In this article, Mike Elgan explains why Asustech is "the most hated company in the PC industry": Microsoft, Dell, Apple and Palm hate Asus because of the EEE of course. In fact we learn that: Microsoft hates Asus because the EEE doesn’t embed any Microsoft software: OpenOffice instead of Microsoft Office and Firefox instead of [...]

2007 Music Review collections

I came accross 2 good 2007 Best albums review publications that may be use to discover independent artist: Yahoo Music Blog: Top 100 albums of 2007 by Robert of the Radish. I discovered in this list for instance 100 Days 100 Nights by Sharon Jones. The Best Albums of 2007: #1 to #10 – The Y! [...]

Summize: A Search Engine for Reviews

Summize is a new service that collect review from Amazon, Yahoo, Blogs, etc and summarize them in a convenient way. The tag line on their home page is: Summize is a search engine for reviews — including millions of cutting-edge blogger reviews and real-world user reviews. Here is the summize page for the Archos 504 [...]

Alternatives to Microsoft Office

CNET published a very interesting review of all the available alternatives products (either free or paid) to Microsoft Office. The product reviewed are: Microsoft Office 2007 Corel WordPerfect X3 Sun StarOffice 8 OpenOffice 2 iWork ’08 IBM Lotus Symphony ThinkFree Office 3 Google Docs & Spreadsheets Zoho Office The table available here summarize the CNET [...]

Ubuntu Linux- Windows comparison

APC published a very good article that compares Ubuntu to Windows when executing various tasks (mp3 encoding, Web browsing, Media playback, etc). Ubuntu is very good for most of the task sbut remains behing windows for some of them like mp3 encoding and Webcam management. The complete Ubuntu rating is list below: First impressions: Pass [...]

Very Good GTD Book Summary

Get Rich Slowly published a very useful GTD book summary. It’s a summury designed to help readers to start using GTD. Another interesting thing in the post is the ability to download the GTD diagram in pdf format for free. You may get this diagram from David Allen’s Web site but after a very long [...]