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Google Communication

I’ve got a Google Voice invite…
You are invited to open a free Google Voice account. To accept this invitation and create your account, visit https://www.google.com/voice/

If you haven’t already heard about it, Google Voice is a service that makes using your current phones much better!

Here’s what it offers:

  • A personal phone number that rings all of your existing phones when people call
  • All of your voicemail in
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Everyone is offering me free phone calls!

It’s amazing just how cheaply we can talk to each other now. The other day I had a two hour Skype video call with someone, later that same person phoned me using a cheap call service and it cost him zero pence per minute; so after finding out the name of this company and signing up I can also now make free phone calls during the day.

On Friday I needed… Continue reading

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Bitlbee

While sitting downstairs chatting on IRC through my serial terminal, I thought it’d be great if I could also chat to people on Google Talk through it. I had a quick search of the web and came across Bitlbee:
BitlBee brings IM (instant messaging) to IRC clients. It’s a great solution for people who have an IRC client running all the time and don’t want… Continue reading

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Blue Arsed Fly Mode *Engaged*

Amy went off to visit some people in Doncaster today, leaving me at home to do some tedious school planning. We almost missed the train to Doncaster, me dropping her off at the station and saying “I’ll ring you in five minutes to see if you made it” and her running into the station.

I went for an amble around Maplin for a bit, coming out with a new A/V switcher… Continue reading

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The Internet is a wonderful thing

I am currently listening to CB radio over it using the really cool WebSDR. I am listening to two people in Norwich talking to each other, and someone from Hanover. However I have no receiver, but am using the Internet and a receiver in Holland. Cleverly my computer is running a software radio receiver and doing all the frequency tuning and decoding. The system is really cool.

It’s like… Continue reading

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