Janya has created some 2,000 images on a computer, and today she is one of the top students in a class whose work has been offered commercially by the Central Women's Correctional Institution.
The IT for Prisoners scheme is part of the IT project under the initiative of Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn.
COMMART COMTECH SHOWS
The consumer sector is making a major contribution to IT industry revenues amid the political and economic crisis and the combined value of purchases at the three Commart Comtech trade shows this year reached ten billion baht, according to show organiser AR Information and Publication's general manager Pathom Indarodom.
COMPUTING TRENDS
SINGAPORE : Virtualisation is no longer just about servers but is coming to a desktop near you, according to Wes Wasson, chief strategy officer at Citrix.
DATA CENTRES
IBM (Thailand) recently unveiled an enterprise data centre (NEDC) initiative to help organisations challenged by operational issues such as cost and service delivery, business resiliency and security along with energy requirements.
EX tensions
The latest MacBook Pro with a 2.53GHz processor came from Apple for review in early November. By coincidence, EITS, the education distributor, lent an earlier one with a 2.4GHz chip so that I could demonstrate it to students. I was able to make back-to-back comparisons with these and my older 2.16GHz MacBook Pro.
CORPORATE SECURITY
Intrusion protection systems (IPS) are being deployed deeper into the organisation as the boundaries inside and outside the corporate firewall, as well as personal and work devices, are now becoming blurred.
OPEN Thought
Is there really a green agenda? Or have the forces of capitalism enveloped what we used to think was green and turned it into a greed is good type of mentality?
SINGAPORE : There is a tremendous amount that can be done to cut data centre energy costs in the mechanical side of cooling and make it more efficient to cope with higher and higher power densities in today's data centres such as putting pillows in holes and making sure all the blanking plates are in place with no gaps in a cabinet.
MOBILE COMPUTING
BenQ last week staged the Asia-Pacific launch of its first netbook in Bangkok. The Joybook Lite U101 is an Intel Atom-based device with Windows XP Home, a 10.1in. LED-backlit screen with a 16:9 aspect radio and weighs just 1.1kg.
THE PLAYER'S Corner
Set in a post-nuclear world, Fallout 3 has all the trappings of science-fiction cliche, complete with Asimov-esque dystopian portents and the hypothetical opportunity to amend mankind's destiny in hope that things might turn out differently; Utopian, even, with a little help from some rusted-out technological relics from the olden days to expedite the base tenets of finding food, shelter and cola.
ON Computers
Viewzi.com is a new visual alternative to Google. Instead of text descriptions of sites that correspond to your search terms, you get pictures.
Techno BUDDY
This could be the best Christmas ever - at least when it comes to buying a new computer.
COMPUTING
The other day I saw a teenage girl taking her own picture on the underground train using her mobile phone. And it made me smile. Nowadays, it has become the norm or even trendy for people to take photographic images and put them on web sites for sharing.
Yahoo!'s Flickr is an online photo album, akin to PhotoBucket.com but with nicer user interface. It also allows users to show their photos in communities. The site features "Geotag" which lets you link photos to locations where they are taken. Such a feature attracts tourists and travellers and differentiates the site from others designed for photographers like Multiply.com. Flickr offers tools like Uploadr and Organizr to make your image uploading and management easier.
COMPUTER Currents
Expanding a little on last week's teasers on Windows 7, the focus for the new OS appears to be away from Vista and towards better networking and control.
HOME Builder
This week I wanted to look at the kinds of files you should consider when offering items for download from your site. Having downloaded a very wide variety of material over the years, from a myriad of different sources, I've found the best thing to do is keep it simple.
SLOAN Ranger
The newest thing in browsers is a specific design to let you work in the cloud. The first such browser that I am aware of is Bubbles, which sports the unsubtle motto "Turn any web site into a powerful desktop application!"
DIGITIZING Management
The recent landslide victory by Barack Obama not only signalled the end of the Bush incompetency, but it was also the beginning of a new chapter in the power of information technology play in politics that has never been done before, anywhere.
HELP Desk
As a personal computer user, I've always been trying to figure out a way to backup personal files to CD or DVD.
APP Shot
Today's Appshot doesn't do much except make things look good. Well, neither does blush and high heels - you have a problem with that?
WORLD REVIEW
Internet coverage of the US election set a traffic record; news-site monitors Akamai said 8.5 million visitors per minute were hitting web news sites as vote totals piled up for Barack Obama - 1.3 million better than the previous record recorded for the 2006 Ghana victory over the US in World Cup football.
HOME REVIEW
What's the biggest difference between actual seaborne piracy and the sort of pirates who copy movies and music? Piracy in the malls is an actual killer; former anti-corruption officer and anti-piracy campaigner Kasim Ratanawongse aka Kasim Cha Tong was shot in the back by a man with a sawn-off shotgun in his hometown of Sungai Kolok in the South, and died on the spot; the killer had eaten in the same restaurant as Kasim, waiting his chance to get the man who used to track down music pirates but lately was working on cases as a private policeman for the Motion Pictures Export Association of America; said his wife Irene: "He never made enemies and was the type who liked to help people."
