This video from Stargate Studios illustrates is how TV and movie studios are using CGI to cut costs for travel and instead of adding details to a location.

Google Voice is an incredibly useful service that is sometimes misunderstood. First off it is NOT a VoIP service (yet). Although, after the Google purchase of Gizmo5 it may be soon.

What Google Voice really does is “front-end” your communications and make them much more manageable. Google has just released some really nice videos explaining some of the high points of this free service. See all of the videos after the jump.

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Tired of manually adding business cards you collect into your Address Book? Well this is a fast, easy and inexpensive method to scan these business cards with buying any expensive equipment. Of course if you are using MobileMe or Exchange with your iPhone these contacts will show up in the appropriate places on your computer also.

WorldCard Mobile, $5.99 [iTunes link] is on-sale right now and one of the best card scanners on the iPhone. I found that it scans accurately and fast. I have scanned in a bunch of cards laying in my drawer with excellent results.

I was recently asked by a client to help him buy and install a wireless network in his home. I request I get pretty often, but this had a twist. The main goal was to get a Logitech Squeezebox Radio up and running. Now the Squeezebox is not your father’s table radio as it offers thousands of free stations from around the world via the Internet as well as custom and pay sources (some are free) like Pandora, Sirius, Rhapsody, Napster and Last.fm to name a few. Interesting thing is my client is a senior citizen who loves music!

Well installing the wireless network on his already existing broadband network and getting his new Logitech Squeezebox Radio, $178.46 [Amazon link] up and running did not take long. But this experience cost “me” money as I realized that I could no longer put off my desire to buy a Squeezebox myself. So I ended up buying two! The very next day I purchased a Logitech Squeezebox Boom, $243.96 [Amazon link] for our kitchen and a Logitech Squeezebox Duet, $339.00 [Amazon link] for our family room where we have a nice entertainment system.

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