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Technology has brought us so far and coupling them together can bring some pretty innovative new things to our world. One of these things is GetABuz, a voiceplayer for your webpage, blog, MySpace, or Facebook. It is exactly like a voicemail, except it works on the Internet and uses a microphone or a cell phone to record and listen to messages online. To spice up your messages, you can make voice greetings with music that is preloaded on the website or you can upload your own. Either way, the music is free the very first time and costs around 50 cents to use in another message. The only way you can get free background music is if you refer a friend. One friend referral equals a free song.

To listen to messages left by visitors to your website, you can either go to your page, or you can listen to them via your cell phone if you choose. Friends can also send messages from there phone to your page and be optionally sent to your cell phone straight away.

The Voice Messager is absolutely free and you can customize it almost any way you like including the colour and picture. This is all put into HTML and is then very easy to put on your page. Finally you go back to GetaBuz and personalize your greeting to welcome your visitors everytime they come to your page with your favourite music and a clip of your own voice. No need to copy a new code, it's all automated which saves a whole lot of time.

For Canada the cell phone service won't be available but hopefully it's in the works. US carriers that can use the sites cell phone service include: Virgin, T-Mobile, AT&T, Sprint and Verizon. To get more information go to GetaBuz.

I hate iPod owners because of all the accessories they have available to them but this one gets me the most. I've always wanted an easy way to connect my mp3 player to a large stereo system so I could blast it in my home. Denon has come up with a solution only for iPod owners called the Denon ASD-3W for $230 plus wireless and the ASD-3N for $180 which is the wired version. Now don't get confused as I did. Wireless in this case only means it can wirelessly connect to your computer, not the stereo. Either way you need to wire your dock to the stereo using RCA cables. The only benefit of connecting it to your PC is to stream live online radio through your speakers which to me is not worth $50. Both models include a remote and they only support iPod video and Nano. The great thing about the remote is that it will then show controls on the TV instead of the small iPod screen. You can also view pictures and video from your iPod onto your giant TV screen. It overall is still something basic and is not anything spectacular and personally I wouldn't spend $180 on it. A good price range would be $40-$70 but that's just me.

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Microsoft is yet again trying to expand and this time they are mostly competing with Google. Specifically they are rolling out a version of Google Docs called Microsoft Office Live Workspace that is currently in public beta. I have signed up but it hasn't accepted any members yet.

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