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Always the Last to Know – JAJAH @Call

Got something short to say (under 2 minutes)? Know the person’s Twitter handle, but not her phone number? JAJAH @Call can hook you up – literally.
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September 24th, 2009 | Elizabeth Engel | Comments | Continued

Always the Last to Know – ReadTwit

Having trouble keeping track of all the interesting links that come into your Twitter feed? Having trouble figuring out which ones MIGHT be interesting (and which are NSFW) from all those shortened URLs? Sick of clicking on the same, albeit good, link 27 times because of the RTs? ReadTwit can hook you up – links are de-duped, expanded, and scraped into your existing RSS feed.
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September 15th, 2009 | Elizabeth Engel | Comments | Continued

Always the Last to Know – Wolfram Alpha

Wolfram Alpha is – as far as I know – the first workable Web 3.0 search engine. It seems to work best answering math and science type questions, but I suspect that’s an artifact of its creator.
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August 31st, 2009 | Elizabeth Engel | Comments | Continued

Always the Last to Know – Streamy

Having trouble keeping track of all your socmed outposts? Streamy can help. (It even incorporates FriendFeed.)

Streamy Welcome from Streamy on Vimeo.

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August 10th, 2009 | Elizabeth Engel | Comments | Continued

Always the Last to Know – Fennec

Mozilla is releasing a version of Firefox for mobile devices. Called Fennec, after a small Saharan-native fox, it’s still in alpha release, but if you’re a Firefox-head who wants to help, they need you!
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August 4th, 2009 | Elizabeth Engel | Comments | Continued

Friday Top 5

The Top 5 Things that are AMAZING about my new MacBook Air:

SOOOO light. Under 3 lbs. Really.
Not dependent on MS. For anything. (Open Office, yo!)
Lightning fast (especially compared to my old laptop).
Slick-slicky-slick design (’cause you know Apple’s all about bringing the cool, sexy user experience).
The widgets! I have THREE different NFL/sports news widgets installed for my dashboard! Love!

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July 31st, 2009 | Elizabeth Engel | Comments | Continued

Friday Top 5

The Top 5 Things that are AMAZING about my new MacBook Air:

SOOOO light. Under 3 lbs. Really.
Not dependent on MS. For anything. (Open Office, yo!)
Lightning fast (especially compared to my old laptop).
Slick-slicky-slick design (’cause you know Apple’s all about bringing the cool, sexy user experience).
The widgets! I have THREE different NFL/sports news widgets installed for my dashboard! Love!

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July 31st, 2009 | Elizabeth Engel | Comments | Continued

Always the Last to Know – Hohm

Yes, I’m actually promoting something from Microsoft. In other news, if 4 scary-looking guys on horseback show up, DON’T LET THEM IN!

Microsoft has recently launched the beta of Hohm, a site that allows you to track your home energy use. Data-driven decision making? We haz it.
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July 28th, 2009 | Elizabeth Engel | Comments | Continued

Always the Last to Know – new NACHRI web site

OK, I’ll admit – I wasn’t the last to know about this. But our new web site looks awesome, particularly compared to its highly-cluttered predecessor. Check it out at www.childrenshospitals.net.

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July 23rd, 2009 | Elizabeth Engel | Comments | Continued

Always the Last to Know – PureText

Hate it when you copy-n-paste text and all of a sudden, there’s all this wacky formatting you can’t seem to fix?

PureText will hook you up with clean copy-n-pastes.
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July 20th, 2009 | Elizabeth Engel | Comments | Continued

Always the Last to Know – Google Chrome OS

I swear, sometimes it seems like Google launches a new major product every week. But this one’s big – a full operating system based on the Chrome browser and the Linux kernel, designed to run netbooks. And the code will be open sourced later this year.

ReadWriteWeb has some (very good) unanswered questions, but somebody’s trying to eat Microsoft’s lunch.
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July 14th, 2009 | Elizabeth Engel | Comments | Continued

Always the Last to Know – CoTweet

OK, it’s still in “private” beta, which means you need to ask if you can join the test (and, according to reports, you may not necessarily be approved), but CoTweet provides a really slick way for more than one person to manage more than one Twitter account. Like, say, if you need to manage your personal account(s) and one or more organizational accounts – and maybe responsibility for those organizational accounts are shared, too.
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June 11th, 2009 | Elizabeth Engel | Comments | Continued