Every month since I disabled Adobe FlashPlayer on my laptops and desktops I have had that decision re-enforced by yet more news about security vulnerabilities, battery drain issues, and system crashes all derived from running FlashPlayer. I am so glad I disabled the junk software and recommend everyone else do that too. Here is reason [...]
Tagged Computer Security, flashEnjoying OneTeam (http://oneteam.im/) new Jabber/AIM/Yahoo/GTalk client on my iPhone that supports Jabber Chat rooms beautifully.
If you are getting a new mobile phone, and you’ll be extending your contract, please have driver’s license, passport, military id, or state id ready. The carriers require that in order to extend your contract. You should also sync your current mobile phone to your computer to back up it’s data before switching it out [...]
Woot! The long awaited iOS update is showing up in my iTunes 10.5 now; so I am applying it to iPad first and then iPhone 4 next. Squee!!!! Even more Squee: Airport Utility for iOS!!!
I am replacing (finally) my venerable Palm Tungsten C and Palm Desktop Software on my Macs with Evernote… and it may replace some other things too – initial impression is: amazing! The driver to get off Palm Desktop (which I admit to using less and less lately) is that it is a PowerPC app on [...]
Tagged cloud, Evernote, Lion, Palm DesktopWe’ve launched… uvvu.com This is what has been taking up a lot of my spare time for a long time.
At a glance Twitter appears to be just like status updates in Facebook, but with none of the other junk. Just plain text from your friends and those you decide to follow. Doh! I should have been doing twitter all along and ignoring Facebook. If you care, I am scottdavidnolan on Twitter. I will NOT [...]
Tagged twitter vs blogging, twitter vs facebookThis is an interesting trend, and with the availability of thin clients and server hosted desktops (eg: VMware OpenView) it is possible to let employees use their own laptops yet never have any corporate data on them, as the data can stay on the desktop server in the data center. More Offices Let Workers Choose [...]
Tagged Bring Your Own Device Policy, IT, Thin Client, Virtual DesktopTired of being treated horribly I deleted my Facebook account. I’ll miss folks, but it just was not worth it anymore.
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