http://www.juliustolentino.com Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:01:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en (Credit: MuleCon) The fine folks at InfoWorld Events and MuleSource are offering Negative Approach readers discounts for their upcoming events. Disclosure: I am an employee of MuleSource and speaker at OSBC. MuleCon-April 1-2, 2008, San Francisco http://www.mulecon.com Mention this blog and get $50 off the MuleCon registration - just email mulecon2008@mulesource.com or ... http://www.juliustolentino.com/index.php/2010/09/04/reminder-open-source-events-osbc-march-25-26-2/ Our recommendation: If you're currently using another file or folder synchronization product, stand pat. Live Mesh is too rough around the edges. In addition to the user interface issues, I found that during initial sync it dragged my systems' performance down a lot. I would hope performance improves as Microsoft ... http://www.juliustolentino.com/index.php/2010/08/30/live-mesh-consumer-app-is-a-work-in-progress/ Gateway DX4820-02 and DX4300-03 Gateway SX2800-01 In addition to HP's announcement, Gateway also took the covers off two new back to school desktops today. And also like HP, Gateway does its own part to ensure piano black uniformity across the Windows ecosystem. (Credit: Gateway) (Credit: Gateway) You'll find the mainstream Gateway desktops at ... http://www.juliustolentino.com/index.php/2010/08/24/gateways-back-to-school-desktops-also-black-shin/ Ever wanted to post a screenshot or thumbnail of a Web site on your blog? Probably not. But if you're like us then this situation comes up all the time. Enter SnapCasa, a service that lets you drop in a preview of any site in one of three thumbnail sizes ... http://www.juliustolentino.com/index.php/2010/08/21/bring-thumbnails-to-life-with-snapcasa/ Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang (Credit: Dan Farber/CNET Networks) The following is a record of a live report of Yahoo's conference call with financial analysts discussing the company's first-quarter results. 2:01 p.m. PDT: The call is getting started. For background, here's a link to Yahoo's financial results for the first quarter of 2008. To ... http://www.juliustolentino.com/index.php/2010/08/21/yahoo-earnings-live-blog/ Up until today, only Windows Mobile 5 and 6 and BlackBerry users could take CellSpin's mobile blogging and media-sharing platform for, well, a spin. On Thursday the San Jose, Calif. company announced a big addition to the family: phones on the Symbian platform. Adding Symbian cell phones, many of them high-end, ... http://www.juliustolentino.com/index.php/2010/08/21/cellspin-mobile-blogging-and-media-platform-welcom/ Verizon Wireless' announcement that it is joining the LiMo Foundation raises the question of which LiMo-enabled devices the carrier will add to its lineup. Verizon has yet to answer that question, and a look at LiMo's current device lineup holds no clues. At present, none of its devices will work ... http://www.juliustolentino.com/index.php/2010/08/21/a-look-at-limo-phones-holds-no-clues-for-potential/ On Facebook, you can poke your friends and test your movie compatibility. On the House of Hackers social network, members share information about securing computer systems, exploiting vulnerabilities, and all sorts of things related to hacker culture. (Credit: House of Hackers) Some people think of hackers as the bad guys who ... http://www.juliustolentino.com/index.php/2010/08/21/networking-with-hackers/ As I've said before, in coverage of Satisfaction and SupportSpace, if you want to get good support for the products you own, your best bet is usually to skip calling the official support line and find other real users of your product. Somewhere out there, you can be sure, there's ... http://www.juliustolentino.com/index.php/2010/08/21/minutefix-crowdsourced-support-with-a-business-mo/ While many businesspeople are worrying about a possible recession, Microsoft says it sees its part in the economy remaining strong. In a telephone interview on Thursday, Colleen Healy, Microsoft's general manager of investor relations, said that the company booked a greater amount of future revenue than it had expected, taking in ... http://www.juliustolentino.com/index.php/2010/08/21/microsoft-sees-it-spending-remaining-healthy/