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1:15AM Gina Trapani | Oh look, most US internet users depend on a search engine called “Google” to find web pages over Yahoo, MSN or Ask.com. We’ll have to check it out. More »
Queue Downloads at the Command Line with DQ
10:00AM Gina Trapani | Bash programmer Jason Hutchinson built a command line download manager called Download Queue (or DQ) based on Lifehacker’s own todo.sh script. In short, you set up a text file called queue.txt, and add the URLs to download one per line, and DQ does the rest, handling filters, automatically continuing broken downloads and more. More »
Get More from Google SMS by Setting a Default Location
7:00AM Adam Pash | You already know that you can get quick local search results from your phone with Google SMS for the price of a text message, but the service is a helluva lot more usable now that you can set your default location. Just send a text to Google SMS (466453) with set location [city, zip code, address]. Now when you want to perform weather, movies, or restaurant look-ups via Google SMS, you can just text, for example, weather rather than weather 90210. Much more convenient! Google SMS [via Google Operating System] More »
Logmein – remote access to your PC
12:08PM Sarah Stokely | Logmein is a free application which allows you to connect and remotely control your PC. It’s not new, but I’m a new fan having used it while I was away at a conference this week. Happily, it works with Vista, as I was using a Vista laptop at the conference to connect to my Vista box at home.
One thing I learned – the remote access does depend on the remote PC being powered on. It sounds like a no-brainer, but I was on autopilot before I left home and put my PC into hibernate mode. I had to make a phone call home to get it turned on, which wouldn’t be possible if you live on your own! So if you intend to use Logmein on the road, make sure you leave your PC turned on!
My one gripe was that if the PC you’re trying to access remotely needs to be powered up, there seems to be a delay of a few minutes before that PC shows up as “online” to you at the remote location. Admittedly, I was attempting to access it from a fairly crappy hotel conference room media centre with Vista machines on an unreliable wireless network, so any of those factors may have contributed to slowing down the remote connection!
We wrote up the use of Logmein as a way to provide remote tech support here. More » 