Enterprise Pain Points

Screen Sharing
If you’ve ever helped someone with a PC problem you know how excruciating it can be trying to explain something as simple as a drag and drop operation. With Mac OSX Leopard’s built-in Screen Sharing, you can take over another Mac remotely and perform the operation, while the newbie looks on. Or, you [...]

If your MacOSX gets Keychain is corrupted after you install Leopard, you’ll get an error message asking if you want to reset the Keychain back to the default values. If you want to save any of the data you have in your keychain, do not reset.
Here’s what you do… Launch Keychain Access and Select [...]

Microsoft is practically giving away the Microsoft Office suite to students. The Student price is now $60 bucks (As long as you have a .edu address). What does this mean for Johnny and Jane Doe (non-college) consumer?

For the most part, if they work for a medium or large sized firm, chances are they are already [...]

If you were waiting for iPhone Reference materials to surface before you write the next, great iPhone App. Well, wait no more. Apple’s iPhone Dev Center goes online today, just in time to get started developing Apps on Leopard.

The native iPhone Dev Kit should surface after MacWorld 2008. But until then brush up on your [...]

It’s Official. Third-party apps for the iPhone. Looks like things are looking up for all kinds of developers: Open source, Commercial, Enterprise, and Hackers (in the original meaning of the word).
Let’s see, so what did we gain with this new information:
- App Distribution ( check )
- Access to iPhone features ( check )
- Safari [...]

Over on TechCrunch, there’s a story about Seriosity. Seriosity figures your email avalanche would be more manageable if the sender attached “Serios” (currency) to your email as a measure of how important that peice of email is to the sender. You in turn would reply with the same or different “Serios” to confirm, increase or [...]

Took a look at a pretty cool Web 2.0 App called iScrybe. In a word - NICE! You can check it out here. If you haven’t gotten around to organizing your life then - move on, nothing to see here - however, if you’re an overachiever-wanna-be then iScrybe is more than just a good idea.

There’s [...]

Marc Zeedar is writing a series on the differences between Apple and
Microsoft. It’s an interesting read. Not sure whether Marc is an Apple Fan Boy or Anti-Microsoft, but if you get past the zealousness, he makes a few interesting points.
A theme he reiterates across Part 1 and Part 2, is Microsoft’s inability to innovate. The [...]

Alright Tech Fans!
The SuperBowl of Trademark infringement lawsuits is set to begin! This should be fun to watch. Cisco acquired the trademark through acquisition in the U.S. and Apple owns the trademark outside of the U.S. Who wins? Who Loses? Read on for the answers.
Cisco defines the iPhone on their site as follows: What is [...]

iPhone’s biggest flaw by far is hitching their wagon to Cingular’s EDGE network.
Let’s be serious. The market for this phone will be the Early Adopters (as it is for all new, seriously expensive technology). Hard cores, Apple Fan Boys, and techies make up this market. This market isn’t huge, but it is influential. This audience [...]