Posted on May 13, 2006 9:59 am by Shel Holtz | Technology | Web
Flickr is a treasure trove of material; it’s remarkable what people will take pictures of. For example, people shoot pictures of letters they find on signs. Some folks with a knack for programming have put together a little application that lets you type in the letters you want, then snatches those letters from Flickr and assembles them in your order. Don’t like one…
Posted on May 12, 2006 10:54 am by Shel Holtz | Technology
Hot on the heels of its introduction of its SkypeCasting conference call service, Skype announced a deal yesterday with LanguageLine to make
Posted on May 9, 2006 4:38 pm by Shel Holtz | Technology | Web
I couldn’t get the first public beta release of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer version 7 to install on my PC. I got an error that, evidently, was shared by enough others to warrant a notice on Microsoft’s site that the problem would be dealt with in the next release. It was, so when public beta 2 was released, I installed it. I was cautious at…
Posted on May 5, 2006 11:50 am by Shel Holtz | Business | General | Technology
The blogosphere has been abuzz with the news that Skype has finally released its long-awaited SkypeCast service. In case you hadn’t heard, SkypeCast lets Skype users conduct online meetings with up to 100 people from anywhere in the world for free. Skype has teamed up with SixApart and other companies to create this capability, which many have taken advantage of even in…
Posted on May 5, 2006 11:42 am by Shel Holtz | Technology
I was listening to Dave Slusher’s Evil Genius Chronicles yesterday; if memory serves, Slusher’s was the very first podcast I ever listened to, back around October 2004. If it wasn’t, it was close. Anyway, Slusher pointed out that BitTorrent is his primary means of distributing the podcast.
Slusher uses BitTorrent primarily because it’s fast and that’s useful to his listeners. But he also said he uses…
Posted on March 31, 2006 9:58 am by Shel Holtz | Technology
I run into more and more companies that are blocking RSS feeds, blogs, and other tools that ultimately increase worker knowledge and improve innovation and productivity. While some companies worry that employees are spending time online at the expense of their work responsibilities, others are leaving these decisions in the hands of their IT departments who are more concerned about…
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