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• Cloud Storage Heating Up

  What happens with three very successful companies all start competing in the same web space? Consumers get cheap prices. Today Amazon announced a more open beta, lots of free beta access, and much cheaper prices on their cloud db service, SimpleDB . We've... Posted Dec 01 2008, 10:44 PM by Simpable Filed under: Software

• Cloud Options - Amazon, Google, & Microsoft

  I have been researching various cloud offerings on and off for the last couple of months. I have primarily focused on offerings from Amazon, Google, and Microsoft. Here is an overview and some quick opinions of what each service offers. Amazon (AWS) While... Posted Nov 25 2008, 10:53 PM by Simpable Filed under: Software

• Apology-Based Computing

  I was watching Max Feingold's PDC talk, Designing Your Application to Scale and one particular quote really stuck out to me. "At global scale, getting the truth is really really expensive". What he is referring to by " truth "... Posted Nov 13 2008, 09:42 AM by Simpable Filed under: Software

• Subversion on CodePlex

  My number reason for not using CodePlex regularly is the choice of source control. I had heard of the SvnBridge a while ago, but had not had a chance to check out. Tonight I wanted to grab some source from a couple CodePlex projects ( StoreFront and MVC... Posted Oct 14 2008, 11:00 AM by Simpable Filed under: Software

• Blogging From Word 2007

  We recently had a customer ask if it was possible to make a blog post from Word 2007 to Graffiti 1.1. If you can see this post the answer is yes. If you cannot, then I am technically talking to myself on Friday afternoon. Posted to Software Similar Posts... Posted Oct 10 2008, 02:44 PM by Simpable Filed under: Software

• ASP.Net via Amazon in the Cloud

  I have been investing some options for leveraging ASP.Net in the cloud . Today I received an email from Amazon that made me do a double take: Dear Amazon Web Services Developer, We are excited to let you know that Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon... Posted Oct 01 2008, 10:23 AM by Simpable Filed under: Software

• PureText

  PureText is one of the first tools I always find myself missing as soon as I set up a new Windows box. Have you ever copied some text from a web page or a document and then wanted to paste it as simple text into another application without getting all... Posted Aug 21 2008, 11:34 AM by Simpable Filed under: Software

• Great Pandora Applications

  Recently I started to use/listen to Pandora quite a bit. Initially, I had just listened via a browser, but over the last couple of weeks I have come across a couple tools that enhance the Pandora experience without a browser. First, if you are not familiar... Posted Aug 15 2008, 08:38 AM by Simpable Filed under: Software

• Free Graffiti Themes

  Dana Coffey has been posting some nice looking free Graffiti CMS blog themes . I've converted a few free Wordpress themes for use in Graffiti CMS. I'm offerring them here for download. Note, that I left the original designer's credit in the... Posted Aug 11 2008, 02:34 PM by Simpable Filed under: Software

• Installing Vista 64bit on a MacBook Pro

  This week, I found myself needing a Windows computer with an x64 OS. The only hardware I have at home which is x64 (64bit) capable is my MacBook Pro, so I decided to rebuild my Boot Camp partition with Vista x64 w/SP1. While MacBook Pro's are x64... Posted Aug 04 2008, 06:39 AM by Simpable Filed under: Software

• NetNewsWire

  I have been trying to resist writing too much about the new iPhone. As has been previously reported it has many warts which I hope will be cured soon. However, in the end, it really is a killer device. As many of you know, I am a big fan of Google Reader... Posted Jul 31 2008, 10:55 AM by Simpable Filed under: Software

• Resume and Interview Manager

  I have been searching around for an application which manages resumes and interviews, but I have not been able to find one. Here is what I am looking for. Resume is submitted to HR (email, form, etc) Resume and other information is added to the "Application"... Posted Jul 31 2008, 10:05 AM by Simpable Filed under: Software

• RSS to Evernote

  I am a big fan of Evernote and I have been trying to use it more often for centralizing and managing content that matters to me the most. In many cases, this is content to which I receive in my aggregator. Evernote makes it really easy to take content... Posted Jul 30 2008, 10:06 AM by Simpable Filed under: Software

• Community Server 2008.1

  Josh gives the low down on what you can expect to see in Community Server 2008.1 . Quick Summary: Themes - Hawaii is getting a really nice make over. Q&A - This is a killer forums feature which needed a little love to put it over the top. If you use... Posted Jul 29 2008, 07:53 AM by Simpable Filed under: Software

• Mac Blogging - 2

  Windows Live Writer is still best desktop blogging tool on the "market", but as the name implies it only works on Windows. I had been using TextMate for a while, but I have been wanting something a bit richer. After a bit of debugging and testing... Posted Jul 21 2008, 03:51 PM by Simpable Filed under: Software