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- Is the "killer app" argument dead?
- Is the "killer app" argument dead?Great blog.It is about the browser nowadays. The age of convoluted proprietary lock-ins is going going but not quite gone .....An awful lot of devs are now building web based sharing tools, and any IE only dev, if it still goes on, is by the...
- Tags: Web browsers, PRODUCTIVITY, knowledge economy, killer application, Web browser, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- Is the "killer app" argument dead?
- The other day I was talking with a bunch of other tech heads about the ongoing Windows vs. Mac vs. Linux market share war and why, from a stats point of view, that Mac and Linux were still trailing far behind Windows. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Adobe PhotoShop, Apple Macintosh, Killer Application, Web Browser, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Microsoft Office, Software, Office Suites, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- 3D HD cellphone video: a killer app next decade storage
- 3D HD cellphone video: a killer app next decade storageNovelty value onlyThere was a report in the last week saying that even the tech-mad Koreans don't watch TV/videos on their phone.They may record on the phone though.RE: 3D HD cellphone video: a killer app next decade storageWhat a nice...
- Tags: Corporate communications, decade storage, cellphone video, killer application, video, 3D, cell phone
- Discussion threads 2008-08-15
- 3D HD cellphone video: a killer app for next decade storage
- Terabyte notebooks are coming in a couple of years. But what will we fill them with? Glad you asked. How about 3D HDTV cell phone footage? Don't laugh. It's coming. Flashback When I bought my first external hard drive - 30 MB for $300 - I...
- Tags: 3D, Phone, Killer Application, Storage, Cell Phone, Video, Terabyte Notebook, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-08-14
- 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
- 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
- SocialCalc: a killer app?
- SocialCalc: a killer app?Confluence / EditGridAlso check out the Confluence / EditGrid integration, which includes all this plus multiple-user real-time update, version history, more robust spreadsheet functionality, and Excel import / export. http://www.editgrid.com/site/news/confluence_plugin_launch
- Tags: SocialCalc, EditGrid, Confluence, killer application
- Discussion threads 2008-06-10
- SocialCalc: a killer app?
- David Greenfield details SocialCalc, the wikified spreadsheet from SocialText. While David's assessment is comprehensive, I partially disagree with his analysis that: Â ...SocialCalc will have a long way to go. Today there's no Excel integration, something that Google Sheets already offers. What's more the range of functions provided with SocialCalc...
- Tags: Killer Application, Socialtext, Spreadsheet, SocialCalc, Google Sheet, Productivity, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
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- The Linux laptop goes to school
- The Linux laptop goes to schoolOn the Mouse Buttons ...[i]Robin’s biggest complaint was the slow response of the mouse buttons. But it’s something you can get used to, she said.[/i]Don't use the mouse buttons they're too slow, instead use the tap, double tap and side scroll features on the touchpad....
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Mice, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, mouse, Linux laptop, laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- Preview: Plusmo Pro Football Live app (updated)
- As you already know I really want a good NFL application for the iPhone. Now that it's NFL season and it would be great to track teams, players and games in progress – especially when you can't be in front of a television. As I've I mentioned...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, NFL, App, Plusmo Pro Football Live, Plusmo NFL App, Games, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Yes, we know it's a problem. No, we have no budget.
- A survey by data center infrastructure company Voltaire indicates that while a vast majority of data center professionals believe that running a green data center will become a mission-critical agenda item, they haven't set aside the money to support it. Close to 90 percent of the executives...
- Tags: CIO, Data Center, Voltaire Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- What went wrong with Joost's desktop client?
- What went wrong with Joost's desktop client?That explains it....The client was invisible to the user as a cost-saver, rather the cost savings were apparent to the video distributor. So, how does the client app make itself valuable? Joost had several interesting features besides this P2P media capability, but it also...
- Tags: Joost, desktop client, desktop
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- What went wrong with Joost's desktop client?
- The news broke today that Joost, the company which in a lot of ways was on the forefront of rich media, is canning its signature desktop client in favor of a purely web based portal. As a big proponent of desktop applications in general, and especially these hybrid applications which...
- Tags: Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Mainstream media writes Windows obit
- Wow, a tough day for Windows. BusinessWeek reports that HP, the world's biggest PC company, is so troubled by Vista's 'tepid reception' and Apple's resurgence that it is developing its own operating system. Meanwhile a New York Times columnist writes on his blog that Windows is "already...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., PC, Microsoft Windows Vista, Mainstream Media, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- The Office (2.0): No paper? No problem.
- I think I may have been the only person at this week's Office 2.0 conference using - gasp! - a pen and paper. There was no program "book" when I registered - the agenda was online only. And none of the exhibitors handed out press releases on paper - though...
- Tags: Document, Microsoft PowerPoint, Appirio, SlideRocket, Digital Signatures, Collaboration, Productivity, Groupware, Fax, Microsoft Office, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Office Suites, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Service integrators = Ed Tech bargain hunters?
- I'm not entirely enamored of my ISP right now. Their backbone is dated, downtime too frequent, the email interface they provide is kludgy at best, application support for their web hosting is more limited than what you can get from $1.99 a month hosts, and, well, I'm just not...
- Tags: Internet Service Provider, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Web Hosting, Internet, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Are we "done" with rich Internet applications?
- Are we "done" with rich Internet applications?Rich Internet ApplicationOne issue to be considered is people like me who for security reasons, and to avoid distracting material, is to disable popups, Flash and Javascript. I run two browsers. The default which is called by email links is Safari with RIA switched...
- Tags: rich Internet application
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- Demo Facebook app creates DoS botnet
- Do you know what that innocent-looking Facebook app is really doing? Researchers at the Institute of Computer Science ICS have created a proof-of-concept Facebook application capable of covertly herding users of the popular social network into a powerful -- and malicious -- botnet. The...
- Tags: Denial Of Service, Facebook, Application, Network, DOS, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Chrome's JavaScript poses challenge to Silverlight
- Chrome's JavaScript poses challenge to Silverlightis Flash chopped liver?I don't get it... Flash is ubiquitous.. it's on almost every PC out there and has a huge developer base behind it, yet these people are implying Silverlight is THE platform to beat. What does Silverlight have that Flash doesn't (besides a...
- Tags: Scripting languages, Adobe RIA, SWF, Chrome, WebKit RiA, Microsoft Silverlight, JavaScript, WebKit, Microsoft Office, SVG, Adobe Systems Inc., developer, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture
- The appliance computing culture earned its successes by focusing on the revenue generation side - and that, in turn, drove its own evolution to database technology, the "application as interfaces to data" view, and tight evolutionary links between University research groups and companies like DEC and DG. by Paul Murphy
- Tags: Job, Processor, Database, Mainframes, Recruitment & Selection, Servers, Hardware, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
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