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Free AIM Mail

June 17th, 2005

Hey, I’m absolutely in love with AIM, and where the service is going. It has a nice email box, comparable to Google’s Gmail.

In my opinion, Hotmail, now officially in last place of email providers, its 250MB, way too many ads, and weak spam filters. Yahoo comes in 3rd, but its ads are overwhelming, Gmail in 2nd because it doesnt have an AIM client yet, and the privacy concerns, however has the biggest capacity (2.2GB), AIM to me at this point seems to keep adding more features. AIM is now at 350-buddy capacity now, per AIM arcitect juberti.

My email is jvmanna@aim.com

Personal

Prank Calling with VOIP

June 8th, 2005

So I now have the ability to record and prank call people and its fun. Its great to prank call ISP’s and just get them to say stuff and even release info.

AZ State law says that there can be a “zero-party notification” so long as I own the telephone line. Federal law (calls crossing interstate) indicate that one party must know. So its legal and fun. I owe a lot of what I do to Audacity.

Funny, Personal

Apple Switching to Intel from PowerPC

June 6th, 2005

Apple will be leaving the PowerPC Processor (Motorola+IBM) and moving to Intel (x86) architectures. This can mean more competition for Microsoft, and hopefully a price drop for their goods. However, both Microsoft and Apple rape their customers for their money so we’ll see how this all works out.
Apple + Intel

Steve Jobs announced at the WWDC keynote today that Apple is switching to Intel processors. MacNN has live coverage. The bottom line is that Mac OS X for the last five years has been running on Intel, the switch is expected to be complete in two years, and Rosetta will allow PPC apps to run on Intel-based Macs, transparently. If you’re using Xcode, it is small changes and a recompile; otherwise, you might be seeing a lot of work ahead of you. You will be able to order the 10.4.1 preview for Intel today.

(Source: Slashdot)

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