I stumble upon ReadtheWords.com service this week. And it’s really a cool service to create podcast as summarized below:

Read The Words via kwout

I tested the service submitting a ReadWriteWeb blog post via an URL. The result is quite good. Once created the podcast can be downloaded, embedded in a web page or listened directly from [...]

The popularity dialer is a web service designed to simulate phone call:
With "The Popularity Dialer", you can plan ahead. Via a web interface, you can choose to have your phone called at a particular time (or several times). At the elected time, your phone will be dialed and you will hear a prerecorded message that’s [...]

On windows XP, the process SVCHOST.EXE is a mystery for most people. If you check your task manager, you may have several instances of this process running. On my XP home edition I have actually 7 of this processes. Microsoft describes SVCHOST.EXE on this document by the following sentences:
“At startup, Svchost.exe checks the services part of the [...]