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Seems like some younger folks claim that the email is going the way of the dodo. Personally, I can’t see myself having to login to a dozen social networking websites just to keep up with my correspondence. Instant messaging replacing email on the other hand seems more likely, especially with the popularity of using mobile devices to send short messages i.e. SMS. And the (im)patience with which many people now expect an immediate reply to their messages! Don’t get me…

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Online PDF creation services are nothing new and I’ve never found them terribly exciting anyway, what with PDF creation being built into OS X and free (if basic) PDF print drivers freely available for Windows. And why bother uploading to convert when you can do it yourself by just clicking on the “Print” button? But this week I’ve found PDF Online capable of doing some that OS X’s PDF creation tool isn’t capable of – creating a single PDF file…

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Though still in beta, these two online services do a good job at file format conversion. Zamzar is a multiple format file conversion tool,  supporting not only conversion to/from Microsoft and OpenOffice formats, but also various graphics and audio formats! See here for a complete list of all formats supported. Vixy on the other hand is a lot more specialised – it converts  FLV online video files (including YouTube ones!)  into downloadable files of various formats for your computer, iPod…

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Came across this new software which also has a social-networking counterpart: Slife is a new application for the Mac OS X that lets you visualize and organize your computer activities like never before. Slife observes your every interaction with applications such as Safari, Mail and iChat and keeps tracks of all web pages you visit, emails you read, documents you write and much more. Slifeshare is a brand new site where you can share your Slife activities such as browsing…

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Despite warning bells being sounded since 2000 about the health risks that wireless technologies pose, we see more and more wireless coverage everywhere. When I started using a mobile phone about 7 years ago, I was getting throbbing headaches. The headaches no longer occur so frequently – but then, I do mostly SMSing on the phone these days. So it worries me that there’s an increasing number of wireless hotspots in schools – where children are also exposed to the…

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