Flowers, snowballs and outer space adventure Quad-City Times

(Editor’s note: Doug Smith’s Q-C Collectibles column will now be found in the Home & Garden section once a month. Alma Gaul’s Homefront column is on Page D2 of today’s section.) Doug: Can you tell us anything about this oil painting and its value? It is 24 inches wide by Thank…

Posted on: April 21, 2013 9:00 am

Best instant messaging clients

Truth be told, you probably don’t need a desktop instant messaging client. Chances are pretty good that you’re already in your browser, hooked in to any number of Web-based communication platforms with all your contacts Facebook, Google Chat, Skype, etc. Since you’ve already got such quick access to all your…

Posted on: April 21, 2013 9:00 am

Windows Live Messenger’dan Skype’a nasıl geçilir

Ayda 300 milyondan fazla kisiyi birbirine baglayan Skype gecis cok kolay, tek yapmanz gereken asagdaki admlar izlemek. Skype’ kullanarak, tpk Messenger’da oldugu gibi anlk mesajlar goenderebilirsiniz. Bunun yan sra Skype size, diger Skype kullanclaryla uecretsiz sesli ve goeruentuelue arama yapma imkan da tanr. Baslamak icin; 1. Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre" > Skype’i kullanmak…

Posted on: April 21, 2013 9:00 am

Google Drive, Gmail Experienced Service Disruptions Wednesday

Many of Google’s most popular and used Apps including Google Drive and Gmail experienced service disruptions on Wednesday morning, causing some panic among faithful users. According to the Google Apps Status Dashboard, its Mail and Drive services, primarily, began experiencing interruptions just before 9 a.m. EST on Wednesday. However, industry…

Posted on: April 20, 2013 7:00 pm

Do You Like the New Gmail Compose Feature?

The LA Times reports that not everybody is happy with the new compose feature on Gmail, but the product manager for the company, Phil Sharp, says it’s faster and easier to use. If you haven’t seen it already, it is a pop-up screen, a little "like G-chat, only larger" Gmail…

Posted on: April 20, 2013 7:00 pm

Google’s Venture Arm Is Backing A Rival To Whatsapp, The Messaging Startup …

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The crowded, fragmented mobile messaging app market, one of the hottest sectors in Silicon Valley, just got more crowded. Keith Teare, a veteran Valley entrepreneur, on Wednesday launched just.me, a service that claims to combine email, multimedia messaging and cloud storage in a single iPhone app….

Posted on: April 20, 2013 7:00 pm

Penton Technology Group Announces the Launch of the Microsoft Office 365 …

Penton Technology Group, publisher of Paul Thurrott’s SuperSite for Windows, has announced the launch of the Microsoft Office 365 Infocenter. This cloud computing information site will provide tips, resources, videos, tweets, and exclusive articles about various subscription plans that make up Office 365. Office in the CloudOffice 365 is a Microsoft subscription Users…

Posted on: April 20, 2013 7:00 pm

Bayer to Speak at Pharmica Consulting’s SharePoint East Conference PRWeb

SharePoint has become a recognized investment across the life sciences industry, in which its capabilities have been acknowledged for improving workplace practices and enabling them to be done more efficiently and effectively. This has generated increasing awareness for the need to have collaboration standards and best practices, along with the…

Posted on: April 20, 2013 2:00 pm

Friends of the Mystic River to hold annual Spring Cleanup on April 27

The Friends of the Mystic River will hold its 18th annual Mystic River Spring Cleanup on Saturday, April 27, from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. For the fourth year in a row, the Spring Cleanup meeting place will be at the Hormel Stadium parking lot adjacent to Mystic Riverbend Park. Volunteers…

Posted on: April 20, 2013 2:00 pm

Outlook.com app finally doesn’t look like complete crap Phandroid

Microsoft’s Outlook/Hotmail app for Android has never been the prettiest sight to behold. Even back before we had Holo its user interface was quite ugly, and although most users only cared for functionality at the end of the day, there were quite a few more who would rather put up…

Posted on: April 20, 2013 2:00 pm