Feb 16 2009 7:20PM GMT
Posted by: Ivy Wigmore
remote destkop,
Windows Remote Desktop,
Apple Remote Desktop,
CrossLoop,
PC2ME,
Jaadu VNC,
GoToMyPC,
pcAnywhere,
demos,
video,
YouTube,
how-to
Here’s a collection of demo videos for various remote desktop software. Included are: Windows Remote Desktop, Apple Remote Desktop, CrossLoop, PC2ME, Jaadu VNC, GoToMyPC, pcAnywhere
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Here, alwaysmc2 demonstrates setup and use of Remote Desktop in Vista.
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On the Scoble Show, Tom Rolander demonstrates Cross Loop.
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David’s Tech Show features a demo of Apple Remote Desktop.
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Here, rgorgens demonstrates PC2ME, remote desktop software for the IPhone.
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Topuzz demonstrates Jaadu VNC for the iPhone.
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Get Connected host Mike Agerbo demonstrates GoToMyPC.
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Symantec’s Mike Baldwin explains some of the features and uses of pcAnywhere.
Dec 23 2008 4:45PM GMT
Posted by: Ivy Wigmore
Uncategorized,
fun,
video,
free,
Skype
Did you know that 15 minutes of laughter = 2 hours sleep? Or that a good belly laugh burns 3.5 calories? Granted, you’d still have to laugh a heck of a lot to incinerate all the festive eggnog and rumballs but every little bit helps…
The Skype laughter chain is a viral marketing campaign that involves watching a video of people laughing and recording your response:
Do you have an infectious laugh? Speaking of things that are infectious/viral, laughter also boosts your immune system — why not give it a shot?
Dec 10 2008 1:20PM GMT
Posted by: Ivy Wigmore
Uncategorized,
VoIP,
Mobile,
Web 2.0,
video,
new media,
podcasting,
multimedia,
useful,
free,
lifehack,
collaboration,
gadgets,
communications,
environmentalism,
Mobile Computing,
Skype
This video takes you through the process of making free calls with Skype from downloading the software to connecting:
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This video from Skype demonstrates using the service for business:
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FrugalTech discusses more ways to save money using Skype for business:
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Kid Guru explains how to record calls for podcasting and other purposes:
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Nov 30 2008 5:38PM GMT
Posted by: Ivy Wigmore
Uncategorized,
messaging,
wireless,
Mobile,
applications,
video,
social bookmarking,
design,
gadgets,
social networking,
CIO,
demonstration,
Mobile Computing,
browsers,
Fennec
Site director Margaret Rouse and I were IMing a couple of weeks ago, which we do a fair amount of because our “office” spans about 800 miles. We were discussing a definition for Fennec, Mozilla’s mobile version of the Firefox browser when suddenly she said, apropos of nothing I could discern, “It’s so cute!”
As you probably know, IM conversations are prone to the occasional missed step or dropped thread. I wondered briefly what she was talking about. A cute browser, I wondered? But I had faith… and then there it was, a link. Here’s what I saw:
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No denying, it’s cute. But I was still none the wiser. I knew that Margaret is a dog person and, in fact, has raised guide dogs. That’s a cute pup, I said. “What kind is it?” It’s a fennec, she told me. A little fox. (Comprehension was, you’ll be glad to hear, swift and, well, comprehensive: Big Firefox: full-sized fox mascot. Small verson: small fox mascot. Gotcha.) |
At least at this point, the mobile adaptation of Firefox is named for a small, desert-dwelling fox. Here’s a video demo:
All clear? Me too. Now I wonder what this week's IMs will bring...
~ Ivy Wigmore
Nov 15 2008 4:21PM GMT
Posted by: Alexander Howard
operating systems,
virtual,
media,
data,
Technology,
fun,
video,
Internet,
multimedia,
innovation,
cool,
culture,
interesting,
futurism,
invention,
creativity,
entrepeneurship,
interactive media,
tool,
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science,
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geek,
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immersive 3D worlds
William Gibson noted recently that the cyberpunk fiction he’d been writing over the past quarter century has now become science fact. Pattern Recognition and Spook Country are both set in near-futures with technology and social norms that are only a slight extension of the complex technological realities of the present. The neural shunt that jacks you into the network he imagined in Neuromancer hasn’t quite have arrived yet but some humans now have direct brain-computer interfaces implanted in their brains.
Brad Feld appreciates this relationship between science fiction and fact as few others do. As he writes in ‘Science Fact‘ on Oblong’s web blog, the future of human-computer interaction is looking breathtaking. And, while the genetically-engineering precognitive humans Philip K. Dick imagined in “Minority Report” in 1956 haven’t arrived yet, g-speak certainly has.
g-speak is a spatial operating environment from Oblong Industries that combines a gestural interface, DLP projectors and ‘recombinant networking.” It’s modeled upon the virtual OS operated by Precrime Agent John Anderton in Minority Report, the film adaptation of Dick’s short story.
That connection is no accident. The science adviser that Spielberg consulted for the film, John Underkoffler, has been quietly busy since the film’s premiere in 2002. A few stories have popped up over the years, to be sure, but since Oblong Industries was founded in the research in 2006 he and other technologists have advanced the technology considerably, as you’ll see in the video below.
Once you’ve watched it, read g-speak in slices and about the origins of Oblong in the MIT Media Lab to learn about the potential for this human-to-machine interface and the long road to bringing it into reality..
g-speak overview 1828121108 from john underkoffler on Vimeo.
[Hat tip to Engadget's Josh Topolsky and Jamie.]
Embedded below is a 2007 report on g-speak featuring an interview with Underkoffler.
Sep 22 2008 9:10AM GMT
Posted by: Alexander Howard
Microsoft,
applications,
operating systems,
Technology,
video,
YouTube,
blog,
desktop,
Vista,
demonstration
What’s new in Windows 7? We’re still learning. Not the guts of the OS, anyway. Microsoft will be keeping the Vista kernel in Windows 7.
Thanks to a couple of videos posted on YouTube (found via thinknext via Gizmodo) we also know that there’s a cool hover effect over the new Start button:
And a substantially upgraded integrated calculator.
The date-to-date measurement feature really is pretty nifty.
