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JunkIt 0.3b (Mac)

If you have used the Junk mail filter in Mail.app on the mac, you know that even with the best training, you can still be left with hundreds of unwanted emails. What's worse? Spam-filtering programs often make it possible to do *so* much that the average user becomes overwhelmed with...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Todd, JunkIt, E-mail, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Online Communications, Security, Spam And Phishing

Software downloads 2009-11-22

Ready-Set-Do! 1.4.4 (Mac)

Integrates all of your files and programs into David Allen's GTD ("Getting Things Done") workflow without locking you into a particular program.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Workflow, Todd, Process Improvement, Desktops, Quality, Business Operations, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-11-14

More top-down versus bottom-up SOA

Todd Biske provides additional insights on the top-down versus bottom-up SOA discussion that recently appeared on this blogsite.Which approach is better? Neither and both, Todd explains, who notes that "there aren’t too many companies that can take a completely top-down approach."The bottom line is that "there’s no way you can...

Tags: General, Business ROI

Blog posts 2007-07-16

Ready for SOA? Here's a litmus test

Smash the hierarchy. Encourage teamwork. Push decision making down to the front lines. Give employees autonomy and ownership of problems and solutions. And, most of all, trust, trust, trust.Todd Biske and I are on the same page when it comes to questioning how much of role SOA can really play...

Tags: Business ROI, General

Blog posts 2007-05-26

Should Ballmer be throwing headcount stones at Google?

Should Ballmer be throwing headcount stones at Google?Given Mr Ballmer'sexpertise in the field of elephantiasis, perhaps Google execs would do well to heed his wise words...HenriMore Jobs? WHOO HOO!Good job MS! Share that wealth with more employees!Mouth of the WestBallmer just wants to piss on anyone who would...

Tags: Steve Ballmer, Todd, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-03-19

So much metadata, so little time

So much metadata, so little timeTodd's ReppistryHey!Tom Critser of Infravio coined the term "Regozitory" to speak of Registry and Repository quite a few years ago! So he deserves credit for that one.Just to be clear, Registry in SOA has become pretty synonymous with "implements UDDI". Now I've seen other registries...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Todd, Source Code Control System Repositories, SOA

Discussion threads 2006-09-01

Additional Resources

Wayside Arrow Escape 1.0 (Windows)

Wayside Arrow Escape is a challenging adventure game for free. Your goal is to help Todd and Maurecia reach the top floor while avoiding Myron's the cupid of the love goddess Dana love. Only by reaching the top floor can you hope to avoid a fate worst than rampaging cows....

Tags: Floor, Microsoft Windows, NowStat, Wayside Arrow Escape, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-08-31

Frugal Friday: Getting Stuck in a Bar Ditch, Talkback Rage, "The Colony", Moonlight 2.0, Microsoft Interoperability, Opengear

Frugal Networker Ken Hess and I discuss the complexities of getting stuck in Bar Ditches, Rabid Talkbacks, Discovery Channel's "The Colony" , the Beta release of Moonlight 2.0, improving interoperability trends from Microsoft, and talk with Todd Rychecky, Vice President of North American Operations for Opengear,...

Tags: Interoperability, Microsoft Corp., Podcasts, Internet, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-08-21

Flapping 'nano' aircraft takes flight

Engineers at Aeronvironment AV of Monrovia, California, have demonstrated the world's first successful flight of the smallest ever self-powered, rudderless, aircraft with flapping wings. The nano air vehicle NAV is modeled after a large insect or small bird, such as a hummingbird. It can hover indoors under...

Tags: Aircraft, DARPA, Nano Air Vehicle, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-08-13

VMware's SpringSource purchase sparks head scratching; Still doesn't solve the Microsoft problem

VMware's purchase of SpringSource for $420 million has sparked a fair amount of head scratching among analysts who argue the virtualization software company paid too much and still failed to solve its Microsoft problem. Global Equities analyst Trip Chowdhry noted that SpringSource had roughly $10 million in...

