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slydial Officially Opened to the Public With New Features

Back in April I wrote this post, 5 Reasons to Use SlyDial, A Service That Connects You Directly To Someone’s VoiceMail, which at the time slydial was in private beta. Yesterday that all changed and slydial is now open to the public and sporting new features. Just to recap, slydial allows you to [...]

Freebie: Practice Foreign Languages With Rosetta Stone SharedTalk

When I was in high school I took 3 years of Spanish but never practiced it and thus over the years have forgotten what I learned.  I went to Cancun, Mexico this year and got by on very broken Spanish and the luck of the Irish of meeting many people who spoke very good English.  [...]

5 Reasons to Use SlyDial, A Service That Connects You Directly To Someone’s VoiceMail

SlyDial is a free service from MobileSphere, the creators of the text messaging application Joopz, that lets U.S. and Canadian people connect directly to someone’s mobile phone voicemail without their phone ringing.  You may be asking yourself why would I use such a service.  Others have been wishing for a service like this for [...]

iTunes Only: iTunesU Gives You Free Access to University Content

I’m fairly new to iTunes but had to start using it when I got my iPod Touch.  I don’t use the iTunes store, do download some podcasts though, but never saw the option for iTunesU.  So, I was pleasantly surprised after watching a brief segment on CNN that mentioned iTunesU that I had access to [...]

Free Versions of Camtasia Studio and SnagIt from TechSmith

TechSmith is offering free versions of Camtasia Studio, a screen recorder that creates videos of what is happening on your computer screen, and SnagIt, a screen capture program with an editing tool included. The catch is that these are older versions of the software packages. These are Windows only programs, other operating systems [...]