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Lotuslive is finally Smartcloud

Annual renewal time for Lotuslive has come round but as part of that the name on the license now reflects the Smartcloud moniker. Not much else has changed but it at least standardizes the name across all the smart branded services. I have been a little disappointed by the lack of further development of services […]


Going for a drive across the internet

During a piece of research work I was looking for a solution similar to Webdrive which I have mentioned before – most recently here. In this case though I wanted a webdav client that could map a network drive. I came across this application Netdrive – which matched the requirements exactly. The developers say With NetDrive, […]


Licensing and the cost of application development

I attended a presentation of a toolset to facilitate IOS native app development with domino data access today and was working through the practicalities and costs of implementing an application based on this technology and Domino Xwork server. Given the license implications per app and per annum that seem to be the norm with development kits […]


Need more juice to boot your server ?

A colleague reported a non booting server that was displaying led indicators pointing towards a motherboard failure on a dell pe sc 1430. On attending to pick up said non booting server I was trying to ascertain if there had been any power issues prior to the failure. A user told me that the server had […]


Instant WordPress on a USB stick!

Whilst researching some how-to’s on WordPress I came across a free piece of software called “Instant WordPress”. One of the claims it made was to be able to run WordPress from a USB key! That’s quite a claim I thought so I downloaded the software from Instant WordPress and gave it a go. I installed the software on […]