Rewarding Conduct Change

A device that tells you how much power you are using and gives you rewards for limiting usage. Limited availability.

clipped from www.ambientdevices.com

Dashboard??

Friendfeed is acting like a dashboard for a lot of social media

clipped from friendfeed.com

1000 Journals Project Interview

Brian Singer aka Someguy sits down with Portfolio for a bit about hte 1000 Journals project.

clipped from portfoliocenter.com Brian Singer is the director of Altitude, a design firm based in San Francisco. In 2000 he launched the 1000 Journals Project, a collaborative experiment in which he released 1000 blank journals into the world to see what people would have to say. The project led to a recently published book and full-length documentary. Recently, he came to Portfolio Center as a seminar speaker to share some of his work and thoughts with the students.

Library Help Chat

The Sessoms have come ouThe description makes it seem a bit large corporation customer service department-ish, but I guess libraries need a little bit of that mentality if they want to make something like this successful.

clipped from journal.code4lib.org LibraryH3lp: A New Flexible Chat Reference System LibraryH3lp is an integrated IM and web chat system designed specifically for Virtual Reference services in libraries. The software was designed for, and is currently used by, a night-time chat reference collaboraton between several large academic libraries. LibraryH3lp is designed for the workflow of chat reference, supporting multiple simultaneous operators and routing to queues of operators in a particular service area. It also supports web page embeddable chat ‘widgets’, as well as simultaneous gateways to multiple IM protocols. This article discusses the motivation for the development of the software, and provides an overview of LibraryH3lp’s features and technical architecture. Parts of LibraryH3lp are available as open source. The complete application is available as a low-cost hosted service, and will eventually be available to be licensed for local hosting.

Capturing and Sharing

SnagIt allows you to capture what is on your screen and share it. This is great for training and creating handouts and materials.

clipped from www.techsmith.com SnagIt Capture, edit, and share exactly what you see on your screen. Buy Try Explore

Keep Your Passwords Safe

KeePass is a free open source password manager, which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way. You can put all your passwords in one database, which is locked with one master key or a key file. So you only have to remember one single master password or select the key file to unlock the whole database.

clipped from keepass.info KeePass Password Safe

Take Along Applications

Everything is getting smaller. Perhaps we will get smaller, too. Now you can take all of your apps and no computer. Portable apps give a you full fnctionality on your flash drive.

clipped from portableapps.com PortableApps.com Suite and PortableApps.com Platform web browser, email client, office suite, calendar/scheduler, instant messaging client, antivirus, audio player, sudoku game, password manager, PDF reader, minesweeper clone, backup utility and integrated menu

Foiling keyloggers

Road Warriors use various locations for their work, which can put the security of their accounts and passwords at risk. Neo SafeKeys is a small utility that prevents keyloggers from getting access to your passwords. Free download.

clipped from www.aplin.com.au