If you’re constantly logging into a remote server using SSH and you’re sick of typing your password every time, tech site Webmonkey details how to save time without sacrificing security. Using SSH-Agent, a utility that acts as a broker between your local machine and remote machine, you can log in without typing your password every time (but also securing your private key from attackers). Hit up Webmonkey to get the rundown on using SSH-Agent on Linux, Mac, and Windows. This one could have done well on yesterday’s list of top 10 command line tools. Automate a Remote Login Using SSH [Webmonkey]
Previously mentioned Photoshop Express offers more web-based image management and editing features, like drag and drop upload (via an Adobe AIR app), tags to organise your photos, and slideshows put to music. [via]
Mac OS X only: VMware releases a new beta of Fusion 2.0, the virtual machine software for Mac. We were impressed with our test drive of beta 1, and beta 2 adds a few more promising features, like: automatic virtual machine snapshots (for easy rollback in case something goes wrong), mirroring folders (like your Mac’s Documents folder to Windows’ My Documents folder), better keyboard and mouse mapping, and improved 3D graphics (happy news for gamers). The folder mirroring is a welcome addition to my virtual XP installation—no more constant browsing to a shared Mac folder. Take a look at how it works.
Despite the wealth of information a Google search box puts at our fingertips, good old-fashioned note-taking is still one of the best ways to build a personal knowledge database. The only sensible solution used to be pen and paper, but computers have introduced a handful of excellent alternatives for capturing notes in computer-friendly digital form. Keep reading for a look at the five best note-taking tools according to our readers. Photo by Dvortygirl.
Got yourself (or a friend) one of those shiny new digital, wireless-capable picture frames? Windows Live FrameIt combines multiple RSS feeds, along with the pictures from any web site, into a single, frame-friendly feed. As the Digital Inspiration blog points out, however, the resulting output also lets you check to see when images on a certain page—like the Google homepage, or a big “Sale” button on a discount dealer—have changed. In general, FrameIt is a pretty nice aggregator of both RSS-capable and standard web pages. The service is free to use, but requires a Windows Live sign-up. Windows Live FrameIt [via Digital Inspiration]
The ReadWriteWeb site lists a few webapp combinations that add up to more than the sums of their parts. In the list: Jott & Evernote (as guest Brad Isaac detailed for us), AideRSS with the ticker-display Snackr, Facebook filtered through Dapper, and other clever ideas. But you’re the folks who actually read about and use the services we write about—so let’s hear some of your own killer combinations. What webapps filter/feed/pipe each other best? Post your link-ups in the comments. Some Web Apps Work Better Together [ReadWriteWeb]
