For a good friend of mine, I have to give some ‘unwanted’ advice how he can access The Internet from his ship in the Bahama’s. How impossible that may seem, the technology has advanced! Problem, case & solution description: More information: Sellers: Groundcontrol.com, and others (per country) Inmarsat (Satellite company behind BGAN) […]
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Vodafone Passport
Last week we wrote something about free International cellphone roaming with United Mobile (short: UM). The biggest advantage of UM is the cost advantage for the owner, however the biggest disadvantage, that it’s very expensive for somebody to call you. Therefore it’s not useful for my purposes. A friend of mine came up with Vodafone […]
EatCam Webcam recorder
A few weeks ago I silently posted an update to this blogpost of a software program that enables you to record webcam streams (MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Yahoo messenger). But in fact it can do a whole lot more! You can record anything on your desktop (including the audio from any source) from a selected area, […]
United Mobile
Suppose you travel a lot internationally, and you can’t or do not have the luxury of computer access anywhere to use Skype or some kind of telecommunication program. Yet you want to pickup phone calls, without the very high roaming fees. I also thought it wasn’t possible, until an entrepreneur buddy looked at me with […]
Emmen Command Center (ECC)
People that know me well, know I have a ‘thing’ going with abbreviations. This one does not stand for Error Correction Code, but Emmen Command Center. Yeah sorry, I’m proud about this one; my room aka office consists of: General computer equipment: White MSI Wind netbook (with factory default 2GB RAM, 6-cell 4400mAh battery, 160GB hard drive, BlueTooth […]
VOIPcheap
Instead of telling me how cool VOIPcheap really is, I ‘borrowed’ this information: Are you paying too much to call back home or your GF overseas? Its time to switch to VOIP and there are providers who can still give you FREE unlike Skype. If you are currently using Skypeout or any other VOIP or […]
Save costs on conference calls
Although VOIP telephony has advanced over the years, it’s still not common that everybody can use VOIP at any time at any place. In other words, it has not replaced cellphones yet. Setting up conference calls with mobile phones is easy, but not cheap, especially when you hookup people within the call from other countries. […]
