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9 months ago
in Thoughts on Chrome on Oracle AppsLab
Runs like lightening even inside parallels. I could see google managing to penetrate a bit further than the ol' fox into ms land if they market it right. And as others have pointed out, if Safari/Firefox/IE/Opera and various others use some of the open-source goodies in Chrome to make themselves faster/stabler/mo-bettah then everyone wins including the big G.
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10 months ago
in Copy and Paste for the iPhone? Sort of . . . on Oracle AppsLab
Not that Gruber is the end-all be-all on iPhone dev, but he makes some cogent points on where the copy-paste ui falls down at http://daringfireball.net/2008/08/raining_on_th... . Specifically the part about separate clipboard stores for each app. If this is right then the cache mgmt issues are significant and the potential for Apple to break things later is also high. I'd love to see the iPhone open up a little more. I'm hopeful that an improved and in the wild Android will keep them on their toes and eventually get them to support the same kinds of third party efforts that enhance Mac OS X. Meanwhile we're all waiting for copy and paste still for more than one reason.
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Jake
Very good and detailed writeup of OpenClip, thanks.
My faith in Android keeps waning the longer it takes to come to market, but yes, we can hope it would/will push Apple to open the iPhone more. The iPhone has a huge amount of smart thinking around it (outside Apple), and harnessing that seems like a way to make it truly awesome.
Am I the only one whose bored by apps?
My faith in Android keeps waning the longer it takes to come to market, but yes, we can hope it would/will push Apple to open the iPhone more. The iPhone has a huge amount of smart thinking around it (outside Apple), and harnessing that seems like a way to make it truly awesome.
Am I the only one whose bored by apps?
10 months ago
in Mix Gets a Makeover on Oracle AppsLab
I don't want to tell you guys your business, but frankly Oracle's standard appearance is pretty uninspired. Mix may in fact be an innovative idea catcher but it's look now shouts "enterprise software" which in my experience is synonymous with unusable and slow. Great work marketing. There goes my hopes that Oracle might learn a thing or two from the AppsLab experiment.
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Jake
Don't worry, UI isn't my business :) Don't give up hope just yet, we'll keep on trucking; people are listening.
Thanks for dropping a dime, I appreciate the honest feedback.
Thanks for dropping a dime, I appreciate the honest feedback.
12 months ago
in Why Is Calendar So Hard? on Oracle AppsLab
This is probably a dumb question, but have you tried Oracle Calendar? I don't particularly love it but it has a 'nix client and will read ics files. Supposedly the latest server will work with other clients too...
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Jake
We run OCal internally, but again, it's not local, which is my preference. Plus, since it's inside the firewall, I wouldn't have the same flexibility that I would with GCal.
I haven't tried importing through the client, which I haven't even spent time installing on Ubunutu yet.
First I've heard of a client for parsing ics files, will check on that. Thanks.
I haven't tried importing through the client, which I haven't even spent time installing on Ubunutu yet.
First I've heard of a client for parsing ics files, will check on that. Thanks.
1 year ago
in Play Name the Platform on Oracle AppsLab
As a platform meant to drive ideas/connections, I would say "Light Bulb" is a winner.
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Jake
Well, technically it's not only for those things, but I like the way you're going. How about 'Eureka'? Neither one would be clear enough I'm afraid. We might just have to go bland with social platform or something.
The one thing that Firefox has that makes it my preferred browser is the add-ons. Gecko may be heavier than WebKit, but in the case of add-ons, it's worth it. I do love the wicked cool stuff in Chrome though like dragging tabs between windows.
I think you're right that innovation in the browser can only help by pushing the others to uptake the good stuff. Win for all of us.