The Big Board, a real-time collaborative mapping environment focusing on emergency response by Renaissance Computing Institute, has been released as an open source project. The Big Board from Renaissaince Computing Inst
What follows is notable news and happenings that I want to purge from my bookmarks folder. It will be a combination of things you already know spiced with things you probably won’t care about. I apologize in advance. GIS
From ComputerWorld: Friends don't let friends use IE6. - Amy Bazdukas, Microsoft Internet Explorer General Manager. She does give businesses some cover, saying because some companies are big stupid heads and built appli
ESRI has just released the much anticipated ArcGIS Explorer 900 build. This is the build people have been talking about for a while, introducing such features as: New ribbon UI ala MS Office Greatly improved sup
I think the first comment thread on Reddit sums it up nicely.
People come in two varieties - those computer savvy individuals who provide free tech support for their friends and family, and the people who rely on a computer savvy individual for free tech support. All other disting
What follows is notable news and happenings that I want to purge from my bookmarks folder. It will be a combination of things you already know spiced with things you probably won’t care about. I apologize in advance. The
If there was ever an event that could get myopic organizations to finally upgrade from IE6, this is it. The first time a higher-up can’t watch a cats on keyboards video, IE6 will have officially left the station. Now i
In the take-your-Bing-and-shove-it department, Google has announced it’s working on a new operating system, Chrome OS, designed around the Chrome web browser. Looking through the announcement and the slew of related stor
In the it’s-about-time department, Firefox 3.5 has been released. The world’s #2 browser (#1 if you factor out monopolies) is patiently awaiting your download. Among the great new features are: Updated Gecko 1.9.1 r