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Skype for iPhone: An official App

Posted on 30. Mar, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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Months after teasing the community at CES with an announcement of Skype’s native VoIP client for the iPhone, the free Skype for iPhone will finally be available to download from the iTunes App Store sometime on Tuesday
Skype’s screens are well organized and use the iPhone’s ability to add filters, for instance, to sort your contacts alphabetically, [...]

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Nintendo Wii 2.0: A mind-controlled console

Posted on 12. Mar, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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Moving away from sloppy remotes, Nintendo Wii is entering the brainwave era with a slick mind-controlled console. At least this is the thrilling desire of hi-tech dreamers over at T3 Magazine who want to see jaws dropping and brain cells working their way through gaming.
The ground-breaking concept, part of the magazine’s future tech feature, introduces [...]

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Google Voice converts Voicemail to Text

Posted on 12. Mar, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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Google Voice is incoming – and it could change the way you deal with your phone conversations forever.
With Google Voice, you get one number to access all your phone numbers, so even if you change your home phone or mobile, you’ll still be contactable. Not only that, the software acts as a messaging centre, storing [...]

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Choosing the Perfect Content Management System (CMS)

Posted on 06. Mar, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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The actual search for the right Content Management System (CMS) for your organization (or yourself) can be overwhelming and daunting. What does help this process though, is knowing what you want, and just as importantly, what you don’t want. For example, I want something that’s going to be user-friendly, is low cost, is database driven, has [...]

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Pastiche: Keyword-Based Virtual Tourism

Posted on 01. Mar, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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When most of us think of virtual tourism, we envision a Google Earth-esque satellite overview of a city; Pastiche heads in the other direction entirely with its text-based interface.Rather than navigating the foreign territory of a map, Pastiche allows you to explore the neighborhoods of New York City through tags and keywords that are linked [...]

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Text-to-Voice Wand: The "Voice Stick"

Posted on 01. Mar, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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The ‘Voice Stick’ concept enters to revolutionize the life of the visually impaired and offer a breath of fresh high-tech air to script recognition.
Designed by Sung Woo Park, the cutting-edge device is a portable text scanning tool, utilizing the OCR function to identify text and convert this information into voice. This advanced technology allows visually [...]