Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio have given cash to help pay the nursing home fees of the last survivor of the Titanic. The Hollywood stars – who made their international names in the 1997 film about the sinking of the liner – were approached by a charity to help 97-year-old Millvina Dean, and the movie’s director James Cameron has also made a donation.

It’s believed the trio have donated 30,000 U.S. dollars (”22,000) to help Miss Dean, who was nine-weeks-old when the liner sank in April 1912. Miss Dean – who is from the New Forest, Hampshire – has been living at a nursing home for a few years and last month she auctioned personal belongings and memorabilia associated with the disaster to help pay for the ”3,000-a-month cost of her care.

The campaign called the Millvina Fund was launched in Belfast today (Monday May 11), where the liner was built, and it will help secure her future. In a joint statement, the stars said: “Our hope is that others will feel inspired by Millvina Dean’s remarkable story of survival, and hope she can rest easier in knowing that her future will become more secure through this fund.” Irish author Don Mullan, a friend of Miss Dean, approached the stars to lend their support. He’s also produced a limited edition photograph depicting Millvina signing a card for an autograph collector, which are selling for 500 euro (”440) with all proceeds going towards the Millvina Fund. He’s also keen to enlist the support of Celine Dion, who sang the theme tune from Titanic.

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When I first heard about Twitter “The Microblogging phenomena that everyone seems to be talking about at the moment I really did wonder what the fuss was about. I thought it was interesting but it did not initially grab me.

Why would other people care about what I had for lunch, or who was at the airport and why someone was sad? And why would a business become involved in this, what possible purpose could it serve? Then I thought maybe it is about the cult of personality maybe it is about micro-fame and perceived short attention spans, I mean 140 characters did not seem like much.

What I have come to realize though is that, at its heart, Twitter is just a communication tool. Like the Web, and the phone and the telegram before it, it’s just a tool to let one person connect with another.

How Does Twitter Work?
Users have 140 characters to answer the question, What are you doing?” If you join Twitter you can follow” others, allowing their updates to appear on your home page. They can follow you, with the same result or you can also direct message them, but always in 140 characters or less.

Twitter communications can be viewed and updated on the Web, through desktop apps, and on mobile devices. My two personal favorites being tweetie and Tweetdeck, both of which allow me to interact easily whether at my desk or on the road.

Tweets (recent 140 character posts) tell you what people are having for breakfast, that they are worried about how their job interview went or that they are planning a romantic dinner with their partners. These can sometimes be very weird indeed if you spend time looking at the public twitter time line rather than just your followers.

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In a world where convenience rules our lives, the iPhone continues to surprise.  I have seen alot of great applications developed for the iPhone including blood glucose testing and wireless air phone applications.  Now the trendy development portal of the iPhone comes home security.  Even though other wireless devices can utilize Schlage’s LiNK application it is the cool factor that come into play here.

The iPhone software is a free application following the $299.00 purchase from Schlage plus a $13.00 monthly usage fee. The starter kit includes a deadbolt lock, a network communications bridge, and a module for remotely controlling a lamp or appliance. The bridge connects to the home’s existing router and transmits data via low-power radio signals to the LiNK System lock.

Advantages to Homeowners include email notifications when someone opens the lock by entering a code on the lock’s keypad and the ability to track temporary entry codes provided to cleaning services or painters. All information is stored for a 90 day period then purged.

The bridge communicating using the X-Wave Technology connect’s to the home’s existing router and transmits data via low-power radio signals to the LiNK System lock. Schlage LiNK provides fully encrypted communication between the lock and the user (similar to the security used in on-line banking) your access and online information is safe and secure.

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