Monthly Archives: June 2008

Have your Skype calls announced over the speaker

By Mark O’Neill
Contributing Writer, [GAS]

I am on a bit of a Skype roll at the moment. My girlfriend is finally starting to see the attraction of it as one of her best friends has moved to the US and so she is on Skype a lot right now chattering away for hours as girlfriends are prone to do (I’m sure a lot of male GAS readers will relate to this). So I am using the situation to persuade her to start moving a majority of our phone calling over to Skype. It really is amazing how much money you can save in the long term by switching to Skype and you can get a normal phone number for non-Skypers to call you on too.

A program which I have been playing around with for the past couple of days is AudioID for Skype. This suits me perfectly because I am a lazy slob at heart. My idea of exercise is lifting a TV remote control or a pizza box so this free piece of software which allows me to pre-screen my Skype calls is a God-send. Now I only have to lift my butt off the bed for people I deem worthy!


Move over TinyURL, here comes TinyPaste

By Mark O’Neill
Contributing Writer, [GAS]

Here’s one for all you wordy blowhards out there who go totally nuts at Twitter’s 140 character limit, yep all you people that think that Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” is just a bit of casual light reading for a Sunday afternoon.

If you absolutely love to write on and on without any kind of restraint whatsoever, you now can! TinyPaste will give you a free text box in which to write your huge masterpiece unhindered and without any character limits. You can then post it online wherever you want.

WiFi Hits the Road with New Car-Based Networks

By JR Raphael Contributing Writer, [GAS] The road trip is about to be revolutionized. Chrysler has just introduced an in-car WiFi system that’ll let you surf the net while on the go. Uconnect Web — unveiled at a company event in Detroit today — will be available for all Chrysler, Jeep, and Dodge models by […]

Implementing virtualization: Techniques and Tools for Microsoft Windows Conversion

Since a lot of you guys are IT professionals, I thought I would point you to an interesting whitepaper we have on our free magazine portal. Here’s a short summary. Most IT professionals know or suspect that virtualization of computer systems may have an important role in their organization’s evolving infrastructure – though where and […]