I left my Kindle on a flight into SFO on Monday night, and unfortunately it doesn’t appear that I’ll be getting it back. After a two-hour delay to my flight, I think I was a bit brain-dead by the time we touched down, causing me to leave it …
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Microsoft’s ‘photo op’ moment at open-source conference?Posted by: admin in Business and PoliticsDue to demands at work, I wasn’t able to attend OSCON (Open Source Convention) this year. I was particularly wanting to attend Microsoft’s Participate08 day. I like to see what Bill Hilf, Sam Ramji, Robert Duffner, and others there are working on, to get a sense of any outbreaks of rage against the Microsoft machine. My friend and blogging peer Zack Urlocker attended Monday and, based on his comments, I worry that I didn’t miss much. I state “worry” because I expect and we need more from Microsoft than this:
This could be because the primary currency of open source is code. Microsoft has done a decent job of opening up to open-source code with Codeplex, but it has yet to engage with open source at the code level from a corporate standpoint.
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Microsoft copies Google, Salesforce, and Red Hat in new partner initiativePosted by: admin in Business and PoliticsIf you attended Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference 2008, you can be excused for thinking you showed up at the partner event for Red Hat, Google, or Salesforce. After all, Microsoft’s new partner initiatives rely heavily on concepts devised and delivered by these companies:
Microsoft is smart: Why reinvent the business model wheel when others have pioneered successful ways to deliver software value? Of course, Microsoft has never been the most innovative of companies - it has become the market behemoth that it is by out-executing its competitors, not by out-thinking them. But this might be one area in which Microsoft needs to think a bit more. As The Motley Fool notes, Filed under: Software, Internet Tools
Karelia has always offered .Mac integration, and version 1.2.8 offers compatibility with MobileMe. Other changes include an updated iMedia Browser which supports iPhoto Events and multiple Aperture libraries. Sandvox requires Mac OS 10.4 or later, is universal and comes in both pro ($79US) and standard ($49US) versions. Version 1.2.8 is a free upgrade for registered users. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments Filed under: Software, Internet Tools
We’ve covered DomainBrain in the past and even though I initially rebuked the idea of a program for domain management, I have the ability to honestly state it has turned out to be incredibly useful. Instead of sifting through e-mails or keychain files to find the specific login for something that has a common username, I have a nice looking repository for all my information. The newest version of the software introduces the capability to make duplicate domains, which is really helpful if you’re anything like me and have 12 domains associated with the same account. DomainBrain makes it easier to just change the necessary details and not have to recreate the whole template. My favorite new feature is the integrated WHOIS information, which will show you what nameservers your domain is on and when the domain expires. This makes it super simple to check when all of your domains are up for renewal, without having to manually do a WHOIS search for each address.  I better make sure my domain is on auto-renew! DomainBrain is free for up to four domains. If you need to store the information for more than four domains, it’s $14.99. DomainBrain is compatible with Mac OS X 10.4 and up.
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Jobs’ health to blame for current Apple issues?Posted by: admin in Business and PoliticsNine days after Apple released its iPhone 2.0 software, the code has been cracked. PwnageTool 2.0 will successfully unlock your iPhone. This is great, but what I’m waiting for is a tool that will let me downgrade to the older iPhone 1.1.4 software. Why? Because iPhone 2.0 remains very buggy. Last night, I was reading my Arsenal news in the Safari browser, and the browser dumped me back to the home screen repeatedly, something that never happened in the iPhone 1.0 world. E-mail routinely dies on me, and those App Store applications? It’s rare that I can get through a Sketches session without the application dying. Steve Jobs once ridiculed Microsoft for cloning its software (”Redmond, begin your photocopiers“), but this feels like Apple desperately trying to come up with a suitable rendition of the so-called blue screen of death. As a hard-core Apple fan, I’m starting to wonder if there’s more to this fiasco than meets the eye. It’s very unlike Apple to have a sloppy upgrade (iPhone 2.0), terrible customer experience (activation problems at the launch of the 3G iPhone), and a crummy product launch (Mobile Me). Rumors have been swirling that Steve Jobs’ health is in significant decline. Could the recent foibles have something to do with Jobs’ lack of oversight due to encroaching health problems?
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Linus Torvalds on the “four-letter word” called “innovation”Posted by: admin in Business and PoliticsI think there’s a lot of truth in Linus Torvald’s derisive comment about innovation, and the software industry’s fetish with it.
Amen. Looking around the industry, there’s very tiny “innovation” going on. The iPhone’s interface? Sure. Vista (or, for that matter, Apple’s Leopard)? Nah. These are incremental technology advances backed by good execution. Microsoft isn’t Microsoft because it makes “innovative” technology. It’s Microsoft because it tends to keep the trains running on time.
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OpenDNS rocking $7.3 million per year on a free, but not open, servicePosted by: admin in Business and PoliticsWhat’s a fairly dull service yet manages to pull in $20,000 each day by serving up ads? No, it’s not Google, but it’s one of those services that make me state, “Dang! I wish I would have thought of that!” It’s OpenDNS. It’s a … |
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