RealVNC provides remote control software which lets you see and interact with desktop applications across any network.

TightVNC is a free remote control software package. With TightVNC, you can see the desktop of a remote machine and control it with your local mouse and keyboard, just like you would do it sitting in the front of that computer. TightVNC is:

free for both personal and commercial usage, with full source code available,
useful in administration, tech support, education, and for many other purposes,
cross-platform, available for Windows and Unix, with Java client included,
compatible with standard VNC software, conforming to RFB protocol specifications.

UltraVNC is a powerful, easy to use and free software that can display the screen of another computer (via internet or network) on your own screen. The program allows you to use your mouse and keyboard to control the other PC remotely. It means that you can work on a remote computer, as if you were sitting in front of it, right from your current location. If you provide computer support, you can quickly access your customer's computers from anywhere in the world and resolve helpdesk issues remotely! With addons like SingleClick your customers don't even have to pre-install software or execute complex procedures to get remote helpdesk support.

ONLINE archaeology can yield surprising results. When John Kelly of Morningside Analytics, a market-research firm, recently pored over data from websites in Indonesia he discovered a “vast field of dead blogs”. Numbering several thousand, they had not been updated since May 2009. Like hastily abandoned cities, they mark the arrival of the Indonesian version of Facebook, the online social network.

Such swathes of digital desert are still rare in the blogosphere. And they should certainly not be taken as evidence that it has started to die. But signs are multiplying that the rate of growth of blogs has slowed in many parts of the world. In some countries growth has even stalled.

THE TELEVISION SERIES THAT FINDS THE PEOPLE WHO ARE RESCUING AND RESTORING OUR BUILT INHERITANCE
Heritage Heroes has received an overwhelmingly positive reaction since the series began on June 19.

Following the first two programmes on BBC World News, viewers from across the globe have submitted nearly 100 nominations for a planned second series.

One from the Caribbean urged the Heritage Heroes team to visit Malta and record the preservation of sites stretching back 3,000 years, while another from Pakistan suggested coverage of a tireless organiser dedicated to the renovation of colonial Karachi.

Series editor Robert Lamb said: "We have been taken back by the tremendous feedback we have received for Heritage Heroes.

“We are confident viewers will be no less inspired by the heroes we’ll be featuring in the next four programmes.”

Hey everyone, the intent of this wiki is to compile a central list of current initiatives (and eventually "best practices") involving social media and government. These can be internal or external, marketing, HR or IT, it doesn't matter. I even added a special "unofficial" category at the bottom of each page for all side initiatives. Let's see what we can come up with. Please keep your entries very high level and only fill out what you know. If you don't know the answer to one of the fields, leave it blank. If you see an error, please fix it! Should you have any questions or suggestions for improvement please email me here: mike(at)mikekujawski(dot)ca. Good luck! – Mike Kujawski

To help overcome some of the limitations with existing mapping tools Sunlight Lab is releasing ClearMaps, an ActionScript framework for interactive cartographic visualization. In addition to giving designers and developers more control over presentation the project aims to address some of the common technical challenges faced when building interactive, data driven maps for the web. ClearMaps is designed as a lightweight, flexible set of tools for building complex data visualizations. It is a framework not a plug-and-play component (though it could be a starting point for those wishing to make reusable tools).

NGO works with issues relating to dams, rivers and people

The Water Resources Department of the Government of Rajasthan, has made available, station-level, daily rainfall data from 1973-2008, for all districts of Rajasthan, on its website.

In order to make this data of better value to end-users, the India Water Portal has extracted and made this data available in a district-wise spreadsheet format, which you can download with a single click.

While extracting the data, we observed some discrepancies in the master data on the website. These notes can be viewed here.

in response to an RTI petition by the South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers and People (www.sandrp.in), the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has made rainfall data for the past few years available at a monthly level, for each district of the country on their website: IMD .

India Water Portal has imported all the data from 2004-2008 into a spreadsheet that you can download and save for future use.

Please note that IMD has updated their website with partial 2009 data too; this data will be incorporated into the IWP spreadsheet on this page at a later date.

Meteorological data is essential for water resource planning and research. In India, this data is difficult to obtain for the average citizen. In this application, entire datasets for various meteorological indicators from 1901 to 2002, for any part of India, is made available for users, in a simple format.

This Firefox extension was inspired by the launch of Google's encrypted search option. We wanted a way to ensure that every search our browsers sent was encrypted. At the same time, we were also able to encrypt most or all of the browser's communications.

We are an information-graphics company, and specialise in developing graphical aids that explain complex ideas, workflows, and processes. Our clients use our graphics as marketing and educational aids, insert them in investor dossiers, use them at trade-shows and even adapt them as environmental wall graphics featuring facility maps and overviews.

Our expertise in information architecture design, business process visualisation and high quality illustration allows us to breakdown even the most complex of ideas into easy-to-understand charts, animation and interactive content.

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