Tags: blogging, im

AOL Journals

AOL Journals makes personal blogging very easy. But for professional-looking blogs, you'll want to look elsewhere.

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Yahoo Messenger with Voice 8

Free voice calls and voicemail, built-in Web searches, and drag-and-drop photo sharing make Yahoo's new instant messenger a fun, powerful IM tool.

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Adium X 1.0.5

Given all the great consumer-facing open source software available, I figured I'd try to evaluate and write reviews on those I use most often. Open source long ago stopped being about developers for other developers. Here's proof.

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MSN Messenger 7.0

Smooth videoconferencing and customisation add appeal to this IM client for any aficionado of multimedia messaging.

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Google Talk

With an interface that lacks ads but is also short on features, this early Google Talk beta serves Gmail users who want to chat via text or voice.

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There's a blog born every half second

Blog-tracking site Technorati says 175,000 new blogs appear per day worldwide. Are you keeping up with them all?

Voice2Text: you had voicemail

SpinVox plans to make listening to voice messages an activity of cavemen and hermits with the Australian release of their Voice2Text messaging service.

Google's privacy faux pas with Reader

In its attempts to add social elements to products, is Google pulling a Facebook?

GM vice chairman Lutz calls global warming 'a total crock'

Comments from General Motors vice chairman Robert Lutz calling global warming "a total crock" sparked a storm on the Web, prompting Lutz to ask outsiders to judge GM on its actions, not his words.

Microsoft dismisses dual boot OLPC

Software giant Microsoft has said it rejected plans to develop a dual-boot iteration of Windows XP to run on One Laptop per Child XO machines, and instead is developing a version of XP specifically for the XO.

Six ways to improve Twitter

Twitter has recently gotten a lot of buzz. As cool as it is, there are several ways to improve the experience. You can make viewing posts faster, read "tweets" through RSS, and more.

Newbie's guide to Twitter

Twitter is an interesting and practical real-time messaging system for groups and friends. It's just not completely obvious how to get into it. So, here's a quick newbie's guide to this new platform. This guide doesn't cover every feature of Twitter, but it should help to get you started.

Your own personal soapbox: five blogger services reviewed

Blogging is a vibrant and growing part of the Internet landscape. See which of the new services might best fit your needs.

Webcam Buying Guide

Six different webcams available on the market today, some of which are good buys, some to be avoided.

One instant messenger to rule them all

If you've got buddies on multiple instant messenger networks and are sick of having a client for each, there are solutions at hand.

Star Tech: Matt Welsh

Swimming star Matt Welsh gives us the lowdown on his gadget habits and how technology is helping swimmers achieve superhuman speeds.

10 links to shorten your links

There are literally hundreds of these link shortening services out there, but we've decided to break it down to 10 that we like the most.

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Trutap for Nokia Phones

Send SMS for free, use IM, access your blogs and photo-sharing sites with your Nokia phone.

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Trutap for Nokia Phones

Send SMS for free, use IM, access your blogs and photo-sharing sites with your Nokia phone.

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mJetz 1.11

Browse your favorite web sites, feeds, and widgets in one mobile interface.

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mJetz 1.11

Browse your favorite web sites, feeds, and widgets in one mobile interface.

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Trutap for Motorola Phones

Send SMS for free, use IM, access your blogs and photo-sharing sites with your Motorola phone.