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# Joel on Software - Copilot 2.0 ships! - "Fog Creek Copilot is a remote tech support service that lets one person control another computer remotely, much like VNC or RDC, with the advantage that it requires zero configuration, works through firewalls, and installs nothing." Used to be Windows only. Now they support the Mac, too. Costs $5 for a day pass, or, if you use it a lot, you can choose from 6 monthly subscription plans. There's a two-minute free demo mode. I was able to connect to another machine in my house and control it, but the screen updates didn't come back quickly enough to the controlling computer. Apparently, my 20 kbyte/sec upload speed and 60 kbyte/sec download weren't enough between them to upload and download the screen changes in time. I'd probably have better luck with a truly remote machine. [joel]

# On January 7, I told you how to email yourself a link to an iTunes page. Well, I discovered last night, in the Mac-based recording studio of my kids' piano teacher, in the January 2007 issue of Macworld, that there's a much easier way. Any text that underlines when you point the mouse at it, including album & group names, album covers, single songs, the path elements to the right of the forward and back arrows, can all be dragged to any drop target that will accept a URL or text, including the link bars in Firefox and Safari. [macworld]

# robg at Mac OS X Hints - Access Gmail via a secure connection - I thought everybody knew this already, but apparently not. You can use an SSL encrypted connection for Gmail. Just aim your browser at https://mail.google.com/mail/, instead of gmail.com. https://gmail.com/ also works (thanks to my bug report back in Gmail's infancy), but it forwards to the other address, so it's a little faster to just go there in the first place, especially from a bookmark. [macosxhints]

# I've started a Macintosh Applications page, which, in the fullness of time, will contain a categorized list of all the apps I've linked to from this blog. I'll report on it again when it's complete.

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