Choosing between Live Mesh / Live Sync / Live Drive for synchronising files between PCs

We’ve been using Microsoft Groove for a couple of years now to synchronise a shared company folder between our geographically distributed users. It hasn’t been touched since it was set up two or three years ago and I’ve been wanting to revisit and look at alternatives for a while.  Groove is overkill for us and [...]

It’s all about thin clients on a grand scale

We definitely seem to be heading back around the thin-thick cycle except this time it’s going to be on a massive scale … and includes the consumer market. The technology has evolved so much recently that we now have all the same benefits and far less of the negatives of “thin computing” from 15 years [...]

The New Facebook. Can 2,131,123+ people be completely wrong?

YES! When they think that facebook should bring back the old style site! In my opinion FB have  played a UI blinder and just sealed their continued success – at least for the next year – which is about as much as anyone could foresee in this industry.
In one fell swoop they have :-

Relegated [...]

And the broadband saga continues …

Our client is now 28 days without broadband. On a business service! I’m fast coming to the opinion that the “ADSL broadband system” is completely unfit for purpose, and for a normally placid individual I’m finding it hard to contain my rage! Whoever at BT is responsible for this debacle of a system should be [...]

Google’s 10th Birthday

At this rate I might as well rename this the Google Blog! But this is quite cool/interesting – http://www.google.com/tenthbirthday/

Chrome task manager

At the risk of seeming obsessed with Chrome (I’m not really!), here’s one of the best features of Google’s new browser … each tab runs in a separate process and you can look at memory/cpu usage & end non-responsive processes in the browser task manager – much like you would with applications under windows.
Hit Ctrl-Escape [...]

Google Chrome keyboard shortcuts

As with all browsers there are some keyboard shortcuts in Chrome which can help make us a bit more efficient. I don’t remember that many shortcuts, so better to pick a few really useful ones than try and remember them all! This isn’t an exhaustive list – just a few that I use all the [...]

Chrome mania

A lot has been written this week about Google’s recent foray into the browser market. Been using Chrome for a week or so now and have to admit that I like it a lot. I’ve always been an IE user and over the last couple of years I’ve tried Firefox, Safari, Opera – I tried [...]

UK broadband woes – what’s happening with BT? And should we be worried!?

I’m increasingly frustrated, annoyed, and even angry with the systems in place to manage ADSL broadband in the UK. Seems that every ADSL issue we have had recently has turned into a complete nightmare!
As an example :-
· Customer has broadband with Plus.net for a year or more.
· The PSTN line is accidentally & incorrectly moved [...]

Data center in a box – add power & network and away we go!

Living life in the SME sector we’re more used to having to deal with this :-
 
 
Than this :-
 
 
Microsoft are supposedly adding servers at a rate of 10,000 per month. One way they’re doing this is with “container data centers” – basically prefab data centres in a trailer! It seems these things come ready [...]