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Archive for June, 2007

Headsets are good

Saturday, June 23rd, 2007

JAJAH is running a campaign targeted at Skype’s users, campaign which focuses on how you don’t need a headset with JAJAH. Of course these days a headset is not at all required anymore for making Skype calls. Jim Courtney lists some of the options for using Skype without headset, the first one being simply to […]

Sending SMS with Skype on Linux

Monday, June 11th, 2007

Skype for Linux 1.4 doesn’t support sending SMS in the User Interface yet, but the functionality is supported in the core library used in this release, thus it is possible to send SMS using the Public API.
I have added to my Skype command-line tools a little application for sending SMS. Usage is simple, call it […]

Finding old Skype chats

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007

Skype for Linux 1.4, like other desktop clients, supports the Skype Public API, which allows other applications to make use of Skype features.
I started a set of command-line tools for Skype Linux to do various things that cannot be done with the user interface. The first of these tools allows to find and open old […]

Nokia N800

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007

Since Skype is being ported on the Nokia N800, I had the chance to use the N800 quite a bit in the last months. Last year I reviewed the first iteration of Nokia’s Internet Tablet, the N770. The N800 is definitively a nice upgrade over it, it keeps the strong points and fix some of […]

Switching to Google Reader

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007

After 3 years of using Bloglines I switched to Google Reader for reading feeds. Outside work, I spent 90% of my browsing time in my feed reader so this is a very important tool. I’ve used almost since ever web based feed readers, which are much more convenient. I always liked Bloglines simplicity, but […]