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- The killer apps of academia
- The killer apps of academiaMy suggestionsNice list. However, what's Windows Live Mail doing there, when there's the Great Gmail? :-)Another favourite application: normalize the volume of your mp3's with mp3gain. There is a Windows version here:http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/download.phpAnd there's also a Linux version. The Linux version is available in the repositories...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Word processors, academia, killer application, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Matlab, OpenOffice, TeX, Linux-version
- Discussion threads 2008-06-17
- Microsoft ponies up for academia
- Microsoft ponies up for academiaEducation receives a huge boost...Academia needs to get down and thank their lucky stars that Microsoft is getting involved and helping out. My rep said it is all about converting minds both young and old to the awesome power and unbridled elegance that will be the...
- Tags: ROI/TCO, Linux, Operating systems, UNIX, rep, Microsoft Corp., school cafeteria, academia, ROI
- Discussion threads 2005-10-20
- Academia's quest for the ultimate search tool
- Academia's quest for the ultimate search toolIs there anyonethat is NOT trying to reinvent search? Geez, this must be the hundreth time I've read about this. I'll believe it when I see it - and maybe, JUST maybe, you won't have to pry my Google from my cold, dead fingers...
- Tags: SEARCH, PRODUCTIVITY, academia, search tool, tool
- Discussion threads 2005-08-15
- Sarbanes-Oxley in Higher Education: Bringing Corporate America's "Best Practices" to Academia
- Whether Sarbanes-Oxley should be applied to non-profits in general, or to institutions of higher education in particular, will be decided by others. This paper will explore the ways in which its "spirit" is consistent with the aspirations of academia, and suggest ways that colleges and universities - public as well...
- Tags: Education, Academia, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Drexel University, Best Practice, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures
- White papers 2005-02-25
- Sun plots push for open-source tools
- Sun plots push for open-source toolsWaste of time..I gave a lecture at a highly respected technical school the other day about programming. One of the students asked me: "What language/platform should I use, Java or .NET?". After I stopped laughing, I told the guy ".NET!". With academia turning away from...
- Tags: .NET, Application servers, Middleware, Java development tools, open source, Microsoft .NET, Java, academia, Sun NetBeans, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2003-12-04
- Academia gets creative with Web services
- Academia gets creative with Web servicesM$ have brainwashed MIT![The ideas for tracking bus locations or performing technical experiments over the Web came out of a joint research program between Microsoft and MIT]I heard that M$ have been shun out of this state government.Why are these MIT a$$holes still dealing with...
- Tags: Channel management, Web services, iCampus, StartUp, Microsoft Corp., Web service, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Web, academia
- Discussion threads 2003-10-27
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- News to know: Firefox 3.0; iPhone apps; Yahoo; LinkedIn; Millennials
- Notable headlines: Jason O'Grady: My most anticipated announced iPhone applications Nate McFeters: Fresh off the press: iPhoneDbg toolkit hotness Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Firefox 3.0 final - First thoughts. Gallery right Ed Burnette: Fake Firefox 3 download links may be hazardous to your...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, Hewlett-Packard Co., Yahoo! Inc., LinkedIn, Web Browsers, Data Centers, Internet, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- The killer apps of academia
- Mary-Jo wanted to find the killer-apps of Vista, but I think I've found the killer applications for students. Regardless of educational establishment status, we have to consider multiple things in a killer-app (defined as an application which you essentially "must have"), such as open-source where possible, available across...
- Tags: Killer Application, Student, Audacity, Paint.NET, Notepad++, Web Browsers, Internet, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-06-17
- Enterprise 2.0: my $0.02
- Enterprise 2.0 is over for another year and despite a poor start, the event turned out well. I attribute the poor start to the performance of Oracle and Microsoft: two of Jevon MacDonald's 'drag queens.' Both seemed tired, dated and out of touch with the mood of the new generation...
- Tags: Microsoft SharePoint, Social Computing, Enterprise 2.0, Microsoft Corp., Twitter, IBM Corp., Groupware, Social Networking, Enterprise Software, Software, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-06-13
- Debunking yet another bogus malware study
- Debunking yet another bogus malware studyExcellent analysisI guess that people have come to expect bad news so much that journalists no longer verify their sources; if it's bad news about computer threats, it must be true.To be fair, this sort of problem (relying on bad sources that themselves rely on...
- Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Windows, Viruses and worms, bogus malware, malware, OECD, Microsoft Windows XP, spyware
- Discussion threads 2008-06-02
- Another net neutrality bill, in a Comcast-charged atmosphere
- Another net neutrality bill, in a Comcast-charged atmosphereLots of profit......jobs and innovation in jeopardy? Too bad we didn't jeopardize Sub-Prime lending when we had a chance. Same kind of profit potential here for the telcos IMO.Drop ComcastThere are lots of ISP's out there.AT&T Yahoo comes to mind.Could Comcast's big usership...
- Tags: INTERNET, Broadband Internet, Comcast Corp., Comcast-charged atmosphere, Net Neutrality, net neutrality bill
- Discussion threads 2008-05-09
- Sometimes it takes a thousand words
- Sometimes it takes a thousand wordsA lot more often than "sometimes". NT.Oh, so true......but you need the diagrams...too many people get lost in the words. That being said, adhering too closely to any standard or methodology is a self defeating exercise.BLUE!I can't believe that you were allowed to do...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, parallel, software, real world, Bookkeeper
- Discussion threads 2008-05-06
- OpenSolaris: What Ubuntu wants to be when it grows up
- What would Ubuntu be like if it were an OS for grown-ups? This week at its CommunityOne event in San Francisco, Sun will release its May 2008 build of OpenSolaris (2008.05) the Open Source operating system based on the source code of the...
- Tags: Ubuntu, OpenSolaris, Sun Solaris 10, Operating System, Sun Microsystems Inc., BSD, Sun Solaris, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Servers, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-05-05
- 25 environmental threats in our future
- Environmental scientists and policy makers have done some deep brainstorming sessions about our future, according to this article in New Scientist. 35 representatives from organizations involved in environmental policy, academia, scientific journalism in the UK have used what they call 'horizon scanning.' They've established a list of 25 future novel...
- Tags: Scientist, Threat, U.K., Virus, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- Apple sales soar to capture 14ò0of US PC retail sales
- Apple sales soar to capture 14ò0of US PC retail salesThe OS just rocksIt's easy, straightforward, stable, and powerful. Leopard is the anti-Vista and gives you what I like to call "mindless productivity." I can do everything I want at home, work, and school quickly and easily. This...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Sales strategy, Desktops, Operating systems, PC, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Macintosh, sales, PC retail sale, operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-03-18
- A quick comment on Singularity
- I've received a few emails over the last few days from people wanting to know whether I think that Microsoft's Singularity OS will eventually push Unix aside, first in academia and then in business. No. Singularity has an odd history...
- Tags: Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-03-08
- t-VNC (exe)
- VNC is an open-source software, developed and distributed under GNU General Public License. You can download and use VNC for free. It stands for Virtual Network Computing. t-VNC is a remote control application that allows you to view and interact with one computer (the "server") using a simple program (the...
- Tags: VNC, Computer, t-VNC, VNC Software, Productivity
- Software downloads 2008-01-10
- Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac - complete package
- After a series of delays, Microsoft plans to release Office for Mac 2008 to brick-and-mortar and online stores on January 15, making this the first update in about four years. We've tested beta versions of the new applications over the last month without running into glitches.Office for Mac includes Word,...
- Tags: Desktops, PRODUCTIVITY, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp.
- Product reviews 2008-01-02
- Moka5 - a different take on application virtualization
- John Whaley, Moka5 founder and principal engineer, and I spoke for a short while recently about Moka5's products largely in beta at this point, the target audience for those products and the competitive environment. Thanks for spending so much time with me, John! It appears to me that Moka5's products,...
- Tags: Software, Virtualization, Mobile, Environment, Virtual Machine, LivePC, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2007-12-20
- Colorado decertifies voting machines
- Colorado decertifies voting machinesSo, the mere fact that there was no printout, ...... or the capability of even GENERATING a hard copy of the vote, wasn't enough to alert these geniuses in the IT and Administrative departments of the government that we probably SHOULDN'T be USING these things?I guess there...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, electronic-voting machine, ballot, paper ballot
- Discussion threads 2007-12-19
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