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Please make that idea worldwide

hitchsters. brilliant simple idea. Sharing cab from/to airport

There is nothing more stupid than paying 50 dollars to go to an airport…

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The end of expensive international roaming

Mobile operators have charged too much for too long. Rebtel will change that forever. Check out the rates. CellCom/Orange/Pelephone wake up!

For only $1 USD a week, Rebtel gives you local numbers for all your global friends. If you don't make any Rebtel calls during a week there are no charges, not even the $1 USD per-week fee.

YackieMobile from my friend Florian is also pushing in that sense

Save 20% of your bandwith in a click

Florian just indicated me  something that really blew me. By default microsoft takes/steals 20% of your bandwith (reserved for updates)

If you don't believe me check out that screenshot below i discovered on my windows XP

So if you don't have 100% of bandwith here is what you should do (takes 10secs)

• Click Start-->Run-->type "gpedit.msc" without the "
• This opens the group policy editor. Then go to:
• Local Computer Policy-->Computer Configuration-->Administrative Templates-->Network-->QOS Packet Scheduler-->Limit Reservable Bandwidth
• Double click on Limit Reservable bandwidth. It will say it is not configured, but the truth is under the 'Explain' tab :
• "By default, the Packet Scheduler limits the system to 20 percent of the bandwidth of a connection, but you can use this setting to override the default."
• So the trick is to ENABLE reservable bandwidth, then set it to ZERO. This will allow the system to reserve nothing, rather than the default 20%. 
   

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technorati tags:bandwith, wifi, internetaccess

ABOUT SMART COMPLAINING

Israel is probably one of the only countries i know where you can negotiate virtually anything. I mean anything. For good and for bad.

Another stunning thing is that most of the time most service providers (telphone..) will not inform (or will do it in a very bad way) of a change of price of service (specially if it goes down) and i personnally ended paying more for longer many times.

Most services company in Israel hardly use direct mail (for cost reason i guess) and expect you to be aware of all terms of your contract (end of promotion, new prices published on their website,..)

Which makes me UPSET. REALLY UPSET.

And therefore you have to get used to complaining to get your point. And complaining is an art/sport that is took me time to learn in Israel. So if you are new to this country here is some tips

I will illustrate it with an example that shows how much you can earn from it.

I discovered yesterday that YES my Cable TV was charge me an Extra dollar for France 2. I discovered it by chance. which started to get me hot. Instead of sending a mail or even an email, they published a small tv message accessible only if you know to read hebrew by pressing a green button on your remote control. Meaning no chance to get the message (that mentions i will be charged automatically)

Anyway, this put me in a total rage after France 2 was stop being broadcast here and then came back after thousands of people complained about it. So here is what happens this morning.

• I called them to say i am a good customers and that when i susbscribed France 2 was included in the Package and that i did not want to pay a dime more.
• The tele operator tried to justify it (a lot of BullShit).
• I told him i was ready to cancel half of my channels against France 2 which is one of my last links to France
• Stubborn as i was the operator could not do anything.
• then i said “ I WANT TO RESILIATE MY CONTRACT”
• Then he transfered me to a special “crisis” service
• Total different attitude. The guy was ready to listen and “negotiate”
• I explained the situation. And i not only got the same package for the same price  but also a reduction on my DSL subscription.

Conclusion:

• Call once every 6/12 months your providers
• Do not hesitate to complain. Of course you need a valid reason
• Don t waste your time with the operator. Get quickly to the next level
• If you formulate right your request you ll get what you want.

I use that pattern often and IT WORKS. I got recently a Free pizza with all supplements and drings, i reduced my phone bill by 50% and even got a lot of extra miles to my frequent flyer.

Why do i do that? for the money? no (at the end of the end it is nothing).

• Because many are like me and i would like to share (specially with those new in Israel)
• because i believe this attitude can be very helpful in many desparate situation (specially when you face administrations)

LIVE TVs FOR FREE ON THE WEB

• After services that let you call for free (skype and others)
• After services that let you listen to music for free (pandora or radioblog).
• After services that let you watch movies for free (peekvid i reported here)

> Here are the services that let you watch tvs for free from your computer. You can watch in streaming quality a very high selection of real TV channels on the internet without paying a dime.

