Comments on: I’m in Technology Hell http://www.thematrixfiles.net/blog/im-in-technology-hell/ a blog by Joanna Pineda, CEO, Matrix Group Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:21:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Rona http://www.thematrixfiles.net/blog/im-in-technology-hell/comment-page-1/#comment-460 Rona Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:01:28 +0000 http://www.thematrixfiles.net/?p=172#comment-460 Apple is using the Vista issues to it's advantage. Check out the new Mac commercial. http://thedenveregotist.com/article/2896/apple-bean-counter Apple is using the Vista issues to it’s advantage. Check out the new Mac commercial. http://thedenveregotist.com/article/2896/apple-bean-counter

]]> By: patricia http://www.thematrixfiles.net/blog/im-in-technology-hell/comment-page-1/#comment-448 patricia Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:54:57 +0000 http://www.thematrixfiles.net/?p=172#comment-448 A friend of mine introduced me to Swikle. Swikle is a mobile utility that securely stores your mobile content so you never lose any personal data. It stores all contacts, pictures, music, ringtones, etc. stored on your mobile device. If you lose your phone or simply upgrade to a new one, you can retrieve all the data you've accumulated to your new device. You can set it up to automatically send any update to your profile to your friends and family. You can also receive automatic updates from your friends and family when they update their profile (e.g. new email address or business phone number when they change jobs). Check it out. http://www.swikle.com/#loadSignInIndex A friend of mine introduced me to Swikle. Swikle is a mobile utility that securely stores your mobile content so you never lose any personal data. It stores all contacts, pictures, music, ringtones, etc. stored on your mobile device. If you lose your phone or simply upgrade to a new one, you can retrieve all the data you’ve accumulated to your new device.

You can set it up to automatically send any update to your profile to your friends and family. You can also receive automatic updates from your friends and family when they update their profile (e.g. new email address or business phone number when they change jobs).

Check it out. http://www.swikle.com/#loadSignInIndex

]]> By: Thomas Gallaway http://www.thematrixfiles.net/blog/im-in-technology-hell/comment-page-1/#comment-445 Thomas Gallaway Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:19:43 +0000 http://www.thematrixfiles.net/?p=172#comment-445 I'm a mac user but I do at home have 2 vista machines. One is a desktop that I use to test out things and I have to say vista stock was slow BUT I spent a good hour disabling all the services I never use in the first place and that fixed my slowness. There are a lot of background processes running in stock vista like full-text indexing (microsoft's shot at spotlight). Where I have to say on my Powerbook when I upgraded to the first OS X that had spotlight it took a good 45 minutes to 1hr until the mac became responsive again (it indexed all of the 70Gb of data on the disk). Now a big issue with vista is it constantly indexes and optimizes the system when it detects idle time. Now on my girlfriends vista laptop I had advanced to actually finding this website: http://www.tweakguides.com/TGTC.html My 2 vista machines now run faster than when they had XP running + I have less headaches especially because my girlfriend managed to blow up her laptop after 3 month (and she's been on vista for 6 month now with no problems). Then again I figured out a way for the DC Police Fleet to run XP on their AMD K6-350mhz machines by removing every single component but the software they needed for doing the computer aided dispatch. I’m a mac user but I do at home have 2 vista machines. One is a desktop that I use to test out things and I have to say vista stock was slow BUT I spent a good hour disabling all the services I never use in the first place and that fixed my slowness. There are a lot of background processes running in stock vista like full-text indexing (microsoft’s shot at spotlight). Where I have to say on my Powerbook when I upgraded to the first OS X that had spotlight it took a good 45 minutes to 1hr until the mac became responsive again (it indexed all of the 70Gb of data on the disk).

