Thursday, July 28, 2011

Five reasons Android (CTRL+H Android --> Blackberry) is superior to the iPhone

I subscribe to many of the newletters that the TechRepublic puts out.  Often they are more fluff than anything, but occasionally there's a very interesting article and makes the endless e-mails worthwhile.  I received one today with an article titled "Five reasons Android is superior to the iPhone".  Jack Wallen lays out 5 reasons reasonably well, but I couldn't help think that you could say the exact same for Blackberry devices....

Thursday, July 14, 2011

NIC Teaming with Microsoft's Hyper-V

I've long been a user of VMware's products.  I had my first experiences with VMware ESX way back in 2004, when I took the VCP course and received my first certification.  At the time, ESX was the gold standard in virtualization and over the years it has constantly evolved.  Microsoft had its own Virtualization product which has now evolved into what we now call Hyper-V.  I've never used Hyper-V until recently.  One of my first challenges when installing Hyper-V was getting NIC teaming to work.  Read on for more!

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

PuTTY v0.61 Released

After 4 years of development, Simon Tatham has announced that PuTTY v0.61 has been released.  If you haven't used PuTTY before, you've probably never done any kind of tech support and you're probably not reading my blog either.

Obviously there are many new features and bug fixes, but one of the nicer additions is support for Windows 7 Jump lists.

Windows 7 Jump Lists
So what are you waiting for?  Download it!

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

What would you like in a Video Game Conference?

You know what we're missing in Toronto?  A good Video Game Convention/Conference/Expo.  Toronto could easily host an E3, Game Developer Conference, PAX type event.  We have many great video game developers right here in Toronto, and many more in Canada.

An associate of mine would like to start one, a good one, right here in Toronto, and he has the experience and expertise to make it happen.  But, what we would like to do is solicit feedback about what makes a good conference and what doesn't.  So, be you a developer, gamer, or distributor, drop me a line and we'll chat!

Monday, July 11, 2011

Greenshot

A while back, I wrote about Shutter: Linux's answer to SnagIt.  Well, I didn't want to leave out our Windows friends.  If you're looking for a quality screenshot tool for Windows, look no further than Greenshot.