Technology Support - Articles Archive
from January 12, 2006 to June 2, 2004

 

 


If you are a web developer, an interface designer, or a webmaster with a strong interest for CSS and web design issues, you must pay a regular visit to Vitaly Friedman' site, who writes, collects and selects the very best resources and tools on these topics. Photo ... read more

Vitaly Friedman - Vitaly Friedman Blog - January 12, 2006
 
Mitsubishi has announced the upcoming availability of a new breed of truly portable projection devices: portable projectors. At just one pound, this new palm-sized technology opens up a whole new universe of opportunities for future projectors new applications and use. While this new entry from Mitsubishi remains ... read more

Robin Good - MasterViews - January 9, 2006
 

The Sharewood Picnic is my weekly public service to deliver you the latest new media resources, software and websites that can help you become a more effective independent publisher without having to rely on expensive corporate tools. Photo credit: Darren Hester In this picnic collection there is ... read more

 

There is news you can hardly find in your daily paper or even on the Internet: a discussion of exactly why viruses and worms can infect your computer, how much this is hurting business and personal productivity, and what should be done differently so that we ... read more

Larry Geller - Disappeared News - January 7, 2006
 
//www.google.com/url?sa=X&start=1&oi=answers&q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris+Pirillo">Chris Pirillo has just launched //helpshare.lockergnome.com/">Lockergnome HelpShare, a new, community-based technology-support answer-service, which allows anyone to post a technical question and to offer a monetary compensation in exchange. The service, based on the existing //www.helpshare.com/">Helpshare technology, is free to use (until you have a problem you want ... read more

Robin Good - January 4, 2006
 

If you are looking for reasons, information, and facts supporting the use of alternative operating systems and application to the standard Microsoft set, this new book by Tony Bove may indeed provide some valuable information. Educational and academic institutions and increasingly governments, in many parts of the ... read more

Ben Rothke - Slashdot - December 27, 2005
 

Until yesterday, when you were researching a competing company you would go search for its marketing materials, you might go look at the ads they have in magazines and check out business information accessible through public databases. If that company was making competing products you would go ... read more

Robin Good - December 23, 2005
 

Sharewood Picnic is my weekly selection of new media gems found along my explorations during the past seven days. Many are new tools that have just been launched and are ready for you to take for a test drive. Photo credit: Leah-Anne Thompson My goal remains to provide ... read more

Robin Good and Kevin C. Borgia - December 18, 2005
 

As I wrote here before, xMax is a new wireless and wireline transmission technology which allows very significant increases in wireless transmission reach and capacity. A month ago tomorrow, a small group of reporters attended the first press demonstration of this revolutionary technology in the swamps ... read more

xG Technology - xG Technology - December 2, 2005
 
For the upcoming Winter Olympics to be held in Turin in February 2006, Telecom Italia and Samsung have signed an agreement to test, for the very first time in Italy, WiBro (Wireless Broadband) technology, now considered to be the most feared enemy of Wi-Max, the last ... read more

Pierluigi Tolardo - Zeus News - December 1, 2005
 
And how to keep the neighbors from stealing yours. ... read more

Paul Boutin - Slate - November 14, 2005
 

Microsoft announced yesterday that within a few months it will launch its first set of Web-based Office applications. According to BusinessWeek "this was arguably Microsoft's most important Net strategy announcement since it launched the so-called browser war against Internet pioneer Netscape a decade earlier." This is a ... read more

Robin Good - BusinessWeek - November 2, 2005
 

Ajax is not a technology in itself, but a term that refers to the use of a group of technologies together. Traditional web applications essentially submit forms, completed by a user, to a web server. The web server responds by sending a new web page back. ... read more

Eddie Traversa - November 1, 2005
 

Small and medium-sized businesses are rapidly adopting VoIP technologies, indicated by the fact that long-distance call volume for SMBs is on the rise, and total telecom spending is expected to continually decrease. For the increasing number of mobile connected employees, VoIP applications offer the ... read more

Robin Good - October 25, 2005
 
In about 6 months Microsoft Internet Explorer has lost nearly 10% of its market share due to security issues and availability of better features and tools inside competing browsers (Opera, Mozilla, Netscape). At this same speed (pessimistic view, as IE loss of market share has dramatically ... read more

Robin Good - July 15, 2004
 
Looking for a non DRM-enabled version of Real Player? Need that Acrobat Reader version we used to have three years ago? What about Winamp, Yahoo Messenger, Windows Media Player. Can I still find old versions of these tools for my vintage Win95 PC relic? If you ... read more

Robin Good Recommends - July 14, 2004
 
Industries leaders re-iterate their well known general resistance to open standards, rightly calling into the issue of the often too slow and bureaucratic process that official standards bodies require. "What's to gain by subjecting already popular technologies to a long, sometimes painful standards process?" There are ... read more

Robin Good - GlobeandMail.com - July 5, 2004
 
Rendezvous enables Macs and compatible networked devices and services to automatically configure themselves and find each other without intervention from a system administrator or network devices like DHCP, DNS or directory servers. Based on an open industry standard called Zeroconf, Rendezvous' underpinning technology is not specific ... read more

Robin Good - Yahoo News - July 1, 2004
 
I fully endorse Dave Pollard's list of essential links and free tools he has nicely put together with some good inspiration from the excellent job done by Jason Lefkowitz in his Quality Software List. I have added a few suggestions in the Comments area where you ... read more

Robin Good Recommends - June 17, 2004
 
"For many years email and usenet news constituted the majority of the Internet's use as a tool to facilitate communication among individuals. ... read more

Eric Gradman - [via Julian Bond] - June 2, 2004
 

 

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