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Loading ...Vyew offers collaborative desktop service
Berkeley, Calif.-based Web visual collaboration technology vendor Vyew has released an offering that lets users share desktops, whiteboards and web conference from a browser running on Windows, Mac or Linux.
According to the company, VyewMyPC is quick-start offering for holding online meetings, sketching ideas and presenting whatever is showing on a desktop. It supports VoIP and Webcam for video broadcasting among participants.
VyewMyPC can be used by salespeople, graphic and industrial designers and architects, instructors, and any project teams in general.
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(Rate This Article) Loading ...Fighting Office Butt
A friend of mine sends out a weekly invitation to her mailing list to join her aquafit class. “Fight Office Butt!” she admonishes. (Okay, she doesn’t use the word “butt,” but this is a family program.)
Yes, we send too much time sitting on our assets in front of a computer. This can be a sedentary life (if not actually, glacially, sedimentary) and we can probably use a little more activity. So says Gamercize, a U.K. company that’s marketing the GZ PC-Sport & Power Stepper. Read the rest of this entry »
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(3 votes, average: 6.33 out of 10) Loading ...Paying the iBill
Schadenfreude isn’t really my bag, but after suffering through roughly a kajillion iPhone news releases, articles and analyses, I got a chuckle out of what appears to be the first pothole on the iPhone highway, even though it’s service provider AT&T Wireless with egg on face.
Apparently, the bills are huge. Not expensive. Just really, really long. New York Times blogger David Pogue’s bill came with pages and pages documenting Every. Single. Data. Transaction, almost on a kilobyte-by-kilobyte basis.
The opus sent to Pogue, however, was apparently not as magnum as that sent to graphic designer and blogger Justine Ezarik. Watch her open her iBill — all 300 pages – on YouTube.
E-billing, anyone?
On a completely unrelated note, here’s an experimental use of the Windows shutdown tone that bears looking into.
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(2 votes, average: 9 out of 10) Loading ...Ok, we get it …
Appe head honcho Steve Jobs unveiled the new iMac this week, and though the improvements are largely incremental as opposed to the revolution that was the last generation, there’s lots to like — the US$200 price drop first and foremost. Apple has ditched the 17-inch version, offering only 20- and 24-inch models. It gives us a break from the steady diet of iPhone hype. And there’s lots of aluminium and glass — very sexy. (Somehow, though, I keep thinking of David Spade’s line on Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update, talking about Jennifer Aniston: “OK. We get it. You’re pretty.”)
It’s an all-in-one world, according to Jobs, and looking at the tangle of cables that supports my PC, I’m hoping someone on that side of the fence is listening.
But there was something amiss among the iMac and many iLife software announcements. What’s happened to the Mac Mini? Was Word 1 uttered about it on iMac day? I’ve always had a soft spot for The Littlest Mac. Apparently, Apple has quietly squeezed a few improvements into the Mini (the Web site refers to testing on preproduction machines in April 2007), but with none of the iMac fanfare.
Dell’s multicoloured laptops aside, Apple still seems to be the only computer company that’s taking the aesthetics of computing seriously.
