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Pay it square - nice tool to recoup your money



Did they pay? Who still owes money? Where do I stuff all this cash while I wait for everyone to pay-up? Here are some questions you probably don't want to deal with but since you volunteered to be a group treasurer, team manager or money person, you're stuck with.

PayItSquare might be of some help to people like you who are collecting and recording amounts of cash for a group. The beauty of it is people can pay you online via their credit card or a paypal account and you get paid immediately through a paypal account.

We asked Brian Anderson, the founder of PayItSquare, what the service fee was. Here's his response:

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Filed under: Business, Internet, Utilities, Web services, Google, Microsoft

Pay version of Google Apps for your domain coming soon?

google soon to be charging for apps for domainGoogle Apps for your domain allows domain owners to host email services at Google in a similar format to Gmail, with the added benefit of using their own unique domain. Administrators also have the ability to activate Google Talk, Calendar, custom start page, and domain web pages for different user accounts that they create. Google is expected to soon add Docs & Spreadsheets to this list as well, making it a complete online office solution for businesses. But BusinessWeek reports that Google will soon begin charging companies a subscription fee of a few dollars per person, per month. Business users are used to feature rich applications, so this might take some getting used to when it's released in full to the marketplace.

Microsoft has also unveiled Office Live where businesses can have access to web based email, calendar, project and task manager, and a customer organizer for $39.95/month. Zoho has a Virtual Office suite it has brought to the market that has no cost for individuals and $3 per user per month for an online hosted solution, and up to $295 per year for an on-premise solution consisting of webmail, calendar, web docs and sharing, tasks and reports, contacts, notes, bookmarks, instant messaging, WAP access, announcements, and multi-language support.

Filed under: Internet, Utilities, BlackBerry

Digby saves the day for Blackberry users

It's your mother's birthday and you remember on hole two of a day of golf with the guys. No worries, you have Digby.

DigbyDigby is a new free service for BlackBerry users that allows you to send flowers and buy DVDs and other products using your credit card right on your BlackBerry. The service is an online marketplace that sells products from big names like Godiva, The Vermont Teddy Bear Company, and FTD.com as well as several others.

The interface has descriptions and photos of all of the available products and gives you the ability to browse through the catalog and place orders even when your phone is offline. The service has an aimed transaction time of 30 seconds or less, so you to quickly find what you need, send it, and go about your day.

If you're the person who always forgets birthdays and special events the service can be programmed to remind you and be linked to the address book and calendar in your Blackberry making sending last-minute gifts a piece of cake.

Filed under: Fun, Apple, Google

Google has very loyal followers

google has very loyal followersIn a recent study, Google was found to have some of the most loyal followers according to recent studies.

The studies looked at online services, computing, and consumer services divisions of the IT world. The surveys measured the importance in customer's eyes, and which overall services you would recommend.

Apple and Symantec were also ranked high on the Satmetrix survey.

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Build the highest tower with 99 Bricks - Time Waster

Wrapping your mind around a simple game like 99 Bricks is harder than you might imagine. The object of the game is to build the highest possible tower using only 99 pieces. Sounds easy enough, but you're playing with Tetris pieces and distinctly non-Tetris physics. If you screw up, you don't just leave gaps that you could have used to score points, you cause your whole tower to wobble and collapse.

Pieces also don't lock to a grid in 99 Bricks, the way they do in Tetris. You can wind up with pieces slanted diagonally, and there's an edge of the board that your toppled bricks can fall off of. 99 Bricks is kind of like Jenga, in that it's almost as satisfying to watch your tower crumble as it is to play seriously. Once you get the hang of the way the pieces behave, it's an addictive little game.

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