I am becoming increasingly convinced that we need to share our working practices with each other, so we can develop more effective “end to end” life-cycles. Too often we think in terms of particular products but it’s rare that a single product supports a whole process. I have some posts...
Since I started working from home I think my IM client has become my most important application. I use Trillian Pro which in my case integrates with Skype, Sametime, MSN and AOL. I use IM much more than I use email and the history features in Trillian are absolutely essential...
When someone passionate about a technology or loyal to a particular company, is able to stand back and take a look at the competition it gives me a real insight into how people make decisions. For example in this post Omar Shahine who is very loyal to Microsoft optimised media...
I often feel sorry for IBM, they have some great technology, but the marketing too often seems to fall sort. They always seem to be in a reactive stance trying to compete against Microsoft FUD, rather than pumping out their own positive message. Now I want to be clear I...
Graham has an interesting technology blog, but the real find is his inspirational blog happenings where he talks about life and (normally) its blessings and he illustrates it with his own great photos as well. It really is a worthwhile blog to track and I encourage everyone to subscribe to...
Graham seems to quite like the Origami, but I am not so sure. I already have a Tablet, I never have the keyboard attached and it slips easily into any bag that I own. I really don’t see a smaller form factor device working for me, unless its a phone,...
Today I needed to find out details of my motherboard, I came across Belarc Advisor, really excellent! It provides details of hardware, software, patch levels and much more, the feature I really liked was it tells me the Microsoft licence keys I used to install the SW, which is really...
I tried early versions of Google Earth, but they didn’t work on Windows 2003 Server, which ruled it out for me, it works now though, absolutely amazing. It has great coverage of my home town!
I am always using remote desktop to connect to various machines around the house as well as virtual machines and it always annoys me that when I disconnect from the console. I came across a solution today that leaves the console logged in!! All you need to do is disconnect...
I use my Tablet PC for about 2 hours a day, it’s quite important to me. Hardware 1.1 GHz processor 1.5 GB memory 40 MB hard disks, one backs up to the other every night using a robocopy script, the scripts also does a backup of the SQL server databases. 100Mb wired network...