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So long and thanks for all the fish

So long and thanks for all the fishGood Luck!Good luck with your career Ryan. Your blog has been fun - particularly in the early years. Now browser apps are continuing to become progressively richer, and desktop apps are almost all becoming Internet connected. It's kind of nice when people start...

Tags: Blogging, Universal Desktop, Ryan, fish, blog

Discussion threads 2009-03-30

Universal Desktop Daily - Friday, December 1, 2006

Universal Desktop Daily - Friday, December 1, 2006Chines openlaszlo community pays great attention to your reportswe're always watching your blogs, and translating your article about latest indurstry news to chinese, wish your blog keep updated every day and bring more surprising to us!thank you.lwz7512 from beijingwww.openria.cn

Tags: Blogging, Friday December 1, Universal Desktop Daily, Universal Desktop

Discussion threads 2006-12-01

Universal Desktop Daily - Thursday, November 16, 2006

Universal Desktop Daily - Thursday, November 16, 2006Laurence Moroney, I presumeIt didn't take long for Laurence Moroney from Mainsoft to get blogging from the MS cammpus.From http://www.philotic.com/blog/?p=97 to http://blogs.msdn.com/webnext/archive/2006/11/15/welcome-to-web-next.aspx.Sounds like MS could be serious about cross platform development.Yes, that's me...But it would be innaccurate to say that I am from...

Tags: Blogging, Web browsers, Thursday November 16, Universal Desktop, Universal Desktop Daily, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-11-19

Universal Desktop Daily - Tuesday, November 7, 2006

Universal Desktop Daily - Tuesday, November 7, 2006WidgetsI think they work well as an adjunct to web apps - I used 37 Signals 'TaDa List' through both it's web interface and a desktop widget - ditto ebay the widget beats logging into ebay to track my auctions. Basically, I think...

Tags: Channel management, Tuesday November 7, Universal Desktop Daily, Universal Desktop, Widget

Discussion threads 2006-11-07

Universal Desktop Daily - Thursday, November 2, 2006

Universal Desktop Daily - Thursday, November 2, 2006Google ...[url=http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/index.php?p=375]... may be inching towards using RIAs.[/url]RE: Google ...I saw this, and it's pretty cool. I need to get more info, but good for Google!

Tags: Thursday November 2, Universal Desktop, Universal Desktop Daily, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-11-02

Universal Desktop Daily - Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Universal Desktop Daily - Tuesday, October 17, 2006Janus looks cool..as long as your creating for Windows. It sounds like a great solution for a controlled environment intranet and using .net as the engine will definitely give it power. Definitely worth keeping an eye on.Cell phone video editingI never thought about...

Tags: Corporate communications, Cellular phones, Tuesday October 17, Universal Desktop, Universal Desktop Daily

Discussion threads 2006-10-17

Universal Desktop Daily - Monday, October 16, 2006

Universal Desktop Daily - Monday, October 16, 2006Read/Write Web?Since the dawn of computing there have been essentially four operations that the programmer needs to consider - create, read, update, and delete CRUD. It's the one thing I think is missing from Ted's summary - the read/write web. As...

Tags: INTERNET, Microsoft Office, Monday October 16, Universal Desktop Daily, Universal Desktop, Ted, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-10-16

Universal Desktop Daily - Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Universal Desktop Daily - Tuesday, September 19, 2006AdobePlease take care of macromedia's products!http://opendomain.blogspot.com/NYTimes ReaderIt worked for me after I uninstalled all the previous CTP versions of WinFX (.NET 3). Including the apps that depended on it.RE: AdobeI think they're doing a pretty good job of that. Which products are...

Tags: .NET, Application servers, Tuesday September 19, Universal Desktop, Universal Desktop Daily

Discussion threads 2006-09-19

Universal Desktop Daily - Friday, September 8th, 2006

Universal Desktop Daily - Friday, September 8th, 2006Nice round-upThese are good summaries. This blog is becoming the 'BrowserWatch' of the RIA world. BTW - spelling mistake. Persueing == Pursuing.RE: Nice round-upJoe, thanks for the comment and the fix. I knew it was kind of dangerous to be doing...

