I'm an IT Professional, geek and technology 'edge case'. I enjoy keeping up with the latest devices, technologies and news in the IT world. On this site I post some of those things I find most interesting. I hope you find them interesting as well.
Office in the “Cloud” Today, Microsoft announced that the Office Live Workspace beta is publicly available for everyone to access. The site, a free web-based extension of Microsoft Office, lets you access your documents online and share your work with others. Some say that the
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 Available for Download Microsoft has released the first public beta of Internet Explorer 8 for download by willing testers, which debuted this week at the Mix conference in Las Vegas. Intended for developers and designers only, IE8's most intriguing new feature so far is "Web S
Microsoft Surface is a multi-touch table computer you may or may not have heard about yet. It’s not really out yet but Microsoft targeting restaurants, hotels and other service industries as well as the home (though I see less of a use there).
It is pretty powerful technology if the things you actually see it do in their marketing videos are actually real. Of course, coolness aside, $10k is quite a lot to pay for a computer of any type. The following video pokes a little fun at the Surface using Microsoft’s own video with an edited voiceover.
Windows passwords easily bypassed over Firewire All of the sudden we're starting to see more and more attacks take advantage of what's stored on your computer's RAM — the latest, from New Zealand's Adam Boileau, allows an attacker to unlock Windows passwords in a just a few seconds using a Linux machi
Dell Latitude XFR D630 Will Stop a Tank Shell (Almost) Dell's first fully ruggedized laptop is the Arnold of notebooks: A massive block of a machine that can withstand a SWAT team assault while blowing up Cyberdyne Systems. The D630 meets Department of Defense MIL-STD 810F standards for operation in extreme t
First spam felony conviction upheld: no free speech to spam Virginia's Supreme Court on Friday upheld the first US felony conviction for spamming. The spammer will serve nine years in prison for sending what authorities believe to be millions of messages over a two-month period in 2003.
Jeremy Jaynes is the man
‘Generation Facebook’ IT skills wasted at work businesses are failing to make the most of this innate love of tech. "We've all got email and we've all got access to the internet and so we probably tend to think we're completely up to date. But what we've tended to do in many businesses is we've automa
