Category: Technology

Try this out - send yourself a mail message inviting you to a meeting. In the body of message in the middle of some text include the meeting time and date something like ‘Thursday …

I have been playing around with Yahoo pipes for a while - a web service that lets you aggregate, filter, sort and broadcast RSS feeds. I think this is a great tool that ’should’ be more popular than it …

This short video explains in a simple way “federated access management (FAM)” (aka single sign-on). The UK version is called “The UK Access Management Federation” and as a federations is based upon trust between institutions in the …

For those of us who couldn’t face the prospect of installing X11 as a requirement for running OpenOffice on your Mac OS X, NeoOffice has produced a viable alternative (in my opinion) to Microsft for word processing and possibly …

A simple blogging tool with posts via the website, text messages, and desktop apps that aggregates posts of groups of friends and broadcasts onto web pages, via RSS feed, and phone texts.

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Not quite the budget airline travel frenzy over Europe, but anyone in NZ who wants to join the ‘got some time, but don’t know where to go jet-set’ may find some cheap seats here. For example, Christchurch …

Randy Metcalfe from OSS Watch gave an overview of Open Source Software using the recent decision by the Open University to chose Moodle as its VLE platform. The aim of OSS Watch is to help institutions think …

Myself and many of my colleagues use an application called SubEthaEdit (a Mac application although there may be a PC equivalent) to author documents collaboratively in real time when working in different …

When I am listening to music on iTunes through my head set and I call someone using , iTunes pauses the track immediately. But this is the …

At last I have managed to find the time to get round to podcasting. I used the Elgg file store that has a dedicated RSS feed and Amadeaus …