by Minter Dial | May 6, 2009 | New Tech
A useful game? Have you heard of Google Image Labeler (GIL)? The Google explanation says that the service is still “new”, although according to the Wikipedia entry on GIL, the service was put into beta mode in August 2006. Google Image Labeler is designed...
by Minter Dial | May 2, 2009 | Marketing, New Tech
State of the Spam Business How many legitimate (non junk or spam) emails do you receive in your inbox? It may come as a surprise to you that only 3% of the world’s supply of emails are legitimate, at least that’s what a recent Microsoft survey says. On a...
by Minter Dial | May 1, 2009 | New Tech
If you are looking to import your Hotmail address book into your Apple Mac Mail, here is a nifty application created by Steve Roy: Address Importer Software. It is free for the first use (he asks for a $10 donation thereafter). I have used it just once and it took me...
by Minter Dial | Apr 5, 2009 | New Tech
To read the author’s pre-released blog post (written March 5, 2009), Wolfram Alpha, the new search engine due out in May 2009, is a kind of combination of the Theory of Everything meets Einstein’s Google. The author, Stephen Wolfram, is the father...
by Minter Dial | Feb 18, 2009 | New Tech
My wonderfully witty friend David, in Schweiz land, came up with a new term that I would like to share with you: webiquity It is a neologism for web & ubiquity. As in “Minter is definitely webiquitous.” If you google webiquity, the word has been used...
by Minter Dial | Nov 29, 2008 | New Tech
Out of every bad thing, something good! I was doing a scan on Google this morning and found a new link to my name. The link opened up in a new tab and immediately said it was searching for viruses, powered by “Microsoft Defense-Live-Scan.” The dangerous...