Author Archives: Dima

Google Apps Marketplace: an integrated platform for running a business in the cloud

By Dima | Published: March 19, 2010
According to Google, over the last three years more than 2 million businesses began using Google Apps. With the unveiling of the Google Apps Marketplace, one can only expect this rate to increase at an increasing rate. Simple configuration and low maintenance has made Google Apps an excellent choice for startup businesses entering the market. In [...]
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Never miss a concert again with ‘Bands in Town’

By Dima | Published: March 18, 2010
I can’t recall how many times I went to a band’s website to check their tour dates only to find out they were in town last week or last month. Luckily, I don’t think I’ll run into this again thanks to a social media app that is designed for that very purpose. Bands in Town is [...]
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Monitor your online identity with Google Alerts and Google Reader

By Dima | Published: February 25, 2010
If you’re into social media, the amount of information about you available online is likely to be growing. Keeping an eye over what web content is associated with your name is often difficult. Even harder is filtering out the new items from the old. While this tip probably won’t help you if you have a generic [...]
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Should there be buzz around Google Buzz?

By Dima | Published: February 14, 2010
Is Google Buzz yet another social media site to visit? Is it really revolutionary enough to challenge the social networking ‘default’ of Facebook and the microblogging ‘default’ of Twitter? Many are asking this very question. While Google Buzz is not revolutionary social media platform, it is different enough and good enough at what it does to [...]
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‘Google Voice Dialer’ chrome extension

By Dima | Published: January 21, 2010
Edit (1/26/2010): The official Google Voice Extension strikes back. It is lighter than the Google Voice Dialer 3rd-party extension and includes an option to make phone numbers clickable in websites for easy Google Voice calls. An open-source Google Voice Chrome Extension beats the Google’s official one in many respects. The Google Voice Dialer not only alerts [...]
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Google Voice + XMPP = GVXMPP

By Dima | Published: January 13, 2010
Edit (1/17/2010): Bummer. Service is shutdown due to ‘concerns of Google TOS violations’. Those of you using Google Voice for your SMS needs might find a new free service called GVXMPP (Twitter: @GVXMPP) to be quite useful. What does this service do? Well, it allows you to have your SMS sent to your Google Voice number to be [...]
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My top ten Android applications

By Dima | Published: December 17, 2009
My top 10 Android applications. Locale: Locale makes it so that my phone never rings in class and so that I don’t get woken up by a ‘wrong number’ in the middle of the night. Locale has been the swiss army knife of Android conditional settings. Tasker has the potential to do what Locale does and [...]
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‘Design vs. Chance’ by PZ Myers

By Dima | Published: December 16, 2009
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