When Browsers Are Just as Bad as Your OS
As any good Cloud evangelist worth his salt will tell you, a browser beats operating system hands down for all the usual reasons, e.g. platform agnostic, reduced complexity etc. etc. However, I get the feeling sometimes that browsers have gone the way of most operating systems lately. Let me explain. Quite often in recent days, [...]
The Challenge of Offline Saas Revisited
Paul Michaud wrote a post here a couple of days ago on the challenge of allowing offline usage in a Saas based system. In his comprehensive discussion, he used the example of a Saas based contact management system and the complexities involved in allowing users to take their data, manipulate it offline, and then synchronise [...]
30 Days With Xero
Yes, we have finally done it! After approximately 2 years of to-ing and fro-ing, we have moved our business accounting system to a fully Cloud based service. In this instance, we have chosen to go with Xero Accounting after evaluating a few online options. Ben Kepes has already done a review of Xero on this [...]
CloudBerry’s Scare Tactic Backfires.
I have been using Amazon’s S3 product for a while now to manage gigabytes of my company’s information. Naturally, in this time I have been looking for a tool which will assist me to accomplish this task with minimum fuss. A few months ago, I came across a new tool called CloudBerry Explorer. Upon first [...]
Coming Full Circle – Confessions of a Windows Programmer
Let me start this post off by announcing that I am, to all accounts, a programming dinosaur. I started cutting code back when MS-DOS 2.1 was the OS de rigeur. Of course, I then moved ‘up’ into Win32 programming when the wonderful world of GUI interfaces rose to prominence. I clearly remember observing (with smug [...]
Left In The Dark!
Last Tuesday a ‘perfect storm’ in the form of a double fibre cable fault in Western and Central Australia left almost the entire top end of the country without telephone, internet or mobile communications for about 10 hours. That pretty much amounts to ZERO communications in this day in age. I woke to find out [...]
Where is Cloud Police?
If you happen to be the unfortunate victim of someone breaking into your home (and I pray that you never are), the first recourse is pretty much the same around the world – you would put a call in to your local emergency services, i.e. 911 (or 000 as it is over here in Australia). [...]
Sandy Gets the Sack
I am always on the lookout for free or low cost web services that will help me (and my clients) to better organise their day, and to be more productive. About a year ago, I stumbled upon a free service called ‘I Want Sandy‘, which, in a nutshell, is an online virtual assistant. The way [...]
