LogMeIn's Ignition for iPhone Provides Sleek Remote Access. -Glenn Fleishman LogMeIn is the first service I recommend for those without MobileMe accounts who want to establish remote screen connections to computers under their control. The LogMeIn Free service, available for some time for Mac OS X and much longer for Windows, allows a browser-based session that's better than VNC, Leopard's…
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HAL's Pals: Top 10 Evil Computers. To celebrate the 2001 supercomputer's birthday, Wired.com opens the pod bay doors to reveal Hollywood's most malevolent thinking machines. [Wired Top Stories]
First-ever interactive dictionary to teach Aboriginal language. The first interactive Aboriginal language CD and dictionary was launched at Sydney University, marking the most comprehensive attempt to protect and preserve an Indigenous dialect in recent times. The CD Gayarragi, winangali - Find and Hear was launched by UTS Professor of Law Larissa Behrendt, a Yuwaalayaay woman (Narran River near Walgett) whose…
Google Earth's Virtual Prado Museum. Madrid's Prado Museum has long been a destination for art lovers. In the company of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, the Louvre Museum in France, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Prado is home to countless masterpieces of western art. Unfortunately, the options for viewing its contents have always been either…
Web education is out of date and fragmented. There are good people working hard to change this, but because of the structure of higher education, it will take time. As part of a year-long journey to discover where we are in web education and where we need to go, Leslie Jensen-Inman interviewed 32 web design and development leaders. The consensus:…
Reconfiguring government-public engagements: enhancing the communicative power of citizens. This working paper considers the implications of emerging trends in online communication, such as social networking tools and blogs, for governmental engagement with the public. [Creative Economy : Topic Articles]
Apple to Release iPhone on June 29th. Through a trio of commercials, Apple has revealed that Friday, June 29th will be the release date of the iPhone. The ads demonstrated some of the iPhone's unique combination of capabilities, including watching video, a "glass" (key-free) keyboard, rich email, and integration with Google Maps and local results (see "iPhone Seeks to Redefine…
Apple Improves MacBook Pro. Apple revamped its MacBook Pro line of portables today with faster processors, better graphics capabilities, 802.11n wireless networking (removing the need to run an enabler), and screens that are backlit using LED technology. I need to remind myself that the MacBook Pro I bought last November is still a perfectly fine machine for my needs, and…
New Version of Google Analytics! Today at the Emetrics Summit in San Francisco, Brett Crosby and Jeff Veen unveiled the new version of Google Analytics. We will be activating this new version on all current Analytics accounts over the next few weeks, so please be on the lookout for an email from us and keep an eye on your settings…