Much as I like full text search tools like Windows Desktop Search and X1 they are not really optimized for searching ALL of the files on my PC just by filename, and file meta-data. So I was pleased to come across Locate, on my PC it builds an index of 365,000 files and...
Graham points to a pretty good article on the SharePoint team blog about when to use SharePoint and when to use a file server. Whilst I think the article is largely technically correct, it doesn’t address many of the points I raised in this post. The key ones being: pretty...
After reading about my rebuild nightmare you are probably thinking that I would be migrating fast to web 2.0 sites. Wrong! I really like some of the web 2.0 sites and work extensively in the browser – but I like to use the best tool for the job and right now I...
Just by chance I came across a vision document for the Chandler open source Personal Information Management (PIM) client application which has a very innovative design and ambitious plans for sharing, extensibility and cross-platform support. Even if you have no interest in Chandler as a product I recommend you have...
Over the last few years I have been much more conscious of stress, I am able to detect it and don’t tend to miss the symptoms hiding away behind the adrenalin fuelled activity. I just came across this article which provides a very shot, but very insightful analysis of some...
Microsoft’s direct push technology for delivering email, calendar and contacts from Exchange 2003 SP2/Exchange 2007 to Windows Mobile 5 devices seems to be pretty simple, functional and elegant, even better it’s being licensed for use with other mobile device operating systems. For more details this blog is a great place to start.
Watch the Microsoft demos and the offline capabilities of SharePoint look really slick, but dig into the details and you find that it’s not as rosy as you first thought, in fact in some areas, like Excel 2007 integration with SharePoint 2007 it’s actually worse than in the 2003 products. ...
This is a great article if you want to get a good overview of the features of Exchange 2007, these are my favourites: Voice Messaging System Voice mail can now be stored in the mailbox and accessed from a unified inbox in Outlook, Outlook Web Access, on a mobile device,...
One of the more interesting business trends is increasing mobility and how it will change many lives, it’s certainly changed mine allowing me to work from home, out walking, from cafes and restaurants and hotels. So I was pleased to find this very interesting open survey on this critical dimension of...
When I work on desktop transformation projects I am continually amazed by the number of applications that we find installed in an enterprise. It’s not unusual to find several thousand in a medium sized company, most of them used by less than 10 people. However as Rod Boothby points out...