The opinions in this blog post should not be construed as advice, especially not legal advice. Whether you act on anything I suggest here is entirely up to you—I would strongly suggest you take a close look at your employment or contracting agreement and/or take legal advice from someone qualified before you take any action [...]
Posts tagged with "software"
Office for Mac 2011 – One year in the real world
As a relative newcomer to the Mac, my perspective is that of a switcher. As I blogged at the time, I was originally attracted to the beautiful and affordable hardware but couldn’t conceive of a scenario where I’d actually run any OS other than Windows. My work is for a software consulting firm that works [...]
I, Gearhead (Part 1: Hardware and Software)
“One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop.” — G. Weilacher “It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.” — Albert Maslow As I’ve mentioned before, I love reading every new post [...]
Tech without growth? It’s not only possible, it’s what we should do
Mother Jones recently had an immensely interesting piece about the impossibility of assuming that the earth can support endless economic growth. To date, economists at both ends of the political spectrum have implicitly assumed that ‘growth is good’ and inevitable. Economic growth has been viewed as the natural state, much in the same way that [...]
Corporate applications and content on smartphones
Barack Obama’s former BlackBerry, and the highly secure clunker it was allegedly replaced with, seem like an apt encapsulation of what enterprises are facing with the glut of new smartphones their users are connecting to corporate networks everywhere. As we enter the second decade of the 21st century, one thing that’s becoming clearer is just [...]
What makes a smartphone successful?
It’s been more than a month since I last blogged here. I took some well-deserved time off during December. Since last time, I’ve bought an Apple iPhone (more hipster stuff) and Google launched its Nexus One phone. Coincidentally, both happened on the same day but there was no intentional relationship between these events (unless Google [...]
Thoughts about Google Chrome OS beta
The thing that could change everything may not be a smartphone, contrary to what most technology pundits think. Instead, it may be an incredibly simple PC operating system from Google where everything is stored in the cloud. Released late last week as open-source beta code, Chromium OS (the ‘generic’ open source name of what’ll eventually [...]
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Carsten Knoch
Software and services professional, attentive music listener, vision enabler, instigator, reader of books and the web, vegetarian, affordable audio hobbyist, thinker, writer, blogger, tinkerer, Internet dweller since 1992. Human being since 1970.
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