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The Droid we're looking for
Nov. 17, 2009
Mark Gibbs has got his sweaty hands on a Verizon Motorola Droid and he's really impressed (bugs and early termination fees not withstanding).
More randomness and the Synology Rackstation RS409+
Nov. 13, 2009
A reader comes up with a neat solution for Mark Gibbs' randomization problem, having got his sweaty hands on a Droid he takes a first look, and slices and dices a really impressive SMB NAS solution, the Synology ...
Branch Office Best Practices
Nov. 19, 2009
Your source for remote and branch office networking tips.
STFW, fix Pipes, and repair Mac disks; voila!
Nov. 04, 2009
Gibbs suggests a way to tell people they should have tried using Google, finds a workaround to Yahoo Pipes caching, and fails to fix his Mac disk drive despite using a very good utility.
On Linux and random numbers
Oct. 28, 2009
Look, I hate to bring this up, but there's something we need to discuss: Why haven't I heard from you recently? (No, not you, you've been in touch. It's this guy over here …) Really, is it too much to ask that you put ...
Server Sleuths
Nov. 18, 2009
Network World Fusion's exclusive weekly server management how-to column.
The Revolution will be programmed, Part III
Oct. 15, 2009
Continuing his exploration of the Runtime Revolution programming system, Mark Gibbs delves into the language a little further before wrapping up this series.
The Revolution will be programmed, Part II
Oct. 06, 2009
Mark Gibbs continues his review of Runtime Revolution by delving into how Revolution applications are organized and how the event messaging model of the system is structured. Heady stuff indeed.
The Revolution will be programmed, Part 1
Oct. 01, 2009
Mark Gibbs ponders the history of HyperCard and HyperTalk and segues (rather elegantly) into the start of an exploration of Runtime Revolution, a direct descendent of those products.
Fighting Conficker
Sep. 25, 2009
A lot of really good research has been published about the Conficker worm, its many forms, infection vectors and speculation as to what it's going to do next. But what seems to be missing is the operational side of ...
Putting Yahoo Pipes to work
Sep. 23, 2009
You know how Excel is mostly really good but weirdly weak in a few areas? Gibbs has found a fix for one issue: String concatenation. And while he's on the subject of data manipulation he begins taking a look at a ...
Improving Excel and Yahoo Pipes
Sep. 18, 2009
You know how Excel is mostly really good but weirdly weak in a few areas? Mark Gibbs has found a fix for one issue: String concatenation. And while he's on the subject of data manipulation he begins taking a look at a ...
The Sentimeter, Part 011
Sep. 02, 2009
Gibbs wraps up the saga of developing the Sentimeter, his near real-time topical Twitter sentiment analysis tool. Tags: sentiment, Twitter, tweets, SAP, Xcelsius, SAP Developers Network, Error #2032, crossdomain, policy ...
Small Business Technology
Nov. 18, 2009
Managing remote desktop management
Sep. 10, 2009
Remote desktop management is parts of the nuts and bolts of managing IT infrastructure. Mark Gibbs has found a product that makes managing your remote desktop management manageable.
How to address the two types of insider threats
Sep. 03, 2009
“I read about fraud all the time – hackers, online gangs, angry employees, etc.. It seems like it's on the rise. Why is this so hard to detect and how can we prevent fraud in our organization?”
The Twitter Sentimeter, Part Drei
Aug. 21, 2009
Mark Gibbs continues the saga of developing the Sentimeter, his near real-time topical Twitter sentiment analysis tool.
The Sentimeter, Part Deux
Aug. 14, 2009
Following up on last week's column, Mark Gibbs discusses how the design of the Sentimeter evolved and the hoops he had to jump through. He may yet take up acrobatics.
The Sentimeter, Part 1
Aug. 06, 2009
Mark Gibbs looks at a service that provides a remarkable insight into analyzing the sentiment of text content and discusses how it might be applied to social media.
A new RoboForm
Jul. 30, 2009
Mark Gibbs is rather fond of some tools that make his life easier and, in particular, he has fallen in love with a utility. How weird is that?
Web site monitors and PowerPoint timers
Jul. 23, 2009
Mark Gibbs discusses a really cheap, er, cost-effective Web and service monitoring service and then goes looking for an onscreen timer for PowerPoint. What an exotic life he leads.
Sound and lightning
Jul. 16, 2009
Mark Gibbs covers some user feedback on podcast recording software and discusses some serious gear for detecting lightning so as to protect your electronics.
Seven Ways to Improve Your E-mail Messages
Jul. 15, 2009
You are judged by the writing style, tone, language, and mistakes in your e-mails every single day. We're all so optimistic we believe people will overlook our e-mail typos and mistakes, while at the same time we ...
Automating anything (on Windows), anywhere
Jul. 06, 2009
Mark Gibbs reviews a really powerful and impressive enterprise-scale Windows automation system that even figures out automatically its own ROI. Now that's automation.
Ensuring you get pizza with sync tools
Jul. 06, 2009
Here's the answer to missing files compromising your plans for pizza, beer and TV.
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