Transfer AIM to Your Cell Phone
Submitted on October 20th, 2007 by admin
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Everybody text messages now. Text messaging is the natural, mobile extension of instant messaging. A link or hybrid between text and instant messaging would seem ideal. We are getting closer…
AIM now allows users to forward IMs to cellular phones.
When forwarding is enabled, your IMs will be transferred to your phone during the following circumstances:
- When the AIM server sees you offline
- When you manually select “Forward to Mobile” in your Away menu
- When the AIM server detects that you are idle
After you are on the service, you can also control forwarding through text messaging the AIM server via your cell phone.
By sending your AIM screen name and password to 265023, you will be sent directions on enabling and disabling the forwaring service.
The new Hotmail is pretty impressive
Submitted on May 8th, 2007 by admin
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A long time ago, the only real e-mail options available were AOL and Hotmail (and maybe Earthlink). As the web expanded, many new services have cropped up and replaced these as the new kings of e-mail, particularly Google’s GMail and the recently redesigned Yahoo! Mail. Not to be left behind, Microsoft has spent the past year or two beefing up its Hotmail offering and has finally relaunched it as Windows Live Mail. What they have come up with is definitely a step in the right direction.
10 great tools to help you Twitter better
Submitted on May 7th, 2007 by admin
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So you’re completely obsessed with Twitter and want to get the most you can out of your experience? How about trying some of these tools to enhance your experience!?
Share your life w/ Jaiku
Submitted on May 7th, 2007 by admin
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Over the last few months, not only have I not had much time to update TipMonkies, but I also haven’t followed web 2.0 applications much at, more than likely due to the former reason, so I was very excited to get back into “the scene” and learn about a somewhat new service called Jaiku which aims to bring everything from your real life and your web life into one place. For those of you who have been using Twitter (yes, a review of Twitter is forecoming), you may find many of the same features in Jaiku, but if you’ve never used the service here’s what you should expect.
Yahoo! Photos shutting down
Submitted on May 7th, 2007 by admin
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As I’m sure all of you know, Yahoo! bought Flickr way back in 2005 (oh so long ago), a move which puzzled many folks since Yahoo! already ran its own photo storage and sharing service, the uncleverly named and somewhat bland Yahoo! Photos. Well, after two years of running both services side by side, Yahoo! has decided to shut down Yahoo! Photos. Normally, when something like this happens, companies tie their users to migrating their information to the new service they own, but not the case here. If for whatever reason you’ve been using Yahoo! Photos, Yahoo! is being nice enough to let you export your photos to not just Flickr, but also Photobucket, recently purchased by MySpace, SnapFish, and many others. Way to please your users Yahoo! Now if only I could still use my old Flickr account instead of having to have a Yahoo! one, all your users would be happy…
RetailMeNot will save you some money for the holidays
Submitted on October 30th, 2006 by admin
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Any of you use BugMeNot, the user-contributed site to share login information for commercial sites? Well, from the same guys we now have , a free service which helps you find coupon codes for online retailers. Enter a web address, and RetailMeNot will spit out a list of coupons. Remember though all codes are user-submitted so get contributing!
Social activity sites are on the up and up
Submitted on October 30th, 2006 by admin
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With social bookmarking and sharing being all the rage nowadays, it was only a matter of time before event sharing sites began cropping up. We’ve covered a few like ZVents and a few others before, but many more have started up since. Minger.net has a good article which takes a look at 19 different social activity services and offers a nice and quick overview of each.
Find images on Flickr by drawing them
Submitted on October 30th, 2006 by admin
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I know many of you who follow this site are avid Flickr users, and are always looking for some cool new tools to use. How about being able to search through the vast collections of Flickr photos by sketching out what it is you want to see? Retrievr lets you do just that.
Retrievr provides you with a blank box in which you can create sketches, as well as a couple of tools to customize the sketch. These tools include being able to change the size of the brush as well as the paint color. As you start sketching in the blank box, Retrievr will automatically start searching through Flickr for images which match the same basic design pattern. I say basic because you may not find exactly what you need, but it sure is fun, and opens up many possibilities for the future.
Facebook adds sharing features
Submitted on October 29th, 2006 by admin
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While Facebook already has had some cool social features other sites like MySpace lack (like setting relationships to other people), it had been missing any kind of sharing capabilities, until now. Users can now share links, blog posts, videos, images, and more. There is even a browser bookmarklet to make it all easier. If you’re afraid of shares showing up on your Feed, don’t worry, it won’t as all shared items appear under a My Shares link in the sidebar. By the way, if you’re on Facebook, feel free to add me as a friend.
Toufee helps you build presentations in a flash
Submitted on October 29th, 2006 by admin
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Since you can now create your own animated GIFs, maybe you’ll also want to create custom Flash banners or multimedia presentations, right? Why not give Toufee a try. Toufee allows you to create movies, banners, e-cards, and presentations with an intuitive point and click editor powered by Flash. You can even import images from Flickr or videos from YouTube if you wish and the final product is no more than a few hundred Kb of data so even users on a dialup connection can take advantage of what you’ve created. Want to add speech to your presentation? No problem! Toufee has a built-in text-to-speech engine so you don’t have to waste time uploading audio. When you’re done, you’ll receive a link which you can use to share your work with a friend via e-mail, or you can get code to embed it onto your blog or MySpace page.
