DimDim Offers Quality Video Conferencing for Free
My Clippings September 4th, 2009 by System
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If you’re looking for a video conferencing solution for your office, you could invest in a hosted and managed solution like WebEx or GoToMeeting–but in both cases, you may wind up paying for features, support, and licenses that you don’t want or need.
DimDim is an alternative video conferencing solution for small businesses, consultants, or anyone else who wants video conferencing capabilities but doesn’t want to spend a lot of money or lock into a multi-year licensing contract. All of the features you’d expect from a video conferencing tool are there: the ability to share presentations, desktops, work together on a whiteboard, and more, all through your Web browser. Best of all, for most users it’s free.
One of DimDim’s best features is that the entire service is accessible
through your Web browser. You don’t have to download special software
to start or host meetings, share documents and Web pages, or even
broadcast video from your Web cam. All you have to do is sign up for an
account, invite your attendees, and start your meeting. Attendees don’t
have to download anything either: they simply log in to DimDim using
the meeting credentials you supply to join your meeting.
DimDim also has features most people would attribute only to large,
enterprise video conferencing services; you can make any attendee in
your meeting the presenter, you can pass the microphone or Web cam
around among participants, mute your attendees if you’re giving a
presentation or leading an online class, share documents with your
attendees, or chat privately with them if you want to discuss something
but don’t want to inturrupt the meeting.
Basic accounts at DimDim are free. You get all of the standard
features, and free accounts allow you to schedule video conference
meetings of up to 20 attendees. If you’re looking for a solution that’s
a little more customizable, you can upgrade to DimDim Pro for
$19/month, which gives you easier access to DimDim support and meeting
spaces that can be branded with your company’s logo. You also get
access to some additional collaboration tools, unlimited meetings with
up to 50 attendees each, and access to dedicated servers and faster
meeting performance.
How To Develop Websites On Linux
My Clippings August 29th, 2009 by System
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In this article we will look at tools that can help those of you who want to develop websites on a Linux platform, from powerful text editors to desktop and system features. How do you edit files remotely without FTP plug-ins? What are package managers, and why they are cool? In which Web browsers can you test your applications?
I wish I could cover many more topics: using the command line, basics of Vim, Nautilus features in detail, Nautilus scripting, neat command line tools, basic server configuration and many others. But if I addressed all of the issues that arise from time to time on the Internet, this article would turn into a small book. This isn’t an article on “How to do X or Y on Linux” or “How to use [insert app name here].” And we cannot cover more comprehensive IDEs such as Eclipse and NetBeans, each of which requires separate articles.
You probably already have some idea of how to find and install applications for your favorite distros. However, we will point you to the right place anyway to download, for example, scripts and plug-ins.
So, let’s begin!
1. Our Tools
Below, for your quick reference, is a list of tools that we will mention or explain in this article.
Text Editors:
- Gedit
- Geany
Browsers:
- Opera
- Mozilla Firefox
- Epiphany (with the WebKit engine)
- Chromium (for some other WebKit examples)
General and command line tools:
- FUSE
- SSHFS
- Vim
- Parcellite
2. Gedit
Gedit is the default and simplest text editor for the GNOME environment. The default installation already comes with some good resources, although not all of them are activated by default. It is bundled with some plug-ins; however, you can add many more plug-ins to make it a nice simple IDE. If you go to Edit > Preferences > Plugins, you’ll see which plug-ins are installed by default. There, you can configure and activate them. On the same screen, you can configure other elements of the text editor, such as indentation, line numbering and current line highlighting.
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Make a bootable USB installer for Windows XP, Vista, 7 with WinToFlash
My Clippings August 28th, 2009 by System
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Making a bootable USB flash drive for Windows Vista and Windows 7 isn’t all that tricky, but it’s always nice to find an app that simplifies things. Not only does WinToFlash make the process about as easy as it can get, but it can also create Windows XP, Server 2003, and Server 2008 installers.
The default options make it easy to roll a silent Windows install, or you can flip the custom switch and specify the exact setup parameters you want to use.
The handy app also has one more trick up its sleeve: moving Windows Preinstall environments. PE discs can be extremely handy for troubleshooting and repairs, and being able to painlessly zap them over to a USB flash drive means not having to burn a new copy every time someone’s haggard old optical drive decides to chew up your CD.
WinToFlash is a free download and is totally portable. It’s an excellent tool to add to your USB-related utilities.
