Breaking Up Again, OneNote and I Must Go Separate Ways
Ok, psychologically one is supposed to tell the good news last and the bad news first. Well, I’m doing that backwards with this article. First things first, all the awesome about Microsoft’s OneNote App. Microsoft OneNote The cool thing is, after more than a few years, OneNote runs on pretty much runs on most mobile and desktop […]
That Was Fun, Done With The Lenovo Carbon X1, Back to GSD!
Over the last couple of months I’ve been double laptoping it. I’ve had a Lenovo Carbon X1 with Windows 8 and Ubuntu dual boot configuration with 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD and i7 and I had a Mac Book Air (MBA) 8GB, 512GB SSD and i7 Proc. The MBA was my primary work machine with the […]
Tech Quiz: What’s the Magic Fly Doing?
I’ve never thought one day I’d be running a quiz here.. but it just happened and was weird enough that I could not resist. One moment I was happily reading in Chrome – the next my computer froze. At the same time I noticed a fly on my screen. Strangely enough, the cursor moved to […]
Banning the Phablet… with the Samsung ATIV with Keyboard.
Ok, in the end, let’s just call these things tablets. I know there is the attempt to call these phablets, but that’s so freakin’ stupid. They’re called tablets Microsoft. Just go with the flow. Here’s an unboxing, initial application viewing & a bit more via video. I’ve broken this review into three sections; A Video […]
More Proof That Shadow IT is a Growing Issue
When talking with organizations about how the cloud can help them, I’m often told that cloud has no place in their organization and they’re not using it in any way, shape or form. They also point to the perceived security risks that cloud brings as their #1 reason for not using any flavor of cloud. […]
End User Computing… Central Control or Distributed Safety? On Bromium’s Novel Play
At VMworld back in August, one of the small number of announcements made revolved around “end user computing”, VMware’s term for all the different products that deliver solutions for actual business users. VMware announced a suite of solutions, built around a bunch of different projects (Projects Octopus, AppBlast, ThinApp, VMware
Thor Project Opens Up, Building the Cloud Foundry Ecosystem with the Community
The Iron Foundry Team are big advocates of open source software. We write code across all sorts of languages, just like many of the development shops out there do. Sometimes we’re heavy on the .NET, other times we’re all up in some Java, Ruby on Rails, spooling up a Node.js Application or something else. So …
Levion and the Promise of Hybrid Accounting Software
As the accounting software industry moves to a general acceptance of the fact that customers demand the sort of benefits that cloud application bring, there are two distinct approaches vnedors are making; Pure-play cloud vendors (FreeAgent, Xero etc) build pure Saas applications and do away with any need for desktop
OS-X, Top 2 Gripes
I’ve been developing in my spare time on Mac OS-X using Rubymine, Webstorm, TextMate, XCode, and several other apps. I’ve also been using Kindle (the native app and the HTML5 Version), Tweetdeck, and a host of other applications. A bulk of things I’ve also been using, however they’re almost entirely in Chrome/HTML5 or some web […]
Happy Birthday, Personal Computer. Rest in Peace.
Business Insider reminds us that today is the 30th birthday of the original IBM PC: the computer’s brain was a 4.77Mhz Intel 8088 processor (for my younger readers, it’s Mega not Giga) and it had a grand total of 256K RAM (again, it’s not 256 GB, not even MB, but Kilobytes). Yet it was a […]
Big News on Day #3 of OS Bridge
Microsoft announced today that they’ll be supporting an effort to get Node.js working on Windows. Mary Foley picked it up quick, but also so did Node creator Ryan Dhal. This, being the explosion of support for Node.js, is excellent news. This further enables JavaScript for the whole stack, on any operating system stack. Getting a […]
Conspiracy Theory: the Vista-ization of Windows 7 has Started…
Three years ago I wrote: Windows Seven in 2010. Does Anyone Still Care? I simply don’t get it: Vista is barely out, nobody seems to like it, CIO’s refuse to upgrade, analyst firms tell them to wait, individual users who tried it switch back to XP, others time their new PC purchase so they can […]
HP Slate 500–Big Yawn.
I love my iPad. I hate my iPad. Was preparing to dump it for the Samsung Galaxy Tab, until it turned out to be a 7”-er now. Size matters, after all (or is it just my eyes?). So I got momentarily excited reading about the HP Slate 500 but that was a short moment. The […]
Yawn, Joyent Announces Windows And Linux Virtual Machines On Cloud
Joyent (See previous CloudAve coverage), the San Francisco based infrastructure cloud service provider, today announced the availability of Windows and Linux virtual machines in their cloud. They are targeting the enterprise customers who want to move their existing apps to VMs on the cloud. The new Windows and Linux solutions are available at all of […]
Rightscale Now Supports Windows Servers Bringing Parity With Linux
Rightscale, the leading cloud management vendor, today announced support for Windows based applications on the cloud. This puts the support for Windows applications on par with Linux based ones, making cloud automation, management and portability for Windows instances as easy as Linux instances. This also helps Rightscale target organizations using Windows servers for their IT needs. […]
