Tech Talk

About the same time I pressed publish on my impressions of iPhoto ‘09, looks like another article went live on Gizmodo.  It is full of tips and tricks and is a more exhaustive review of the software.  http://i.gizmodo.com/5142596/iphoto-09-the-definitive-review-and-tip-sheet

I had pretty high expections of iPhoto ‘09 after its debut during MacWorld.  The features I saw weren’t revolutionary, but they were welcome additions to the software.  Facial recognition and geo-tagging were the two key features introduced, but it was the social networking ties that really shined.  I have been playing with the software for [...]

One of my other passions is the TV show LOST on ABC.  I’ve been an avid Lostie since it debuted about four years ago.  And what I’ve found as a geeky side-game is the producer’s use of old Apple hardware in the series.  We have seen one of these in the Swan station, which played [...]

I’m trying very hard to research and find a good DPAP photo server, which could serve as a repository of photos accessible via iPhoto.  I see a lot of solutions like Firefly Media Server that work for iTunes media servers and I know that DPAP is based on DMAP, same as the DAAP which iTunes [...]

iLife ‘09 has begun shipping.  I received my confirmation just a few minutes ago that it is shipping and scheduled for arrival tomorrow via FedEx.  Reports started surfacing as early as last night that the software had begun shipments for some areas.  Apple also announced that iLife ‘09 would be available in stores starting tomorrow, [...]

I’m wondering what everyone else in the world does…  I’m investigating running Virtual Center/vCenter as a virtual machine in order to remove two additional physical servers running Windows 2003 Enterprise in a cluster.  I’m also very interested in running vCenter as a Linux virtual appliance when that becomes available.  Is anyone out there running vCenter [...]

Not long ago, we did a demo of VMware’s VDI product at HTC.  To be honest, we were underwhelmed at the time.  Fast forward to December and VMware remedied that problem with the release of VMware View.  We are just in the beginnings of the trial for the View 3.0 product and we haven’t gotten [...]

As a followup to my previous posts about thin clients and our research, we made a first step into the virtual desktop arena.  We purchased 55 Pano Logic units just before end of last year.  They arrived and have been safely stored away while we work out the rest of our implementation plans.  This is [...]

Engadet has a great article about what Apple could learn from the Palm webOS. Engadget pretty much hits the nail on the head. For all iPhone users, reading this or even watching the Palm presentation from CES should make you realize that the iPhone isn’t complete. There is still some growing and [...]

I found this YouTube video from Huckabee’s Fox News show and its his commentary on customer service.  I’ve said similiar things in my blog before on customer service.