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You can now create a Google Calendar event in a single step, from anywhere, simply using your voice. Just call Jott, say “Google Calendar”, and then the time of the event and what it’s about….and you’re done. We’ll take your voice, convert it to text, and insert it into your calendar for you. “Meet Cathy [...]

I was on a business trip for a week in beautiful Miami at a hotel that had broken Internet access. With my new iPhone I was still able to check email and browse the web but I couldn’t blog on this website. Until today. A new feature we have available for our web hosted clients [...]

This small application has saved me a lot of time. Windows only: Text substitution app Texter saves you countless keystrokes by replacing abbreviations with commonly used phrases you define. Lifehacker Code: Texter (Windows) – Lifehacker

Here is a cool idea to keep your computer cables and surge protector (you are using one of those right) nicely organized and hidden. This Cable Box hides everything inside and you can make it yourself.

TrueCrypt is a fantastic on the fly disk encryption that is open-source. You want an open-source encryption program so that you know that no backdoors are written in. Many commercial encryption programs have written backdoors in. Steve Gibson talks about TrueCrypt including some very cool plausible deniability aspects as part of Security Now episode 41. [...]