I began this article with plans to have at Microsoft for the same reasons I had at Apple on OSX Lion. Dragging desktop interfaces down to the level of mobile devices is an absurd strategy. However, Microsoft has been accused for years of lacking ingenuity. However upon reviewing the tidbits available on Windows 8 I’m […]
Corporate Pitfalls for IT Staff
We noticed this little zinger on Twitter’s help pages while trying to help out a client: QUOTE: Due to resource constraints, not every Tweet can be indexed in Twitter Search. Our engineers are always working to index more updates, but we can’t force individual, missing Tweets into search. In other words, what you see in Twitter […]
Brave Predictions
Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen announced at the D9 conference yesterday that “Android will overtake iPad just like it did the iPhone.” You may remember roughly a year ago when we mentioned that Apple’s decision to block Adobe Flash on the Mac would prove fatal to it’s longevity, well perhaps that one thing will not, but […]
The Real Web 2.0
“nofollow” is the new internet. What does this mean? Well it means that instead of the internet being organic and free it becomes controlled and limited to a small group. The big get bigger and the small, well they disappear into obscurity. If you don’t understand what “nofollow” refers to you may have landed at […]
Quality Assurance
As the cost of Sony’s failure to recognize a dysfunctional development team reaches estimates of over $4 billion we hope that corporations all over the planet are taking note. Among the the other winners of the most dysfunctional quality assurance processes Amazon’s cloud is also near the top. Amazon’s low standards are evident at just […]
12 Steps to Better Backups.
Windows Backup sucks. This is just a fact. For years we have come up with creative solutions to get around the buggy mess that used to be called NT Backup and is now in Windows 7 as Windows Backup and Restore. If you have a fresh install of Windows 7 or Server 2008 and are enjoying […]
OSX Lion Preview Review
Here’s a quick summary of about 30 minutes with OSX Lion (© Apple): 1. Little “lights” under icons in dock were by default turned off in Lion (© Apple). 2. Smaller control buttons on the windows. 3. There is a new link in the dock called “launchpad” that makes your desktop look just like an iPhone/iPad […]
Firefox 4 vs. Internet Explorer 9 vs. Ch...
I hope you will welcome my contributions to the V-Tek blog, this is my first post. As a project manager here at VeraciTek I am always trying to polish my fluency with the latest technologies. The browser war being one of the most relevant to my job. Microsoft recognized very early that building the browser […]
More FUD from internet “reporters”.
Example #1: Is Honeycomb Android’s Vista? Wow, ZDnet, how much did you get paid to run that article? Especially since the supported devices can be counted on 1 hand and the major player is the Xoom that really has had it’s own problems taking on the iPad. Any commentary on the matter is premature at best, […]
Sony failed, Apple failed, why?
The world of software development is not too unique. Just like building a house, the skills of the developers involved will affect the end result in ways that may take quite some time to determine. Did that door jam go crooked? How about those windows, open it 5 times and does it break? We have […]