Glympse Is a Real-Time and Private Location Sharing Tool

Ed Valio | October 8th, 2010 - 2:40 pm
Glympse Is a Real-Time and Private Location Sharing Tool

From Lifehacker: ”If your main objection to location sharing services is that you don’t want to share your location all the time and when you do you’d like easy and private sharing, Glympse is a private and real-time location sharing tool.

Glympse fills a much needed niche in the location sharing world. Glympse offers you the [...]

ZoneAlarm caught using fake antivirus scare tactics

Ed Valio | September 22nd, 2010 - 2:35 pm
ZoneAlarm caught using fake antivirus scare tactics

From ARS Technica: ”Check Point, a security company that offers various products to protect consumers and businesses, is imitating the tactics of fake antimalware programs. Over the last few days, ZoneAlarm users have been receiving a warning from their security software that tells them they are not protected against a new piece of malware.

The warning [...]

Open Source OCR that makes searchable PDFs

Ed Valio | July 27th, 2010 - 9:20 am
Open Source OCR that makes searchable PDFs

From Slashdot: ”In my job all of our multifunction copiers scan to PDF but many of our users want and expect those PDFs to be text searchable. I looked around for software that would create text searchable pdfs but most are very expensive and I couldn’t find any that were open source (free). I did [...]

Dell: 90% of data is never read again

Ed Valio | July 13th, 2010 - 10:53 am
Dell: 90% of data is never read again

From PC Pro: ”According to Dell, 90% of company data is written once and never read again. This arresting claim cropped up in the middle of a presentation from Dell’s Enterprise division, recently given to Jon Honeyball and me. Given our usual style of dealing with such events, the poor devils didn’t stand a chance [...]

iOS 4: Exchange may not sync after update

Ed Valio | June 30th, 2010 - 11:25 am
iOS 4: Exchange may not sync after update

From support.apple.com – ”Symptoms - Immediately after updating to iOS 4, some users may notice that Exchange ActiveSync Mail, Contacts, or Calendars do not sync, or sync very slowly. In addition, some Exchange Server administrators may notice their servers running slowly.

Products Affected
iPod touch, iPhone 3G, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS
Resolution
To work around this issue, users should install [...]

Google Voice now available without an invitation

Ed Valio | June 22nd, 2010 - 1:18 pm
Google Voice now available without an invitation

From the Google Voice Blog:  ”A little over a year ago, we released an early preview of Google Voice, our web-based platform for managing your communications. We introduced one number to ring all your phones, voicemail that works like email, free calls and text messages to the U.S. and Canada, low-priced international calls and more—the only [...]

PrintConductor Prints Documents in Batches Without Opening Them

Ed Valio | May 27th, 2010 - 10:43 am
PrintConductor Prints Documents in Batches Without Opening Them

From Addictivetips: ”Lets say you want to print different types of documents in one go, such as, Adobe PDF, Word Document, Wordpad text, Excel spreadsheet, Visio or AutoCAD diagram, and so on. The only way would be to manually open each one of them and click Print. This is a tiresome procedure which will waste [...]