Tags: Friday September, Universal Desktop Daily, Universal Desktop

Discussion threads 2006-09-08

Additional Resources

Users should be smug, and why the Apple iPhone makes you feel smarter

It works and it is NOT MicrosoftIt is so nice when people have the option to choose what they want than some lethargic aged NT kernel that is a virus/worm magnet.GOOD bye Windows Mobile it was as if you never existed!ha haI am happy!:)Now to get rid of Windows on...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Operating systems, computer, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., operating system

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Logitech Harmony 700

When Logitech released the Harmony One in early 2008, it instantly became one of our favorite universal remotes to date. But at $250, it wasn't exactly an impulse buy for the average consumer. With the Harmony 700, however, Logitech has delivered a model that offers the bulk of the...

Tags: Monitors & displays, Cable, setup process, Logitech, Harmony 700

Product reviews 2009-11-18

PandoraJam 1.4 build 292 (Mac)

PandoraJam enables you to enjoy the popular Pandora.com radio service on your Mac desktop. Easily stream music wirelessly, record audio for playback on iPods, and submit tracks to Last.fm and Twitter. Desktop integration via Growl notifications, instant messenger updates and keyboard shortcuts. Support for Apple Remote. PandoraJam (Free demo, $15)...

Tags: Apple AirPort Express, Last.fm, Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS X 10.4, Keyboard Shortcut, Music, Bitcartel, PandoraJam, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Keyboards, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Peripherals

Software downloads 2009-11-14

News to know: Apple tablet; Android; Social Search; Netflix on PS3; Verizon

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.: Jason D. O'Grady: Times exec hints at Apple tablet Larry Dignan: Apple slate "impending," says NYT exec editor; Much...

Tags: NetFlix Inc., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Phone, Social Search, Sony PlayStation 3, Dana Blankenhorn, Verizon Communications Inc., Andrew Nusca, Apple Inc., Matthew Miller, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Tablets, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Telecom & Utilities, Notebooks, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Web Services, Enterprise Software

Blog posts 2009-10-27

Visionapp Remote Desktop 2010 (Windows)

Visionapp Remote Desktop 2010 is a powerful tool for managing and accessing multiple servers and desktops. It is simple to administer Windows, Citrix, Linux/UNIX and Macintosh systems via the integrated connection protocol. vRD2010 is a command and control center, where you can drive any type of system remotely. We call...

Tags: Server, Tool, Visionapp, Visionapp Remote Desktop 2010, vRD2010, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-10-20

Life In The Vast Plane...

At least you'd get some peace and quiet.At least you'd get some peace and quiet. Personally, I enjoy having some time off work, and don't want to be on the clock 24/7, thanks.RE: Life In The Vast Plane...That is an extremely valid point: 'always on' = burn out. Modern work...

Tags: Notebooks, laptop computer

Discussion threads 2009-10-09

My DB 4.0.1 (Windows)

My DB is an economical personal database which sits in your system tray and allows rapid access to your personal data such as checkbook, inventory, movie collection, passwords (stored in encrypted form, you can password protect the accessing of My DB). It was designed as a personal electronic file cabinet....

Tags: Password, Microsoft Access, Movie, Microsoft Windows, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2009-10-05

PGP Desktop Home 10.0 (Mac)

PGP Desktop provides individuals a simple, easy-to-use desktop encryption solution to automatically protect confidential communications and digitally stored information with an integrated solution based on strong, broadly accepted security technology. PGP Desktop incorporates PGP Universal technology to provide automatic encryption, decryption, digital signatures, verification, and recipient key lookup, making it...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, PGP Corp., PGP Desktop, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-10-04

News to know: XP Mode; Cisco; Comcast; 'Ardi'

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. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft releases XP Mode virtualization to manufacturing [video=346621] Larry Dignan: Cisco doubles down...

Tags: Google Inc., Web, Larry Dignan, Advertisement, Microsoft Windows XP, Comcast Corp., Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., Channel Management, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Marketing

Blog posts 2009-10-02

The month ahead: Can Windows 7 close the Vista flop chapter?

Win7 cannot completely close the Vista flop chapter. Win7 is still WAY too bloated and inflexible, a take it all or leave it approach. Compare that with Linux where you can use it from a tiny embedded system all the way up to a large server with multiple cores and...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, UNIX, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Win7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Linux, operating system

Discussion threads 2009-09-30

Wallsaver 2.5.3 (Mac)

Wallsaver is a Cocoa application written in AppleScript that allows users to run their screen savers as their desktop wallpaper. Wallsaver doesn't have to be running 24/7. You can launch Wallsaver, activate your screen saver, and then quit the program. Restoring your desktop is just as easy. Open up Wallsaver,...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Screensaver, NWW Network, Wallsaver, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-09-30