If you have wanted to give Google Voice a try and have been unable to get an invite, you will be happen to know that the service is now available for everyone. If you are unfamiliar with Google Voice, the idea is simply you have a single number people call which can ring to any device. You are not tethered to a single device in the event you, for example, change...

One of the more annoying aspects of the internet is that it’s tough to check web sites to see if the username you want is taken unless you go to each web site individually, right? Wrong. There is CheckUserNames; this site will check the username you want on 160 different web sites. Absolutely no registration is required to use CheckUserNames. All you have...

While publishing on the internet is no doubt the future, magazines remain a great way to keep you informed on topics of interest. There is a magazine for virtually everything out there so if you want to catch up on some of their content, check out Maggwire. Maggwire is a free service which publishes articles from many popular magazine titles. There are loads of...

Mouse? We don’t need no steenkin’ mouse! That’s what CLI jockeys, as in the geeks that do everything from a terminal prompt, would say. They do anything and everything from the command prompt because GUIs are for squares, and you always can get things done faster from the CLI. Script this, script that, script everything. Well, now you can...

If you upload videos to YouTube but have not bothered with the task of basic editing (as needed of course) for whatever reason, there is good news for you: Google has introduced a new tool which allows you to edit your videos directly on YouTube: YouTube has a new video editor that lets you create videos using excerpts from the videos you’ve already...

Said honestly, it annoys me that whenever I perform a search on any search engine that Wikipedia results show up first so often. How to get Wikipedia Google search results to not show up can be done the manual way or the fancy way. Manual Way Simply add -wikipedia to any Google search term. The dash in front of wikipedia must be included. This tells Google,...

Now that Office 2010 is here and after using Office 2007 for a couple of years now, I have to say that I really prefer the ribbon interface over the old menu driven one. However, sometimes I still have a hard time finding function I need in the ribbon as “translated” from the menu. Thankfully, there are a couple of helpers for situations like...

From the “it was just a matter of time” category, Twitter will soon be pushing out ads through user message streams as well as through a trends campaign: Twitter is beginning to roll out its ad platform, which allows advertisers to insert messages into users’ streams. But the microblogging service already has an idea for a new product: Selling some...

As I am sure Google is the search engine of choice for most of our readers, they have just recently published an update to their search engine indexing process: Some background for those of you who don’t build search engines for a living like us: when you search Google, you’re not searching the live web. Instead you’re searching Google’s...

Included in the last round of Windows Updated patches released by Microsoft was, for some reason, a Firefox extension called “Search Helper Extension”. As part of its regular Patch Tuesday, Microsoft released an update for its various toolbars, and this update came with more than just documented fixes. The update also installs an add-on for Internet...