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Have you ever called a company, wanting to just talk to someone about your account or your order and you just get caught in this automated voicemail? Have you ever gotten frustrated that the voice recognition thingie couldn’t recognize your voice or the options didn’t have what you were looking for?
Well, usually, I just hit “0″ whenever I heard an automated message or if they asked me to say what I need, I always say “Representative.” This USUALLY gets me to a HUMAN that I can talk with. …
After all those rumors of Google coming out with an IM service, they have released Gtalk. I downloaded it and installed it and it’s pretty cool. Very clean … just like everything else Google makes and it’s connected to your Gmail account.
But, it’s only for the PC. So, if many people are going to GTalk, what about on the Mac? Well, here are instructions on how to use your GTalk account on Adium and talk with other GTalk users. Or here are instructions on how to …
Here’s some helpful tips for this weekend … have a great July 4th weekend with family and friends:
How to Photograph Fireworks
Shooting Fireworks with a Digital Camera
Photographing Fireworks in Your Backyard
Everything You Thought You Knew About Grilling Is Wrong
More Grilling Tips
If you’re curious about what July 4th is all about, check out Wikipedia.
Ok, is it just me or is LA traffic getting WORSE! This is crazy. You can’t go anywhere without it.
Well, here’s something to help you out. A couple of months ago, Stephen Kim (HS teacher) programmed a very clean, simple traffic site that lists the average speeds at each exit. I love it! I ported it over to my webserver and use it to check traffic on my Treo 650 all the time. You know traffic’s bad when you have to check it even …
Finally, after blogging for about 9 months now on WordPress, I have found a way to cross-post to Xanga. What does that mean?
That means that whenever I post an entry on my blog (www.kyeschung.com/blog), it will post it on my xanga (www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=kyeschung) automatically! So, now people can subscribe to my xanga and still see the entries. My xanga is not just a placeholder anymore, but with updated entries. Now, I still prefer WordPress and my blog over Xanga anyday … so then why do this? …
Big day for Mac News:
As rumored, Apple will use Intel chips beginning 2006.
As rumored, the new iTunes will have podcasting built-in.
Quicktime 7 w/H.264 is now available for PC.
Next Mac OS X will be called Leopard, keeping with the cat names, and will be release late next year, right around Microsoft’s release of Longhorn.
As rumored, we have successfully converted ALL pastors of YNEM to Mac Powerbooks (Pastor Kevin just got his this weekend).
A big day for Apple … and for YNEM.
Man, I can’t wait for these to drop in price!!!
Google has done it again. I have had Google as my start page for YEARS. Now, finally, at Google Labs, they’re developing (you can start using it now!) basically My Google. So, at your google search page that you opening thousands of times a day, you’ll have Google News (which I think is the best news site), Gmail preview (which I’m finding that NO one uses Yahoo mail or Hotmail anymore), Slashdot (one of my favorite cutting tech news sites), and Google maps (which is now by …
I’ve been using Google Maps as my online map over Yahoo or Mapquest. It’s the easiest, cleanest, and fastest. That’s Google for ya.
And if you weren’t sold on Google Maps before, they JUST added satellite view. You can even do directions w/satellite view. Now that’s cool!
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