It has been a while since I’ve posted an entry here. I have been crazy busy traveling with work and general work. I guess that is good, but I have to confess, many times while late at the hotel, I’ve thought about posting something, but didn’t, even though I had something to say… I got…
This is not only about passwords, but all kinds of confidential data. There are so many important numbers, pins, passwords, challenge questions !! Where do you safely keep all of this information? Some of my friends have a little notebook (yes old school!). Others keep all this info stored in emails or in Word/Excel documents…
A flash site to create flash sites. I have seen these before, but this one is vey well executed. You can pay $10/month (a bit expensive, but if you want to go this route why not!) and will eliminate Wix advertisement and offer more options. the Check it out… A Couple of quick tests I…
Back in October 2009, I decided to upgrade my Treo and went with the Palm Pre platform. You might have read my post on this topic iPhone vs Palm Pre. There were 4 things I was a bit disappointed with the software/device. What’s up with no Flash capabilities? (same with iPhone) No zoom for the…
Managing Photo collection
I am in route home, at 30,000 feet or moving at 600 miles an hour, and I am writing this article while online on a “fairly high-speed” connection to the Internet while watching the news on DirectTV — What can be said? We have come a LONG way from the times in which I was…
Been busy this week with a lot work, so I have not had the chance to post much lately . However this does not mean, I have forgotten about my blog 🙂 It is interesting… When I made a personal commitment to actually write something often, everything I look at becomes a candidate for the…
Back at the September 2009 slideshare.net ran an online contest to find the world’s best presentations. I have completely forgotten to check the finalists until I ran across an old email reminding me about it. I went in to the slideshare.net 2009 winner’s page and was surprise to find the winner to be a presentation…
From Amazon Web Services Email today: Free Inbound Data Transfer (until June 30, 2010) Data Transfer into AWS will be free of charge from now through June 30, 2010, making it even easier for customers to get their data into AWS. This applies to data transfer into Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon Relational…
From Amazon Web Services Email today: Free Inbound Data Transfer (until June 30, 2010) Data Transfer into AWS will be free of charge from now through June 30, 2010, making it even easier for customers to get their data into AWS. This applies to data transfer into Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon Relational…
As I read articles, and surf the net, I jut down sites that call my attention so when I have the time, I can go back and check further.. Up until now, I have been just keeping them on my to-do list, and then mark them off when I get to them. I figure, why…
Every post I have made up until now, I have written while I am online. Even though I have heard a number of times about off-line blog writers and editors, I have never used one… I guess it was about time. I downloaded Windows Live Writer 2009, from the Windows Live suite of tools to…
As many of you already know, we have been strong proponent of cloud-based services for a very long time… The idea of maintaining an expensive and complex in-house infrastructure to support basic IT services is steadily shifting away from mainstream business. Adoption of cloud-based services continues to climb steadily. However, a recent article on the…
A great short explanation video of what googlewave is all about by epicheostudio.com “ Did you know that email was invented 40 years ago?” Thanks! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDu2A3WzQpo&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1]
I attended a conference last week and one of the sessions was all about how we have forgotten the art of telling the story of. Robert McDowell from Microsoft presented and he had a couple of slides that should be shared wide and loud… They are: What makes a Great story ? Simple Unexpected Concrete…
Article by Rob West As my esteemed colleague Jorge points out, it has been a busy summer (and now autumn) for us on this team, and as such, our posting frequency has not been, shall we say, “optimized.” I’ve been on the road a bit, and speaking at a number of Windows 7 Launch events,…
No this will not be a full comparasion or anything like that, just a quick rambling in myblog regardind my observations between the two platforms, after using both for about a couple of months now. Although I secretly wanted for the Pre to be the one to write about, I have to say that iPod…
I know, I will say it… I am a bit late to this party but I decided to explore its capabilities and nowjorgep has its own Ning community site… Ning has gotten excellent reviews lately Ning is an online platform for users to create their own social websites and social networks launched in October 2005. …
Everyone knows by now that Microsoft’s Project Natal is the talk of the town since it was introduced at E3 early this week. In fact there is one headline I read that said something like : “How Microsoft stole E3” Very cool technology, which is finally enabled by the power of faster more powerful processors…
A very good presentation was posted on SlideShare.net a couple of days ago. It is titled “Web 2010 Discover Ten Strategies Defining Your Business Future” by Jay Berkowitz, and it talks about some of the key strategies driving successful business on the Internet – Definitely a must see! Summary of the first five follow: #1….
A very good presentation was posted on SlideShare.net a couple of days ago. It is titled “Web 2010 Discover Ten Strategies Defining Your Business Future” by Jay Berkowitz, and it talks about some of the key strategies driving successful business on the Internet – Definitely a must see! Summary of the first five follow: #1….
Had to stay over the weekend because of early Monday business meetings. Crazy June cold weather here – Snowing a bit where I am right now… Wishing I was home – where is fun, nice, sunny and warm. — Will miss lots of family and friends activities this weekend. Bummer!
