Then this evening I hear about the Qipit website which promotes sending documents in just that way. Use your camera on your phone to take a picture of a document and then share that document using the network connectivity of your phone.

Qipit does more than just send documents. You can also just store them, actually fax them, email them or even publish them directly on the web if you choose. All of that with just your phone and a picture.

Chances are, you carry a cell phone with you everywhere you go. And more than likely, that cell phone has a camera. Qipit turns this handy device into a portable scanner, copier and fax machine, and the user-friendly Qipit service also works with your digital camera at home or the office.

The patented image-processing science behind Qipit is complicated, but the concept is simple: use Qipit to capture and share anything written or printed. Whereever you’re at. Whenever you need it.

As you use Qipit and share your documents, the Qipit website keeps track of your documents for later use or retrieval if you need them. I just signed up to use the service, I like what I see and will be giving it a try from my own phone soon.

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If you haven’t done it, I really recommend you lookup the business you do business with all the time and register for whatever they have. These can be restaurants, online retailers, bricks and mortar retailers, golf courses, etc. Just about anything you can think of really. Here’s a list of some places I received email from this week with freebies.

• AMC Theaters – Free Large Drink
• Qdoba – Free Burrito
• Uno Chicago Grill – Free Entree
• Arni’s (Local Restaurant) – Free 2 Topping 7" Pizza
• Buca di Beppo – Free Dessert
• Logan’s Roadhouse – Free Nutter Butter Fudgeslide Dessert
• Fazoli’s – Free Dessert
• Champps – Free Mile High Ice-Cream Pie
• Rainforest Cafe – $5 Off Coupon
• The Melting Pot – Free Chocolate Fondue for Two
• a local golf courses also gives a free round on your birthday for signing up for their newsletter

That’s just a short list. I haven’t pursued many of these places, just signed up for things as it’s come around. There’s probably $100+ in savings just in that list alone.

I would recommend setting up an email address with an one of the free, online services to use as your email address for these types of things though to help control overwhelming your primary Inbox with these types of things and to help provide a bit of a filter for spam.

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I’m still working on some in-depth feature improvements. Texting isn’t new, unless I can get it to really work this time then that would be an improvement. The discussion about what’s new with social networking stuff included a twitter icon and YouTube, but still working on what’s involved in that change.

A WordPress application is new. Being able to publish to a WordPress blog could be interesting. Tried to install the app though and there was some kind of error. Will try that again later.

Some other cool applications related to images are abundant: flickr, Photobucket, MyPhotos and even Picnik for editing all of those images. The list of applications starts to remind me of the early days of Facebook.

Still can’t figure out why they’re showing the twitter icon. Let me know if you figure it out.

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After mentioning a comment about hosting though recently, someone sent me a link for the 10BestHosting2009.com website.

The website provides their list of best websites based on price and services. There are some sites that provide better price than I’m paying now for sure. My problem is that it’s such a pain to switch hosting companies. I’ve got 50 plus clients that I’m managing and I don’t even want to contemplate the amount of effort it would take to migrate and change all those websites to a new host and email provider.

But if you’re looking to setup your first website or to make a move to a new host for whatever reason, go uncover some options for yourself at 10BestHosting2009.com website.

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Image: Screen capture by Jason Bean

Gmail has this setting where you can tell it to always display images from a certain recipient. That’s a really good feature because it gets annoying to always click on the "Display images below" link.

The problem is that it doesn’t matter either way. No matter how many times it appears that I click on the "Always display images…." option instead, I always have to click on it again to see the images in an email.

Where does this setting get stored? Is it a cookie? Do I lose it when I have Firefox clear private data? Is that why I sometimes also lose my Google search preferences?

Let me know if you have that answer, that would be great!

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It’s been awhile now since I first started struggling with trying to figure out why Yahoo! Mail always kept forgetting who I was when I would login and tell them specifically to remember me.

Now I can say that they do remember me and I’m not sure if it was really their fault to begin with anyway. I finally cleared all my cookies and cache setting, deleted my Google Bookmark that I was using and even switched my default browser from IE7 to Firefox back and forth a couple of times. I know, I was just taking stabs in the dark at that point.

The good news is though that Yahoo! now remembers me. Now if I could just figure out what exactly caused it so I’ll be sure and not repeat the problems again.

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Maybe I haven’t clicked on an image attached to an email in my Yahoo! account for quite some time, but I think this is new.

Yahoo! Mail now uses the “lightbox” functionality and feature to let you preview and see image attachments in your e-mails. In the past I think I’ve always just clicked on file name itself and downloaded the images to view them, but bad aim this morning caused me to click the image itself and I got this preview.

It’s a minor thing but I think it adds a lot to the page as for the aesthetics and functionality for users.

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One thing I’ve done from the beginning of my days on the Internet has been to take advantage of free e-mail addresses from places like Juno, Yahoo!, Hotmail and Gmail. One of the newest providers I’ve come across is GMX and I’ve been happy with them so far, even though I still don’t use them as a primary provider.

One thing I’ve never done is relied upon the e-mail addresses provided by whomever is my ISP at the time. The problem with that is if you ever change ISP’s you’ve got to let everyone know your e-mail address changed as well. That’s just too much of a pain for everyone to keep up with when it does happen.

A feature I really like about GMX even though I haven’t started to use it yet is that I can consolidate all of my e-mail to that interface if I desire.

Another feature GMX has that I just recently saw though is a built-in, online file storage solution. They even have a File Storage Manager tool that you download to your PC to mirror and manage your online file storage on GMX’s servers.

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