I have Office 2007 running now on my Tablet and Laptop, both running XP, but my desktop machine (2003 server) is not something I would risk putting Office 2007 on yet, mainly because I collaborate with too many people who are on previous versions of Office. At least that was...
Graham is grappling with the question, what is an Architect? I used to be an IT architect and I really struggled with the role, on some days I thought I was a pre-sales technical consultant, on others I was a programme manager, on others a technical trouble shooter and most...
I have been using NewsGator for a long time and I have always stuck with it despite using lots of different alternatives. However I have finally switched to use FeedDemon 2 which is just too slick for Outlook with an add-in to complete with. main reasons for the switch: Great...
Frustrated at the manual work needed to keep multiple machines in synch, then try Allway Sync, I use it to keep my Desktop, Laptop and Tablet in synch and it’s working great so far, what follows is a much longer description that might be worth reading if you like detail!...
It’s not been launched yet but already the community is reporting 128 applications virtualized! You can imagine the popular PC magazines providing all of their free applications and utility collections packaged in this way!
The Lotus Notes/Domino Hints ad Tips blog is excellent, I am a firm believer in the integrated user experience and this blog is already helping me to use Notes more effectively. Integrated attachment editing is a feature I already new about, but it illustrates my previous post about user experience...
Consumerization is a term that was coined by Doug Neal of CSC to describe the fact that enterprise IT is being disrupted by the combination of tech savvy employees who make high levels of personal investment in IT and have access to a whole raft of web 2.0 applications via...
Application virtualization is going to be very big, in essence it allows you to deploy applications on Windows clients just by copying them onto the machine. The configuration of the machine remains unchanged because the virtualization platform isolates the application, by intercepting all calls to the registry and to files...
I must admit that I rarely listen to or read national or international news, I find the signal to noise ration to be very low, I pick up a little from the Saturday paper and from my family and friends. Of course I scan a lot of focussed blog entries...
Rod describes in this post the importance of posting content in HTML. He describes his experience of posting an interesting article as a PDF and then later as HTML. The PDF didn’t generate much traffic, when he converted to HTML the traffic went wild. I must admit that I downloaded...