It’s already a given that I’ll sell my soul for the first iPhone application to allow me to make SkypeOut calls from my iPhone. I make a lot of long distance calls and I have to run home to a landline because cellphone long-distance plans in Canada are so insanely expensive (if you wonder [...]

With lots of websites starting to use the crossposting feature on ScribbleLive that we unveiled back in August, I thought it would be a good idea to put together a quick demo video. In this screencast, I go over all the steps to get your liveblog crossposting to your Wordpress site without using an [...]

Was Typing class in school so much fun that you want to go back and relive it? Do you have an unhealthy obsession with keyboards? Do you like competing at everyday, normal tasks? If any of these apply, now you can compete online against random people at typing thanks to TypeRacer. [...]

In the never-ending stream of people launching web operating systems while everyone waits for Google O/S and Windows Cloud, comes Cloudo. As well as having one of the funnier names, it seems (it’s on private alpha at the moment) to boast some neat features. You can make the GUI look like Windows, OSX, [...]

In my aimless Internet-wanderings today, I ran across Start Your Tube. Want to start your own YouTube for your dancing sheep videos? That’s now an option…and with revenue sharing to boot w00t.

Or you can just set-up your own video site in 10 steps on Debian, but it’s really your option. [...]

As I try to slide into my Christmas vacation, I was thinking about how TV networks should be distributing their TV shows online. It’s a given that play-on-demand, web-browser-based video players are the standard right now, but the number of people still downloading content using Bittorrent really show that the needs of the viewers [...]

Time Machine is the new killer feature of Mac OS X Leopard that performs an automatic backup of your machine, and the race is on in to be the first to get it using Amazon S3 to save the backups. Amazon S3 is basically unlimited storage for $0.15/GB/month. When you combine that with [...]

In the ever-growing list of cool Media Center third-party software, I ran across mcePhone (thank Apple for the camel-case) that let’s you make Skype calls right from Media Center or a Media Center Extender. Since the Xbox 360 can be a Media Center Extender, MCE+Xbox+mcePhone = VOIP on your Xbox. How do I [...]

WARNING: This blog entry is super geeky. Proceed only if you know what an “elastic computing cloud” is

This article is a little older, but I was blown away when I saw it. The Enomaly Open Source Consulting group has been able to get Windows Server 2003 running on the Amazon Elastic [...]

As I mentioned yesterday, I’m a big fan of the feature-set being developed by the people at Mojiti. I’ve started following their blog, and today they added another innovative feature: community translation. They’ve provided an interface for users to translate all the text on the site (1117 phrases) from English to one of [...]