Tags: VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., SpringSource, Virtualization, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-11

News to know: Palm ads; Microhoo SEC filing; U.S. Marines; Bing; Skype; Clunkers

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Palm Pre's creepy ads: They worked. You're still talking about them Andrew Nusca: Palm's creepy Pre ads:...

Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, Advertisement, SEC Filing, Palm Inc., Andrew Nusca, Skype Technologies S.A., Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Palm Pre, Microsoft Windows, Projectors, Notebooks, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Components, Notebooks & Tablets

Blog posts 2009-08-05

Todd Park draws good reviews in debut as HHS CTO

Park is best-known as co-founder of AthenaHealth, a practice management company with expertise in getting money out of insurance companies, by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: U.S. Department Of Health And Human Services, Insurance, Financial Planning, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-08-04

Windows 7: The waiting is the hardest part (for Microsoft)

Microsoft's fourth quarter results reveal just how much is riding on Windows 7. In a word: Everything. As reported Techmeme, Microsoft's client revenue was weaker than expected due to increasing sales of netbooks, a base that's still in love with Windows XP and customers that never quite...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Holt, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-24

Microsoft's client revenue skids; Blame netbooks, Windows 7 deferrals

Microsoft's fourth quarter earnings were better than expectations excluding items, but the software giant's client Windows revenue skidded 29 percent compared to a year ago. For the three months ended June 30, Microsoft's client revenue was $3.1 billion, down from $4.36 billion a year ago. That slide in Windows revenue...

Tags: Revenue, PC, Microsoft Corp., Netbook, Client Revenue, Operational Accounting, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Finance, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-23

RFID passports: a tragedy waiting to happen

You're strolling in the south if France when a van stops, men burst out and in seconds hustle you into the van. "American scum!" they hiss as they hood you. But wearing a Sorbonne t-shirt and no fanny pack, how did they know? Thank your government - and a bad...

Tags: Passport, RFID, Security, Wireless And Mobility, Biometrics, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2009-07-14

Micro-USB to be universal EU phone charger

Micro-USB to be universal EU phone chargerthe first thing the EU got rightas compared to the shambolic case with IE8 in windows 7RE: Micro-USB to be universal EU phone chargerYes.Probably the single most influential act that Obama could take is to require, as CIC of the Armed Forces, standard batteries...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Micro-USB, phone, phone charger, charger

Discussion threads 2009-06-30

Windows 7: Now it's an economic savior too

Expectations for Windows 7 may be getting a bit out of hand. It's one thing to expect Windows 7 to juice a PC upgrade cycle, Microsoft's earnings and tech industry growth. It's quite another to think that Windows 7 is going to move the needle on gross...

Tags: Gross Domestic Product, PC, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-29

MSFT passed on chance to speak to EU's top antitrust official

Hmm ... makes you wonder what they're afraid of. The New York Times -- reporting on the news this blog that Microsoft would not make oral arguments in the small matter of whether the embedding of Internet Explorer in Windows constitutes anticompetitive behavior -- revealed that Neelie Kroes, the competition...

Tags: Commission, Antitrust, Microsoft Corp., European Union, MSFT, Sales Force Management, Sales, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-05-22

Spammers harvesting emails from Twitter - in real time

Spammers harvesting emails from Twitter - in real timePeople still get spam??I think Gmail has made spam irrelevant, but let's test it and see.brett@brettschulte.comhttp://twitter.com/brettschulte/status/1789431680Fools plaster private data on a public domain PERIOD!Only a fool puts private data, pictures on a public domain for the world to see and manipulate ANYWAY...

Tags: spammer, e-mail, Twitter, spam

Discussion threads 2009-05-13

Compuware refocuses: optimization, performance, portfolio management in -- Quality out

This guest post comes courtesy of David A. Kelly at Upside Research, where he’s principle analyst. You can reach him here. Well, okay, maybe that headline is misleading, but the details aren’t. Detroit-based software giant Compuware isn’t really dropping the quality of its products,...

Tags: Performance, Optimization, Borland Software Corp., Micro Focus, Compuware Corp., Portfolio Management, MicroFocus, Mainframes, Government, Vertical Industries, Strategy, Servers, Hardware, Management, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-05-06