I meant to blog this yesterday, but forgot. So, in case you are one of the few who did not hear this yet, FlashPaper is now available as a standalone product. See http://www.macromedia.com/software/flashpaper/.
Government Computers News (GCN) is running a story about an application "which operates within the [Navy's] budget office, uses business intelligence software to make sense of everything from supply chain data to aircraft maintenance costs." The system "draws from 133 Navy and DOD data sources,...
I don't check bags when I fly, but if I did ... Bluebird is a Bluetooth luggage tag. Once paired, Bluebird will communicate with your phone as soon as it is in range (within 30 feet), sending a signal to the phone, and flashing brightly to get your attention. So, no standing at the carousel,...
If you travel across time zones, or simply need to chat with folks in other continents, countries, or states, Time Ticker (http://www.timeticker.com/) is the most useful world time site I have found. The Flash interface allows for time zone selection, as each time zone is selected a list of...
Macromedia has announced Contribute 3 (http://www.macromedia.com/software/contribute/) and the new Web Publishing System (http://www.macromedia.com/software/webpublishingsystem/), and several of you have already written to ask about the relationship between the Web Publishing System (WPS for short)...
Several months ago I blogged a particularly bad customer service experience, and subsequently mentioned a book on the subject by Adam Bailine. Adam recently sent me a copy of the book, and I had the chance to peruse it this weekend. The book is "Service This! Winning the war against Customer...
Whois has long been the brute force way to learn about host and domain name registrations, and Network Solutions has long been one of the frequently hit online whois tools. Now Network Solutions has added lots more information to returned data, including IP location, server software, traffic...
This one is old news, but I was just reminded of it while catching up with e-mail. Jakob Neilson has an article on useit.com on a competition to identify the world's ten best government intranets. The Winning sites (in the U.S., Australia, Sweden, United Kingdom, and Canada) are listed in the...
Nokia has announced a Bluetooth keyboard (see http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,,58982,00.html). Aside from the conflicting release dates (Q3/2004 on product page, Q4/2004 on FAQ page), reading between the lines gives one the sneaking suspicion that Nokia wants this keyboard only used with Nokia phones...
I finally got some time to look at Jeff Peters' "ColdFusion Lists, Arrays, and Structures". Jeff has been an active member of the ColdFusion community for quite some time, and has been a strong advocate for Fusebox (the subject of a book he published a couple of years back). This new title checks...