Tech WizardTechnology Reviews in the Coolest Way!

One of the problems I have in communicating with my friends is that they all use different email applications: hotmail, yahoo, gmail, hushmail, mail.ru. There is no rhyme or reason to the applications they use and we can’t do instant messaging unless we both share the same email program. Skype is great, but you have to download software onto your machine which I try to avoid doing because this tends to clutter up and slow down my machine. I would prefer to use a free browser based web application if I can.

I encourage Coolwizardz.com users to try out www.ChatMaker.NET. The look and feel of the site is decidedly Web 2.0. The website is lightweight, downloads quickly and is simple enough to use that even my grandma or the friendly librarian that is not technically inclined could easily learn how to use the site. You type in a chat room name, press go and Presto! you have created an instant chat room that you can email to your friends or insert into a community or personal site for your instant communication needs.

The site is very popular with forums and related sites. Some of the communities recently using ChatMaker.NET include chess players, stock market bulletin boards, dating sites, religious groups, chihuahua dog lovers and mafia webgamers so as you can see the website has universal appeal to a wide variety of users not unlike our very own coolwizardz.com site. One reason for the popularity of the site is that users are not required to register so this is a good choice for instant on the fly conversations where you need to set up an impromptu conversation between a lot of people.

The weakness of the site is that they don’t have the smiley faces, the frowns, the angry looks and all the other emoticons that you see on other instant messaging sites. The functions are basic and at least they offer a help window to the tools they do have. The site has recently added secure, private chat rooms so they are now targeting the small business market. I tested a secure chat room out and found it works. As always have fun, but do it in a cool way!