We have been working over the last few months to set up and deploy Google Apps to all of our various e-mail users at work. In case you have never heard it before Google has bundled many of their online offerings (Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar and Google Sites) into a company branded version that [...]
Archive for the ‘Software’ Category
5 Nov
Google Dashboard
Have you ever wondered how much data Google stores in your account? Check out the Google Dashboard, a new tool that shows you a list of every service that you use and provides links for managing your preferences. This tool will be tremendously helpful in figuring out exactly where your data is. Check it out!
17 Oct
The Dangers Of Not Paying Attention
This blog post from the Internet Storm Center over at SANS highlights the need to pay attention to the setup of your server systems. We aren’t using this particular blacklist but it still highlights the point. This is why I spend so much time following mailing lists and keeping up with my feed reader. This [...]
27 Sep
Targeted Advertising
Looks like this ad company doesn’t know their target audience that well…
27 Aug
Antivirus
The NC State Office of Information Technology has produced a video outlining the importance of installing antivirus software on your computer. You may not qualify for their software but you should run something!
6 Aug
Cash For Software Clunkers
I received this e-mail today from Shavlik Technologies. This is a very interesting twist on the government automobile stimulus program. It’s a shame we already use this product… Shavlik Technologies is offering customers 1 million reasons to dump their resource-guzzling patch management, configuration management, and antivirus solutions with a rebate program that provides a cash [...]
25 Jul
Is Sugar The Laptop Or The Operating System?
Nicholas Negroponte is at it again, giving an interview in Singapore and discussing the major failings of the OLPC project. I was struck by one thing that he said: Putting a crank-shaft on the XO laptop was a mistake, but the biggest mistake was not having Sugar run as an application “on a vanilla Linux [...]
8 Jul
Google Chrome OS
It’s official. I will be installing it on my Dell Mini 9 net book as soon as it is available! Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for [...]
