New Chromebook videos

Google has just released a set of Chromebook videos, just in time for the holiday season. The purpose of these videos is to show how easy a Chromebook is in set up, use and maintenance. I experienced the ease of maintenance this morning, while during a meeting I:

  1. received a notification that a new ChromeOS version was available
  2. applied the update, which requires rebooting the machine.
  3. was back in business after about 15 seconds.

Consider a Chromebook for your family members, who do very little besides surfing the web. I heard Chromebooks work great with Facebook…:-)

Progress Software Corporation’s first commercial..

As you may know, I do a lot of development in Progress OpenEdge 10, which used to be called Progress 4GL, which has been around for a few decades now. Here’s one of their first, if not _the_ first, commercial, from when the company was still called Data Language Corporation. 80′s style!

Virus alert – a more user friendly message…

Ah, if only we had a more user friendly message to alert us of a virus… instead of “A virus has been detected in gloob.dll”…

Something like this perhaps…:

Apple’s FaceTime – the promo video

OK, I don’t care if you can duplicate any of this technology with Qik or anything else that exists right now: you gotta give it to Apple that they can just put their finger on the right sentiments:

Like a pregnant woman showing the ultrasound to her husband in the Army, or the two people using sign language. Isn’t that the coolest thing??

Next on the list is undoubtedly a front-facing camera for the iPad. Imagine the slightly larger screen displaying the same picture.

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IT Productivity around the world dropping to an all time low

Productivity in IT departments around the world, and even in some other departments, dropped to an all-time low, when news got out that Monty Python created an official YouTube channel. The commitment of the Pythons is to publish their videos in high quality.

It is hard to say whether departments will recover from this shock.