www.Google.com/Voice has gone live as replacement for Grandcentral.com.  while many of the features are staying the same, the ability to forward your calls to multiple phones, ability to make outgoing calls from your Virtual Number. What’s new in Google.com/voice is that you can now get your voicemails converted to text, and sent as e-mail or [...]

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I use the HTC Touch Pro from Sprint to scan business cards directly to my contacts, or exchange server.  The Application called WorldCard Mobile comes preinstalled on this Windows Mobile 6.5 device.  This phone also has accelerometers for tilt and rotation detection, making it fun for gaming.  GPS with voice for turn by turn directions [...]

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Cartoon Network is building it’s own World of Warcraft competitor.  www.FusionFall.com is uniting several Cartoon Network Properties in to a Massively Multi-player Online game.  Fusion Fall.com combines some of the best series to create a very diverse Universe.  The T for Teen rated game won’t feature any of the Adult Swim Characters. An unstoppable force [...]

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Best Buy and BestBuy.com Black Friday Specials for 2008 Computer Related Acer 19″ Widescreen Flat Panel LCD Monitor $99.99   Adobe Photoshop Elements / Premiere Elements $89.99   Canon MX700 Network-Ready All-in-One Printer $99.99   Epson Stylus NX105 All-in-One Printer $29.99   HP Photosmart C4480 All-in-One Printer $49.99   LG Internal Blu-ray / DVD Drive $99.99   Linksys WRT110 RangePlus Wireless [...]

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I bought a Xincom Dual Wan Load Balacing Router to “bond” or at least aggregate my EVDO Rev A and my Hughes Satellite connection.  How was the result?  Seemingly great. While optimized for multiple users rather than for boosting the speed of a single user across two connections, it does do that as well. I [...]

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The HughesNet installer was here about 2 hours the install was relatively quick and straight forward.  The dish is barely 15 feet from the modem which made for short work, and good signal.  Benchmarking the solution I have 2024k down and 295k up, faster than the 1.5m/256k which is advertised.  Altitude apparently helps, and having [...]

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Unsatisfied with the Omni-Directional Antenna that came with my Digital Antenna (DA4KSBR-50M) 70dB Cell Phone Repeater Kit, I decided to improve the system with a Wilson Cellular PCS Yagi (1850MHz-1990MHz) Cell Phone Antenna.  While that helped my mountain living situation, it didn’t get me where I wanted to be so I “improved” it. with a [...]

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You may have seen the original Xbox Live in car system which was limited to City Wide WiFi.  Version to Kicks it up a notch, with Sprint PCS allowing you to take the gaming anywhere you have Cellular Service, and with the help of the Wi-Ex Zboost a few places that you don’t. The previous [...]

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