midomi mobile has been reviewed over at AAS- "midomi (there's that lowercase initial letter again - I wish companies wouldn't do this!!) is an established 'hum it and we'll recognise it' service that's been around the web for a while - but they've just launched a native S60 client, getting our attention at last.

Essentially, thousands of people round the world have used their PC's microphone to record themselves singing some or all of songs that they like. Sometimes badly, sometimes in hideous accents and sometimes out of tune, but hey, at least they bothered. The midomi servers then produce a digital fingerprint of the way the tune rises and falls, its timing, and so on. Then, when someone else wants to track down a song they've heard but can't place, they hum or sing it into their own microphone and midomi finds a match and reports what the song is. In theory."

Google added another option today that lets you sync your Google Calendar with Microsoft Outlook Calendar. You can sync your calendars either one way or both ways and check your Google Calendar in an offline mode in Outlook. This announcement appeared in the Google Calendar’s “What’s New Page”.

With Google Calendar Sync, you will be able to sync events between Google Calendar and Outlook Calendar. You can download the program here (.exe file). Once you start the program it will ask you to enter the e-mail address and password (as shown in the picture below).

You have to specify whether you want one way or bi-directional sync between the two calendars and also you need to specify the time interval between the sync.

To know more about this installation setup follow this easy to do instructions.

Since we have multiple calendars in both Outlook as well as in Google, with this Sync program, you can only sync your main calendar (default calendar) between the two.

Another advantage with this feature is once you sync your Google Calendar with Outlook Calendar, then it becomes easy to sync it with your mobiles like Palm, Windows Mobile based handhelds. Thanks to Chris.

Americans have become more dependent on their cell phones than conventional phones.

For the first time, Americans say they would have more trouble giving up a cell phone than a traditional phone, the Pew Internet and American Life Project said in a report Wednesday. Less than two years earlier, respondents still considered their landlines the most crucial technology.

"The preferences have flipped," said John Horrigan, author of the new Pew report. "During that timeframe, people have gotten new devices that have more capabilities. People have more experience using cell phones for text messaging and other information tools. That has helped pushed cell phones as `go to' devices." More at Yahoo.

Today's free eBook is Kiosk- "THE FABRIKATOR WAS UGLY, noisy, a fire hazard, and it smelled. Borislav got it for the kids in the neighborhood.

One snowy morning, in his work gloves, long coat, and fur hat, he loudly power-sawed through the wall of his kiosk. He duct-taped and stapled the fabrikator into place.
   
The neighborhood kids caught on instantly. His new venture was a big hit.
   
The fabrikator made little plastic toys from 3-D computer models. After a week, the fab's dirt-cheap toys literally turned into dirt. The fabbed toys just crumbled away, into a waxy, non-toxic substance that the smaller kids tended to chew.
   
Borislav had naturally figured that the brief lifetime of these toys might discourage the kids from buying them. This just wasn't so. This wasn't a bug: this was a feature. Every day after school, an eager gang of kids clustered around Borislav's green kiosk. They slapped down their tinny pocket change with mittened hands. Then they exulted, quarreled, and sometimes even punched each other over the shining fab-cards."