Archive for the 'technology' Category

Lifehacker: Back up your Google Apps data

If you are like me, you enjoy the plethora of services offered by Google. From email to calendar appointments, to simple word processing documents, quite a bit of data can be accumulated in these various applications. That is a whole lot of data to entrust to Google’s servers!
Adam Pash from Lifehacker has written a [...]

Make Microsoft Word less Annoying

Rick Broida over at Lifehacker has written a nice how-to on making Microsoft Word less annoying. The comments seem to reinforce the most intriguing tip I saw: Ditch Word altogether.
Heh. We do use Microsoft Office at the office, but I think I will take the plunge and try out the Open Office suite at home.
Here’s [...]

Customer satisfaction via online knowledge bases

Companies are very concerned with providing more effective (and more cost-effective)
technical support. As an information technology manager, I receive another SOA, remote support strategy, CRM, or other service related notification via email on an almost daily basis. With these new hot buzzwords and with so many strategic options available, it can be easy at times [...]

Report finds US has lost its high-tech edge

Unfortunately, concerns regarding the decline in undergraduate computer science enrollment are already being realized.
InformationWeek summarized the report released by the AeA as stating that the United States has lost its competitive edge just as other countries are becoming more aggressive in technological pursuits. But the 32 page report is not all doom and gloom. [...]

Computer Research Industry Concerned about Lack of Computer Science Students

An article by InformationWeek asks “Where are the Programmers?” The future of computer science in the United States is in peril as indicated by a sharp decline since 2001 in college undergraduates choosing computer science as a major. Furthermore, this decline comes just as a new challenge of programming tomorrow’s multicore processors arrives. As a [...]

Get Firefox 2.0

Are you still using Firefox 1.*? Even worse, are you still using Internet Explorer? Firefox 2.0 has been available for some time now. If you haven’t yet downloaded the free browser which is taking the Internet by storm, do so now. There are many reasons why I’ve made the switch. The Firefox main page already [...]