Search Results for: Groove
Evernote for Business. Honestly, why?
Evernote finally creates business version: I genuinely love Evernote – I have a paid subscription, even. But, just I don’t get this. […] Evernote has added an administrative console where administrators can control access and sharing to company notebooks. It has also made it simple to add new users with a business email address. What’s [...]
Spolsky Eviscerates Windows Live Mesh
Architecture astronauts take over: This whole thing is great. Spolsky gets downright medieval further down. And what is this Windows Live Mesh? It’s a way to synchronize files. Jeez, we’ve had that forever. When did the first sync web sites start coming out? 1999? There were a million versions. xdrive, mydrive, idrive, youdrive, wealldrive for [...]
The GM Report: Milford Proving Grounds
GM’s Milford Proving Grounds is a weird place. It’s a massive automotive testing facility — two miles by three miles; 4,000 acres. Contained in it is a driving enthusiasts dream come true, and — I imagine — an automobile’s nightmare. There’s about every conceivable method and facility with which to test a car’s mettle. Continuing [...]
Sometimes It’s Better to Just Sit and Stare
I don’t want to talk about personal productivity too much, because there are other sites who do it better (warning: shameless inter-FM network plug). However, I’ve found a simple thing that helps keeps me from getting distracted — Your computer is full of distractions. Windows for your RSS feeds, your email, the news, etc. are [...]
Nvu Revisited
We’ve talked here before about Nvu — the open-source WYSIWYG editor that wants to unseat FrontPage. I’ve played with it before, but — despite my glowing reviews of the product — I had never actually tried to build a site with it. However, this week, the preschool at my chuch needed a few pages built, [...]
Documentum eRoom 7
eRoom 7 Tour: This product has come a long way from when Documentum originally acquired it in late 2002 (link goes to a well-done Flash demo). It seems to have become very Groove-like (minus the peer-to-peer architecture) and may be approaching collaboration utopia. But, it’s expensive and it runs on top of the monolithic app [...]
Microsoft Buys Groove
Microsoft to Acquire Groove Networks, Combining Talents to Create Anytime, Anywhere Collaboration Products and Services: This is kind of a no-brainer. Micrsoft owned 25% of Groove, and it was only a matter of time until Groove got built into Windows. Microsoft Corp. announced today that it will acquire Groove Networks Inc., a leading provider of [...]
Microsoft’s Content Indexing Service
Where was desktop search when we needed it?: This is kind of old news for me, because I’ve done a fair amount of server-side search engine programming with ASP and the content indexing service. It’s a very well-done service, and if you have a big Windows file share, you can make it walk, talk, and [...]
PC World’s Best of 2004
PCWorld.com – Best of 2004: Some eye-openers here: Opera as Best Browser? Outlook as Best Email Client? Groove as Best Collaboration Tool? Panther as Best OS seems legit. I like the Dell Dimension 4600 as Best General Purpose PC because I just bought one. Microsoft Money unseating Quicken as Best Personal Finance Program? FrontPage as [...]
Launch the Editor
Joel on Software – Fire And Motion: I just found this two-and-a-half year old essay by Joel Spolsky, and I’m frankly aghast at how aptly it describes how I code. For me, just getting started is the only hard thing. An object at rest tends to remain at rest. There’s something incredible heavy in my [...]