Monthly Archives: December 2007

Bizarre December 3, 2007 posted by

Solvit Jogging Kit for Pets – pamper that pooch and prosper?

Solvit Jogging Kit. Ah…we’re a little confused, children. This is a pet trailer which converts into a ‘pet jogger’? What are we missing here? The pet can’t jog right now, because it’s got some important calls to make? The pet can’t get the new manicure dirty? Pet’s having a bad hair day? Help us out here, ‘cos we’re lost. $49.99.  The Solvit Jogging Kit for Track’r allows you to quickly convert your Track’r pet trailer into a pet jogger. Easy…

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Bookmark This! December 3, 2007 posted by

Rent an iPhone – and save your purchase pennies for the upgraded model?

Rent an iPhone. OK, so you’re probably one of those cautious types who’s not that convinced by the hype. Or maybe you’re too attached to your present handset and don’t want to leap to something else without checking it out first. So why not rent, sayeth those enterprising folk at Erento. We’re talking £29.00 a day VAT inclusive, or £99.00 a week. You’re gonna need a SIM card, dude.   iPhone is a revolutionary new mobile phone that allows you to…

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Omgili Product Reviews – suddenly product reviews get people powered

The new Omgili Product Reviews service searches the web for product reviews and user opinions from catalogue pages such as Amazon reviews, bulletin boards, forums and other conversation sources. We covered Omgili fleetingly but favourably back in August last year, so it’s good to see this web forum search engine roll out something so cool. The good points include the excellent ratings graphic (miserable to excellent) which gives a super fast overview of a product’s review position. This really makes it easy to…

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cool tech December 3, 2007 posted by

Google Sites – new Google collaboration tool promises amazing feature set

So there’s a new Google application due next year called Google Sites, which will be an extended amalgam of the Google Pages web site creator and JotSpot, the wiki app that Google bought a while back. This is interesting from a lot of angles, not least of which is the fact that it potentially introduces real Web 2.0 user generated functionality to business applications properly for the first time ever. One thing I will add is that JotSpot was the only…

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reprise December 2, 2007 posted by

Ferret posts this week

Here’s a quick round-up of Ferrety posts from the past week for anyone who missed them. Enjoy. Intellifix – online marketplace for computer support – Intellifix is a pretty cool… WinSock XP Fix – freeware fix for broken WiFi connections – WinSock XP Fix. Tiny freeware… Satechi Bluetooth FM Transmitter – play your mobile phone music wirelessly on your car stereo – I’m guessing that this new… Gesturetek Table FX – multitouch tables are suddenly commonplace items – The Gesturetek…

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cool tech December 1, 2007 posted by

WizPy – cool, versatile Linux do-it-all gadget hits the street

The Wizpy Linux Device. It’s a music and movie player, audio recorder, FM radio, e-book reader, IP telephone and Web browser. You can load up your favourite computer environment and carry it around you, USB flash memory style, and to top it all off, peeps, it runs on Linux. Gosh, haven’t times changed? $290.00 for the 4GB model.  Open standard office suite that has adopted OpenDocument format (ODF) standard file format (international standard ISO 26300) is available. You can use…

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