Just stumbled across this today and thought it was mention worthy. I don’t want to give a full review yet because I really haven’t gotten the chance to start using it. I’m talking about Jott. It’s a free, and simple, voice to email tool.

I stumbled across this thing at 5:00 and it’s now 5:18 and I’ve already got everything setup and had time to power up my blog to make this post. Everything is an absolute breeze. Even the confirmation process is flawless. You call a number and the second your call goes through, the page your on updates and shows the confirmation. Sort of hard to explain, but you should register just to see it! What a great idea of using caller ID to verify.

Here’s how it works. Sign up first. Once your registered and have confirmed your email and phone number, import your contacts from Outlook or whatever. You can do it manually or import from a .csv. In outlook, just goto File -> Import export. Follow the directions and only export your contacts. Simple!

Now for sending an email. you call up the toll-free number where you are then prompted for the contact name. Jott then repeates the name for confirmation and then you can speak your email. I’ve tried a few and have yet to find a single spelling mistake. Not to mention its very quick to. I got the emails seconds after I spoke them.

For some of the down sides….of course they add their own signature at the bottom of the emails, so this thing isn’t business ready just yet. It’s still in Beta afterall. It would also be nice to have the option to SMS someone a message, instead of only emailing. Not necessary, but would be a nice touch. That’s about it for the negatives.

The site, from a design and usability standpoint, is incredible. The layout is simple and clean and also very effective. As for navigation, I would give it a 7 / 10 though. It’s a bit rough to get to where you want at first. Once you get past the learning curve though, it’s pretty easy. I’m lazy though and want things to be instantly simple.

Think I’ve said about all I wanted to. Check it out for yourself and let me know what you think!

I honestly can not believe I haven’t heard about this much. I’m a social bookmark fiend and have yet to really hear….alright, alright! I guess I’ll be the first to try and make this thing as public as possible.

Microsoft has had a virtualization solution for a while now, but their newest release opens up some pretty cool options. Virtual PC 2007 from Microsoft is FREE! Yes, the juggernaut of software has released an invaluable tool for all us computer nerds out there. You can download it HERE. They even offer some pre-built OS’s that you can run. One has a version of IE 6…talk about a dream come tru to web designers! No more asking your buddy with the old machine to check out your site…just install Virtual PC and add the pre-build VM.

Now..to the really good stuff! LINUX WORKS on this. Mind you, it takes some trickeration to make Ubuntu (Gutsy Ribbon Gibbon…haha..typo fix) to work right. But a little browsing through some forums and you’ll be up and running. By the way, the mouse and display issues are addressed HERE.

I also came across a pretty interesting site that lists all the OS’s and which ones work and which distros have some issues. What worked, and what doesn’t!

I hope I helped a few people out..and HEY! What’s better than FREE, especially coming from Microsoft. Enjoy! And I want to hear what kinda of crazy machines you get running.