Thought I’d post a quick summary of key remarks by Steve Jobs at D8, courtesy Engadget’s live coverage1. Regarding Foxconn Suicides: Steve: It’s a factory — but my gosh, they have restaurants and movie theaters… but it’s a factory. But they’ve had some suicides and attempted suicides — and they have 400,000 people there. The [...]
Tags: Apple, D8, Steve Jobs
This may sound like a weird idea coming from someone who thinks with the right half of their brain, but I think technology professionals need to study design principles and user experience (UX). Far too often IT pros fail to grasp and/or appreciate how the technology on which they are working impacts the end user. [...]
Tags: Design, IT, recruiting
On April 3rd I, along with many other Canadians made the trip down to the Walden Galleria Apple Store in Buffalo, New York. I was too excited about the iPad to care that I was waiting in line for the first version of a new technology product. I for one hate shopping in general, and [...]
Tags: Air Video, Apple, Apple Store, FileBrowser, iPad, Review, Walden Galleria
Anything the mind of man can make, the mind of man can break. Realizing this, one needs to shift their perception of how to view client platform security. Theoretical analysis is good. However, practical application is what should define security evaluation. Which platform is more secure in practice? Anyone can justify any OS’s security. However, [...]
Tags: hacking, linux, Mac, OS X, platform, Security, Windows
I was recently reading an article from LXer, entitled ‘Linux alternatives for the iPad – and the future of netbooks, tablets and smartbooks’. The author hypes up Linux on tablet devices, concluding that 2010 is the year of Linux on the tablet, most of which will be Android flavored. He attempts to put down the [...]
Tags: Android, Apple, Google, iPad, linux, Microsoft, OS, tablet
I thought I’d write a quick post in response to the posts by John Nack, Product Manager at Adobe, and The Flash Blog regarding the lack of Flash on the iPad (and iPhone). You can find their respective posts here and here. First, in response to John Nack, who makes the point that Flash has [...]
Tags: Adobe, death, Flash, HTML5, iPad, iPhone OS, John Nack, standards, The Flash Blog
As most of you are aware, Apple announced their new Apple iPad yesterday. There have been the usual set of reactions to the announcement. Shills like Paul Thurrott providing their heavily biased negative perspective, and Apple fanboys proclaiming that this device meets all their needs perfectly, and that the device is perfect. Both sides offer [...]
Last week I was helping an individual migrate information over from his old company to his new company. As he no longer had physical access to the company computers, but still had Exchange access until the end of the month, one would have thought it a relatively trivial task. Quite the contrary. Though he had [...]
Tags: Air Contacts, Exchange, iPhone
In the last little while, I’ve begun to work a lot more with VMware ESXi, in an attempt to understand virtualization better. Along with the benefits it brings to larger companies, I began to see some benefits that it would bring to my personal life. At home, I am constantly developing or experimenting with new [...]
Tags: ESXi, linux, Media, Server, Ubuntu, Virtualization, VMWare
Today is the day of a remarkable new entry into the Canadian wireless space, the launch of WIND Mobile. It is a launch I’m incredibly excited about, but that in itself shall be left to another post. The launch of WIND, just as with virtually any other major product/company launch, was not without problems. Mere [...]
Tags: Cloud, cloud computing, demand, launch day, load balancing, product launch, Server, WIND
There’s been a lot of hype lately about Google Wave. If you’ve heard anything from Google, you’ve heard that it’s supposed to replace E-mail as the next form of communication. A number of prominent bloggers however, including Robert Scoble, have done their reviews, and felt that it is overhyped. This post will not be another [...]
Tags: Communications, Google, Google Wave, Wave
As you might recall, last year I wrote a piece on Windows Vista, and the benefits it offered to the organization that I was working for at the time. With the advent of Windows 7, I felt it would be worth my time to do another piece on Windows 7. Many of the benefits of [...]
Tags: AppLocker, BitLocker To Go, BranchCache, DirectAccess, VPN, WUSA, XP Mode
Update: One of the arguments surfacing from people, notably Mitchell Baker (the former CEO of the Mozilla Foundation), is that Chrome Frame segregates the browser from the engine. They claim that this will result in the rendering engine storing information in one location, while the browser stores it in another. I’ve been using Chrome Frame [...]
Tags: browser, Chrome, Chrome Frame, Google