Cuil.com, PutPlace Promotion and Skype Out

Cuil.com – Building a better search engine

If you want to try out cuil.com visit http://cuil.com.

PutPlace – A Free Offer for Newstalk Listeners

PutPlace launched its paying service quietly last week.  PutPlace.com offers secure online backup for home users so they can keep their valuable photos, music, documents and videos safe from disk crashes, theft, coffee spills and computer viruses.

Normal users get a 30 day  trial and then must signup for the full paying service. But The Right Hook listeners can avail of a free service from now until Christmas fby  registering using the promotion code “hookie”. See

http://putplace.com/hookie

for all the details.

Three – Call Phones abroad with Skype

The new Skype service from Three allows you to “Call Phones Abroad” using Skype. The cost for these calls is deducted from your Skype credit immediately after the call terminates so you call immiediately work out the costs. Some minor gotchas to the service,

• Skype Out addresses in your Skype addressbook do not appear on your phone. Instead you use the “Call phones Abroad” menu entry (bottom left of the Skype phone application). This allows you to look up numbers in your local address book on your phone.
• Call credit on Skype expires if no calls are made in an 180 day period, so make sure not to lodge too much credit if you don’t plan to use the service regularily
• Call quality can be patchy as you are using the Skype network

Note: You do not incur data-plan charges when you use the Skype service on Three.

Zyliss Potato Peeler – I want one

Saving Money with Technology

Imagine offering free broadband for phone call usage

Imagine is offering free 3MB broadband circuits for business users that make over 125 euros worth of phone calls a month when purchasing their phone package.

Barcamp Cork is on the 1st November

Barcamp is coming back to Cork on the 1st of Nov. Head on over to barcampcork.com and register.

Facebook is Opening its International HQ in Ireland

Another coup for the IDA in persuading Facebook to come to Ireland. The ability to wash their European profits through a 12.5% tax regime has to help. Apparently their is 70 jobs in int.

RealDVD – The Game is on

We spoke a few weeks ago about RealDVD, an apparently legal way to rip/copy your DVDs for home user and storage. Well the studios have another idea and have gone all legal on Real Networks ass. The punch will continue for quite some time. Studios are apoplectic about the opportunities to “Rent and Rip”, Real Networks says it doesn’t remove the copy protection.

Cheap ways to save money online for businesses

• Google Apps for Domains – Setup up your email, calendar, messaging, docs and spreadsheets for free
• Get on the Internet with a business site for 4.95 a month with Blacknight. Automatic installation and upgrade for all your favourite internet packages
• Install Skype and get free phonecalls on any PC to anybody else with Skype installed
• Change your mobile phone provider (anybody who signed a deal in the last year is probably paying more than they should)
• Don’t buy a new PC, just add more memory at crucial.com (simple memory upgrades)
• Install OpenOffice instead of upgrading to Office 2007, its no harder to learn and you’ll save yourself a fortune in License fees