Skype is Evil – Other VOIP Options

Skype has revealed themselves to be evil in the latest spyware fiasco. So what are the other options? Let’s look at the various criteria: Softphone for Desktop Win/Mac/Nix Softphone for Mobile S60 DID Provider Softphone for Desktop A softphone is a software SIP phone implementation. SIP stands for Session Initiation Protocol, basically an open standard [...]

January 30, 2009 • Tags: , , , • Posted in: voip • One Comment

Twenty Trends for the Next Ten Years

Caveat, these are specific to my own interests and attention in higher education and information technology, but also in regards to energy, material science and sensors, since these last three sectors will have feedback effects on the other trends. Forecasting? Not Possible People I have spoken with about the future know I am suspicious to [...]

Second Life Sculpties, or how I learned to stop worrying and love Blender

Second Life Sculpties are rox0ring our (virtual) world, so it is time to learn that wacky Blender program, aka 3d animation. I definitely have theoretical love for this already, as it is open source, has a lively community, lots of updates, built on top of Python as a scripting language, and integrates nicely with the [...]

May 26, 2007 • Tags: , , • Posted in: secondlife • No Comments