I just came across this very useful tool: ColorPicker.NET. It’s a color picker, nothing else. But I guess I’m hardly the only one who’s thought about writing something similar himself… it certainly does the job nicely.

Carrier Devices have announced their PDA2 and PDA2K handsets of the i-mate brand will come preloaded with Skype software. These devices apparently come with wireless LAN anyway, so this should work just as well as the PocketPC version of Skype does on my iPAQ — which is very well. But even if you can do it yourself: I think this is a great effort to integrate technologies… I wonder what the mobile phone companies will have to say about this. I should mention that this story is reported at Ge… …

There’s a new independent (and inofficial, AFAIK) web site at www.skypetips.com which lists news, a FAQ, ratings on addon hard- and software for Skype and many other things. Looks to me like they might be sponsored by somebody, but then it’s the only site I know of which offers this combination of information relating to Skype. Check it out!

UPDATE: Right after writing this, I found another site that accumulates information on news about Skype: http://skypecentral.jyve.com/. It seems to em …

I just stumbled upon a very useful free tool that I didn’t know yet: Wink. Their own description from the website says:

Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software (like a tutor for MS-Word/Excel etc). Using Wink you can capture screenshots of your software, use images that you already have, type-in explanations for each step, create a navigation sequence complete with buttons, delays, titles etc and create a highly effe …

Connectotel has introduced a service (currently in beta test) where mobile phones can be used to send messages to Skype users. If you use Skype and you want to be able to receive messages sent to you by SMS, all you have to do is add a pseudo user to your contact list. In short, this is what you do:

• Register a Skype contact called “smsgateway”.
• Send an SMS message with your mobile phone to the number +447747782320, formatted like this:

skype johndoe This is a message to johndoe
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