Windows Vista: more than just a pretty face ….
A nice article describing new features in Windows Vista. I agree with the author’s claim that Vista is more than just a pretty face but I still think its very expensive for home users considering that OSs these days have become commodity software. Corporations might be able to afford Vista and features like the ones described in this article might persuade some software developers to upgrade from older versions of windows but for a regular home user alot of these features are not that important to justify the price. Anyway this article gives a good insight into the new features of Vista
Security issues with smartphones
These days you can see almost every other person (atleast in corporate world) having a smartphone – a blackberry or a symbian/windows mobile phone, which not only lets you make and recieve calls but also provides internet connectivity enabling you to check emails, access calendar and surf internet on the move. Since so many people are carrying these devices (including me) that are connected to internet all time, I wonder how many of them have anything like an antivirus or some sort of firewall installed on their phones. I think this is a very serious issue specially after reading this article -
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9014118
Whenever I (and I think alot of other people) have bought a new computer or reinstalled OS on a computer, first thing I do is get all latest patches, install virus scanner and configure a firewall. I really wonder how many people update their smartphones with latest patches. Also I never connect my computer to internet directly without a router being in between or a firewall being installed on it but our smartphones dont have any kind of firewall and are connected to internet all the time.
I think this is a very important security issue specially for corporations whose employees have these phones and might have alot of confidential information/data stored on them.
How to market your web application
These days you can find a new web application (web 2.0 startup as they say) being launched everyday. Quite a few of them rise to fame as soon as a major blog or a social news website writes about it but sadly, in most cases this fame is very short lived. This article on Read/Write web very interestingly divides these web applications into the WAIT list, the WALK list and the RUN list, and suggests some strategies to effectively market web applications belonging to each category.
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_to_market_your_web_app.php
10 things you can do to keep your old computer useful
http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/03/16/ten-things-you-can-do-keep-an-old-computer-useful/
Came across this post today. This is one of the things I really like about linux that you can customize it enough to make it run on very old boxes. Being a software developer working on Microsoft technologies, I am a very avid windows user but I have always secretly wished to be able to do my .Net based devlopement on linux. Though to some extent Mono helps but it still has a long way to go.
Anyway I have a very old currently non-functional laptop that I am now thinking to get fixed and install some flavor of linux on it, most probably Ubuntu.
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