Trying out Zindus which allows you to synchronise address book entries between Thunderbird (my currently preferred email client), Google and Zimbra (which I’ve never heard of till now). It sounded like a nice idea but has resulted in me facing my address book inaccuracies. This dear thing is pre Outlook 95 or something. It’s been [...]
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Windows LIVE, why won’t it DIE?
You know Windows Live is such crap. I mean that. Firstly there’s the email which doesn’t do it’s job on junk mail filtering. Then when you try to mark it as junk the server doesn’t respond. And that’s half the issue with their email, it is frequently down. Nowadays all I get is junk there, [...]
Buzz Sucks because Few Use it.
Google Buzz, like it’s failure before it Orkut (except in selected nations) and Myspace and indeed many other worthwhile social apps, all SUCK. It has nothing to do with their technical wonders or lack of them. It has everything to do with the fact that hardly anyone uses them. Facebook and Twitter are dominant. I [...]
External and Internal Imagination
Previously I wrote about the visible and obvious part of imagination, combined with engineering to create the shiny and the new. I also described how it is seen and known to the observant. Understand that our consciousness is split into roles, where one is an Observer who watches everything with a detachment from emotions like [...]
The Future of Google Wave? A Manhunt?
When one uses Google Wave, like any communication form, there’s the competing elements of signal and noise. Already the signal is quite strong. Most technophiles already have access but we’re all trying to find out how best to use this medium. It’s obviously strong in collaboration and seems to be a great balance of email [...]
Riding the Google Wave
I got an invite from a friend and I am indeed thrilled to get a look at it. If you are one of the extremely lucky people who have escaped the hype and know nothing about Google Wave, allow me to corrupt you. Google Wave is a new communication tool; Real time – what you [...]
Map your Thoughts
When you want to explore ideas it’s often useful to use a graphical form. Because though text has flexibility and is often easier to create our minds seem to absorb graphics elements more easily. An obvious example is the conversion of reams of data into pretty graphs. It is in this graphical format that trends [...]
Googphilia
Lately been trying out several Google tools. Google has an experimental facility called Social Search that allows you to search your ‘social circle’ and hence get relevant search results out of your social networks by using public information in your social networking sites like facebook, twitter and blogs. It does require some configuration to set [...]
Donate to Project Valour-IT
It’s the time of the year again where I spruik for Project Valour-IT which assists wounded men and women who have served their country by using enabling technology. I urge you to consider a small donation.
Katmouse and Twitterfeed
Actually this is more a post to test if twitterfeed plays nice. Twitterfeed is a nice simple tool to take these blog posts via RSS and throw them on twitter thereby informing more about my deep and meaningful posts, witty commentary and sheer good looks. Or something. However I thought I’d throw in a short [...]
Pardon Jargon?
Interesting post on military jargon at the Castle. I believe it extends into jargon and language in general. Today, and probably in earlier times too, professionals of any stripe have developed their own sets of jargon with specific meanings, acronyms and clarity improvers to make their internal communication efficient and accurate. That involves all those [...]