Now a big issue with vista is it constantly indexes and optimizes the system when it detects idle time. Now on my girlfriends vista laptop I had advanced to actually finding this website: http://www.tweakguides.com/TGTC.html

My 2 vista machines now run faster than when they had XP running + I have less headaches especially because my girlfriend managed to blow up her laptop after 3 month (and she’s been on vista for 6 month now with no problems). Then again I figured out a way for the DC Police Fleet to run XP on their AMD K6-350mhz machines by removing every single component but the software they needed for doing the computer aided dispatch.

]]> By: Joanna M. Pineda http://www.thematrixfiles.net/blog/im-in-technology-hell/comment-page-1/#comment-435 Joanna M. Pineda Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:00:54 +0000 http://www.thematrixfiles.net/?p=172#comment-435 I agree that Macs aren't always better. I have a first generation PowerPC Mac (that I love) and it overheats from time to time and just turns itself off. I have a Mac at home for personal and mommy activities, and use a Windows laptop for work. I feel like I have the best of both worlds by having both systems. No, I don't have Windows on my Mac; I got a Mac to have the Mac experience. :-) I love iLife, but I also love the open source apps that are available for my PC laptop. I agree that Macs aren’t always better. I have a first generation PowerPC Mac (that I love) and it overheats from time to time and just turns itself off. I have a Mac at home for personal and mommy activities, and use a Windows laptop for work. I feel like I have the best of both worlds by having both systems. No, I don’t have Windows on my Mac; I got a Mac to have the Mac experience. :-) I love iLife, but I also love the open source apps that are available for my PC laptop.

]]> By: Katie http://www.thematrixfiles.net/blog/im-in-technology-hell/comment-page-1/#comment-434 Katie Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:56:43 +0000 http://www.thematrixfiles.net/?p=172#comment-434 Grammar alert! I meant: "The Mac geniuses at the Mac store ARE wonderfully patient..." Grammar alert! I meant: “The Mac geniuses at the Mac store ARE wonderfully patient…”

]]> By: Katie http://www.thematrixfiles.net/blog/im-in-technology-hell/comment-page-1/#comment-433 Katie Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:54:06 +0000 http://www.thematrixfiles.net/?p=172#comment-433 Macs aren't always better: Less than a year after purchasing my first Macbook, my hard drive crashed for no reason--one week before my Master's thesis was due. I'm also on my third iPod in one year because they too keep crashing. The Mac geniuses at the Mac store was wonderfully patient, kind and efficient, so I can't complain too much, but I admit to being less dazzled by the "Mac experience" now. Macs aren’t always better: Less than a year after purchasing my first Macbook, my hard drive crashed for no reason—one week before my Master’s thesis was due. I’m also on my third iPod in one year because they too keep crashing. The Mac geniuses at the Mac store was wonderfully patient, kind and efficient, so I can’t complain too much, but I admit to being less dazzled by the “Mac experience” now.

]]> By: Joanna M. Pineda http://www.thematrixfiles.net/blog/im-in-technology-hell/comment-page-1/#comment-432 Joanna M. Pineda Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:10:30 +0000 http://www.thematrixfiles.net/?p=172#comment-432 I didn't know what to expect from Vista. I had heard some horror stories, but a couple of my staff members love it, so I said okay, I'm ready. Needless to say, I was disappointed at the performance and didn't make the decision to go back to XP lightly because of the hassle. I didn’t know what to expect from Vista. I had heard some horror stories, but a couple of my staff members love it, so I said okay, I’m ready. Needless to say, I was disappointed at the performance and didn’t make the decision to go back to XP lightly because of the hassle.

]]> By: Jon Faucette http://www.thematrixfiles.net/blog/im-in-technology-hell/comment-page-1/#comment-431 Jon Faucette Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:45:05 +0000 http://www.thematrixfiles.net/?p=172#comment-431 Sounds familiar--our company (about 1000 employees) is rolling out new hardware to everyone this month--and our IT folks have decided to stay with XP. Sounds familiar—our company (about 1000 employees) is rolling out new hardware to everyone this month—and our IT folks have decided to stay with XP.

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