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Plaxo dials the phone for you
CNet is running an interesting story titled Plaxo gets hip to VoIP about a new service from the Grand Unified Address Book company that takes the computer out of VoIP. Basically it works like this: You click on a friend's phone number in your Plaxo address book and immediately Plaxo calls you. As soon as you answer, it dials your friend and connects you. You know, just like a regular phone call, except that you don't have to press all those pesky buttons. Okay, so aside from being handy for the uber-lazy, there is a twist: The first five minutes of your call are free, and after that you pay less than two cents per minute in the U.S., or slightly more for international calls. This, I'll admit, isn't half bad: You get most of the savings of VoIP with none of the headset-wrangling. Sounds perfect for the grandma who's just figuring out web browsers but would give up at the sight of something like Skype.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Dave said 4:05PM on 5-26-2006
Plaxo is a "RIP-O". I tried their premium product for 29 days...cancelled within the 30 day trial...but was charged anyway. Now after 10 emails and a month later, I STILL have not recieved a refund of my $60. STAY AWAY from Plaxo...at least anything but the free stuff.
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