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Microsoft's Zune HD ... looks an awful lot like an iPod touch to me

Microsoft's Zune HD ... looks an awful lot like an iPod touch to meYummy looks and likely better sound than any iPod Looks are good and the Zune has similar or better features as the iPod Touch and if it is anything like previous Zunes it has superior sound...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Apple iPod Touch, Apple iPod, Microsoft Zune, Microsoft Zune HD, awful lot, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-05-27

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Chatting (Not Chattering) About Salesforce - Part I

(NOTE BEFORE I START: This is one really long post. So rather than post it in all its glory in a single file or post it here over two days, I'm trying something new. I'm posting the first half here. And the second half on PGreenblog.  Let's see how that...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Customer Service, Twitter Inc., Sales Force, Customer, CRM, Integration, Force.com, Service Cloud 2, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Sales, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-11-23

HP Pavilion Elite owner resorts to lawsuit over 'inherently defective' PC

My HP Pavilion Elite... / HP quality controlMy HP Pavilion Elite came with an obviously defective, and defectively designed, video card. After about eight months, the video card model was finally recalled.My previous HP desktop computer went for about five years without a problem.HP's quality control is clearly going down...

Tags: Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows XP, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP Pavilion Elite, HP Pavilion, Linux, Core i7, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., PC

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Apple Safari exposes Windows to drive-by download attacks

"May lead"?Whenever I see these kinds of statements, regardless of platform, I always wonder if the "may" in "may lead to?arbitrary code execution" is equivalent to the odd, statistically improbable and realistically negligible but observed drug side-effect possibilities, like dry-mouth from eye drops or headaches from suppositories or whether it's...

Tags: Linux, Operating systems, SECURITY, Apple Safari, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-11-11

Make Facebook Lite your default experience

I discovered a new setting in Facebook that allows you always use the lighter, faster version of the website. Just login here and check the Facebook Lite box: http://lite.facebook.com/settings/defaultsite/ If you use Facebook a lot, you know it's kinda sluggish....

Tags: Facebook, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2009-11-10

OpenOfficeMouse - Put an end to button envy!

it looks like a...parody advertisement on The Onion, it even looks cheesy...can't imagine it being very comfortable and easy to use, how does one remember which button to press?Looks like...A Mouse designed by commitee.A Mouse with ADD.A mouse for a centipede.A mouse named "Sybil"A mouse decorated by color blind kindergardners.Come...

Tags: Mice, mouse, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-09

The month ahead: Will Droid do damage to the iPhone's mojo?

Droid, iPhone, and Windows 7IMHO Droid will likely carve out its own niche - but won't really replace the iPhone or the Blackberry.And I think they may be underestimating Windows 7 a bit.I don't understand the Android guysDo you seriously think you can sell a phone OS as a feature?...

Tags: Smart phones, Telecom & Utilities, VZW, Apple iPhone, Droid, Apple Inc., phone

Discussion threads 2009-10-28

Motorola Tundra VA76r (AT&T)

The Tundra Had A lot of Potential. Unfortunately, it Needs Work.PLEASE READ AND DON'T BELIEVE THE HYPE ON THIS PHONE. TRUST ME. This phone has some major issues. Yes, it's durable. But that's about the only good selling point. First off, the ear piece...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, call quality, phone, Tundra, AT&T Corp., battery, Motorola Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-23

Google's Schmidt: Mimicking Office completely not 'a good use of our time'

Google CEO Eric Schmidt acknowledges that Google Docs lacks workflow features that Microsoft Office has, but isn't trying to emulate the suite. In an interview with Stephen Shankland at CNet News, Schmidt continued his courting of the enterprise. Schmidt on Wednesday had a good performance at the...

Tags: Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-22

Who's a candidate for Desktop Linux? Your Kids.

"Hannah Montana Linux" may not be ready to give to your kids yet, but it's an idea that has legs. My partner in crime in the Frugal Tech Show, Ken Hess, who blogs over at Daniweb, recently published his list of Top 10...

