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My favorite remote control software, LogMeIn, has released a preview of their upcoming client for Mac. LogMeIn is similar to GoToMyPC in it provides 24/7 access to your computer from any web browser. I’ve used LogMeIn for years when I was doing computer consulting to remotely access clients PC and its nice to finally see it come to Macs. The client only supports LogMeIn Free accounts right now which allows access to one computer. But since its free, there is no reason not to signup for an account and have access to your home Mac anytime, anywhere.

I’m sure you have all seen the videos on YouTube of people who took a picture a day for a year and compiled it into a video. Well now thanks to Flickaday you too can have faceblog of yourself from the comfort of your own home. Flickaday takes the idea and makes it super simple. Go to their website, enter your login and password and click Take my Picture. Bam! your picture is taken and its added to your collection. It uses Flash to access your webcam so no additional software is needed. They generate a widget that you can embed anywhere you’d would like, just like the one above. Even add some music. The webpage will email you if you haven’t taken a picture for the day yet so you don’t forget. You can only take one picture a day so make it count. I decided against this kinda project when I started my Project 365 but the website makes it super simple so I’ll be uploading my picture each day until I get tired of it.

Remember the Milk is the first 3rd party web app to make use of Google Gears for offline access. RTM is the 2nd app I use on a daily basis to be given the offline treatment; the other being Google Reader. Since Google Gears was released, I’ve switched back to Firefox just so I could play around with it and now I’m back to a Firefox as my main browser. Firefox 3.0 plans to bring all web apps offline and I’m now seeing how this kinda access is going to change the web once again. My guess is the Google Gears code is going to be giving back to Mozilla to incorporate into Firefox. Now if they can just release Gmail and Google Doc and Spreadsheets as offline apps I think I’d be in my glory.

I’m a little late with this but last week CBS bought one of my favorite social networking sites Last.fm. Last.fm is based on audioscrobbler technology and tracks what the music you listen to setup a social network of friends, neighbors with similar tastes, and new music you might like based on what you listen too. They also offer streaming music based off all those criteria if you have a paid account. Not really sure were CBS is going to take the site but I’m interested to see what corporate backing is going to bring to the table. Since the site is based in the UK, they were one of the sites that missed a bullet with the recent FCC changes to streaming music. Either way I’m happy for the guys that run the site. The site is amazing and keeps getting updated every few months with new features and fixes. Lets just hope it only gets better now.

Fall Out Boy did a rocking cover of Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” tonight at the NE Dodge Music Center here in Hartford. The video is kinda shitty as I shot it from my digital camera from pretty far away. I really need to look at a actually video camera soon.