There is no doubt those services will be shut down as they are not legal, but they start to be numerous and war against them will not be an easy one.

Those services let you access TONES of TV channels for free from all over the world including BBC news, ESPN…

• http://www.medinalia.com/
• http://www.channelchooser.com/
• http://www.streamick.com/
• http://www.wwitv.com/ (by country)
• http://craftytv.com/ (tv shows)
• http://www.mediascrape.com/News/Home.aspx  (more news based)
• and http://www.streamwired.com/ (premium with free trial)

Quality is not the best but HEY IT S FREE! That is just blowing me up. Btw, this is a reason more to believe that TV+COMPUTER is an inevitable merge.

So my question is: for when a service that will let you buy products for free?

Through Miguel

GAMECUBE TO SELL

I am selling a gamecube + 3 games (super mario, splinter cell and resident evil) at the price of 90 USD. Are you interested?

tags technorati : gamecube listing good deal videogame

MEDIAMAX : GET 25GIGA OF STORAGE FOR FREE!

Forget about any free storage solution offering you 1/2/3 giga for free. Mediamax is offering you 25Giga of storage with 500M of download /share per month.

You can storage/ share / stream / view Photos, audio, sounds, files. Smart storage feature: just upload your file and it will be placed automatically in the right type file

I tried it: it is quite good although i deplore the user interface could be more sexy and upload faster.

This is the largest free storage solution on the market. When i think that Gmail, Yahoo, Boltfolio, Flickr (even typepad…)and others limit you to 1/2 Giga…Come one guys you can do better than that….

I believe in desktop dematerialization and anticipate hardware storage will be soon hard-anywhere (already wrote about it): your files in one centrale place accessible from everywhere from any device, safely guarded and backed-up.

I also believe the price of the hosted giga will dramatically decrease in the next couple of years as usage (couple with very high speed internet) will increase.

PS: if you are willing to pay it goes up to 1 tera…

tags technorati : storage free mediamax boltfolio flickr gmail any device anywhere

DOMAIN NAMES AT $2.99 ON YAHOO!

Instead of $ 9.95. Hurry it is a limited offer.

“Domains, Web Hosting, and Merchant Solutions discount fee offers expire on and must be redeemed prior to 1/25/2006”

PS: precision i have no Yahoo shares on no Yahoo affiliation programm, it is just a pure tip

edgeio-key: 4df7b8dabd7f1754bac84b8837b27bacc8b5c1b5

 

tags technorati : cheap domain names domain

SAVE MONEY ON AMAZON BY USING A9

I just discovered that you can save 1.57% on amazon by using A9. That s not negligeable if you are buying a lot on amazon. How?

1. Go to A9.com
2. If you are not already recognized by name, click on the "Sign On" link on the top right hand side of page. Use your Amazon.com User Name and Password to sign in
3. Make sure you are signed in every time you use A9.com
4. Search!

You are supposed to be eligible to the reward programm after “a few days” of use of A9. But amazon does not precise how much you have to use A9. The regularity is the key factor to keep the elegibility (but again what is elegibility). Apparently they can generate this rebate thanks to sponsored links revenue although you don t have to click to get the rebate.

More here

One metaphysical question: How did they they calculate 1.57%? why not 1.58%?

One business question: will that make a difference? Don t know.

My Tip: before you buy your product on amazon, first search for it in A9, even if you know exactly what you need. like that you get your reduction

tags technorati : amazon a9 save money
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INTERNATIONAL MOBILE ROAMING IS DEAD

An israeli company launched a sim-card that you can take with you anywhere in the world and that will enable you to receive anywhere calls for free when abroad without subscription! You probably know that when you are out of your original country your mobile operator takes you (lots of) money for receiving calls! Now you will pay only if you call. Ok you will have a new number but you just have to do a redirect! Mobile operators should re-think their model as more initiative like those will catch up soon everywhere. I know for example that many tourists that came to israel this summer bought local sim-card to receive calls only...

 

Could Skype launch a sim-card and extend its international skype-out/in offer to mobile users? They started with wifi users, but the next step is not far.