If you have an office job , your company probably has a VPN (Virtual Private Network) setup so that you can access network drives at your office while working at home.
Anyway, if you are one of the poor souls who is forced to work from home by connecting to a VPN, there may come a time when you would want to setup the connection on more than one computer or reconfigure it on your current computer.
Remote Desktop is a nifty little windows feature that allows you to remotely connect to another PC and manage it as if you were physically at the console. You can read my previous post on how to setup remote desktop in Windows XP.
When connecting to another machine, just about all keyboard actions are transmitted to the remote machine, i.e. pressing Enter, typing, pressing the Windows key, etc. However, that is not the case for some key combinations.
Do you follow a website too closely enough that you want to be alerted when new posts come up or something changes? For people who monitor a lot of hosts with website activity, a tool for doing this is a necessity.
Some website owners may also want a way to see what’s being posted on their own site by visitors or contributors.
ChangeDetection.com offers a free service where you can submit a URL that you want to be monitored. Just go to their website, signup for free, then begin submitting URLs. It has a simple interface for entering URLs and monitoring changes:
Bing is Microsoft’s premier search engine as a replacement for Live Search. We have introduced Microsoft Bing earlier, but this time we will look at how web content providers and SEOs could get statistical information from Bing.
Bing’s xRank, http://www.bing.com/xrank, lets users search for celebrities, musicians, politicians and bloggers, read short biographies and news about them, and track their trends or popularity rankings. With this you can gauge which people are most popular – a great tool for finding celebrity movers and shakers on the Net.
Google Fast Flip is a web application in development from Google Labs. It lets users discover and share news articles. It combines qualities of print and the Web, with the ability to “flip” through pages online as quickly as flipping through a magazine. It also enables users to follow friends and topics, discover new content and create their own custom magazines around searches.
To try this web application visit http://fastflip.googlelabs.com/. The page displaysthumbnail like representation of the most popular news and magazine sites. With this view, you can see the pages at once alongside other pages.
With QuickWrite installed in your mobile phone you can reduce the typing time several times and increase the writing accuracy considerably. What this application does is quite simple, it only predicts the word you are going to type, this means that as soon as you stat typing the complete word will be suggested and you can select the word from the list rather than typing the whole word. This can save considerable amount of time.
The scope of the application is not only limited to typing messages but it will work in almost all the application in your mobile phone. May it be using dictionary or may it be using some notepad or even when looking for contacts from the list. This feature especially comes in handy when you are using your mobile phone browser to access the internet.
Features:
• It functions very quickly and at the same time it does not consume much of the phone memory.
• There is an inbuilt support for many languages which you can set under the options menu.• The smart engine suggests you with the words that you use most often.
