New MS Office 2010 :)

IT and Business

Dublin, Ireland. IT salary report.

IT Contract	Lower €/ Day	Average €/Day	Specialist €/Day
Mainframe	250	350	425
RPG400, GUI, Java	255	350	400
C# /VB.net	285	320	350
C/C++	255	300	350
Lotus Notes	205	350	400
PHP	175	200	300
Graphic Designer	205	300	320

Please see full report here.

Organize your things by means of google calendar

I believe everyone already has own calendar both for work and for life. However, I'll focus on Google Calendar.  

Why am I considering this calendar?

• it's free 
• accessible from everywhere
  
• integrated with other Google products
• can be use with Microsoft outlook and other web-clients
• and the main benefit is to send SMS when event occurred.
• update and receive information about agenda for current or next day
  

I chose this calendar because of last points. It's very usefull. Just try it.

Links:

• Google Calendar
• How to set up SMS sending 

P.S. Please let me know if you have any questions

Google's solution is much cheaper

"Apparently the NSW Department for Education is deciding to do away with MS Outlook and instead adopt the Gmail account for its 1.3 million school students. SMS Management and Technology will implement the new Gmail System along with Google and Telstra, under a 3-year deal worth $9.5 million over three years, with a two year extension option. In comparison, the earlier MicroSoft deal was installed by Unisys under a contract worth $33 million over 3 years, but extended by another 3 years. It was built in 2003, but actually reached the student during 2007."

[source]

As we can examine Google solution much cheaper and I guess more flexible. On my current work, I have similar problem. My email box is 40Mb in size. It's inconvenient I always clean my email box.

Acrobat.com. Easy way to create and share PDF files.

Adobe company added new on line features:

• Adobe Buzzword - on line web-editor
• Adobe ConnectNow - on line communication
• Create PDF files - creating files on line
• Share PDF files - storing files up to 5 GB and share it

Please check it out at acrobat.com.

P.S. Also Adobe announced new Acrobat 9.

Google Sites. Creating and sharing a group websites.

I guess, it's not a secret that google havs ambitious plan to conquer each area. Phone, Hosting and so on.

Anyway, I'm ardent fan of company that produce new free efficient services. Google is such one. Today, I found out Google has new service.

Immediately, I serf the web and found google blog announced about new service "google sites" - http://sites.google.com/. It's obviously, the main purpose is to create group sites. It can be comparable to wiki engine.
Previously, they announced "google pages" - http://pages.google.com/. Functionality is not vast.

Lets have a look on google sites :) I create a simple one http://sites.google.com/site/polusok/

I assume it's direct concurrent of wiki engine :)

Top 100 Most Influential Technology Vendors for 2008

I found an interesting list of top 100 vendors of 2008. It's obvious but anyway look through, set goals and achieve it :)

List:

1. Microsoft          35. i2                    69. Xerox
2. Oracle             36. EDS                   70. Front Range
3. SAP                37. QAD                   71. Internec
4. IBM                38. Ariba                 72. Manugistics
5. Cisco              39. CA                    73. Palm
6. Hewlett Packard    40. Epicor                74. Unisys
7. Dell               41. Juniper               75. Yahoo!
8. Salesforce.com     42. Sprint/Nextel         76. 3com
9. EMC                43. Tata Consulting       77. ABB
10. Sun Microsystems  44. ADP                   78. CANON
11. Google            45. Fujitsu               79. Capgemini
12. RIM (Blackberry)  46. Intuit                80. Informatica
13. Siemens           47. Manhattan Associates  81. Interwoven
14. Adobe             48. Novell                82. McKesson
15. AT&T              49. Red Prairie           83. Mincom
16. Apple             50. SunGard               84. Mitel
17. Sage              51. Telstra               85. Netsuite
18. Infor             52. BMC                   86. Omniture
19. Nortel            53. BT                    87. Progress
20. Avaya             54. CSC                   88. Rackspace
21. Red Hat           55. Skype                 89. SPSS
22. Motorola          56. Infosys               90. Syntel
23. Verizon Wireless  57. NetApp                91. Teradata
24. Dassault          58. Symantec              92. T-Mobile
25. Accenture         59. Huawei                93. Toshiba
26. Sony Ericsson     60. IFS                   94. Websense
27. Alcatel - Lucent  61. Microstrategy         95. Servigistics
28. AutoDesk          62. Aruba                 96. Genesys
29. Intel             63. CDW                   97. Logility
30. SAS               64. Concur                98. Kronos
31. Citrix            65. Exact                 99. Rockwell Automation
32. Nokia             66. Hitachi              100. Checkpoint Systems
33. PTC               67. Qlikview
34. Lawson            68. Vonage

Original survey here.

Wikia search

Today is official day of starting wikia search.
Search engine will be based on user activity that might improve search process.

Please check this out. http://alpha.search.wikia.com/
Unfortunately this engine is in alpha version and currently it's coarse. I believe it'll have future and become rival against to Google.

What do you think?

Art Lebedev's keyboards

I guess everyone has some difficulties when you're working with Photoshop or similar programs because if you need to do it fast you should know all hot-keys. Art Lebedev studio introduced new keyboards that will help us. I strongly believe that these keyboards are keyboards of future.

optimus-tactusoptimus

I'd like to have these one but unfortunately only optimus are available at the moment. However price for it could be better. Now this range is following: 371.40 € to 1256.86 €

Microsoft Surface is coming...

today I saw that Microsoft develops new technology Surface.
I was amazed.



I like it but ...
I saw that Microsoft's trying to do something like Apple. They always have struggle.
I'm just wondering if computer does all things that we do what will we do?

Slick is the best messenger application for mobile devices

I'm secret admirer of small company lonelycatgames.com.
This company provides applications for mobile devices.

Yesterday, new version of best instant messenger (Slick) for mobile devices was released.
Check it out who use smart phone.

Windows Vista Service Pack 1

I have installed Windows Vista on my laptop. To be honest, it's more slower then Windows XP but Windows Vista with license. That's why i don't want to uninstall it.
Recently, I heard about Windows Vista SP1 and figured it out on microsoft.com.

Main changes:
1. Support and improve new hardware(HD-DVD и Blu-ray, Direct3D 10.1, big flash);
2. Improved reliability and security system;
3. Improved performance;
4. Support new technologies;
5. Improved computer management tools etc.

If you want you can download it here.

I guess I'll install it on next week and share results with you. :)