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…that I was whining about here - Verizon already rolling with it. Some of my clients in Long Island, NY and Fair Lawn, NJ are the game. My OptimumOnline cable, however, isn’t all that bad with 1Mbps/6Mbps upstream/downstream, but Verizon’s prices are unbeatable.

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• While you were sleeping… (May 16, 2006): Skype has introduced free calling within US and Canada. I am currently testing both Skype and Gizmo, even bought phone numbers from each service, so people with real phones can call me too :)So far the testing shows that Gizmo still has plenty of space for improvement. Call quality is inconsistent - I got three [...]
• Weebly… (January 17, 2007): Took me less then 5 minutes to create this page: http://zealus9.weebly.comI'd say it's a lot easier then Google Pages. Google, pay attention :)
• Traveling Willberries (January 4, 2007): As I was traveling to Arizona for New Year holidays, I discovered a great trick-in at Pointe Hilton in Phoenix. It's easy - build a hotel in such a way that cell-phone reception is hardly present, charge $10.00/day for limited internet access and $24.95/day for true high-speed broadband and voila - you get even more [...]
• Oh, no! He gave away the best-kept secret! (May 23, 2007): In the recent article Wired tells about the artist and Rutgers professor Hasan Elahi, who was mistakenly targeted by FBI as a suspected terrorist. Yep, he's the one who decided to put all his life out there in the open to make sure authorities know he's innocent. "I've discovered that the best way to protect [...]

… but I just found out today that Google’s Gmail has this nifty feature of checking POP3 accounts for you. It doesn’t really matter that it’s been around from other providers for years, and Google’s only made it available to some of the customers (for example I only have it enabled on one out of three of my accounts). What matters is that if you add the ability to send e-mails as from that another account (which is already available) - and you can use Gmail as your full-featured POP3/SMTP e-mail. Given that most of people don’t have 2GB of backlog e-mails anyway - very nice trick. The real breakthrough would be if Google made an import routine to upload old messages preserving dates from e-mail programs, such as Outlook/Outlook Express, TheBat!, ThunderBird and others.

Overall - I’m starting to be more and more taken into whole online-office thing. E-mail client, word processor, spreadsheets - and now talks of Google acquiring ThinkFree, that also has presentation creator - all looks very promising. Obviously, I’m not planning to ditch the Office package, however, I’ll think twice before upgrading to the next version. After all - I don’t have a 2.5GB Excel spreadsheet with all the hedge fund transaction history, as some company I was interviewed at three years ago.

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• Zango Time! (May 21, 2007): Out of all the latest lawsuits this one is particularly hilarious. Here's the quote:Online media company' Zango, which gained notoriety for redirecting adult affiliate traffic and the first ever MySpace worm, is now suing the anti-spyware vendor PC Tools, maker of an application called 'Spyware Doctor', for removing Zango applications off the consumers' PCs.As some [...]
• Weebly… (January 17, 2007): Took me less then 5 minutes to create this page: http://zealus9.weebly.comI'd say it's a lot easier then Google Pages. Google, pay attention :)
• TemplateMonster-and-law (April 18, 2007): I had no idea that TemplateMonster was sued by Corbis for piracy of stock photos.
• Russian Teacher Case (February 16, 2007): Given how much publicity the case with Russian teacher Ponosov got (here's the link to the latest on Wired) I think I also have to shed some light on it, given that most people don't really understand what's really going on. However, bear in mind - I am not a lawyer, so whatever you may [...]

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I’d say it’s a lot easier then Google Pages. Google, pay attention

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• Many, many, many things happen (January 30, 2007): While everybody and their grandmothers write about Vista release - I'll write of other important things. First - there is this totally geeky thing that I would love receive from somebody. I cannot even reiterate how much I would love to see it on my table.Another thing was this absolutely hilarious video. I can't stop [...]
• Zango Time! (May 21, 2007): Out of all the latest lawsuits this one is particularly hilarious. Here's the quote:Online media company' Zango, which gained notoriety for redirecting adult affiliate traffic and the first ever MySpace worm, is now suing the anti-spyware vendor PC Tools, maker of an application called 'Spyware Doctor', for removing Zango applications off the consumers' PCs.As some [...]
• Windows Live Writer (August 15, 2006): Turns out the whole idea of having a desktop app to manage and post to blogs surely wasn't a bad one. Microsoft had managed to come up with a tool that is compatible not only with their own MSN Spaces, but with LiveJournal, WordPress, MovableType and even Blogger (this post, if successfull would mean it works). [...]