xm and sirius merge

yep, for anyone who has not already heard, the two satelite radio companies are merging. this does not really effect me because i do not subscribe to either of these services, but this has got to be horrible news for anyone who does. i generally frawn upon this simply because competition is the number one thing that drives quality of any service.

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Open Your Favorite Instant Messanger Via a Web App : meebo

Want to access your IM service from a computer that does not have it installed? jump over to meebo! there is support for aim, yahoo, google, and msn. have fun! and thank me for the great link! :)
meebo.com

oh and just a tip regarding IMs
tired of msn messenger ALWAYS launching on start-up? i personally hate anything launching that is not needed, and msn messenger drove me nuts! here is how to stop that: open my computer. go to C:..Program Files. rename the folder "Messenger" to "MessengerOFF"

Youmail

youmail is a voicemail service that serves as an alternative to the service that your service provider provides you. i have not tried this out because my phone service is not supported. if you are a verison, cingular, or t-mobile customer, you might want to check it out, there are some cool features. one example is the ability to assign different voicemail messages for different numbers. and make it so some people cannot leave voicemail at all.

www.youmail.com

spoofcard

not really condoning the use of this seeing that it could be used very maliciously, but i personally like to know that services like this exist and like to share the knowledge with people. simply put, spoofcard is a service that allows for caller id spoofing.

www.spoofcard.com