Joe Drumgoole – Dev Rel Guy
The pseudo-science of female beauty products is amazing to behold. Here are some of the more bonkers “active ingredients” I jotted down while waiting for a prescription in a pharmacy last night.
This white paper contains a cracking comprehensive review of Open Source Content Management Systems. I have personal experience of Plone and MediaWiki and I can vouch for the accuracy of their analysis.
I read a fair few blogs. However on several of them there are topics I could care less about. For instance although I read Darren’s blog regularily, I couldn’t give a rats ass about his posts on the National Hockey league (sorry Darren). What I want is to be able to exclude his posts on the NHL based on the tags he sets for those entries.
Can you do that for me bloglines? Pretty Please?
HotHouse is a program designed to get early stage startups over the growing pains. My own company (Secantus) is part of HotHouse 10 and HotHouse 11 is currently looking for applicants.
This is a fantastic program that offers participants
Finally it is the opportunity to share the experience of creating a new business with ten or more like minded individuals.
Full details are available on the Project Development Centre Website.
IF you like the idea of software as a service and remotely hosted CRM, but balk at salesforce.com‘s pricing, you should take a look at a local solution from Irish hosting provider Blacknight. For €42a year (yes a year) it provides a complete CRM solution based on SugarCRM. That includes unlimited users and the ability to share your data with arbitrary customers/distributors etc.
A truely great piece of software combined with a great price, whats not to like?
Astute readers will have noted my chagrin at the iMac not supporting the wanky codec that my JVC Everio Video Camera supports (JVC carries some of the blame here).
Anyway it turns out there is a fantastic freeware program that will convert the everio .MOD files (and a bunch of other formats) to .MOV (i.e. quicktime) files. It needs some work to build it and some helper files that I built tonight. But it works a treat and grabs the audio and video correctly. I’ll play with it some more to make sure it doesn’t have any screwy problems. If you can’t wait the basic program is called ffmpegX. I’m putting together a package of the helper programs which should be ready tomorrow (I need to work out how to ftp up from an iMac).
Today I sent an email to hostireland.com to get pricing info on its dedicated server offerings. For some bandy reason (probably the fact that they are rackspace partner) they don’t post this invaluable information on their website. I got this autoreply to a message directed to sales@hostireland.com.
This is an automated reply.
I am currently out of the office until mid-February. Please re-send your
email as follows:Sales – richard.tarr@hostireland.com
Project Management – ciaran@hostireland.com
Technical Support – ryan@hostireland.com
Accounts – jean@hostireland.com____________________________________________
David Moran
Managing Director
Host Ireland
18-19 College Green
Dublin 2
Tel: +353 1 8219350
Fax: +353 1 6708220
Email: david@hostireland.com
Fix your bleedin’ mail system guys!
If anybody is looking for a pretty good hosting service these guys look good on paper. I will publish a complete review of the local ones once I’ve collated all the info.
Turns out hostireland is just a shill for rackspace. They just pass you directly over to a rackspace rep. Then that guy quotes me in sterling, what a jip!
If you read the Sunday Business Post you will be aware that it regularily ships with with a glossy insert called Computers in Business. The regularily run Buyers Guide articles where they review a range of vendor products, last Sunday it was Business PCs. I hope the editors won’t mind if I give them some pointers on how to improve the quality of this kind of article going for.
This information was obviously obtained by the author or researcher of the report. It just never made it into the final copy. For those who found the article as frustrating as I did I have included some of the missing information below.
Finally a few tips for the vendors, in this day and age, if I can’t easily find your prices on your website, or the prices are only quoted in pounds sterling I’m not buying.
Acer, Fujitsu Siemens, HP and IQon take note.
The full comparison table is here.
Google have announced Google Pack a fantastic list of free software include commercial and Open Source programs. It includes an updater and is smart enough to ignore stuff if you already have it installed.
Top gear!
The software includes,
I know what, lets put a sticker on all our laptops that won’t come off without dynamite.
hah, it was actually stuck to a plastic sheet that was relatively easy to remove, doh!
Copacetic 