Hasta La Gadget!

This article was written on November 07, 2007 by CyberNet.

At last, Microsoft has launched @live.com email addresses! These addresses were originally rumored to launch back in June of 2006 but ended up being a no-show. Between then and now there have been multiple “tricks” or loopholes that were found (here, here, here, and here) which allowed people to create accounts before they actually launched like I did (notice the “registered since” date):

35 different domains are now officially available depending on what country you’re in. LiveSide lists all of the available domains which range from Argentina to Vietnam. For those of you signing up for an account today, be prepared to deal with a bug or two because as you can imagine, there are thousands of people signing up.

Some of you may be contemplating getting a live.com address but are hesitant because you don’t want to leave all of your emails and contacts behind. Thankfully Microsoft has made it easy to import your contacts from services like Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, Windows Contacts, Windows Live Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail, and Gmail. While it’s not a one click solution, it’s still simple to do.  In order to do this, you’ll have to export your contacts first and then go back to import that file to Windows Live. To use this feature, just click “contacts” in your Windows Live Hotmail account, and then click “Import Contacts.” You can also automatically migrate your Hotmail inbox using TrueSwitch which we mentioned here.

Note: Originally Microsoft was going to offer @live.com and @windowslive.com addresses. Apparently they ditched the @windowslive.com domain because there’s been absolutely no mention of it.

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This article was written on May 07, 2007 by CyberNet.

It takes some effort to keep up with Photobucket and MySpace. Back in the beginning of April, Photobucket and MySpace were feuding for a second time (first time in 2007) after MySpace blocked Photobucket videos and video remixes from displaying on MySpace profiles. Two weeks after that, they were friends again, and now the latest news is that MySpace has decided to acquire Photobucket.

This puts a whole new meaning to the saying “if you can’t beat them, join them.” Photobucket has been very successful with their media services, and clearly MySpace didn’t want them taking over their turf.

Valleywag is reporting that this announcement could come as soon as this morning, and no financial details have slipped out.  Photobucket founders were originally seeking at least $300 million for the services that exploded into popularity with the help of social networks.

As much as MySpace was probably hoping they could live without Photobucket, they couldn’t.

Source: Valleywag [via Mashable]

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One thing that I’ve looked for in the past is a way to send and receive faxes online without having to fork out some sort of fee. Personally I would have thought by now that faxes would have become extinct, but apparently they are still a critical part of how people conduct business each and every day.

But thanks to a free online fax service called Drop.io we might be able to start bridging the digital gap. It’s an interesting service that is designed to let you share media in a variety of ways. You can upload just about anything to share with people via email, over the web, or of course by faxing it.

It will let you both send and receive faxes, but if you intend on receiving a fax you’ll need to provide the other party with a specialized Drop.io cover letter to use. That way Drop.io will know who exactly the received fax is for. And there’s apparently no ads or anything printed on the faxes!

Drop.io unfortunately only works with United States phone numbers, but I don’t believe it is restricted to United States residents. That means you could live overseas and still be able to send faxes to someone in the U.S. completely free. That’s pretty sweet.

Oh, and I’m sure you’re wondering what the image has to do with the article. Well, that plaque is something I walked by nearly everyday when attending Iowa State University. Naturally when I began writing something about a fax service that was the first thing that popped into my head.

Alright, here are the instructions for using Drop.io as a free online fax service:

To send a fax from your drop to a recipient:

1. Click on ‘send as fax’ next to any document (.DOC) or PDF
2. Enter the 10 digit fax number of the recipient (our service is US only)
3. Your fax is sent, end of story

Note: you can only fax out documents up to 20 pages.. Certain word documents with embedded charts, or other OLE objects PDF files made with Postscript 3 will not work.

To receive a fax into your drop:

1. Go to your drop and click ‘receive a fax’
2. Email the cover sheet to the person sending the fax to your drop OR click ‘this coversheet’ and send the custom drop.io cover sheet to the person sending the fax
3. The sender must put the drop.io cover-page on top of the fax.
4. The fax will appear in your drop as a .PDF

Note: So, the basic idea, to fax a document into a drop you must use the drop’s custom ‘cover page’ – give the cover page to the fax sender and you are in good shape (email it to them, print it and send it to them, whatever you want)

Drop.io Homepage [via Lifehacker & Digital Inspiration]

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This article was written on December 04, 2006 by CyberNet.

I was just catching up on some news and over at Webware I noticed a service that they covered called SimplyHeadlines. It isn’t designed to be anything extravagant but it will deliver news right to your email Inbox. Huh, doesn’t sound that special though because there are already a ton of services that do that…right?

I agree that there are a countless number of sites that will email RSS feeds to you on a daily or weekly basis but SimplyHeadlines makes it, well, simple! Unfortunately they don’t allow you to subscribe to your own custom RSS feeds but The service does let you add your own custom feeds, as Chad pointed out below, and they also have an impressive list of built-in news sources that will probably interest you. When going through the initial setup process you choose what time of day you want to receive the email along with what particular news you would like to receive. The news selection was a little vague during the setup process but when everything was said and done I was able to customize things a little more to my liking. Here is what the page looks like where you pick your news sources:

As you can see they don’t offer many different technology news sources which was a little disappointing but the special features undoubtedly make up for it. There you’ll be able to add things like local weather and even your Gmail Inbox.

I think the whole SimplyHeadlines concept is great and would be especially useful to print off and take with you to read while your on the bus or train to work. Best of all is that anyone can use the service without needing to know how things like RSS feeds work. So it might not be perfect for people who are power-hungry RSS feed readers but the less tech savvy people are sure to find this useful.

P.S. It is always possible to delete your account once it is created so you don’t really have much to lose.

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This article was written on October 12, 2010 by CyberNet.

I’ve helped plenty of people with coding before, but when I’m not working right next to them it can be difficult to help troubleshoot. They normally end up emailing me the code and then I email them back the edited file. Along with that I typically have to explain what I’ve changed, which can be a pain if there were a lot of modifications throughout the code. Sometimes I’m just lazy and tell them to run a comparison on the original code and what I’ve sent back.

Well, this is where EtherCodes comes into play. It is based on Mozilla’s Bespin, which is specifically designed to be used in JavaScript-powered applications such as EtherCodes. Once you hit the site you can instantly start a “code pad” that can be shared with others. When other users pull up your page they can see in realtime whatever changes you make, and they are actually allowed to make changes as well.

There are a lot of things going on tucked away in the toolbar at the top of EtherCodes that makes it super sweet. The first thing you can do is choose whether or not you want to have syntax highlighted using one of the nine supported languages:

• C/C++
• C#
• Java
• PHP
• JavaScript
• Python
• SQL
• Ruby
• HTML

You can also save a code pad at any point… serving as a makeshift bookmark for later on. You’ll find this to be handy for those moments you say “that will work, but let’s try this instead.” There is also a timeline view that will let you see how the code changed over time, and even includes a “play” button so that you can watch the changes happen all over again. That also makes this an excellent way to learn.

We can’t forget the one thing that everyone seems to overlook when using EtherCodes: the command line. At the bottom of the coding screen there is an area you can type in that makes it easier to edit and navigate around your code. This is also how you can chat with other users that you are collaborating with (messages will appear in the right sidebar, so make sure you keep it visible otherwise there will be no indicator for new messages). Here’s a full list of the available commands along with their appropriate shortcuts:

EtherCodes is obviously not something you want to do all your programming in, but it can be incredibly useful whenever you need to help someone else with their code or even when requesting help from a friend.

EtherCodes Homepage

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