Having an IM conversation with someone in Iran, turns out they "hate" Bush...so random. But I had to reply, "that's why I voted for Obama" 7 hrs ago
I’ve been waiting for Numbers ever since it was rumored to be released in last years iWork (that never shipped). The reason: I’ve been tied to two options, the first is Google Spreadsheets for personal use and occasionally work when we need to collaborate on data and the other is excel. Numbers will never replace Google Spreadsheets for the collaboration side and it’s just too easy to use GS since I’m using Google Apps for my personal use. For work I…
Looking at the engadget screen shots I notice that the keynote icon has changed and there is a new icon that looks like a graph, could it be the excel replacement? [Link] (2)
Parallels users would have noticed 3.0 is around the corner and may have been surprised with the cost of the upgrade, I sure was. The features are excellent, especially the 3d graphics support and the snapshot capability. I’m using fusion for one of my environments and I’d have to say VMware has a lot to do to catch up to Parallels. Ever since fusion was released it offered a lot power user settings, including snapshots and 64 bit support. Now all they…
I might as well complete my planned post about Google apps since a conversation is about to start.
I’ve been in the transition of using Google Apps for the last few weeks for a trial review. Next week I’ll need to decide whether to keep my apps account or stick with the free apps that I’m so dependent on. Since the my reasoning for using Google apps is solely based on my use of e-mail and the guaranteed uptime and support I can’t…
OpenDNS added shortcuts today. I’ve been an OpenDNS user for sometime and it’s an excellent service. I haven’t noticed any speed advantages from their caching but I’m glad that we’re safer with it blocking phishing sites, it also helps with some quick URI typos.
Setting up the shortcuts feature took 2 minutes. I just needed to setup an account and add my IP (which was already populated for me) then add a few shortcuts. Now instead of http://www.google.com/reader/view/ I can type gr or…
Tailing this post I wanted to point out again that the top links feed for Digg is excellent so far. Now instead of scanning through the 200+ items spewed out of the normal feed I can know read the feed.
The upgrade path offered by the Mac Pro is particularly interesting, not because Macs weren’t upgradable in the past (since they were) but because upgrades have never been so readily available. And based on our initial testing, it’s looking like you’ll be able to drop in a pair of Clovertowns and make the move from four to eight cores in the Mac Pro by the year’s end. The combination of excellent OS X performance, good Windows XP performance and a…
Configuring those new computers were a snap.
I setup an account on each with “limited” access a default in Windows XP. Not the best solution but more then adequate for the Library folk. I then used TweakUI to autologin to those accounts, so on a reset or a poweron the accounts would automatically start. Nothing worse then a person going what account should I use when one is called “admin” and the other is “GUEST-INTERNET”.
The applications that I’ve used are all Free:
Anti-Virus-
30 Boxes was released yesterday and I was one of the lucky ones to get signed up before the “traffic overload”.
I’ve only played with it a couple times since this morning and I really like it. It’s everything I would want from a Google/Gmail calendar app. Even the open api is what I would expect from the big G but as you know they’re been lacking and slow with the release of their highly rumored app. I’d imagine the 30boxes team…
Okay, Okay enough already about this thing. Who really is going to buy this with a better device already available, the PSP. The PSP does so much more including emulated snes and genesis games, plays music, video and browses the web. So who will want to buy this thing? Especially since the cost is going to be a lot more then the PSP which is currently $250. The Video iPod, if released next week would probably be around $400. This…
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