This AMD powered box is a speed demon ... I just installed a full Microsoft Office 2003 installation, from start to finish, under 2 minutes! Launch Word for the first time ever, just over 1 second. Launch Excel for the first time ever, under 1 second. I wish there was a way to easily determine what...
I missed cool tool Friday, but I am posting this from my new toy and just had to share ... Yesterday I took delivery of a new computer, an IBM IntelliStation A Pro. This baby is a dual-CPU AMD 64bit Opteron 248 2.2GHz (with 1MB L2 Cache), 3 GB RAM, 80GB SCSI HDD, NVIDIA Quadro FX 1100 video,...
Naval Air Systems Command Uses Macromedia Breeze to Deliver Rich Media Training to 30,000 Personnel Worldwide. Story here .
U.K. company Hypertag is selling an innovate electronic billboard, one that encourages user interaction by sending messages to nearby mobile devices. As per the web site http://www.hypertag.com/, "It works by allowing infra-red mobile phones, and PDAs (e.g. Palm Pilots or Pocket PCs) to interact...
Accoona (http://www.accoona.com/) is the latest search engine that is going to change our lives. Or not. Accoona uses AI based technology that allows you to rate the relative weight of each word in your search, so as to be able to fine-tune searching. Accoona proudly call this "SuperTarget", and of...
Macromedia has launched the Macromedia Knowledge Base, a self-service guided search tool that will enable customers to quickly find precise MM information! The Knowledge Base is located at the top of http://www.macromedia.com/support, as well as all the product support pages, and provides access to...
It's nice to see the use of FlashPaper becoming more mainstream. Sharp is using FlashPaper in a product compatibility table at http://www.sharp3d.com/partners/NVIDIA.asp. This is a great example of embedding FlashPaper within a page (as opposed to the usual PDF take-over-the-page interface). Thanks...
I just spent 15 minutes helping a customer, he had a major deadline (building a ColdFusion application as a proof of concept) and was running into last-minute-just-before-demo glitches. He IMd me for help, I sent him to my Breeze room and gave him presenter privileges so I could see his screen, and...
Sure you have a mouse, but not one like this. I blogged the iDuck a while back (and actually have one of those in my computer bag), but here comes 128MB of flash memory inside a furry plush mouse, yes, a stuffed animal on a keychain that can store your precious data. If you are so compelled, see...
I finally got around to posting pics from MAX 2004 and MAX 2004 Greater China, see http://www.forta.com/about/theroad.cfm.