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- Google Image Swirl: Looks neat, but useless
- I have a problem with things like Google Image Swirl. Not the offering itself, just the strange notion that somehow cool design equals usefulness. There are tons of examples floating around that have the exact same problem -- things like Bing's "Visual Search". I'm the...
- Tags: Software, Google Inc., Grid, Wireless, Tools & Techniques, Retail, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Management, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2009-11-17
- New ultra-thin laptops ready to catch on?
- They still seem a bit over priced for what they do. I feel the same way about the netbooks too.They will NEVER take off like Netbooks becauseThey violate the netbook Trinity. These are the three contributing factors which are required for the extreme mass market appeal of a netbook....
- Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Notebooks, netbook, laptop computer, ultra-thin laptop, New ultra-thin laptop
- Discussion threads 2009-11-17
- My First Week With DROID
- The DroidI am curious-do you feel an application is coming along that will allow you to do to email what the Blackberry is already doing? Perhaps a software upgrade by Google? Having the ability to pull all your email accounts into one app is much better than what...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, E-mail, ROI/TCO, Droid
- Discussion threads 2009-11-15
- GNOME delays 3.0 release
- normal people use kde anywaygnome should never have existed at all, it's just a waste of developers time.they should have join XFCE and KDE projects.KDE 4.3 ....Just plain stinks ... not ready for prime time.Me, I prefer 3.5.10 ...kde 4.3. doesn't stinkyou are just spoiled by the extremly high standards...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, GNOME, KDE, Red Hat Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-10
- Twitter and web forgery
- Last evening as I was winding down after a long journey imagine my surprise when I started to receive a tsunami of @ replies on my Twitter account. Apparently I was direct messaging a stack of people I don't know with a link to something that...
- Tags: Web, Password, Twitter Inc., Robert Scoble, Security, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-11-05
- Can open source software stop IT failure?
- I'm not so sure #1 is valid#1 is a variation of "many eyes make all bugs shallow"Does it help? Yes. But it also makes the implicit assumption that everyone that can view the code is competent to do so. So it goes back to resource allocation being an issue, if...
- Tags: Strategy, OPEN SOURCE, information technology, IT Failure, F/OSS, software, open-source software
- Discussion threads 2009-10-26
- Windows 7 security default worries experts
- How many Windows 7 does it take...How many dribble articles about Windows 7 canthere be in one week.I heard Windows 7 is now helping the economy andit has changed global warming to global cooling.So the polar bears are now SAFE!!! Way to go Windows 7 it is like the messiah...
- Tags: Operating systems, Ubunutu, Microsoft Windows 7, security, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Win7
- Discussion threads 2009-10-22
- Here's why Apple is doing so well -- it's the top half, stupid
- Heh... this is going to be fun to watch...ntWhat???This sounds like a lot of BS.. Apple is overpriced and the mac lovers will pay whatever Apple charges. There is the summary of this article.There is a difference in purchasingthe best product, verses the "perceived" best product.I hear many of the...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Notebooks, Engineering, Blogging, Cyberthreats, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-21
- Nine out of 10 corporate PCs can run Windows 7 ... but that's not the whole story
- RE: Nine out of 10 corporate PCs can run Windows 7 ... but that's not the whole storyMost corporate PCs were not updated to Vista, because Vista didn't add any additional values; required more powerful hardware and had a very bad name from the start.Most companies will also not upgrade...
- Tags: Operating systems, Software Developement, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows XP, corporate PC, PC, Win7, whole story, operating system, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2009-10-19
- DROID aims to make Apple iAnnoyed
- i ilove itintWhat a dumb adAnybody who would think that this ad is a good way of advertising a product is a total idiot.So instead of hyping the features of your product, you advertise the don'ts for another product? If anything, you are telling people that the other product is...
- Tags: Smart phones, advertisement, Apple iPhone, Droid, Apple iAnnoyed, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-18
- TechGuard keeps spam and botnets at bay with one-click, enterprise-level security for SMBs, SOHOs
- One of the most difficult things for a small or medium business to do is set up a security scheme that's effective, affordable and intelligible to the average employee. Chesterfield, Mo. and Baltimore, Md.-based TechGuard is attempting to address that problem by bringing its enterprise and government-level...
- Tags: Security, Firewall, Network, SOHO, Small And Medium Business, TechGuard, SM, Smb/Sme, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-10-13
- Preview Party: Windows 7 makes a big splash in a Mac house
- No, they're not.[i]How sad that PC users are impressed and astonished when the following problems DON'T happen:[/i]Such events are abnormal for Windows too. Have been for years. If you're experiencing any of these then there's a problem you need to investigate and resolve. It's not normal behavior for Windows. Sam...
- Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, desktop, Microsoft Windows 7, Ubuntu, Linux, Apple Macintosh, Sam
- Discussion threads 2009-10-09
- Study: Windows 7 can boot more slowly than Vista
- Windows Boot UpWell you know I think that the average user understand the boot up scenario.the more crap you add to your PC the longer it will take to become usable.All of those little dormant services being energized.Hell a clean install of Windows 7 on a Dell 530s with 4...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, computer
- Discussion threads 2009-10-08
- Ballmer: Microsoft never recovered from Vista blow
- Word of Mouth...... trumps design and usability. Seems that once the drumming starts in the ABM crowd, there is little to do about the avalanche of "me too-ism."Vista is a fine operating system done in by third party vendors who refused to update their drivers to work with Vista's...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), NetworkManager, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2009-10-06
- The burnout risks for E2.0 community managers
- Dion Hinchcliffe's piece on community management surprised me. There is a sense that Dion is trying to lay down some ground rules in an area that is too new for anyone to draw anything other than tentative and early stage conclusions. That's not to say that conclusions are incorrect. There...
- Tags: Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-09-29
- Why you should be glad about Gmail failures
- A future that will never happen."But the way I look at it, every Gmail outage is a small investment I?m willing to make towards a future when I?ll be able to take its reliability utterly for granted."Keep dreaming.They are machines created by humans, maintained by humans, running software created by...
- Tags: Manufacturing, E-mail providers, Perfection, outage, Google Inc., Google Gmail
- Discussion threads 2009-09-24
- Does it matter that "Linux is bloated"?
- well compare to what compare too its former self ... ultra thin but lack finessecompare to win 2k compare to win xp compare to vista /win 7 will all there crapware compare to Mac and its hardware lock in Its easy to state Linux is bloated but...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, kernel, hardware, Haiku, BeOS, Linux IS
- Discussion threads 2009-09-22
- How long should a Windows 7 upgrade really take?
- Even if it takes 20 hours, it's still faster than starting from scratchIf you have a massive PC that needs 20 hours for upgrading, you'll need a week to re-install and configure all your apps before you have a configuration that's even remotely comparable. So even if it takes 20...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, clean install, user data, Microsoft Windows 7
- Discussion threads 2009-09-15
- Planet Android and the terrible twos
- Re: Planet AndroidAs a programmer, I am more interested in what is going on with the actual OS than ads for it. For example, I would like to know how to place android on a phone that does not have it, or get the actual Android os on a...
- Tags: Blogging, RSS, advertisement
- Discussion threads 2009-09-03
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