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Wake Up On Time with Wakerupper

March 2nd, 2008 · 2 Comments

Wakerupper is basically a service that calls a telephone exactly when you want with the message of your choosing. According to the company:

“Wakerupper is an experimental service that aims to make telephone alerting as easy and inexpensive as possible. In one easy step, on one simple web page, Wakerupper enables users in the United States and Canada to schedule telephone reminder calls.”

Today I got an email inviting me to be a beta tester for the servce (yay, right on time!) and it is working great. Details on how it works are below.

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Tags: Efficiency · technology · the internets

The Engagement Heard ‘Round the World

January 14th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Did you know that when you surf the web that the sites you visit can tell where you are located?
I sent out an engagement announcement email in December that directed readers to a web page.  Evanwilder.com is able to tell where site visitors are physically located and this map shows that in detail.  The map […]

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Tags: Wild.er · technology · the internets · wedding

How to: Add a Event to your Calendar with just a Phone Call to Jott

December 8th, 2007 · 1 Comment

How often do you find out about an event that needs to be on the calendar but you are far from your organizer? Since you know I love tools that keep me productive I want to show you this new way to get things on your calendar by talking it into your phone. […]

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Tags: Efficiency · How To · technology · the internets

I Wrote a Blog Post with My Voice on the Phone

December 7th, 2007 · No Comments

Did you know that you can blog with your voice? This is my first attempt to that, I am on the phone right now and I am sending a message to my blog, hoping that it will show up, somehow, somewhere. I let you know how it goes. Bye. listen
Powered by Jott

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Tags: Efficiency · technology · the internets

New Yahoo! Music: Listen from the Web

November 29th, 2007 · No Comments

The new Yahoo! Music has an great new function that allows you to listen from the web site to any of the 2 million+ tracks in their collection as long as the music is in a playlist. To enjoy this unlimited music on the web install the Firefox plugin on your PC. […]

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Tags: entertainment · music · technology

Verizon Adds Service and Charges Without Consent

November 28th, 2007 · 3 Comments

A couple of weeks ago I told you that I took my internet provider business from Comcast to Verizon hoping for better prices and service. I had my first hiccup with Verizon this week: the second bill arrived and it included charges for items that I did not order and never used.
The items that […]

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Tags: isp · technology