Apreche.net

A few weeks ago I discovered a great service known as Qunu. Qunu is a Jabber-based service which allows anyone to offer or request free technical support. Most of the support relates to, but is not exclusive to, open source applications such as Linux, Firefox, PHP and MySQL. I’ve been using it mostly to help people. In fact, I don’t think I’ve asked for help once. I guess that’s appropriate since I don’t have computing problems, because I avoid or solve all of them on my own. Read more…

Apreche Technology IM

Hey look at this! Two blog entries in two days. I’m finally getting around to doing something slightly useful with my downtime at work. Anyway, you might be aware of Skype’s recent free SkypeOut for the rest of the year on calls to the US and Canada. Because of this I’ve started to keep Skype running on my work PC during the day. Like other IM systems, Skype has a setting in which you tell the world you would love to be contacted by strangers. Out of curiosity, I have enabled this setting. The results are a bit surprising. Read more…

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