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My Telecommunication Changes Takes Effect Today Monday November 10, 2008

What I’ve Got Now

1) HOME ACCOUNT (About $180/month)

* Home/Business phone line with the extras
* Digital TV
* DSL Internet

2) MOBILITY ACCOUNT #1 (About $50/month)

* My cell phone with basic extras
* My wife’s cell phone (buddy plan)

3) MOBILITY ACCOUNT #2 (About $90/month - big hits over summer overages)

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Clipperz - Yes I’m Now Storing All Of My Personal Login Information Online!

Out With The Old Ways

You know .. it was cool when you were asked by your browser to “Remember?” the login and a cookie was saved on my computer and the next time you went to the site - all the login information was actually remembered.

But lately … it seems that my Zone Alarm is deleting my computer’s cookies or, certain sites are starting to detect that I am accessing it from two different computers (my desktop and my laptop) and keeps requesting me to login from scratch - the biggest is all my blogs that are on version 2.6 it would seem.

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Foxmarks - Synchronizes My Firefox Browser Bookmarks - Better Than Del.ici.ous Ever Could

Here’s another useful tool when trying to “live in the cloud”. I am constantly adding new bookmarks to my top toolbar, or as normal bookmarks .. and it’s frustrating that when I go onto my laptop, I can’t remember the site URL .. yet alone the username and password!

By the way - in case you are wondering what I mean by “bookmarks on my top toolbar” .. I mean that I have added the “Bookmarks Toolbar” firefox extension to my browser, and instead of the long list of bookmarks from the top menu (or favorites) that we are accustomed to … I have pretty much the “quick jump” links to all my sites that I repeatedly go to every day. Consider it like pinning your favorite sites to your START/Start Menu - except instead, it’s all the favorite sites!

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Toodledo - Getting to Know You - My New Online “To Do” List

Since I’m consciously trying to “move into the cloud” as much as reasonably possible, and figuring out better and more useful ways to utilize GMAIL to my needs … it’s been quite empowering to me to be able to jump to computer to computer and not only access my emails, but the history of my emails.

ToodleDo.com

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I Want To Live In The Cloud - Results Of My GMail Experiment

At 11:07pm on July 27, 2008 (while on vacation) I cleaned up my Gmail account, and went into all of my cPanel accounts and began to forward all of my email to the Gmail address. I wrote about this on my post called The GMAIL Experiment and I will now display the results.

First Of All …

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