Tales from the Techside

Jajah is an online service that lets you receive calls from the web. They have now introduced a new service call Jajah Buttons which lets you set up a click to call feature on your site. The service is affordable at only 2.8 cents a minute and the caller has no charges much like a […]

A security researcher has discovered a serious vulnerability in GMail that makes it possible for a malicious site to add filter to your Gmail account which will then automatically forward all your email to another email address. Basically the vulnerability works like this:
The victim visits a malicious page while logged into GMail. The malicious page […]

I know this is in Netherlands but now consumers have a new way apply for and receive loans, through texting. The service called Ferratum (warning the page is in Dutch) just launched a loan by texting service. Using this service consumers can take out micro-loans of 100, 200, 300, 400 euros simply by texting the […]

Restoring a computer from scratch can be a major pain especially if you have an old version of an application that you like. For me it is Yahoo! Messenger version 8, after version 8 the Yahoo! messenger seems to be very unstable. Luckily there is a site for just such emergencies OldApps.com This site archives […]

Last month I wrote a post on DesignMyRoom a web application that allows you to design and share a room online with others. This week SceneCaster launched creating another way for you to build and share your virtual space online.
To be clear this is not SecondLife, you won’t be creating avatars or interacting with other […]

Imaging IS king. There are plenty of audiophiles out there who will argue with me, and certainly humans have a remarkable reaction to coordinated sounds, and an even stronger reaction to smells (nothing can evoke powerful memories of a place and time quite like an odor).
At the end of the day, however, we are […]

Why MAX, or more precisely, WiMAX? Well, in brief, because WiFi seems to be dying out faster than the dodo, at least at the city level. In reality, while there has been a wave of bad news, there is positive news on some fronts according to CNET. But when the title of […]

Imagine my surprise when I logged into my dashboard and found a new incoming link from the BloodhoundBlog recognizing my post last night on Mobile Access to MLS data as being worthy of being listed with the nominees for an Odysseus medal. Looking at the quality of the blogs that my blog was ranked with […]

This blog is designed to fill two roles first is an informative role where I will give my perspective on tools, services, and issues that are facing the Real Estate profession. The second role is where I ask for feedback and input from the community. This post fills the second role so I would appreciate […]

Animoto at first glance seems to be a toy aimed at young kids with cameras and time on their hands. However for someone wanting to reach out to generational segments this a great tool.
So what is Animoto is a web application that lets you create videos from your photos. You upload the photos, select the […]