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Sonntag, Juli 4th, 20101) iPad as remote control for one specific application (here iTunes running on a Mac)
Software: “Remote” from Apple http://www.apple.com/itunes/remote/
Software: “EyeTV” from Elgato Systems http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/eyetv/id329886711?mt=8
2) iPad as remote key board and mouse to control a nearby Mac or PC
Software: “Air Mouse Pro” from RPA Technology http://www.mobilemouse.com/
3) iPad to access and control the remote Mac or PC
Software: “LogMeIn [...]
iPad gaming potential shown in video: LAN multiplayer and cross platform
Donnerstag, Mai 13th, 2010This video is showing the potential of Apple’s iPad as a gaming platform. We are using the game Galcon Fusion to demonstrate cross platform multiplayer by running the game in parallel on Apple’s iPad and a Microsoft Windows 7 PC.
Posted in Good Ideas, Interesting Links, Recommended Products | No Comments »Steam on Mac OS X : Great first impression !
Mittwoch, Mai 12th, 2010Steam was already on Windows our preferred online distribution and gaming platform.
Since 1 hour (12th May 2010) it is now also available on Apple’s OS X.
So far VALVE promised that its own games like Half Life 2 and Portal would become available on OS X for free to those who bought previously the Windows version [...]
Google Reader power user tips : read it later, archive web pages, store bookmarks online
Sonntag, Februar 21st, 2010Google Reader works great as a feed news reader. In addition Google Reader can be used easily as:
Simple ReadItLater alternative to gather webpages you detected right now and that you want to come back to later when you have maybe some more time to read
A very simple web archiving solution
Simple cross browser and cross operating [...]
Explanations for Twitter trending topics getting a trend
Mittwoch, November 25th, 2009This is part 3 of our Twitter related mini-tutorial (part1, part2).
Twitter.com is providing a short list of currently popular keywords from within the most current stream of tweets.
This list is called “Trending Topics”.
It provides a convenient way to connect to what is currently happening on that global message bus called Twitter:
Recently some explanations started to show [...]
Posted in Interesting Links, Recommended Products, Thematic Web Archives | 1 Comment »How to show all tweets related to a web page with a single click
Sonntag, Oktober 11th, 2009Tweets link often to web pages. The reverse direction works too: with one click you can see tweets that are related to the current page your browser is showing. This is the second part of our mini Twitter tutorial (part 1 here).
You could use a URL Twitter enabled search engine like http://backtweets.com/search?q= to find tweets [...]
What is twittering and how does it work ? Part 1 messages = tweets
Sonntag, Oktober 11th, 2009What is a global stack of short text messages good for that is free to use and open for multi purpose ?
There are two ways how you can get value from using Twitter:
1) Leverage all messages others putting right now on the global stack of messages
2) Publish your own messages for whatever you see as [...]
How does Apple Genius work?
Montag, September 21st, 2009The Apple iTunes Genius feature can create personalized play-lists for your iTunes library and provide you with recommendations regarding media and other products that you maybe would like to buy.
How does Apples itunes Genius functionality work?
Apple is making no secret out of what Genius does, you can find it all here:
http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/appstore/us/terms.html
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The value of application integration: Gmail Labs integrates Gmail, Calender and Documents
Sonntag, November 9th, 2008Without Gmail Labs from Google the Google Mail Beta user interface looks like this:
Gmail Labs was introduced in June 2008. The feature it offered were not seen by everyone as interesting: “Gmail labs is live but also boring”.
But the team behind Gmail Labs released some new features recently.
With those new Gmail Labs features enabled Google [...]
Free Google search training from Google: How to become a Super Internet Searcher
Mittwoch, Oktober 1st, 2008While it is easy enough just to type some keywords into Google`s famous simple search UI this does not necessarily mean that you will find always quickly the most valuable and reliable information that is available out there.
Daniel Russell working at Google for “Google Search Quality & User Happiness” is making us happy with his [...]
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