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Upgrade your cell phone’s voicemail with Youmail.

While looking for new cell phone apps, I ran across a website that I thought was really cool. Youmail is a service that aims to replace your cell phone’s voicemail system…”a voicemail upgrade” they claim, and I think they are truly right with that statement.

To use Youmail, you have to set your cell phone up [...]

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Browse iTunes App store without iTunes

What would be the purpose of having access to the iTunes app store without installing iTunes? Maybe you are at work and theres no itunes available. Maybe iTunes slows down your computer so much that you don’t want to load it up just to browse? Whatever your situation there is a website that pretty much [...]

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Which Antivirus software should I use

This is a question that I get asked a lot. Years ago, the no brainer answer was Norton. We all know that isnt true anymore (or hasn’t been true in the past 5 years or so). Actually, a lot of people don’t know what to use. Its also hard to find good information on which [...]

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I have gotten a lot of free magazine subscription over the years

In the past 4 or 5 years I have subscribed to these magazines
Maxim
Stuff
EGM
PC Gamer
Xbox Underground
The Official Xbox Magazine
Jet
Ebony
PC World
Computer Shopper
Car and Driver
Automobile
Motor Trend
Electronic House
Game Pro
Blender
Playboy (shh don’t tell anyone)
Computer games (Games for Windows)
Entertainment Weekly
Sound and Vision
There are a few more but I just cant remember the names right now. But you get the picture, I [...]

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Do you hate iTunes as much as I do? Try Media Monkey.

Ive said it before, I really hate the iTunes software. Ive stayed away from iPods since they were introduced years ago, not because of the software (I didn’t know how bad it was) but because I didn’t want my music to be locked down to one player. Ive had the iPhone now for about a [...]

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Wordpress.tv a Hulu.com style website that teaches you to use Wordpress

Wordpress.com has launched a pretty interesting website the other day. If you ever wanted to figure out how to setup, configure, and use wordpress, you can now visit Wordpress.tv.

Wordpress.tv offer video tutorials and help with all types of wordpress task’s. If you are new to using wordpress you can visite Wordpress.tv and get all of [...]

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Have you tried the Windows 7 beta?

If you haven’t heard (which you probably have) Microsoft released a beta for the new Windows 7 Operating during CES. Windows 7 is the operating system that is going to pretty much replace Vista when it released later this year (or early next year). The day it was released, I downloaded and installed the 64 [...]

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ProProfs.com. Free E-Learning

Online learning can be quite expensive, who would’ve guessed. Whenever I start looking up ways to better my own knowledge base, either through school or other means, I tend to look for ways that I can do it with the least amount of money…lest face it, I’m not rich and I got bills. So I [...]

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Lets talk about a few podcast that fell from my favorites

Ive talked about podcast that are new to me, that have become a few of my favorites, Now lets talk about a few of the podcast that I find I dont listen to as much anymore.
The Pet Fish Talk Podcast
I’ll be honest, when I first found out about the Fish Talk podcast, I was really [...]

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Netflix style service for Audio Books

Ive never tried audible, but I have listened to a few audio books in my time. but just when you think you know everything there is to know about where to get things from the web, a website like SimplyAudioBooks.com come in and show you, there is still some things about the web you still [...]

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