After working in the ‘analyst’ field for a while now I have come accross a lot of tools which can be helpful to squeezing that extra piece of data out or creating a whiz bang report. Here is a list of free tools which should help you along the way!
Ever wanted to remember what Google.com looked like back in 1998? Have a look at the Wayback Machine where homepages are dumped and stored over time to show the changes over time.
As there are some great and not so great releases coming out of the wood works in the next couple of months for the Science Fiction genre, I’d thought I would list some that are keeping me interested.
The words on the Apple iPhone website say enough. “Twice as fast. Half the price”. The new iPhone appeals to enterprise use and makes improvements in the older version to make every person need and want one. The 3G iPhone has a new design with a plastic back and can come in either white or black.
At the WWDC ‘08 conference this morning Apple announced the new web service called MobileMe. The replacement for .Mac. MobileMe introduces a new way of keeping in sync with your life. Apple have made it even simpler and cheaper for businesses to share information (email, contacts, documents etc.) by supporting office collaboration using Outlook and making it available online with web applications.
Today developers are pushed harder to produce results faster. This trend has developed due to the fast paced industry we are in, and the expectations of upper management. Expectations of today’s software programmers are to produce full applications with many semi-advanced features quite easily and quickly. However, this is not case with few resources and dead-lines to meet. It is very important to leverage from code already written and start coding the core functionality.
Moving sucks but moving and having no Internet, well it’s like the world has come to an end. My girlfriend thought this was a bit drastic but we didn’t move houses until I had Internet connected at our new apartment - I’ll let you be the judge of that!
Going through the endless amount of ISP’s available had me confused but I finally decided to settle with Internode and here is review of my experience of connecting to them with Naked ADSL2+.
Update (26/06/08) : I received another call from Internode today regarding testing speeds which hasn’t changed. I’m still getting the 200 kb/sec mark during the night and 1.2 mb/sec. They couldn’t tell me anything more than they are still trying to convince Optus. Hopefully something is worked out soon as it has been nearly over a month now…Will keep you all updated.
Update (19/06/08) : My speed issue has once again appeared, it is where I get 150 kb/sec during the evenings (on-peak) and 1.2 mb/sec during the morning (off-peak), I logged a ticket with Internode’s staff a week ago and have not yet heard anything back. According to Internode staff I have been attached to a parent ticket which includes others like myself with the same problem and the real problem is with Optus (damn you!) where they believe that 100 kb/sec is a no issue speed! Internode are trying their hardest with this one and I guess I will just keep waiting it out.
I got my copy of Age of Conan on Friday and I couldn’t wait to install and play it. After playing it most of the weekend I thought I would share my impressions of the game. I only have my 2.2 Ghz Macbook Pro to play it on, so I was worried about performance of the game. It was playable but I really do need a new computer to appreciate the graphics of this game.
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