Thursday, August 13, 2009

What is Dimdim? - Dimdim: Web conferencing that just works. Dimdim provides easy, open, affordable collaboration. Use for online meetings, eLearning,

What is Dimdim? - Dimdim: Web conferencing that just works. Dimdim provides easy, open, affordable collaboration. Use for online meetings, eLearning, desktop sharing, training, distance education, unified collaboration, webinar, free web meetings and more.: "Dimdim lets anyone deliver synchronized live presentations, whiteboards and web pages and share their voice and video over the Internet - with no download required.

Remember how hard it was to get your music into your pocket before the iPod? Well, you know how hard it is to get your web meetings started on time? We made it our mission to create a web conferencing system as easy to use as the iPod. With Dimdim, a single click is all it takes to meet."

http://www.dimdim.com


Thursday, August 6, 2009

Free Remote Access for Home and Personal Use from LogMeIn

Free Remote Access for Home and Personal Use from LogMeIn: "Access Your Computer Remotely from Anywhere – Free.

• Available for PCs and Macs
• LogMeIn Free gives you fast, easy remote access to your PC
from any computer with an Internet connection
• Access your home PC from the office
• 100% FREE to use!"

Thursday, July 23, 2009

VirusTotal - Free Online Virus and Malware Scan

VirusTotal - Free Online Virus and Malware Scan: "Virustotal is a service that analyzes suspicious files and facilitates the quick detection of viruses, worms, trojans, and all kinds of malware detected by antivirus engines. More information..."

Monday, June 29, 2009

YouTube as a Medium for Community

Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University, gave a talk at the Library of Congress about YouTube and its role in the participatory culture. He explains how one of his videos, Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us, became very popular in just a few days and how this popularity took him by surprise. The video was remixed, translated, it was the starting point for a conversation at a global level.

To find how people communicate on YouTube, Professor Wesch and his students studied YouTube and the way anonymity, interactivity, authenticity and popularity define it as a new medium for community.

YouTube as a Medium for Community

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Test Your Site in Different Browsers Using Adobe BrowserLab

Test Your Site in Different Browsers Using Adobe BrowserLab

If you create a web site, a difficult task is to test if it looks properly in most of the browsers and the operating systems that your users are likely to use. Unfortunately, this requires that you install multiple operating systems, buy more than one computer or use virtual machines.

An easier way to test your site is to use online services like BrowserShots, which generates screenshots for a web page in more than 80 versions of the most common browsers used in Windows, Linux, BSD and Mac. The process takes time and you may have to wait up to an hour to see the screenshots.

Adobe BrowserLab is a recently-launched service that has the advantage of generating screenshots almost instantaneously, but the number of browsers that are tested is smaller: Firefox 2.0 (XP, OS X), Firefox 3.0 (XP, OS X), IE6 (XP), IE7 (XP), Safari 3.0 (OS X). The service has an interesting "Onion Skin View", which superimposes one screenshot over another to see the differences between the different renderings. BrowserLab is integrated with Dreamweaver CS4, but you don't need to buy the software to use the online service.

"Cross-browser testing has been one of the biggest challenges for Web designers because it is such an arduous and time-intensive task. Now with Adobe BrowserLab, designers have a simple solution that enables comprehensive browser compatibility testing in just a matter of minutes," says Adobe's Lea Hickman. The bad news is that the service is free for a limited time.