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WarDrive-Proof Your Windows with GlassLock SpyGuard Window Film!

GlassLock SpyGuard. It sounds like your special spy name from one of those Internet name generators, doesn’t it? But it’s actually a real product. Remember when Aunty told you about the DefendAir paint you could use to paint your house, or at least a room, to keep your wifi from…

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Channel Surf Wherever You Are with MobiTV Cellevision for Cellphones, OMN for the Internet

Never miss a show again! You can take it with you! Internet tv, and even cellphone television, are now a reality! Introducing OMN (Open Media Network) for the Internet, MobiTV for your cellphone! Wow! Cellevision! Aunty has actually tried MobiTV, and she has to tell you, it’s pretty darned neat….

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Do You Suffer from Email Domain Shame? Many AOL, Hotmail, Yahoo and Other Users Do

Have you heard about “domain shame”? Do you, perhaps, even suffer from domain shame? Or maybe you are one of the legion of users who identify those who should suffer from domain shame? The term “domain shame”, recently coined by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Don Fernandez, refers to how you feel about and how others perceive that bit to the right of the “@” symbol in your email address.

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Free MP3 Downloads at Amazon!

Ok, now that you know to avoid the virus which deletes MP3s, here is some happy news. Did you know that Amazon offers free downloads of songs in MP3 format? Yep, it’s true! At any given times there are 200 free songs at Amazon, free for the asking (and the…

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Get a T-Mobile Sidekick II for Free!

Yes, you read that right! Get a T-Mobile Sidekick II (a/k/a the Danger Hiptop) for free! Actually it’s better than free! Believe it or not, right now, after rebates, you will make $50.00 when you buy a T-Mobile Sidekick II Danger Hiptop! Of course our readers will remember the T-Mobile…

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At Long Last: Sync Your Sidekick with Your Mac with Markspace’s New Missing Sync for Hiptop

Many of our gentle readers know that I adore my T-Mobile Sidekick (also known, hardware-wise, as the Danger Hiptop). Despite the Sidekick being in the news lately primarily due to Paris Hilton’s Sidekick being hacked, it is a wonderful little device, providing always-on email, AOL Instant Messenger, web browsing, and…

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Goowy Mail: It’s webmail! It’s a desktop client! It’s two, two, two look-and-feels in one!

From the fine people who first brought you Geocities comes Goowy mail. Goowy mail is, so far as Aunty knows, the first commercial scale web-based email application built on Flash. This allows Goowy to offer a free webmail service, which you can access from any Internet connection with a web…

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Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg Disses Verizon Wireless Customers: “The Customer Has Come to Expect So Much”

Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg obviously hasn’t read How to Win Friends and Influence People, and clearly has a thing or two to learn about customer service and public relations. In a recently published interview he actually derided Verizon Wireless customers who want their cell phones to work in their house…

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Hate Stupid Adsense Ads? Laugh at Them?

Don’t you just hate stupid Adsense ads? And stupid Adsense ads are everywhere, aren’t they? Well, turn that stupid Adsense-induced frown upside down, dear reader, because now you can be part of a glorious chance to laugh at those stupid Adsense ads! So, here’s your chance! Submit the most ridiculous,…

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Homemade iPod Mini “Tiny Machine” Ad by George Masters Takes Internet by Storm

iPod Mini fans do lots of interesting things with their tiny machines, but George Masters has taken it to a new art, literally. Masters has created the ultimate advertisement for his tiny machine, basing his homemade iPod Mini commercial on, appropriately enough, a song by ’80s pop group the “Darling…

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Podcast? The Who, What, When, Why, and Where of Podcasts and Podcasting

A new kid on the Internet block is the Podcast. It has gotten a lot of attention lately, but the majority of people have no idea what a Podcast, or podcasting, is. Many assume that it must have something to do with iPods (only partly true), and so must have…

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MSpot: Cellphone Radio for Your Internet-Capable Cell Phone

With all the Internet nasties now available for all Internet-connected devices, Aunty thought that she’d also tell you about an Internet goody. MSPot is offering MSpot Radio, which is a service which delivers radio broadcast to your Internet-connected cellular phone! MSpot Radio is already online, with thirteen different channels of…

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Free Citywide Wifi – User Boon or Starbucks Devil?

The city of Dayton, Ohio, has gone online with city-wide and city-sponsored free wifi. And Dayton is not the first city to do so. In Dayton, anyone within a mile square of the Dayton downtown area can connect to the Internet, completely free, through Dayton’s free wifi program. The program,…

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Buy a Geek Book – Get a geek T-Shirt Free!

ThinkGeek is offering a free t-shirt with any $10.00 purchase, this weekend only. Now, Aunty knows that your favourite source of information about the Internet and all its nasties is Aunty herself, but there are other worthy reads out there. In fact, Aunty herself has reviewed the fantastic Spam Kings,…

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Wifi Chips Used for Tracking Location of Assets

Forget RFIDs (although Amal Graafstra won’t be able to any time soon). Barcoding, Inc., has announced a system that uses regular old wifi to track physical assets. Being called a “Wi-fi asset location system”, Barcoding explains that it works by placing a special wifi chip on each physical asset which…