Monthly Archives: November, 2008
Dedicated Video Conferencing
You may have used or heard of Skype, and some of you may have used its video conferencing capabilities, particularly for keeping in touch with back home when you are away for a trip. This is an excellent piece of software and is a default install on every machine I have. In addition to the [...]
Wanted: Long Distance Blogger
Are you enthused by all things tech? Do you travel for work and use tech? Can you write interesting prose? Are you interested in contributing to this blog? Are you rich beyond all your possible dreams and therefore happy that there would be no pay, only the platform on which to post? Is this your [...]
Microsoft Mesh – Having it all
Now I could do the big write up of Microsoft Mesh and how it can help you, but a whole lot better idea is to run VT after giving you a couple of notes. It allows you to store your most important files on every PC you have login access to – they should always [...]
Openproj – Project Management software without the cost
We have all heard of Openoffice, as a replacement for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint but the replacements for other tools that people are really comfortable with has been a little more difficult – and in this I am mainly talking about MS Project. MS Project is a very costly product, particularly for the small business [...]
Redfly – a miss by a mile
Celio is a company that has produced the Redfly Smartphone Terminal since earlier this year. They have just released new update hardware in terms of the C7 and C8N, where the differentials are purely in screen size, weight and ‘Media Port’ – all of this for between $229 and $299 (I would expect that to [...]
Instant on boot systems
There has been some discussion in recent months about developments in making laptops and other computers start instantaneously. These developments seem to be based around fiddling the shut down mechanism so it part starts or by implementing a mini-Linux OS in flash like with Splashtop Linux, to give an option to the standard start mechanisms [...]
Netbooks Returns update
This is an update on a previous post about Netbook Returns. Well it seems that more information about Netbook returns has come available and this was actually based on machines that are not short of RAM or performance, as the quote from MSI’s Director of Sales, Andy Tung found on the Digital Home Thoughts site. [...]
Spambayes – Spam filtering
The news of the shutdown of a major spam source in the US gives you some warm feelings about the constant stream of poorly targeted rubbish in your inbox, but the rate at which you will see them will grow again soon enough. So as a small business or independent consultant/freelancer what do you do [...]
Netbooks Returns
There has been some noise floating out there about the return rate on Linux based netbooks. Now I would like to see some more detail about this, as I could expect a certain lack of familiarity causing some people to return machines, but not at the scale being reported. What is interesting about the date [...]
Google Alerts: Tracking Reputation and Events
The Internet is a big place and there are times when you want to know about something as quickly as it has happened. This can be news about a specific company, a person or a technology. You want to know everything as it happens. How can you do that? Well apart from scouring the Internet [...]