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Category Archives: IT
Cisco acquiring Jabber Inc
Huge news in the IM space today with Cisco announcing it’s acquisition of Jabber Inc the main vendor of XMPP IM and presence technology. Cisco now have and email and EIM platform, with IronPort they have email security so I … Continue reading
Antivirus sales to slow: Gartner
I tend to ignore Gartner, mainly because they’re always hyping something, often the same thing. Take IM for example, since Cleartext started out with IM in 1999 they’ve been saying there’s high growth in EIM over the horizon. I suppose … Continue reading
Akonix sells out
Akonix sold out this week which leaves just FaceTime as the only significant independent IM security vendor, not sure if this is good news or bad for the enterprise IM market.
Leopard bites
Well upgrading to Leopard has been painfull, so far two of three upgrades have failed, requiring fresh installs. Not happy.
XMPP Standards Foundation
We’re please to announce that we’ve become a sponsor of the XMPP Standards Foundation . XMPP has been around since 1999 and was/is commonly called Jabber Instant messaging, but it’s much more than that now as social networks take off … Continue reading
VPS with 2 and 4Gb :)
I’ve been looking for a VPS solution that offers 2Gb or more for a while now, and Slicehost have something that may run Clearspace!
You really do need your own enterprise IM system
The article linked below should demonstrate a good enough reason to use an enterprise IM platform rather than public IM. Apart from the levels of ‘security’ offered by each public IM network it’s fairly obvious from the embedded chart that … Continue reading
Jive Software news
Jive Software launched their new web site this weekend, focusing on Clearspace and Clearspace Community (formerly Clearspace X). This site is very slick and Web 2.0. Why not pop along and take a look or register for their new online community, Clearstep.
It’s all about the support
Support is our driving force at Cleartext, if customers are happy they spend more and give you a bit of leeway when things go off the rails. It’s for this reason I’m recommending JoomlaPlates as a Joomla template provider. During … Continue reading
Online Armor
Online Armor gets Firewall of the Year from Computerworld Editor in Chief, Scot Finnie. Go here for the full article on Scot’s blog.
Hosted archiving
I used to wonder why companies would want to archive their email externally, given they’d almost certainly be charged a premium. That is until I got a call from a client needing help ‘fixing’ a tape archive that wasn’t restoring. … Continue reading
Hybrid Hosting
My previous post has prompted me to drop this post in from the new Cleartext Systems web site, which isn’t live yet. (will be by the end of the week). We’ve (Cleartext via Cool Bananas) been a NetRegistry reseller for … Continue reading
Creating Clearspace plugins
Clearspace is an excellent example of a product that makes something more by combining some parts. I bet many of us have thought about how best to use technolgies like blogs, wiki’s and forums. Well think no more and just … Continue reading
I had to laugh…
Fifteen years ago a young anti-virus industry thought it was cool to have little graphics displaying viruses, then we all grew up and realised enterprise security professionals want trustworthy sensible people looking after their systems. Imagine my laughter when I … Continue reading
Joomla 1.5 ‘feature’
Whilst building a new site using Joomla 1.5 I needed to display an RSS feed icon without text, unfortunately the standard mod_syndicate module doesn’t let me save the ‘Text’ Module Parameter empty, it defaults to ‘Feed Entries’.My fix was to … Continue reading
PDFAssassin
No doubt kicked off when PDF spam started arriving in out inboxes PDFAssassin attempts to scan PDF files for ‘spammyness’ and adds the Spam Assissin score; http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfassassin/
x-authentication-warning
Had an issue today with spam filters blocking legit emails and it turns out that it was because the sender was spoofing the ‘from’ address. I suspect this is common when web based apps get http servers like Apache to … Continue reading
Podcast Maker
In the endless quest for systems that make life easier I came across Podcast Maker for Apple OSX today. It’s BRILLIANT!, it’s a classic example of a software application that simplifies a ‘manual’ process. Check it out, you’ll be surprised.
Flash 9 and the MP4 video format
Looking for a way of delivering .mp4 video on a web site I went to one of the best resources for Flash video online and discovered that Flash 9 will handle MP4′s. This makes life very easy if you’re looking … Continue reading
I’m recommending Basecamp….
Having used Basecamp for project managing client projects for a couple of years now I’ve decided to recommend it via their affiliate program; Use this referral code: 6TJ4P239E or this url to sign-up to Basecamp saves me a few bucks … Continue reading
Current valid CSS page layouts
When looking around for current methods for 3 column CSS web page layouts I came across this page on a site which has a great collection of valid CSS layouts.
Cool script to help IE out…
From the authors page…“IE7 is a JavaScript library to make MSIE behave like a standards-compliant browser. It fixes many CSS issues and makes transparent PNG work correctly under IE5 and IE6.”
Media Temple hosting review
I’m finally retiring the 6 year old Mac G4′s that have been hosting for friends and family. They run OSX Server but as Apple piles on the upgrades, updates and fixes they’ve been getting slower and slower to the point … Continue reading
Naked DSL
This is cool for those Aussies looking for something new in net connetivity, Naked DSL from iiNet.
Joyent: Slingshot
And while I was looking for Flex related content I found Slingshot another excellent idea for deploying desktop apps. This one is a bit like Google Gears allowing browers apps to run offline.