This Week's Reading

Review of 4 Remote Desktop Services

Sonos Air-Play Usage

Build an iOS App

Diagnosing Memory Problems

Tech Startups CIO Tips

Free Tools for Data Visualization & Analysis

Weeding unworthy Twitter followers

Useful rules for Apple Mail

Five simple photo composition tips | Cameras | Macworld

Quick Tip: Five don'ts of web design | TechRepublic

Troubleshoot Windows 7 with the built-in Problem Steps Recorder | TechRepublic

How the iPhone knows where you are | Phones | Macworld

Cut Small-Business Operating Costs

10 tips to turn Android into a business phone

10 tips for smarter, more efficient Internet searching | TechRepublic

10 cool add-ins for Office 2007 and 2010 | TechRepublic

New bundles offer a slew of Mac software at steep savings | Software | MacUser | Macworld

 

 

This Week's Reading

Google calendar tips

Sonos now supports Airplay, kind of...

Windows Storage Viewer Tool

Warm White LED Lights

Apple and Cloud Music Service? This would be awesome!

Mark Gibbs (ComputerWorld) 'My Top 10 Tools, Part 1'

Includes...

Karen's Time Sync

Advanced IP Scanner sounds like an interesting tool, will have to pass on to my team...

FontViewOK

TeamViewer for remote assistance

CCleaner amen!

PingPlotter

VoIP Mean Opinion Score

And a slideshow with other tools...

 

Interesting BW article about Amazon and Target and other corporate taxes

 

 

 

Sharing Calendars

We use MS Exchange at my office for mail.  It's not that we believe it to be the greatest necesarially however everyone is familiar with the features and functions and we it doesn't really cost us that much to run.

One of the perennial things about scheduling appointments, particularly with people outside our organization, is that it's challenging to coordinate unless you continue the volley of e-mails back and forth.

What I'm going to make one of my minor goals in the next few months is an elegant means of scheduling appointments.

Office 2007 - 2010 on Windows actually does a pretty decent job of publishing your calendar to Office Live.  I'm going to play with that a bit more.  I also wouldn't mind if I could publish my calendar to Google Apps (sync it really) and share it from there.  We'll see, the publishing part really isn't going to be that difficult, I think getting others to use my calendar or subscribe to it will be much more challenging.

Bank of the West, please use broken Java to access our secure site!

I know and like the fact that more and more information is accessible via web sites from banks these days.  However, what drives me crazy is when they implement an engine, in this case, Java, that's been updated several times over and if your client is current in your browser, the application won't work.

What's the solution to get the site's application to work?  Downgrade your version of Java, which means uninstalling the currently installed one, locate on the super fun Oracle site to the out of date, often insecure version, and install that and try again.

This one is really great because they're using a 2009 release of Java on BotW's check imaging system.  Good stuff.  Hope the fix doesn't break other stuff!

This Week's Reading

Just now reading up on gist.com via Entrepreneur.

Trying to locate a couple of items based on their photos with TinEye.  Not great results yet but interesting idea...

If you want to test drive iOS apps directly from a browser, look at Pieceable.

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Spiceworks sent out a message with some tips last week.

CLI to Remotely Uninstall Software on Windows

Remote Windows Management Poll

Remotely Cleaning a Computer Securely

Activate vPro on recent Intel computers

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This one is pretty funny, TechRepublic's 10 Linux applications that should be easier to use.  Granted it's definitely techie/server admin, but we had a good laugh being able to relate to more than a couple of them.

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I'm working on an ERP implementation with a respectable vendor.  We're supposed to be collaborating on documents using Sharepoint/Groove.  Regrettably SP & Groove don't play nicely with Mac, Linux, Firefox, mobile OS, etc. and it's a cluster.  I really want SP to work the way it seems like it should but it doesn't.  On top of that, to get the Sharepoint Workspace, you have to run Office 2010 Pro Plus (or better).  A lot of work and expense to use something that's so restricted and doesn't do mobile well.  Interesting timing on this article in the *World magazines.  Also looking at SouthLabs SharePlus mobile client.

So to make this work, as intended, I have to use Microsoft's 'SharePoint Workspace' application (licensed).  Here's what I get after clicking through the setup which was easy enough, though there's not really any validation that it's working correctly....  So now I get to fire up my virtual machine to access this, and then this separate application, and then try to figure out what's going on.  Brilliant.  I'm not thinking that I'll be deploying this inside my organization anytime soon.

Might have to see if we can step back and use Dropbox...

 

 

Noteworthy

Came across this TechRepublic article titled 10 tools that simply collaboration, some great ideas in here...

Infinite Skills has an interesting series of short videos on using Photoshop.  You can check it out here and long with some free samples.