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Apple v. Psystar: An Unexpected Opportunity to Examine Contents of Past Discovery
My Clippings August 24th, 2009 by System
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Personal issues have kept me from writing as regularly on my favourite case as I would like, but hopefully that has ended or at least been minimized. Many interesting things have happened recently, particularly regarding discovery, and I have only just began to digest the information and do not write on a subject until I am fairly sure that I have the facts down and some solid defensible opinions. However, this is a perfect opportunity to step back and take a look into the discovery between the parties prior to Psystar filing and then just as suddenly, fleeing, bankruptcy. As far as I have seen, this information has not been reviewed elsewhere on the Apple web.
Typically, in Federal Court, discovery requests and answers are not filed with the Court unless there is some dispute, and even then, they are often heavily redacted as we have already seen with the Letter Brief filed by Apple on April 29, 2009. In fact, the parties had earlier requested, and had been granted, a Protective Order allowing the redaction (or filing under seal) of certain areas of inquiry in any discovery which must be used as an attachment in support of any filing. Due to these circumstances, we know precious little about precisely what types of inquiries were propounded by both parties. However, attached to Rudy Pedraza’s Declaration filed with the Bankruptcy Court were copies of Apple’s Answers to Psystar’s First, Second, and Third Requests for Admission (comprising 181 separate Requests).
General Information on Requests for Admission
Before discussing the contents of the filings uncovered, I will give a short primer for the layperson on the nature and purpose of the discovery avenue of “Requests for Admission.”
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Top 10 Tricks MacGyver Would Be Proud Of [Lifehacker Top 10]
My Clippings August 22nd, 2009 by System
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When they draw up the Complete History of Lifehacking, Angus MacGyver will certainly merit a chapter. We pay tribute to the creative can-do secret agent this week with 10 tricks that make extraordinary use of truly common objects.
Note: The following snippets are works of MacGyver fan fiction (hopefully the non-cringe-inducing variety). Any resemblance to events transpiring in the seven-year run of MacGyver, or any subsequent television specials, are coincidental, if a little inevitable.
10. Diffuse a camera flash, no gear needed
MacGyver works hard, no doubt, and likes to enjoy the days and nights off as much as he can. So when professional or consumer-grade cameras threaten to wash out party photos, he’s prone to using a converted cigarette pack, reversing the lining foil to channel an SLR flash into a manageable beam. A coffee filter can also work, as can a ripped out piece of tissue or very fine piece of cloth. As a result, you’ll never see a red-eyed, washed-out MacGyver flashing a thumbs up in any Flickr stream. (Original post)
9. Pack a lunch in a CD spindle
Bagels, with their central fitting holes and wheel-like shape, are an improvisational thinker’s kind of sandwich bread. Rodrigo Piwonka’s Flickr stream shows off a CD spindle bagel holder MacGyver would totally dig, and it might just inspire you to reuse your own Memorex/FujiFilm/Kodak spindles for culinary transport purposes. Angus would probably also note that, turned upside-down, the round plastic cylinder that caps the spindle works great for holding your salad. (Original post)
8. Make an iPhone dock out of … anything
If MacGyver had access to an iPhone, you could totally see him leaning back at his desk between missions, syncing the tracks from Live Aid to his device while it rests on—just about anything, really. A dollar bill or business card, perhaps, or maybe a piece of cardboard. The iPhone case itself can work, as can a binder clip, or, if MacGyver had, say, 5 minutes, the plastic the iPhone was shipped in and a piece of wood molding. Really, though, we’d have to go with the paper clip stand as the true choice for the secret agent of Scottish ancestry—he always seemed to have one handy.
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Dear Firefox: You’re Becoming a Bad Boyfriend
My Clippings August 21st, 2009 by System
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For years, Firefox has been one of the most stable, trustworthy, and reliable browsers I had ever met. So much so, that I’ve kind of gotten attached to the guy and settled in for what was expected to be a productive, long-term relationship. That was, until the latest update hit.
What came next was crashes, news of crazy security loopholes, and bugs. And I’m not the only one. Half of Sugar HQ is experiencing the same problems, which leads me to believe that Firefox is becoming the bad boyfriend we all hate: running around on us behind our backs, without ever giving us any satisfaction. Firefox even had the nerve to disappear and leave BuzzSugar a lame “failure-to-restore” message, and then blamed the website she was on for the problem -Â the nerve!
So I’m sending my once trusty Firefox a message on behalf of all of us that are experiencing the same erratic and sketchy issues: let’s work this out. I didn’t want to have to say this, but I’ll go back to Safari if this behavior continues. You’ve been warned.
