The big news in I.T. these days, and in big business in general, is the Microsoft/Yahoo deal. There is too much to report for me to run down here, but thought I’d opine a bit about my own gut instinct as to where this could be headed. There are a couple of schools of thought, which I may or may not agree with, but are interesting nonetheless. My take? Read on.
Category Archives: Computing
Office 2007: from bad to worse!
The new features in Office 2007 made me want to give it a try to see if it was any kind of improvement on Office 2003. Thing is, whenever Microsoft releases an “upgrade”, it often becomes a downgrade. How does Office 2007 hold up? Read on, where I explain why I want to call this thing MS Office Vista.
Amazon Kindle: do we need it?
The Kindle is a new e-book reader, this time being marketed by Amazon. While I am a fan of all things Amazon, I don’t feel they read the market (or lack thereof) correctly on this one. Basically, it’s another e-book reader, a product that has not exactly flown off of shelves in past iterations. And it has other restrictions, which make it a dubious purchase at best.
Open source software in 2007
Over the past couple of years, I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the open source software available for the many websites I operate. For many years, I looked around the internet for ready-made applications, written either in Perl or PHP. And more often than not, was highly disappointed by what I’d found. In the past couple of years, though, I’ve come across many good applications that have proven to be attractive, professional, usable, flexible (easily modified) and relatively easy to install. Some have proven to be better than others, but overall, there has been a big leap forward in quality and popularity.
Nintendo DS as an internet browser?
I just received a Nintendo DS cartridge that contains the Opera browser. It also ships with a memory expansion pack, which plugs into the port in the bottom of the DS. Given the DS’s size, and the lack of a keyboard, how good of a browser can it be? In this installment, we’re going to look at the DS browser, along with some mobile websites of interest.