Archive for March, 2006

how to act like a compassionate human being and not an arrogant results-driven robot.

Monday, March 20th, 2006

Guy's latest article is "The Art of Sucking Down" and Robert Scoble claims that it's the best article Guy has written. Is there something wrong in this picture? The article is about being nice to people. Guy has some interesting points about trying to make people smile during the day but it ...

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Thursday, March 16th, 2006

The Google presentation by the lovely Zaheda Bhorat was interesting even if the minutiae of her presentation was queried by RMS. (Just which license is used for that?). She spent a lot of time on code.google.com The presentation by Les Timms about the Open Source Academy and the work they've done ...

FOSS-M-B: Write Software for Normal People

Thursday, March 16th, 2006

12:00: Bruce Parens was quite entertaining from his stories of subverting Pixar time to write patches for Debian to his lecture on the evils of software patents. Most applicable to a software company is certainly the patent issue - it takes, on average, $5 million to defend a software patent. Their ...

Free Software. No Free WiFi. Bummer…

Thursday, March 16th, 2006

10:00 am: So, free software but no free wi-fi though the local Linux User Group has a WEP-protected access point up. But no big warchalk anywhere with the password. Bummer. So, I'm posting on a not-cheap GPRS connection because we don't have economical all-you-cat-eat WiFi or 3G/GPRS plans available. I'm going to update ...

Alternatives to Mail.app

Wednesday, March 15th, 2006

I can no longer send mail using Mail.app. No idea why. I've tried everything I (or MJ) can think of including removing all my SMTP servers, removing all my Mail accounts and creating from scratch. It doesn't even send via the .Mac SMTP server (I have 3 ...

FOSS Means Business tomorrow…

Wednesday, March 15th, 2006

I may see some of you at the FOSS Means Business event tomorrow in Belfast. I'm not staying for the RMS workship in the afternoon, I don't think. I'm interested in the other speakers though, but mostly I'm interested in the attendees. It's certainly a candidate for an unconference. Frankly I ...

Entourage and SyncServices

Tuesday, March 14th, 2006

This isn't a bad foray by Microsoft into the world of SyncServices. From an iCal perspective, Entourage creates a calendar in iCal called "Entourage" and syncs all the events with that calendar. This means that you can now sync your phone/PDA with Entourage as long as you only ...

And we may add Entourage to the list…

Tuesday, March 14th, 2006

Heaps of info out there now. Looks like with today's update for Microsoft Office 2004 (11.2.3), Entourage will also work as a SyncBridge client. We need to test it of course but as soon as we have, we'll add it to our information pages. Nice to see. Way to go, Microsoft!

SyncBridge

Tuesday, March 14th, 2006

Looking at MJ's post about Airwolf or Blue Thunder, I figure it's worth talking a bit about our first product. It's called SyncBridge, which I hope is an obvious representation of what it does: it provides a synchronisation bridge between users (in this case, iCal users). We've been working on ...

New web site

Tuesday, March 14th, 2006

We've launched our new website. If you have any kind of opinion, (good, bad, indifferent) please let us know. Feedback of all types is important. As you can see, we've gone with a minimalist approach, aiming for enough content to explain what we're about without boring the ...