Technology Chief

Routine PC Maintenance

matthew — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:26:44 +0000

It probably comes as no surprise, but it seems most people ignore routine computer maintenance and only think about it when disaster strikes. A survey done of Staples “EasyTechs,” indicated that more than 80 percent of the chain’s customers don’t bother with routine maintenance and most of the problems they call in the techs for could have been prevented. Do you perform any maintenance on you PC? The problems the techs found included the personal record number of viruses cited above as well as some much, much ickier ones: Enough ...

Firefox 3.5 Final Officially Released

matthew — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:19:10 +0000

Mozilla Firefox 3.5 Final is now officially available for download. Other then being the Fastest Firefox Ever, new features include a Private Browsing Mode to hide browser activity, a JavaScript engine known as TraceMonkey, new location services, Open Video, and HTML5 support. Firefox hands down, best overall browser for everyday use. I have found that Google’s Chrome is still faster than Firefox 3.5, however Chrome has a whole host of other issues. Reviewing thier download stats at: http://downloadstats.mozilla.com/ Show’s millions of downloads so I think the word is out. Everything works great. The ...

Gdrive arriving in 2009

matthew — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 06:03:22 +0000

WHAT IS GOOGLE WEB DRIVE? Mac users at MacRumors forums noticed that Google’s recently released Picasa for Mac offers the option to move image collection to Google Web Drive. The company remains silent on the finding while most view this as an indication of imminent launch of the so-called “Gdrive service.” Gdrive is basically a cloud-based storage that should have two faces: A desktop client that keeps local and online files and folders in two-directional sync via a web interface for accessing your desktop files anywhere and anytime, using any ...

Yahoo/Twitter combo rolls out a news search engine

matthew — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:08:15 +0000

Lucky for those seeking to find a great solution to the news delivery, Yahoo BOSS engineer Vik Singh has developed TweetNews. TweetNews combines the results from Yahoo news and compares it with the topics which are hitting Twitter. The service then organizes the Yahoo News based upon what has popularity among individuals using Twitter. This will deliver a search engine that tracks breaking news using Twitter search results. Which will give individuals using Twitter exposure to more detailed information regarding breaking news Tweets. It is interesting that we are now trying ...

Technology Chief Coming Back Online

matthew — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 01:53:11 +0000

It’s been a while since I have used thsi blog to post anyting. Well that’s about to change. Start looking for big changes coming and a lot of new content.

Oracle Application Express

matthew — Fri, 04 May 2007 00:03:43 +0000

As a database programmer and administrator I am always challenged when it comes to building applications. I am not a front end guy and the only dynamic web language I know is ASP, no not ASP.NET, but good old ASP. Since ASP is not used in my company it is not a very good skill set. Oracle Application Express might just be the answer I have been looking for. I am in the processes of installing it on a test box and I will post more when I get the thing ...

Windows Vista is ready for business.

matthew — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 01:18:43 +0000

I recently read an article by Steven Warren entitled Vista is not ready for the corporate world. I could not disagree with the article title more, well sort of. In the article he make several assumptions that are plain false. I did get a kick out of his statement “Prior to Vista, the default in Windows was to run as administrator”. Since Steven is talking about the corporate world this statement is amusing. A good system engineer will not setup any user as a local administrator by default. In the rest ...

Review: Successful Executive’s Handbook

matthew — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 07:03:29 +0000

So you manage IT, manage technology, and mange people. Do you know what you are doing? No really do you? I guess it all depends on where you come from and your attitude. Some of US IT managers come from the techie side of the house and have no formal management training. Other’s of us come from the business side of the house and have a lot of training. Still the question remains, do you know what you are doing? In a leadership role it is ...

Wordpress Upgraded

matthew — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 17:08:30 +0000

Wordpress (the software that runs this site) has been upgraded to the latest version. Let me know if you see any issues. wordpress

New content

matthew — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 04:12:10 +0000

I have not posted in quite some time on this blog. Check back often as I plan on updating this blog frequently.