Sneak attack on MS Office and LiveMail
Google Earth comes automatically with Google Chrome browser. Installing Chrome on a Windows 7 computer which has either MS Office or Windows LiveMail will break the hyperlink feature.
Hyperlink allows to you to click on a link in a document and automatically go to the internet page in the link.
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 is about to ship on March 7, 2012.
Don’t even think about getting a copy unless you are one of the elite Microsoft beta testers or have the Release Candidate which is available now.
That’s right. You have to be connected to Microsoft to qualify to install and test the new release of SQL server which is better than Oracle in some respects. Continue reading
A Swedish company is showing technology that makes it possible to select screen items simply by looking at them.
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Kinect controlling medicine (photo Microsoft)
Apple won the latest round of the computer interface war but Microsoft is fast on Apple’s heels with Kinect for Windows. Kinect is a game changing technology.
As visualized in Minority Report, we won’t touch the mouse or screen but merely gesture with our bodies.
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The Dick Tracy wrist watch – computer and video phone - was a dream in the 60s
People like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates made it a reality.
The smartphone is just the beginning of the truly personal computer that connects us together and to the businesses we use.
It won’t matter who builds the devices – Apple, Android or Microsoft. Continue reading
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
The tributes to Steve Jobs the tech guru are pouring in daily.
Jobs was a petty, immature human being who died prematurely at his own hand, according to a new biography Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson.
“In his last years, Steven Jobs veered from exotic diets to cutting-edge treatments as he fought the cancer that ultimately took his life, according to a new biography to be published on Monday.” New York Times. Continue reading
Windows 8 launch screen with active tiles (beta)
This is the short version of Roger McNamee’s of Elevation Partners presentation to Paley Media Centre that focuses on where the money is in the music business.
The whole presentation, about 52 minutes, is a concise explanation of the inflection point in computing and creative content. According to McNamee and it seems probable, more people will be accessing the internet from mobile devices than desktops, breaking the monopoly that Microsoft and Google have created.
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Apple OS X Lion only available as download from the Cloud
With the release of OS X or Lion, Apple has stopped shipping software in white boxes with CD ROM media.
Most of us are already using the Cloud whether we know it or not.
Apple software is only available by download from the App Store. To reinforce the point, the latest MAC hardware doesn’t have a CD ROM drive.
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Users of Microsoft Office 2010 are still warned to be careful installing the Google Chrome browser since it disables some of the important features in Outlook and Word.
Among other things, linking an internet address from an email or document stops working in some cases after Chrome is installed. Continue reading
iLok dongle
Companies live in fear spending their time looking for pirates. Write good software, price it reasonably and you will sell enough to make a profit.
The last niche of the software market that hasn’t grown up is the music business. The business practices are twenty years old.
Many companies in audio and recording require a dongle to use their software. Dongles disappeared from the face of the earth in the rest of the computer business around 1990. Continue reading