Technology

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.

You are invited to open a free Google Voice account. To accept this invitation and create your account, visit https://www.google.com/voice...
If you haven't already heard about it, Google Voice is a service that makes using your current phones much better!

Here's what it offers:

* A personal phone number that rings all of your existing phones when people call
* All of your voicemail in one inbox with unlimited online storage and free voicemail transcripts sent to your phone and email
* Low-priced international calling to over 200 countries and free SMS
* Other powerful features like the first phone spam filter to protect you from unwanted callers, the ability to ListenInTM on your voicemail messages while they are being left, conference calling and more Read This »

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."

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. Read This »

Yes, that is what happened to me today. For some unknown reason, I was not able to load Facebook, I re-started my computer, re-refreshed and re-refreshed the page, still, I gave up and turned to Chrome - Chrome delivered it with amazing speed. I usually turn to Chrome when things fail with FF, given the fact that Chrome was taken out of beta recently!

So, when things fail on Firefox, turn to Chrome, if things fail with Chrome, which is unlikely, turn to Internet Explorer as a last resort. I rarely use IE now. Whenever a browser fails on you, turn to the alternative, in my case, it is Chrome. Read This »

I finally upgraded Firefox to the newest version, Firefox 3 - it was worth it. Initially, i thought it would not display my favorite pages properly, especially my blog, or it would not support my favorite Add-ons.

After browsing the Net for some time, i notice the speed and quickness of the tabs. Pages load faster. I am comparing it to the previous version of Firefox. The old one would sometime freeze or when i try to open a tab, it would take about 5 seconds to open it - the hourly glass won't let me do anything.

My favorite Add-ons appear compatible with the newest version of Firefox: Firebug, Addblock Plus, Flash block, ColoZilla and a few others. These Adds-ons are for a safer browsing and some of them for debugging web pages.

In summary, i encourage everyone to upgrade to the newest version - if you have not done so. There are lots of improvements and fixes: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ If you are using any Add-on, make sure they are compatible: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/

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!

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Have you ever wanted to be like Google or Facebook or maybe twitter at least?
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