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...