Hacked Gadgets – Looking for an inexpensive home automation system that can be controlled remotely? Look no further than Twitter and iLink INSTEON.
Using Twitter, a new social networking site, you can set up your laptop and connect it to your light switches (or any other electrical device) and control the device by sending text messages to your twitter [...] read more
Personal TechThe Red Ferret – Canadian startup Fonolo have declared war on automated phone menus, or as they call them “phone trees”. Fonolo’s proprietary investigation system spiders through all the available options in a phone menu, records all the options and turns them into a visible menu system displayed in a web browser.
To use a company phone menu you simply [...] read more
9 to 5 Mac – UK advertising regulators have laid down the law, telling Apple not to repeat a TV ad for the iPhone – because it exaggerated the device’s internet capability.
The offending ad showed a finger touching the iPhone’s weather icon, showing the forecast for Cape Town and then navigating through [...] read more
Appletell – y relationship with Intuit is definitely a weird one. It’s been on and off for years now, and while I can’t deny I’m not entirely satisfied with the treatment they gave Mac users in general, I still find myself falling back to their products. At least Quicken, with all its known faults, is one product I like. [...] read more
