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After hearing loads of reports coming back about the iPad being a big disappointment, I thought I'd better catch up and see what it's all about. So I watched this:
And after watching it, I was like, meh...
Steve Ballmer, on the other hand, was like:
OK, that was from about 3 years ago, but it's still great.
Here's the product I'm really waiting for:
Ballmer will be sooo pissed.
Free copy of "HPC for Dummies"
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Want to learn more about HPC? For a gentle introduction, get your free copy of
"High Performance Computing for Dummies" (Sun and AMD special edition).
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Send Your Details to Support
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The clever guys and girls over at Imulus have put together a handy page at http://supportdetails.com/
which displays the visitor's environment details right there on the page, such as:
One neat feature you can try is to build a url to send to users to click on when they want to request support:
http://supportdetails.com/?sender_name=Jessica&sender=email@sender.com&recipient=email@recipient.com
The details aren't really the point - it's more about the interface and the way the information is presented. It's not hard to see this being applied to present much more detailed and useful system information.
Having worked with automated data collecting tools before, I have to say that this kind of interface would be a quantum leap over what I've seen being used in the support divisions in many of the largest IT companies, including IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and Sun, and I for one would welcome the chance to use it. Imulus would, however, almost certainly have to stray from their world of ASP.NET to provide such tools.
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which displays the visitor's environment details right there on the page, such as:
- Operating System
- Screen Resolution
- Web Browser
- Browser Size
- IP Address
- Color Depth
- Javascript (enabled/disabled)
- Flash Version
- Cookies (enabled/disabled)
One neat feature you can try is to build a url to send to users to click on when they want to request support:
http://supportdetails.com/?sender_name=Jessica&sender=email@sender.com&recipient=email@recipient.com
The details aren't really the point - it's more about the interface and the way the information is presented. It's not hard to see this being applied to present much more detailed and useful system information.
Having worked with automated data collecting tools before, I have to say that this kind of interface would be a quantum leap over what I've seen being used in the support divisions in many of the largest IT companies, including IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and Sun, and I for one would welcome the chance to use it. Imulus would, however, almost certainly have to stray from their world of ASP.NET to provide such tools.
Google Chrome on the march - overtakes Safari
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Monday, January 04, 2010
It's official - Chrome is now #3 in the browser charts by number of users, nudging its way past Safari, Apple's browser offering.
In a little over a year Google Chrome has risen to 4.63% market share and has overtaken Safari, at 4.46%. One possible factor in the swing of about 1% that took place in December 2009 is that Google released Chrome for OS X giving Mac users another, possibly better, lightweight and fast browser to choose from. However, since the total market share of OS X really isn't that high, it was more likely the result of steady growth in Chrome uptake, while Safari stood still.
Mashable covered this in an article yesterday, and the graph they provided shows clearly how Chrome has been steadily growing in popularity. After all, Chrome is technically faster than Safari, and was since the early days, as this chart shows, so it was only a matter of time before it overtook it in terms of its user base.
Of course, Internet Explorer is still king. Then again, my recent acquisition of a new laptop running Windows 7 came with IE8 pre-installed, just as it would have done in Windows 3.x, 95, 98, NT, ME, 2000, XP, 2003 or Vista. The anti-trust, anti-anti-competition brigade didn't manage to change anything in that respect. Until they do, it's not a level playing field, and IE will continue to dominate. Firefox weighs in with 24.61% of the popular vote, and this is what Google are really chasing, so much so, that I think they're starting to really worry Mozilla's CEO John Lilly, and the gloves are coming off - in a way that can only hurt the interests of both companies.
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In a little over a year Google Chrome has risen to 4.63% market share and has overtaken Safari, at 4.46%. One possible factor in the swing of about 1% that took place in December 2009 is that Google released Chrome for OS X giving Mac users another, possibly better, lightweight and fast browser to choose from. However, since the total market share of OS X really isn't that high, it was more likely the result of steady growth in Chrome uptake, while Safari stood still.
Mashable covered this in an article yesterday, and the graph they provided shows clearly how Chrome has been steadily growing in popularity. After all, Chrome is technically faster than Safari, and was since the early days, as this chart shows, so it was only a matter of time before it overtook it in terms of its user base.
Of course, Internet Explorer is still king. Then again, my recent acquisition of a new laptop running Windows 7 came with IE8 pre-installed, just as it would have done in Windows 3.x, 95, 98, NT, ME, 2000, XP, 2003 or Vista. The anti-trust, anti-anti-competition brigade didn't manage to change anything in that respect. Until they do, it's not a level playing field, and IE will continue to dominate. Firefox weighs in with 24.61% of the popular vote, and this is what Google are really chasing, so much so, that I think they're starting to really worry Mozilla's CEO John Lilly, and the gloves are coming off - in a way that can only hurt the interests of both companies.
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