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Gain New Super Powers With Your Voice
Mar 18th
Some people are loud mouths.
Now they officially have a reason to be proud. Their voice just gained new super powers.
Demonstrating this new cell phone trick to friends will make you the envy of all.
For example, what if you could simply speak into your cell phone phrase like, “all the things my wife said I had to by at the grocery store” and voila! you get the entire list verbatim. And I mean verbatim!
This new trick may just save your life or at least your hide some day. What is it?
It’s a neat new technology that’s being previewed by Microsoft and available as a free download for Windows Mobile phones right now. . . Read the rest of this entry »
When Doubling Your Microsoft Outlook Email Is A Good Thing: Backing Up Your Email
Jun 25th
Do you remember the first time you figured out the internet and got a new email address?
And everytime you checked your inbox, you wished someone sent you some email?
Nowadays, it’s the exact opposite. No one I know want more email than they are currently receiving. Forget about SPAM, there’s just too much email going back and forth with varying degrees of importance.
Every email header takes up the same amount of space on the screen and you need to spend the same amount of time with each to figure out if it’s SPAM, urgent, non-urgent, completely useless, one of those “REPLY ALL”s that the same people keep sending, etc.

But there’s actually once case where you really want to double your email inbox – exactly double it. Read the rest of this entry »
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