Archive for 2008
Lotus Symphony for the Mac (beta)
IBM Lotus Symphony for the Mac is available, in beta. It’s currently at version 1.2 and so far I like it. It’s quick, I like the tab-based “all applications-in-one approach”, it’s cross-platform (with Windows and Linux versions also available) and, let’s face it, it’s an alternative to MS Office for the Mac. It supports OpenDocument [...]
Crunch the Grid to produce better rice
World Community Grid adds the ‘Nutritious Rice for the World‘ project. Here’s what Business Week has to say on it. And here’s a video of this new project on YouTube
TeamViewer – Windows and Mac remote access
Free for non-commercial use. Very easy to install and use. Client to client encryption. TeamViewer gives you remote access, VPN, VNC, file sharing and more between Windows PCs and Macs across any internet connection. I just connected from my MacPro at home to my work ThinkPad (and vice versa) across the Net through various firewalls. [...]
New Zealand convicts 18-year-old botherder
18-year-old New Zealander, Owen Thor Walker, pleaded guilty earlier this week to six charges of using computers for illegal purposes. Walker, has been accused of playing a key role in a gang that infected 1.3 million computers around the world, installing revenue-generating adware and stealing information worth US $20 million. Full story at Sophos.
I now have a public calendar
It sounds grander than it actually is. But, I think it’s useful. I’m now sync’ing my work calendar (Lotus Notes 7 running on my IBM ThinkPad) with my home calendar (Apple iCal on MacPro) and displaying them using Google Calendar. Only busy/free time information is available, not the detail. The result can be seen at [...]
currently setting up twitter
currently setting up twitter
Google Sites
Spotted on vowe.net … there’s a new addition to the Google Apps Suite.
IM utopia
For Mac OS X, Adium allows users to use one instant messaging (IM) client application to connect to multiple IM services. For Windows, Linux, BSD, and other UNIX platforms, Pidgin offers the same. They allow you to connect to AOL Instant Messenger, MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, .Mac/Apple Chat, GoogleTalk, Lotus SameTime, MySpaceIM, and many more. [...]
Tracking MPG online using Google Docs
Are you a trucker, cabbie, sales rep or, anyone who wants to easily track their MPG? Read on; this tip is useful if you want to use your web-enabled mobile device (smart phone, iPhone, PDA, etc.) to do it. Up to now I’ve tracked my MPG in an Excel spreadsheet. Because I seldom have my [...]
Perfect Password Process
The problem that I’m trying to solve … using a different, strong password for each online account (or more precisely managing it, so that it doesn’t go belly-up when I want to log in to site X, Y or Z). A quick audit of my (non-work related) online accounts (e.g. banking, DNS, email, FTP, ISP, [...]
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