Review


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 […]


Blio – More than words

I signed up some time ago for the release of the Blio Ebook reader. I was looking for something like the ipad book reader app but for PCs. I had heard a little about what was planned and yesterdays announcements got me interested enough to download the app and kick the tires a little. The […]


Project Management – my favourite !

Project management or task management relating to teams is something that any contractor must face up to. Running multiple projects – large or small with teams of geographically dispersed teams is a fact of life. Recently as part of an application hosting project I was introduced to a web based PM tool called Teamwork Project […]


Surfin’ Safari V

Yep – its time for an update. Steve has spoken. Alongside the latest iphone 4 news came a welcome announcement of the new release of Safari. The first thing that caught my eye was this Safari Reader removes annoying ads and other visual distractions from online articles. So you get the whole story and nothing […]