Headlines: Mac OS X Lion-Multi User Computing, Interconnected Windows Phone Demo, Android-like Lock Screen For iOS

So. You’re readying up for the big presentation with your boss right. And you’ve labored on this awesome presentation at home on your mac and you’re sure your boss is going to be impressed out of his pants. It’s less than an hour to go when you suddenly realize your awesome presentation is not on the MacBook you’re clutching now but is on your home iMac, which is now without a doubt being used by your wife who will not be happy to be disturbed while she’s working on her doctoral thesis. What to do?

Well, if you’re on 10.7 Lion, there won’t be any need to sweat.

9 to 5 Mac is reporting about a brand-new feature, which they’re calling multi-user remote computing, that will allow you to remotely login to any account on another Mac.

So you need to retrieve your presentation from your home iMac (which someone else is using with their own account) right? If you’re using Snow Leopard, you would only be able to screen share onto that iMac and have access to the other person’s screen, not your account with the presentation file. But with 10.7 Lion, when you login through the Finder, you will have the option to either view the screen of the other person’s account or access your own account to grab the file.

And check this: the other person’s account stays untouched and you are accessing your account all in the background, remotely. The other person using the iMac won’t even notice you grabbed a file off the computer. And if you have MobileMe this can even work completely remotely from anywhere in the world with the Back to my Mac service.

Looks like Apple is really upping their game with remote computing yes?

Read more: http://www.9to5mac.com/54102/10-7-lion-allows-multi-user-remote-computing

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Microsoft demos interconnected Windows Phone

Microsoft Chief Research and Strategy Officer, Craig Mundie, has reportedly showcased some new technology during a recent TechForum event for news media. His presentation demonstrated the use of a Windows Phone handset, supposedly the HTC HD7, to control the user interface of a computer. Sounds exciting?

There’s also speculation that the demonstration is only the tip of the iceberg of what may be possible when the computer becomes the natural extension of the phone. This is the type of synergy that Microsoft has been exciting us about since it introduced WP7 in 2010.

Click on this video link: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqUaxnhp7rc&feature=player_embedded) to see the cross-interaction between your environment, Windows Phone, a surface device, Kinect and other Microsoft technologies –in other words, the future that may soon be very well near you.

Read more: http://www.intomobile.com/2011/02/27/windows-phone-desktop-control-surface-interaction/

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Could Apple soon offer Android-like gesture-based lock screen for iOS?

More Apple news: The company has reportedly been working on a new gesture-based lock screen for iOS devices that works like Android’s “dots” lock screen feature. How it works: the user sets up a pattern and needs to input that same pattern in, in lieu of using a password or a four number code. Apple has reportedly already deployed this new lock screen internally for use in the employee ‘Apple Connect’ application for iOS devices.

There is no news yet on whether or not this new lock screen will be in iOS devices for users. 9 to 5 Mac reports that Apple will be pushing this lock screen down to some of their internal applications in the future, like the applications retail-store employees use, for instance.

Read more: http://www.9to5mac.com/54135/apple-testing-android-like-gesture-based-lock-screen-for-ios