For a while, there have been offerings from Google (Google Apps/Docs), Zoho, and others, and recently, Microsoft jumped into the “online office” game with office.live.com. Pretty cool. Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote in the cloud. Limited, but you can create docs, share them, edit them, with *no software* installed on your system. Good in a…
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Welcome to stevienova.com. Since 2004, I have enjoyed blogging about programming, business intelligence, SharePoint, Microsoft, Google, Apple and everything to do with technology. Thoughts on life, the world or my new favorite brew, may also be shared. I currently work at Trek Bicycle Corporation, managing both the BI team and .NET software dev groups. The opinions on this blog are solely my own.
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Category Archives: Product Reviews
Goto Meeting vs Whatever
I have used a ton of “meeting” apps. Live Meeting, Goto Meeting, ATT Web Conference, TeamViewer, etc, etc. Best of the best? My opinion? Goto Meeting. Easy to setup, easy to use. Just works. There is also an iPad app! I have used a couple of times and it works great. Whenever some *other* meeting…
One Thing About the iPhone 4..
I still love it. Like I said, I don’t use it as a phone. But I have noticed something different (And I blame AT&T for this – working for cell phone company for 5 years, I blame the carrier :)) In Madison/Sun Prairie, I get 3G ,works great, no issues. When I drive out to…
Thoughts on the iPhone 4
I picked up my iPhone 4 on Friday afternoon (July 16th). Wonderful device. Retina display is awesome. Video camera, front facing camera, flash: awesome. People wonder about the dropped calls, etc. Whatever. First, I may be different. I haven’t even USED the phone yet. I don’t really use the iPhone as a phone. Personal Handheld…
Thoughts on the iPad
I am writing this from my iPad. What do I think of it? Pretty awesome. More apps will make it even better. Playing “board” games is pretty fun. Crosswords, Sudoku, Words with Friends and others. IMDB and Wikipanion are nice too. News and magazine apps make total sense. Of course this device is just completely…
Redgate SQL Search – Free Download
I have always wanted a good way to search all the db’s on a server, find procs, views, whatever that have something in their DDL so i could do what I want with it. There are ways using DMV’s or other things in SQL Server, but it just becomes a pain. Then came along SQL…
Reeder, a Google Reader App for iPhone
I have tried many iPhone Google Reader apps, and nothing has come close to working well for me but the web app as a web clip shortcut. That changed this week when I checked out Reeder (http://reederapp.com/2/) I read a ton of Google Reader (usually 10,000+ posts a month) so I need something good. Reeder…
FlickrFetchr – great little Mac app to download flickr sets (supports Guest Passes!)
I get photo’s shared with me on Flickr. Guest Passes. Pretty cool to look at them and do slideshows online, but what if I want to download them all? There are many apps out there for windows and mac that let you download your OWN sets, or also download public sets from other users, but…
Product Review: Balsamiq Mockups
Have you ever wanted to quickly mockup software, website, iPhone app, etc? Most people do it on paper, or try something in Visio, or Word, or even Excel!!! But they just lack that feeling of what they want you to build. I was looking around on the web and stumbled upon Balsamiq Mockups I download…
Pen Tablet Blog Post
Today, I picked up a Bamboo Fun Pen tablet by Wacom. As you can see, I wrote this post using nothing but the tablet, pretty sweet!