Monthly Archives: October 2010


Its 3 – Its Free – Its Symphony

Earlier today, IBM Lotus released Symphony 3.0, a major new version of the OpenOffice-based desktop productivity editors.  Symphony 3.0 features major improvements in usability, integration, programmability, and compatibility.  For those of you who have been using Notes 8 (where Symphony is already bundled for you) or just wanted the freedom to say no to Microsoft […]


Open Fire !!

Actually Openfire is a messaging server. Openfire (previously known as Wildfire, and Jive Messenger) is an XMPP server written in Java. I was reviewing this today in preparation for a  potential project and was very pleasently surprise to find it bundled as a virtual appliance by Jumpbox. I’ve mentioned Jumpbox before as a provided of […]


More adventures with IE9

I’d have to say that IE 9 beta is definitely a work in progress. I previously mentioned some issues about compatibility but in the intervening period of testing I have found that stability is less than amazing. Running on a Windows 7 64 bit workstation IE9 has repeated choked when submitting forms or when being […]


Sketchup not Ketchup

As part of a project involving 3D design work – I have been trying to get to grips with something that I have never really had the opportunity – 3D modelling. Its never really surfaced before even though I have several clients using CAD such as architects – refrigeration engineers – building and plumbing contractors. […]


Adventures with IE 9

Running the IE 9 Beta on Windows 7 64 bit has raised a number of strangenesses and I thought I’d mention them in case others are having them. Oddities and Incompatibilities include Logmein – having to close down tabs that have previously logged into  Logmein for remote support but that have expired. Previous in Ie8 […]