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Offices Move to Cell, Wi-Fi Combo to Cut Costs, Increase Flexibility. Profile of two Hawaiian businesses shows that cutting landlines decreases cost and increases connectivity: The trend might be starting to show where businesses can easily turn over from a wired landline PBX and cell phones outside of the office, to a Wi-Fi and optionally… Continue reading Offices Move to Cell, Wi-Fi Combo to Cut Costs, Increase Flexibility

Frontier and Forking. It’s become obvious to me (and, I think, to folks like Jim Roepcke) that Frontier has at least two main areas of interest, reflecting its dual heritage. On one hand, there are fogeys like me who would love a desktop scripting system that totally embraces OS X. We look back at Frontier… Continue reading Frontier and Forking

UserLand Software's Corporate Announcement describes some of the legal specifics that allow the company to move forward with renewed energy. UserLand's legacy has always been great technology. What new UserLand really means for our customers is a sharper focus on new and better products. [Scott Young's Radio Weblog]

Frontier Dreams. In the back of my mind I’ve been thinking about the open-sourcing of the Frontier kernel, and like some other folks it’s made me dream of software that’s close in spirit to the early versions of Frontier, before it became the basis for a content management system. For those who don’t know, Frontier… Continue reading Frontier Dreams

InfoWorld: Microsoft eyeing merger of two secure e-mail specs. E-mail experts from the Redmond, Washington, software company will spend the weekend meeting with SPF author Meng Weng Wong of Pobox.com and looking for ways to merge the closely related Caller ID and SPF standards, according to Wong. [Tomalak's Realm]

Huh?. software garden launches Servertest 1.0. and i understand he's put some thought into the licenses [anil dash's daily links] Maybe Mr. Bricklin should have put some mroe time into writing code. Charging money for 400 line so fperl – is called chutzpah.  I'm sorry – I don't care how famous he is – he's… Continue reading Huh?

Gathering knowledge.  Answering a question in Brint's ThinkTank. “How would you recommend that the 'knowledge' is gathered? Thru databases? internet libraries? or maybe surveys? forums? focus groups?” My answer. There are a number of ways to gather knowledge in addition to those you mention: a) Collect the insights that percolate from work related conversations b)… Continue reading Gathering knowledge

More about NetNewsWire 2.0. People have been asking me—even on our bug tracker—if there’s an update to NetNewsWire in the works. Yes! There is. The next release will be NetNewsWire 2.0. We’re shooting for a public beta in the first half of June, and we hope to ship by WWDC. It could be later, of… Continue reading More about NetNewsWire 2.0

CFMX6.1 – Verity Hot Fix. Macromedia has just released a hot fix for ColdFusion MX 6.1 that extends support for Verity to additional Linux versions. With this hot fix, Verity is now supported on these additional platforms: Red Hat 7.2, 7.3, 8, 9; Red Hat AS 2.1, 3.0; Red Hat ES 2.1, 3.0 and Suse… Continue reading CFMX6.1 – Verity Hot Fix

IDEO are the masters of design PR. IDEO’s work with Kaiser, a U.S. healthcare provider makes Business Week cover. As much as I love Design getting mainstream press, I’m disappointed that the article is so dumbed down – the level of insights discussed are significantly shallower than insights in conversations I’ve personally had with health… Continue reading IDEO are the masters of design PR