February 13, 2012

mBox becomes eFax

fax machine

At some stage during July, my internet fax and voicemail provider mBox sold out to eFax. I’ve searched my inbox and can’t see any record of correspondence advising me of this. I had been an mBox customer since February 2004. I received a fax from mBox on July 8. The next one on July 23 [...]

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Pixlr online image editor

Pixlr image editor

It’s a long time since I looked at an online image editor. With Photoshop CS3, who needs them? Well, they can actually be quite handy for editing pictures grabbed from the web. I’ve been using Pixlr for just that purpose lately and I’ve been most impressed. Pixlr is a flash-based editor with all the tools [...]

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Kindle hype overstated

I’m something of a gadget man and early adopter, especially when it comes to media and communications. I can’t get excited about the kindle though. In its current form the electronic reader is just too one dimensional. Much of the hype is coming from newspapers, which have a vested interest in promoting the platform. In [...]

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Top 30 innovations of the last 30 years

Early last year, Knowledge@Wharton released a list of the top 30 innovations over the past 30 years. I’ve just discovered the article, but it’s still thought provoking to ponder the technological changes that have occurred in three decades. The list is as follows, in their order of importance: 1. Internet, broadband, WWW (browser and html) [...]

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ADSL service

I’ve switched my broadband account from iPrimus to Internode. The Primus account stopped working on December 24, but the new account isn’t active yet. Guess I must wait until Tuesday (December 28) because of public holidays.

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