Archive for the ‘ Software ’ Category
With two small kids at home, there’s a lot of talk/demanding of “sharing” stuff, and in many cases, meltdowns occur as the concept is still a bit foreign to a four and two year old. Fortunately, when it comes to Adobe, they have the concept down and are proving it through a new Beta [ READ MORE ]
ConnectSolutions has just "sneaked" a Beta of "MeetingPulse," a desktop application fully integrated with Acrobat Connect. The app is based on Adobe AIR, and provides instant access to Connect meeting rooms, allowing users to quickly access their meeting rooms, be notified of participants joining their rooms, and viewing historical trends in their meeting usage. The application [ READ MORE ]
It’s been awhile since I’ve posted here, but it is not because I’ve been lazy. I’ve recently left Adobe to start a new business, and as a result, have been burning the midnight-oil to get that off the ground. The new business is focused on providing managed services, with an initial focus on web conferencing. [ READ MORE ]
Apollo is now Adobe Integrated Runtime. Ted On Flex [ READ MORE ]
A post on TechCrunch today walked readers through feature comparisons of Adobe’s Acrobat Connect and Vyew. It wasn’t made clear who provided the feature review (suggestion for the future TechCrunch…), but there are several inaccuracies I wanted to highlight: Anytime Collaboration – Acrobat Connect has supported asynchronous and synchronous collaboration since 2003 100% Browser Based – Vyew [ READ MORE ]
This app allows you to mount remote shares to your PC. I have been busy filling up 2TBs worth of music, videos, pics, etc… over the past year or two. I have my home network set-up to allow SSH, so I can now very easily (and securely) connect to all of this content from anywhere. [ READ MORE ]
Royal Pingdom » FedEx still faster than the internet Interesting article on handling large-sets of data transfer, which in today’s networked world, still results in “FedexNet” being faster than the internet. [ READ MORE ]
Very cool! This is one of those services I wish had been around years and years ago. I just used Bringo to get through to a customer service agent at United Airlines, and I am impressed. I am traveling tomorrow down to LA, and I couldn’t find my confirmation number, nor was it on [ READ MORE ]
This is one of those “hope to have” challenges where adoption happens so quickly that the business is unable to keep pace and scale out. Users, regardless of how compelling the service is, will only put up with reliability shortcomings for so long. From the comments, it sounds like users will put up with it [ READ MORE ]
The following is a review of Microsoft’s new beta, SharedView. It appears to be an attempt to merge document collaboration with web conferencing’s screen-sharing capabilities. As the review points out, screen-sharing is useful for real-time collaboration, but it limits the collaboration to single-user control over the editing experience. This type of workflow [ READ MORE ]