Greetings from John Wayne airport, gate 8. The rows of seats have one power outlet, easily accessible, for each seat in the center section. This is great service. Many thanks to whoever got this done.
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The CCIM Institute is become just a little more virtual. Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve started replacing aging, single-use servers. Rather than buy another small box for each purpose, we’ve purchased a couple of fast, powerful Dell boxes, installed VMWare, and turned each into a host for several virtual servers.
Currently, we’ve put [...]
A new update to the Xobni beta appeared a couple of days ago. One of the cool things about this beta, something I’ve missed in the overly large betas now practiced by MS and other companies, is the chance to see beta feedback implemented. I’m happy to say that Xobni now supports expected [...]
Tagged email, social network, xobniI’m testing Xobni, a tool that analyzes your mail to figure out your own personal network. It also profiles your email activity and those of your contacts. Really cool! The product is currently in beta release. Click on the logo for an invitation to the beta.
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It’s been a while since I wrote about desktop search programs.
I had been using Copernic, but stopped using it when the free version no longer applied to non-home users. (We’re a non-profit, but we are a commercial user.)
I then switched to Google desktop search (GDS), which worked very well, with [...]
It’s been a fun weekend.
I upgraded my Sony Vaio laptop to Windows Vista and my Dell home desktop to Fedora 8. Both upgrades were actually clean installs. Surprisingly (to me, at least), both went smoothly.
The key to the Vaio upgrade was reading the documentation Sony provided. They strongly recommend the “install as a [...]
The Technology Evangelist asks “Will Google replace Microsoft Exchange?“.
He makes a good case that the newly announced IMAP support is about the 10th shoe to drop on Google’s steady march on Microsoft Office and, now, Exchange.
CCIM.NET users: Instructions are at http://www.ccim.net/outlook-imap.pdf
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If you’re put off by the high price of PhotoShop but want features, features, features, get a copy of the free Gnu Image Manipulation Program (GIMP). Version 2.4 has just been released. Some highlights from the release notes:
The selection tools have been rewritten from scratch to allow resizing of existing selections. Additionally the [...]
Tagged gimp, gnu, image, photoshopFedora 7 is out now, Fedora 5 just went into unspported mode, and it’s time to start rolling the Fedora 6 systems on to Fedora 7. For those how might not know about Fedora:
The Fedora Project is a collection of projects sponsored by Red Hat (http://redhat.com) and developed as a partnership between the [...]
The iPhone me feel very unhip. What I really want is a phone that has enough volume so I can hear who I’m talking to as I walk down the street and a noise canceling system so street noises are filtered out for the person listening on the other end. Thin enough [...]
