TEAM VIEWER

TeamViewer is a computer software package for remote control, desktop sharing, and file transfer between computers.

The software operates with the Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux,iOS, and Android operating systems. It is possible to access a machine running TeamViewer with a web browser. 

While the main focus of the application is remote control of computers, collaboration and presentation features are included.

Establishing connections:

Teamviewer may be installed with an installation procedure, although the 'Quick Support' version will run without installation.

• To connect to another computer, TeamViewer has to be running on both machines. 
• To install TeamViewer administrator access is required, but once installed it can be run by any user. 
•  When Teamviewer is started on a computer, it generates a partner ID and password (user-defined passwords are also supported). 

To establish a connection from a local client to a remote host machine, the local operator must communicate with the remote operator, request the ID and password, then enter these into the local TeamViewer.

You could also download from the link :

http://www.teamviewer.com/download/teamviewer_linux.deb

www.teamviewer.com


 

EPIPHANY

Epiphany is the web browser for the GNOME desktop. Its goal is to be simple and easy to use. Epiphany ties together many GNOME components in order to let you focus on the Web content, instead of the browser application. 

As part of the GNOME project, Epiphany is Free Software.

Epiphany displays webpages with the same speed and accuracy as other popular browsers, such as Safari or Firefox.

In addition, it provides an elegant, responsive and uncomplicated user interface that fits in perfectly with GNOME, and it has been translated to over sixty languages! 

INSTALLATION OF EPIPHANY:

Follow these steps in ubuntu versions 11.10 & further.

Open the terminal and run the follwing commands:

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3

• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get install epiphany-browser 

SPOKEN TUTORIALS - TO MAKE INDIA IT LITERATE

What is a Spoken Tutorial?

•  It is a recording of a computer session
•  explaining some software
•  along with a running commentary
•  The resulting movie is the spoken tutorial
•  Typically of 10 minute duration

Study Plans for Complex Topics

• By combining spoken tutorials,
• advanced topics can also be taught
•  If su cient small steps are available,
•  Himalayas can also be climbed
•  View study plans for LATEX and Scilab

To Bridge Digital Divide


Spoken tutorials can also be used to explain

•  How to buy train tickets through http://irctc.co.in
•  How to locate low cost agricultural loans
•  How to locate information on primary health care
•  How to obtain information on rst aid
•  How to do web search to locate the shop that sells TVs at the lowest price
• This list is endless

Spoken Tutorials are Free

• Spoken tutorials are released under  CC, attribution, no derivative, noncommercial
•  Available for free download from http://spoken-tutorial.org

Target Audience for Spoken Tutorials

• Remote child,
•  working alone at midnight,
•  without anyone to help her
• i.e., created for self learning

For more details log onto : http://spoken-tutorial.org

Soft Squishy Robots !!!!

A team of Harvard scientists designed a “soft” robot which can move under difficult obstacles by mimicking the movements of certain animals, such as squid and worms.

The robot doesn’t have a hard internal skeleton; it is composed solely of elastomeric polymers and a series of chambers. Using a pneumatic valving system, the chambers can be inflated to create movement, which boils down to a combination of crawling and undulation.

All of this enables the 5-inch robot to crawl, for example, under a glass plate elevated 2 cm from the ground. In a series of tests, scientists were able to navigate the robot through that gap in under a minute.

This type of design makes the robot less susceptible to damage from falls and colliding with hard objects. It does, however, makes it more susceptible to damage from punctures.

Another drawback is the problem of power: the robot is connected to an external power source, which won’t do in real world situations. “There are many challenges to actively moving soft robots and no easy solutions,” neurobiologist Barry Trimmer, one of the designers of the robot, said in an email to Washington Post

ROLL TOP COMPUTERS ON THE MOVE.........!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rolltop is a portable computer development concept for designer, architect and everyone, who would like to have a gadget, which, from an aesthetic standpoint alone, certainly hits the mark. By virtue of the OLED-Display technology and a multitouchscreen the utility of a laptop computer with its weight of a mini-notebook and screen size of 13 inch easily transforms into the graphics tablet, which with its 17-inch flat screen can be also used as a primary monitor due to the support attached to the back of the screen.

Rolltop 2.0 is a further development of Rolltop with some visible and mostly invisible improvements (e.g. internal design, placement of certain components etc.)

Proposition

Rolltop is not a “virtual and futuristic” gadget, existing only on the screen of your computer as in the most of similar concepts and visions! Most of the existing design concepts usually have been developed without any deep technologic and ergonomic elaboration and often could be difficult or even impossible realized. From the beginning Rolltop has been developed as a real future product. During its development a lot of different scenarios (e.g. usability, functionality etc.) were simulated. Moreover we have included in Rolltop the best worldwide ergonomic, mechanic and electronic practices.

Technology

The device of the flexible display allows a new concept in notebook design growing out of the traditional “bookformed” laptop into unfurling and convolving portable computer. Rolltop incorporates both latest high-tech devices and a new brand design techniques into a computer that will increase the quality and productivity of the designers work. On top of everything else no laptop bag needed – all computer utilities from an interactive pen through power supply to the holding belt are integrated in Rolltop. This is really an all-in-one gadget.