Microsoft released the first beta of the Visual Studio LightSwitch IDE earlier this week. It's designed to allow non-programmers create business applications and allow programmers of various levels to create applications quickly. It simplifies the process and allows doing many common functions like coding a database interaction to be done from a visual perspective. If you need … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2010
Digg Launches a More Social Digg with Version 4
Digg's latest iteration, version 4, went live today to the public. It sports an overhauled look that gives an updated appearance and puts more emphasis on the social side of the site. Digg is a news submission site where all the coolest things on the Internet can be found. They have now made that experience more customizable by following certain profiles and seemingly have … [Read more...]
Google Offers VoIP Right in Gmail
US users of Gmail will be getting a new feature in their inbox, the ability to make and receive calls right inside of Gmail. This seems like a perfectly predictable expansion of the Google Voice service and chat/video chat already offered within Gmail. Google seems to think it's a natural evolution of society going by their promo YouTube … [Read more...]
MultiBoot USB: Simplifies Taking Your IT Toolbox With You
Another guest posting over at Freewaregenius today. I really enjoyed writing this article because the tool I found just seems like it will be pretty helpful in my day-to-day work. The tool is called MultiBoot USB and it makes the creation of a bootable USB drive with multiple Linux distributions on it a breeze. For me, this means I can carry GParted, Clonezilla, DBaN, Offline … [Read more...]
Status.net and Sharetronix, a “Twitter” You Own and Control
Twitter has had phenomenal growth and reaches millions of people daily. From the outside looking in, it seems they were able to accomplish this while not following the traditional path of getting everything exactly right. Particularly recently, Twitter has a high rate of downtime and a high response time. Combined with the "Older Tweets are not available..." message, I looked … [Read more...]