Jim Rapoza

When it comes to learning about or training on applications, most people are like Missouri—in other words, “show me.” Most companies dont have the resources to dedicate personnel to training users on new systems. But thats where software simulation and demonstration products can come in. In their most basic form, these products simply record a […]

Apache has been called the engine of the World Wide Web, and for good reason—it is the server that drives most Web sites today. It is also probably the most successful open-source application ever, boasting more than 70 percent market share, according to the most recent Web server survey by Netcraft Ltd. (Microsoft Corp.s Internet […]

Greetings my dear friend and potential business partner. I am greatly excited about our correspondence today as it will lead to great riches, fame and power for the both of us. I see you are suspicious because I am not using your name in my greeting. You have been told that one way to detect […]

Finally, the holiday season is over. Now is the time to sit back and catch up on all those TV shows and bowl games you recorded while you were on vacation or at parties. I think Im going to watch that bowl game from late December first. Hmm, its not working. Whats this? “Thank you […]

Many of you are probably seeing the term “Web 2.0” a lot lately, but what does it mean? Im sure some people see it and think, “Wow! I didnt know the Web had release cycles like regular products.” Basically, Web 2.0 is a marketing term OReilly Media coined a few years ago when it was […]

Its almost as inevitable as death and taxes—once you land on the people management side of IT, youll need to take courses and attend seminars on management best practices. But these courses and seminars— offered through a wide range of institutions, from Ivy League colleges to training and certification companies—tend to focus on broad applications […]

IT managers and executives have a wide range of applications at their disposal to manage projects and figure out what projects need to be done. But what about figuring out the costs, resources and time that the project will require? Many of these capabilities are included in project management, portfolio management and budgeting products, but […]

Anyone who watches the VH1 show “Best Week Ever” knows that it basically follows the format of VH1s “I Love the 70s/80s/90s.” The latter consists of C- and D-list celebrities commenting (usually wryly) on a particular decade (“Remember He-Man? What was up with him?!”), while the former does the same, but for the most recent […]

Calling Firefox 1.5 a major new release is probably overstating things a bit, but the latest version of the popular open-source Web browser does have some fairly significant new features and improvements. Click here to read the full review of Firefox 1.5.

Once upon a time, the World Wide Web was all about the pages, back when HTML and good page design were the primary concerns. Then it became all about the applications, as Web developers moved to robust Web development languages and the powerful application servers that drove them. Nowadays, its all about the services. So […]

Little blurry things are infesting the Web. Youve seen them online if you shop, bank, travel, post comments to blogs or even just respond to e-mail. Im talking about those little bit-mapped images that show a blurred or distorted term and ask the user to type what they see into a text field. This technology […]

Everybody loves to search. I know I do my fair share of Web searching every day. And Im not alone. Search is, after all, the No. 2 activity on the Internet, according to a recent study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Web searching was just behind e-mailing on the list of top […]