Stories by: Mark Gibbs

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    Ensuring you get pizza with sync tools 03/07/2009 05:10:00

    How often have you had to repeatedly copy files from one place to another either to create a backup or to synchronize two locations, and finally resorted to writing some dumb batch files to do the job? Of course, as your batch files have no real intelligence, you could well find your ad hoc solution has failed you.
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    Willful technological ignorance 16/05/2009 04:28:00

    "When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds" -- Will Rogers
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    Cyberbullying? No, it's just bullying. 11/05/2009 08:12:00

    I really, really want to believe that our representatives in the government are smart and always try to make good decisions and behave rationally, but time and again I'm disappointed. And when it comes to the pols dealing with technology and the Internet, it seems like clear thinking will be part of their agendas about the time that Hell freezes over.
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    Generating regexes and Gmail filters 16/03/2009 08:39:00

    Before I launch into my main thrust (a word that must be pronounced with a rolling "r") I have to direct you to a work of near genius, txt2re, an online regular expression code generator.
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    To Tweet or not to Tweet, that's not an option 12/03/2009 09:21:00

    I'm writing this column for one simple reason: Once I get it written then the next time someone says to me "I don't get Twitter, it seems kinda stoopid to me. What is it all about?" I can direct them to this polemic and save my breath.
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    Finding music online and driving IMAP 16/01/2009 10:10:00

    A couple of cool things that have caught my eye over the last few weeks.
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    Vista: IT loves it, hates it 29/08/2008 13:55:00

    Last week I suggested that the IT world, particularly when it comes to marketing, is crazy, and I cited as evidence Microsoft's recently announced US$10 million plan to use comedian Jerry Seinfeld to hawk Vista.
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    Seinfeld and Microsoft: more proof that IT is crazy 25/08/2008 11:40:00

    The IT world has a certain level of craziness that is remarkable, and nowhere does it show up more than in how various companies market their products. I have all sorts of examples to illustrate this, but given that I have limited space I'm going to concentrate on what I consider to be the 800-pound gorilla of marketing crazy: Microsoft.
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    Cuil: Terminally uncool 13/08/2008 09:52:20

    Building Web applications that are robust and perform well is hard, but trying to promote them, build a market for them, and then make money from them is far harder. And harder still is when you're launching a Web service that competes with an established brand in the same market.
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    Unsolicited commercial e-mail, shouting into thunder 01/08/2008 10:12:31

    By and large we have all gotten used to spam and unsolicited commercial e-mail (UCE). Even if you buy or build the best filters, if you are at all active online you're going to get at least a few spam messages every day. It has become one of those things that you can't avoid, like death and taxes only more irritating.
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    Will Google's Knol be a force for evil? 31/07/2008 10:26:43

    If you missed the recent news it appears that Google has gone, in effect, head to head with Wikipedia, but with differences.
 
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