Leading Hands Through Technology

Get Your Chat On Your iPhone

Marc Majers — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:18:42 +0000

Chat rooms have been considered in the same light of highway rest stops these days. However ebuddy is out to change the misconception by creating a smart little application. With ebuddy you can connect all your popular instant message software MSN, Yahoo!, AIM, ICQ, Google Talk and even Facebook on one single list. I downloaded the [...]

Discover The Best Twitter Apps

Marc Majers — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:49:19 +0000

Leading Hands is constantly talking about Twitter and all the apps that make using the communication sensation easier. We started a rudimentary list of apps to get you started down the Twitter Highway, but if are now a Tweet-o-holic then you need more apps. Discover a better way to surf for twitter applications with One [...]

PayPal Accounts For Kids

Marc Majers — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:36:07 +0000

My mom and dad taught me how to manage money with my first paper route. I took my modest earnings down to the bank to have my parents co-sign on the account; the shiny new little checking book made me feel like an adult. Now parents can provide the same lesson by opening up a [...]

Big Events Shut Down The Net

Marc Majers — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:02:59 +0000

The net is still in diapers. Every time a big event happens, the Internet seems to experience lag and major websites just simply shut down. When Michael Jackson’s funeral was held during a weekday in the middle of the afternoon, the world watched the event mostly at work online. This event alone seemed to cause [...]

How Do You Comparison Shop?

Marc Majers — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:33:30 +0000

At the conference today, we reviewed e-commerce systems and it got me thinking about websites that compare products. In the past, Leading Hands has reviewed many comparison sites and today I finally heard about Price Grabber. If you are not familiar with Price Grabber your missing out on a comprehensive comparative rater. Search thousands of products, [...]

Have you tried Boxbe?

Marc Majers — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:20:52 +0000

What is Boxbe? from Randy Stewart on Vimeo. Boxbe is a free service that guarantees you’ll get emails that matter to you. It connects with popular services like Yahoo, AOL and Gmail to clean-up your in-box. Boxbe works like the email on popular social networking sites. You add users to your approved senders list. If senders [...]

AOL’s New Free Online TV

Marc Majers — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:00:53 +0000

AOL is constantly looking for ways to regain their web dominance, so why not dabble in free internet TV? Google last year bought YouTube and are phasing out Google Video. NBC has been highly successful with Hulu, so AOL is not attempting to cash in streaming online video entertainment. Slash Control features free TV shows and [...]

Google It, You Big Dummy!

Marc Majers — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:38:07 +0000

“Hey pop, what’s this old piece of junk?”, exclaims LaMont. If Fred Sanford was alive during today’s Internet Revolution, he would have inevitably told LaMont to just “Google It, You Big Dummy!”. There are so many times throughout the week where I’m about to ask someone, “What was that?”, then I realize all I have to [...]

Squidoo, Summary Pages For Real Life

Marc Majers — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:13:25 +0000

Squidoo site says, “We are a popular publishing platform and community that makes it easy for you to create “lenses” online. Lenses are pages, kind of like flyers or signposts or overview articles, that gather everything you know about your topic of interest–and snap it all into focus.” Basically Squidoo lets you create your own [...]

Recruit with Twitter?

Marc Majers — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:22:12 +0000

A friend of mine just found a career by answering an ad they saw on Twitter. Some organizations are now solely using social media to advertise for a jobs because the demographic with the right job skills are clamoring in these communities. Why not advertise to a group you’d like to hire? One job recruiting [...]