Tags: Desktop, Children, Desktop Linux, Netbook, Content Filtering, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-10-20

Testers to get Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 this week; final by March 2010

Side-by-side installationYou said "Also unlike its predecessors, .Net 4 can be installed side-by-side with the previously released .Net 3.5"Notwithstanding the fact that .Net 4's predecessors actually was .Net 3.5, haven't all previous versions of .Net featured side-by-side installation?translations....[i]Microsoft is touting .Net 4 as being 81 percent smaller than its predecessors,...

Tags: .NET, Application servers, Middleware, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft .NET

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Google Wave: The Microsoft Bob of the New Millennium

Google Wave, the new and highly anticipated workflow/group collaboration mashup web application which is in limited alpha test has left me underwhelmed. Over the weekend I became one of the lucky few to receive a Google Wave invite. I was excited, overjoyed, and...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Gmail, Microsoft Corp., Mashup, Google Wave, Collaboration, Wiki, Groupware, E-mail, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-10-14

Wi-Fi Direct connections coming soon; Like Bluetooth, but better

The Wi-Fi Alliance this morning announced that it is nearing completion of a new specification that will allow WiFi devices to connect to each other - devices such as mobile phones, cameras, printers, as well as devices such as keyboards and headphones - and that certification is expected to begin...

Tags: Device, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Bluetooth, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-14

Ballmer: Testers didn't ring Vista warning bells; Could the same happen with Windows 7?

Your average beta tester is a power userYour average beta tester is a power user. You don't get the same feedback as you can from an average user. Therefore, you can't extrapolate how their experience would apply to the masses.Ballmer's trying to dampen expectations a bit so that when Windows...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-10-08

Study: 67% of Mac users would install, try Windows 7 if it was free

Marketing failureThe irony of course is that changes introduced in Vista mean that anyone could try it free for 4 months.I'm pretty sure that Windows users would also try OSX on the same basis. (Indeed some are helping themselves!)I might try Win 7 for free, but not on my Mac.I'd...

Tags: Desktops, Linux, Operating systems, Apple Macintosh, MAC USERS, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Win7, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

GlimmerBlocker 1.4.2 (Mac)

The problem with other ad-blockers for Safari is that they are implemented as awful hacks: as an InputManager and/or ApplicationEnhancer. This compromises the stability of Safari and very often create problems when Apple releases a new version of Safari. GlimmerBlocker is implemented as an http proxy, so the stability of...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Safari, Vitality ApS, GlimmerBlocker, CSS, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development

Software downloads 2009-10-06

PA Semi ARM chip bound for Apple tablet

I saw this comingI was watching the History Channel and Nostradamus predicted the coming of the Anti Iphone A tablet will do as good as the Newton....Unless they came up with some really new and gotta have feature like it can run for 16 hours I just don't see the...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, apple tablet, chip, tablet, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-05

Probably the most awful, soul destroying thing I've ever seen

wow those were just AWFUL..thats about 6 minutes of my life i wont get back. CHEESE CITY! lol.RE: Probably the most awful, soul destroying thing I've ever seenYou are goddammed right. IT feels like I am watching the cast of Barney, as they keep nodding their heads at each...

Tags: Corporate communications, Blonde, video, second video, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-24

Mozilla plans to "Ribbonize" Firefox

compact menu was there years ago, far ahead of whatever chrome, ie, safari whats the point, you really want to dig and find out who started everything?whewI almost was worried for a few but then you said its not changing on other platforms :) Thankfully Linux is still safe from...

Tags: Web browsers, Party Like It, ribbon, Mozilla Corp., atrocity, Chrome, Mozilla Firefox

Discussion threads 2009-09-22

HP Envy 13, 15 target Apple MacBook Pro with quality, performance

HP's new ENVY 13 and 15 laptops are now official, and as you may have noticed in the previously published screenshots, they look an awful lot like Apple's MacBook Pro notebooks. Like the 13-inch MacBook Pro, the ENVY 13 isn't quite thin-and-light, weighing...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Performance, Apple MacBook, Battery, Apple Inc., Apple MacBook Pro, Engineering, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-09-15