Technology

Google Wave Invites

By hector on Monday, April 19, 2010

It's been almost a year now since Google unveiled Google Wave to a limited number of people. Google Wave is still in invitation only. I will not go into details about what Google Wave is, learn more about it here.

If you would like to give it a try, I am giving away some invites. I have given away a few ones, and it appears that the invites are sent out right away. Leave a comment and add your email or contact me here.

Update: May 19, 2010. Google Wave is now open to the general public.

Send tweets from your cellphone

By hector on Monday, July 06, 2009

This note was sure added recently on Twitter's page, I did check this feature not long time ago, it was not available at that time.

"Note: In Canada we currently support SMS notifications for Bell Mobility, Rogers, Fido, Telus, Koodo and Virgin Mobile Canada subscribers. If you use another carrier you can still verify your phone and update Twitter, but we won't deliver to your phone."

Public Mobile: All-you-can-talk for $40

By hector on Monday, February 09, 2009

From the company's site:
"Communication is not a luxury. It shouldn’t be about frustrating, hard to understand price plans or unpredictable monthly costs. Public Mobile was founded on the core belief that it is everybody’s right to talk, which is why we will offer flat-rate, unlimited local talk and text wireless phone services."

And according to their web site, there is about 38% of Canadians without a cellphone. There appears to be room for them for growth, but they will have to do some heavy marketing against Telus, Bell, Rogers, Fido and Koodo.

The service will be launched in Ontario and Quebec first, no contracts, no credit check and it would cost $40 dollars a month.

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View your photos in 3D with PicLens - it supports Facebook, Flickr, Google images

By hector on Monday, August 11, 2008


This is a neat program from Cooliris, PicLens allows you to view your favorites photos in 3D, it lets you zoom in and zoom out, or scroll the bar to see all the pictures in a wall.

It support all the major browsers, such as Firefox and Internet Explorer, it is compatible with Windows and Mac.

In Firefox, it's an Add-on program, to install it, visit http://piclens.com, however, in Internet Explorer it's an ActiveX control, it might take a couple of minutes longer to have it installed.

Once it's installed, login to your Facebook account, open an album, then click on the blue button on the very top right corner of your browser, in this case, Firefox - PicLens is launched.

You can search for images using Google, Flickr, Yahoo, Facebook and even Amazon. If you have a website with lots of pictures, you can enable it so your visitors can browse it using PicLens.

Want to see the Beijing Olympics in pictures? Open PicLens!

Three useful tools to keep in touch with your friends

By hector on Sunday, July 13, 2008

Not just keeping in touch with your friends but also to promoting your site. There are many tools out there that makes it possible, however, these tools are very useful.

  • Facebook.com Allows you to add friend, connect with others, create a network or group and much more.
  • Friendfeed.com Post a message, and it will appear in your facebook account, under the minifeeds section.
  • Twitter.com Post short messages, you can even send messages from your cellphone and via SMS.

So, start promoting your site, activity or event, keep in touch with your old friends or make new ones. Think about it, you can even make money from these free tools, use your imagination.

The iPhone goes on sale in Canada today

By hector on Friday, July 11, 2008

The popular iPhone by Apple goes on sale in Canada today. Some people in certain cities already are the proud owner of one.

In Vancouver, early in the morning, around 5am, there were about less than a 100 people lining outside the store. A few slept overnight.

Rogers, the only carrier in Canada to offer the iPhone said it has about 100 iPhones in store.

A lot of people were outraged when Rogers announced the iPhone plan, but after hearing people's concerns, they decided to change it. The basic plan would cost you about $100 dollars, that has been adjusted.

http://www.rogers.com/web/content/wireless-products/iphone_voi...