is one of th sites indexed and searched in real time to present you with the latest social event that is happening anywhere on Twitter. Twitter has it’s own search engine but experts call it quite “dumb” and with a chronological search method, it really is quite primitive for it to be called a full-fledged search engine. Read the rest of this entry »

Love seeing those nifty paper stick-on notes you have all over your desk at the office or at home. Ever want to get it onto your smart-phone to give it a more homey feel, then steeky notes is for you, a virtual Post-it of sorts that has notes stuck in the background of your iPhone.With a million 3GS iPhones out already, and add to that the previous two versions, they are a lot of phones and you just can’t seem to have enough apps for use and just about any purpose for your gadget. Read the rest of this entry »

Microsoft seems to be catching up on the apps market but with one very unexciting aftertaste, it still costs a lot of money. At $15 per month for business apps or enterprise apps, or a $3 for each app it still costs an arm and a leg to get. That may be something really business oriented people and organizations may be willing to pay for, the bad part is that after they announced the release of their apps store, they released a tech bulletin that for stuff to work out right, you need to get some compatibility issues that was more or less loosely tied to VISTA, their failure of an operating system that has been the scourge of many a desktops the world over. Read the rest of this entry »

What’s good about Meebo is really the integration of all the popular chat and instant messaging platforms like Yahoo Messenger, Facebook and MySpace chat, AIM, MSN, GTalk, and the like. This is ideal for people who need to IM, whether for business or personal purposes, to have access to their preferred IM platform anywhere.

What’s even better is that users do not need to download any software or register (except for the IM they’re using) to be able to use Meebo. What’s more, it’s completely free of charge to use, so anyone is able to enjoy the benefits.

Meebo users also have their own online community where they communicate and keep in touch with each other. You will have to register for this though, although the feature itself is free.

Google has long introduced Google apps for the general public and commercial clients alike as an example of the new and improved cloud computing architecture that the future of the internet rests on. Industry experts like them have been steadily developing and releasing applications that utilizes the fact that deployment is way cheaper in the clouds for the hardware is owned by some of the more established companies who more or less know what they are doing for they have withstood the test of time. Yahoo, Apple and many others have been constantly re-writing the way the internet is used as a tool for commercial purposes allowing them to offer better and faster services without the very strict proprietary requirements that used to haunt Microsoft based systems.
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Note taking can be a pain if you’re copying something really long. That’s why I prefer note taking online and while we’re on the subject, I think Jjot takes the cake as this Lifehacker review below states:

Jjot is a lightning fast sticky note web application filled with smart features like archiving, search, and sharing. Jjot is very easy to use and understand (which is nice when you’re tackling any new web application), but what really stands out about Jjot is its speed. Everything you do on Jjot is satisfyingly snappy, which is so refreshing in an age of bloated web apps. Granted, Jjot’s speed might not be enough to make it stand out in the already overcrowded online note-taking and todo applications, but it’s on my good list.

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A Web 2.0 hosting company has recently launched a new widget tool that will enable its users to create custom and embeddable media widget easily and fast through photos, videos and updates of status from the big names in social networking like MySpace, Flickr, YouTube and Twitter. This is due to the growing use of the Internet as their medium for media sharing and viewing between family members and relatives alike. its main objective is to simplify the things that needed to be simplified. For users to be able to utilize its utility potentials. Through just one widget, its users can make their content and share them without an existing Oosah account. Although Oosah members have more options in creating their own widgets.

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I have recently trying out the newest MacBooks, and for a quite sometime ive been trying to set up my web services and back ups. Nowadays, people like me are becoming so dependent on softwares to make my life easier. Thats when i came across an application from 24×7 Digital. It took my attention. The software program just cost around $20. It only supports Mac at the moment. It connects with the iPhoto library and Flickr accounts. Its amazing. It keeps your Flickr photos synced with your PC photos. Without uploading it manually. The concept here is that changes in your Pc will be silently handled in the background. It will rearrange, edit, rename and delete unnecessary photos. Its a smart little program.

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A new application from Emsi Software GmbH is worth trying. Trojan horses are a huge security threat. It is a program that enters your computer undetected through free downloads and other freebies, giving the hacker who planted the Trojan unrestricted access to the data stored on your computer. Trojans can transmit credit card information and other confidential data. It records surfing habits. And then they use these information, or sell them. Leading to identity theft and other cybercrimes. Trojans are often not caught by virus scanner engines, because these antivirus softwares are focused on viruses and give little attention to Trojans. Catching such threats would require the use of a Trojan scanner.