scattered technology news

Splash Power - Monday, January 31, 2005

A new type charging base for all your cell phones and portable devices. Looks like a mousepad and all you do is plug it in and place your cell phone on it. When you do so you cell phone will start to charge itself because of an electromagnetic field the pad creates. No wires to needed exept to plug in the pad. And also can charge multiple units at once.

http://splashpower.com/solution/overview.html

Free Movielink Download - Wednesday, January 26, 2005

Southwest is offering a free movie download from Movielink. The downloads are 100% free and 100% legal. Once you download the movie, you have 30 days to watch it, but if you press play you must watch it within the next 24 hours. Quality is great and download time is short.

http://cs.silverpop.com/movilink/southwest_airlines/1

Microsoft Anti-Spyware - Saturday, January 22, 2005

Microsoft just launched a BETA version of their upcoming Anti-Spyware program. This will never be able to replace an actual Anti-Spyware program (ex: McAfee, Symantec, or ext.). But this will still be better to have than not having any protection. links: MS Anti-Spyware Home Page | Download Page | (If you don’t alreadyhave it Windows Service Pack 2)

Skype 1.1 - Monday, January 17, 2005

Skype just launched a new version of their program. Has many new great features. The best feature is that it allows you to chat in groups of up to 50 people and maintain the same quaility!!! Program now allows you to have aliases and even tray alerts like all other IM programs. Can share contact lists with others. Program size is smaller and also runs faster. Really fast file trasfers. Also allows the callto://sahaskatta feature. (ex:Skype ME) Also has a new colorfull GUI.

DVD Shrink - Monday, January 17, 2005

Use DVD Shrink to rip and burn DVD’s.
Info at (http://www.dvdshrink.org/what.html)
Need Nero to burn ripped files to a DVD. (http://www.nero.com/us/nero6-ultraedition.php).

DVD Decrypter is also another alternative which can be found on a Google Search.

Gmail Invite Spooler - Sunday, January 9, 2005

Click Here visit the gmail spooler site @ isnoop.net. Just enter a fake email address: _______@dodgeit.com (ex: sdkflja@dodgeit.com) then go to dodgeit.com then enter the email you used and your gmail invite should be in your inbox. Make sure you don’t leave the invite in the inbox because someone will take it because it’s an open account.

Update: (6/11/05) Gmail has asked isnoop.net to close down all their Gmail invites spoolers. If you would still like more Gmail invites please visit FatWallet. (Go 2 last pg of Gmail post)

TiVo Desktop 2.0 - Monday, January 3, 2005

TiVo released Desktop 2.0, which now allows watching videos on your TiVo from your computer. You can also save the videos for watching later and even burn them onto DVDs. This only works for TiVo Series 2 units with HMO (Home Media Option.pdf) enabled. Also update will be sent to random users for the first few weeks, so it may take some time to receive your update. To get your update faster click here.