Category: Software

  • Top 10 disruptive technologies according to Gartner

    Gartner, an IT industry analyst firm, has published a report on what its analysts see as the top ten disruptive technologies for 2008 to 2012: Multicore and hybrid processors Virtualisation and fabric computing Social networks and social software Cloud computing…

  • Help the geek get the glory

    If you yearn for the simpler geeky days when MS-DOS and 640K of RAM ruled, along with pixelated images on VGA monitors, you’ll likely appreciate the Server Quest game. Although geared towards the IT crowd, this web-based game to promote…

  • New FeedDemon 2.7 makes RSS a speed demon

    A new version of RSS aggregator FeedDemon was released on Friday which I think is an essential upgrade if you’re an existing user. While new version 2.7 does include quite a few bug fixes and improvements to some functionality, according…

  • The darlings of Twitter

    Last year it was Facebook. Today’s shiny new object unquestionably is Twitter. If you haven’t heard of Twitter (it’s now just about in the mainstream), it’s simple to describe: Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate…

  • Is Windows Vista really going nowhere?

    A discussion on Twitter early this morning about Windows Vista has got me thinking about faith. I’ve been a Windows Vista believer since the operating system was in beta. Even in the face of relentless negative opinion – seemingly everywhere…