This is a pretty neat service! As usual on my quest to find something out of the ordinary and useful I came across this site (mosio) which lets you text a question using your mobile phone and you can get upto four answers. Yes, you do have friends and families to help you out with your queries but I can bet they dont know answers to all the questions you have.

These questions are answered by real people who are referred to as QnAgents. You might think the service is pretty silly as you can have answers through google mobile and other app but as far as I know google mobile wont help you answer ” What is the most beautiful country in the world?”, yeah its silly but sometimes its just plain fun. Think of having an arguement with a friend or a colleague and nobody can help you answer the question, this is when Mosio service comes in handy. Although in Beta it worked fine for me.

Before you can use this service you will have to check if this service is available for your phone. I have my service through Sprint so it was available and as far as I can see they have all the major carriers so you shouldn’t have a problem. Here is the link to test your phone, test my phone

To try it out text a question ( anything ) to qna@mosio.com and get 4 free answers by real people. Let me know through your comments how your experience was, as for me it was fun and its just another service that I learned about.

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This service is outstanding and it is simply groundbreaking, in the sense that it is free and it is available for home users and not just for professionals. Work N Play is proud to bring you the information on a multi–user video chat application which supports upto 6 people simultaneously.

Oovoo, still in Beta is an application that will let you chat with your mom,dad,brother,sister and yes the annoying uncle and aunt as well, all at the same time via different computers. Since this service is free it makes it even more tempting to try it out and as you can guess I did. When I used this application to chat with all my annoying co-workers, I didn’t have any problems with the application whatsoever ( although I did end up closing after chatting for 5 minutes, that’s how long I can handle my co-workers for ).

You can use this application to send video messages and file to other oovoo members and video messages to people who don’t have this application as well. In my opinion this software worked great and it is an option for us, home users, to be able to chat with multiple people at the same time. A great way for people who work from home and have the need for conferencing without paying a dime ( Yes, it supports only upto six people at a time but still its better than nothing ).

The Beta version currently is out for Windows only but Mac version is said to be out anyday, so Mac users bundle up some patience and wait!

For updates on Oovoo please visit Oovooworld

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I am not someone who enjoys looking at websites made in Flash. But this website, upshot just blew my mind. Please have some patience and let this site load and you will see what I am talking about.

After the site loads double click on one of the links that is shown

After that see the ball guide you to where you want to go.

Its just fun watching this site come to action.

This site is simply the best site I have ever seen built entirely using Flash!

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We have all wondered and pondered looking at some websites and the services they provide. How the heck did they do that? What programming did they use? What technology is behind this awesome webpage? Well, the answer is here. Builtwith is a web based website profiler that lets you quickly look up all the technologies implemented in creating a website , example google, msn, etc. This nifty website is capable of capturing and identifying widgets, analytic tools, hosting software, advertising networks and the list goes on and on. After you finish reading this post visit www.builtwith.com and see it for yourself. The biggest reward anybody can get from this website is learn what others are using and implement those technologies for their own good.

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Due to this one service PC tuners might soon be a thing of the past. If you have a fast broadband connection you can use this service to find hundreds of full screen shows from major broadcasters. The best thing about this service is unlike the TV tuners you don’t have to wait to watch what you want. You simply click the channel you want to watch and browse the show and click and there you are ready to watch your show. And to top it all off Joost also has a social networking feature which you can use to chat while you watch your favorite show. And to make the deal even better, it is free.
www.joost.com

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One of the main things that I found as a major drawback on iPhone is that it doesn’t have Instant Messaging capabilities. Although the SMS ( texting ) interface looks like iChat you can use it only to send text messages. I hope you read the previous post before this where I wrote about meebo.com. Yes, just go onto http://www.meebo.com/ on your iPhone’s browser and use meebo’s services to chat. All you need to have is a username and password for whatever Instant Messaging ( AIM, Yahoo Chat, Google Talk, MSN ) you use and voila! There you are chatting on your iPhone.

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