Category: Technology

  • This is your Tech Tidbits Daily for Thursday Mar. 3rd 2005. Today’s resource of potential interest comes from Robert Scoble in a post entitled "Have your RSS feeds read to you by NewsAloud."  This tool is available for free download and evaluation.  A full version costs $20.  In a nutshell,…

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  • Kevin Devin’s recent Tech Chat for his In The Trenches (ITT) podcast focused on small information technology (IT) shops.  It was interesting in that of late, most of all my work has been about "large" enterprise efforts, but I was thinking that the folks who have "plenty" can help out…

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  • I continue to research small form factor PC-based solutions.  There is a a company out of Europe called Digital-Logic with a MICROSPACE-PC family with a host of options with pricing starting at $1601 (discounts available for large orders), and go up to $4386 (bundled with 19" TFT monitor). The distributor…

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  • There is a digital (PDF) free technology magazine being published out of the United Kingdom (UK) called Home Computer Magazine.  The current issue is #04 and has contents on: "Spring clean your PC for peak performance with Nick Peers" "14 pages of tutorials, including Windows XP, overclocking, RSS readers, web…

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  • This is just a quick reference blurb in case people are interested in some scientific research on the topic of blogs.  The December 2004 edition of Communications of ACM (Vol. 47, Number 12) has the following articles: "The Blogosphere" by Andrew Rosenbloom "The Structure and Evolution of Blogspace" by Ravi…

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  • The previous Tech Tidbits Daily that introduced the topic of XForms opened up my eyes to a bunch of new resources over the last 24 hours. First off, the Mozilla Foundation has a beta release of a XForms plug-in for Firefox. Second, Infoworld published on 02.28.05 has a detailed Test…

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  • This is your Tech Tidbits Daily for Wednesday, Mar. 2nd 2005. Did you know that you can subscribe to eBay search services via RSS feeds?  You can’t do it directly (maybe that will be a future feature), but Cori @ kinrowan.blogspot.com notes that there are a couple of 3rd party…

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  • The Gadget Show has their own post on Nokia Life Blog that is worth a read, and you can learn more via their podcast interview with Christian Lindolm (highly recommended).

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  • IT Conversations has two recently posted sessions that were very good: John Batelle speaks with Marc Andreessen, Chairman & Co-Founder, Opsware, and Dan Rosensweig, COO, Yahoo. What did they learn the first time, and what’s different in a Web 2.0 world? [Web 2.0 Conference audio on IT Conversations] Dr. Moira…

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  • This is your Tech Tidbits Daily for Tuesday, Mar. 1st, 2005.  Did you know that you could do XForms in OpenOffice?  The underlining forms authoring and collection technology has been possible, but there is a new beta of OpenOffice that enables the creation of XForms directly in OpenDocument format using…

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