Yesterday, during the keynote on day two of the Google I/O Conference , Google presented the vision their vision for collaboration and communication platform which they have called it – very appropriately – Google Wave. It has been a long time – since I have been so excited about how can we use technology to…
I have been a great fan of Google Notebook feature for many years. I have posted many ideas, things to remember, web clippings and a number of other items there. I am not sure how I missed this news, but as I was rebuilding my computer and adding my browser extensions, I got the message…
Went out today to find toner for my LaserJet printer, and I almost flipped! Checked three places and the toner (at all three places) was over $124.00 – Crazy! – What happened to toner pricing? I used to buy it for $80.00 tops. I went online and decided to buy it from newegg.com which had…
We got a new puppy a couple of weeks back. Sha has been fun and has given us lots of laughs. Just for fun, and to learn – I posted the video on You Tube. Enjoy!
I just changed the style of the blog today. Looking at it all — blog, facebook, twitter, website – I need to simplyfy –
Yes, it is really shameful. It has been several months since I posted any thing to this site. Really not good. So many things have transpired. It really is not a matter of time, but focus. First with work. Then with the new position And then with the travel… I started to do Facebook and…
Those of you following the business sections of the IT rags will know this already. As of today, CompuCom has closed its acquisition of Getronics North America. Among other things, that means all of us got new email addresses tonight. We are excited to see what the future holds for our group, and we will…
I have been checking online tools to help me manage projects collaboratively amongst a diverse virtual team. A few simple requirements I consider baseline are: Overall dashboard for Program Weekly Program Status Reports (entry / editing ) Ability to enter project status reports Ability to have multiple projects under one category Issue tracking – Ability…
Desktone (http://www.desktone.com/) and more pointedly the generic term DaaS or desktop as a service is being bandied about and will help (I say “help” in jest) to muddy the terminology waters and give us a new buzz word. Really, I think DaaS has legs and will see favorable acceptance with the “greening” of IT with…
Infrastructure Optimization opens the door for Green Computing with the ability to reduce overall costs via reducing power consumption through virtualization and by making better use of IT resources by more efficiently distributing workload amongst idle system resources rather than introducing additional systems.
Brian Tinham over at Manufacturing Computer Solutions leads with a posting about Window’s 2008 Server Core offering – cool stuff. Even cooler for the virtual-set is the prospect of using the application formerly known as SoftGrid in a “what if” scenario to virtualize OS’es in a way that we don’t have in today’s Microsoft SoftGrid….
Amy Newman over at ServerWatch.com in her VirtualzationWatch column helps to clear the virtual haze that is virtual presentation. Glad someone is speaking to this – in the 30 plus years of virtualization each market segment hasn’t been able to define itself all that clearly. Thanks Amy. The cool thing about application virtualization with Microsoft’s…
In the old days, Softricity was a partner of Citrix. Citrix is a partner of Microsoft. And Softricity was a partner of Microsoft, but is now part of Microsoft. See where this is going? When Softricity was acquired, there was some industry speculation as to what would happen to the great interoperability between SoftGrid and…
Greetings, everyone! We’re the Infrastructure Optimization team at Getronics, and we’ve decided to start a blog. After years of internal discovery, we thought it might be a good idea to give back to the community, by sharing some of our thoughts and findings around the topic of Infrastructure Optimization.
Amazon.com does it again ! A quick follow-up to my December 29, 2007 posting , Sony/BMG has joined the bandwagon to offer their music catalog through the Amazon DRM-free service. This makes all of the major record label’s catalogs available there. – Now that is cool (and something that iTunes can not claim)
I was in Washington, DC this week and had the chance to take sometime to visit the Smithsonian Museums… It was trully a treat, and wanted to share just a couple of highlights…: ENIAC’s – **The** 1947 technology (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer ) — Wow – It seemed a bit rusty – but that is where…
Couple of years ago, we had a fantastic trip to Costa Rica. Although I have been there many times, this time we were accompanied by family friends (another family of 4) and felt a bit of the pressure to show them a memorable time. So much to see! Not enough to cover…
Very Interesting to see the latest announcement from Amazon.com on Dec 27 in which they told the world that “Warner joins EMI, Universal Music Group nd a pack of independent labels that sell so-called digital rights management-free music in Amazon MP3, at the company’s music store.“ It will be interesting to see how DRM-based services…
Wow – It has been quite a while since I posted to this site. It has been 6 months of changes (including a job change…) and lots of other things going on… – Not to serve as an excuse – just a reality of priorities.. Will try to post more often for sure. Cheers!
Back in 1998 I did an e-commerce presentation regarding how important branding is across every step of the purchasing cycle and presentation… This was back in 1998! — I end-up posting in slideshare.net. back in 2006 and I still getting ping about it. The power of the long tail! [slideshare id=21733&doc=ecommerce-101-brand-promise-12976&w=400]
Ok – so I have chosen WordPress.com to begin my blog. This is your first post. Wow! – Iit is hard to beleive I am just getting into this… All of us write so many emails on a daily bases… Some of the thoughts in them should definitelly make it to the light of day… —…
