Archive for the Category Computers

 
 

Data Dancing Drama

Well, it’s been a while since I posted something on the technology world- but guess what I just got inspired again! Who knew? Anyway, I was uninspired by the (lack) of development in the “philosophy” of technology for a number of years now.

What do I mean by that? Well, I started my IT career in the 1980′s. If ever there was a period of ferment that was one. I used to read a venerable magazine called BYTE, which frankly, caused an indentation in the floor when the postman put it through the mailbox. It gave me headaches, but I loved it, after an aspirin or two. Why? Because I read the damn thing cover to cover until I understood all the technology, as best I could anyway.

At that time, a new development or technology would come along, that literally six months later, maybe, would be a radically different commercial application. For the last decade the IT world has been in the wilderness of corporate boring.

Yes, the Open Source world has been fun, until Oracle bought Sun and trashed everything in sight, but that was just boring corporate megalomania. It was not geeky enough, for me anyway.

So back to my inspiration.  I think we are seeing the edges of a new world where Codd & Date do not rule data storage. If that was too obscure and shows my age, well, then I think we are seeing the the beginnings of a massive paradigm shift in storage. You see, we now store tons of stuff online.

for now, Google, Amzazon, et al, use conventional RDBMS’s but you know what? Or most regularly used computing device does not. No its not your laptop. It’s your mobile.

I see a gradual move towards light, possibly Object oriented databases in mobile devices and big large dinosaur RDBMS’s in servers in the clouds.

So what? that’s obvious- sure it is as far as it goes. Here’s what comes next. I’d like you to think back, say 15 years. Who used mobile phones? Very few. They were just payphones that you carried with you.

Today, the mobile gadgets are the most popular way to connect to the Internet. Think about it for a moment, the most popular way to connect to the Internet. More popular than desktops. This has all happened in just a few short years.

Could you live without Facebook or Twitter? Arguable, perhaps these days. What I see happening next is the “distributed web” where we take “our” Facebook with us offline for when we are not connected to the Net. The Internet may be almost ubiquitous, but the cost to make it totally permeate the planet is a far too expensive “last mile”.

Yet we travel more- there is likely not going to be radically new expansions of mobile Internet access, which is already patchy. We therefore will demand to have offline access to “our” data.

you can bet Oracle will not run well on an iPhone. Goodness, it barely runs well on a monster server. There has been no radical change in the storage technology we use for over 45 years, from a philosophical point of view.

Now there is and the push was not geeky, but social. Social media will change the way we interact with technology in exactly the same pervasive way the mobile phone did 20 years ago. This might all seem obvious to you, but the ramifications are huge- IT got unpredictable again. Partly, because it is no longer “IT” but mobile Internet.

Next I’ll get into mobile development tools for Android, iPhone, Blackberry and others. I’m about to start another journey of discovery, at last. The last decade of corporate bullshit is a bit like John Lennon’s interview in “Rolling Stone” (I think) just before he was killed, when he was asked what he thought of the 70′s he said “the 70′s were a drag”. That’s how I feel about the 90′s and most of the 2000′s.

You see there’s one bit of secret sauce I did not mention: mobile apps can and are built successfully by one person, or a small team. No longer do we have to have budgets of millions, gazillion Sun servers and 50 Java coders to make something that in the 1980′s a developer in Clipper, Modula-2 or C++ could do in the same time. There’s hope yet.

How Can I Track Someone By Email

 

If you want to know how you can find someone with even with the tiniest bit of information, this article will give you some ideas. Read through it and find out how.

Gone are the days when even just the thought of trying to search for someone would leave you feeling discouraged. With all the technology available you are asking yourself how can I track someone by e-mail? The are many ways you can utilize the e-mail address you have and I will mention a few in the paragraphs below.

Normally carrying out a routine search on any of the available search engines should yield some results. I know for a fact that Google and Yahoo provide free members and people search services. This search service also allows you to search using the e-mail address that you have. If the person is contained in their database then you should get their results displayed.

Some sites also keep records of peoples’ e-mail addresses. The most notable ones are the social sites where people are actually required to sign up using their e-mail addresses. So you can also register with a few of them and use them to carry out the search. Once you are a member then just supply the e-mail address you have and yes if they are there you will get their contact details. That’s another possible answer to the question, how can I track someone by e-mail.

Another option that you could try if you do not run into any success is to try the sites that offer the reverse directory services. These sites have information relating to e-mail addresses, phone numbers, post box numbers and so on. So just fill in the relevant data in the space provided and soon enough you will have the answer.

How can I track someone by e-mail? It is quite possible to track an e-mail address through the service provider. Not everyone uses Google, Yahoo or Msn. Your chances are even better if the person uses a localized e-mail address. With so much information available you shouldn’t go wrong in your search.

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Tips To Find A Missing Friend

If you have been missing an old time friend then you have come to the right place.  In this article I will show you how to find a lost friend for free online. I strongly encourage you to read the article right to the end in order to benefit from its insight.

Of course there are hundreds of thousands of resources that can teach you about,
Normal 0 how to find a lost friend for free but after reading this article there will be no reason to keep reading but you will begin to take action i.e. start searching.

What I will do below is simply highlight some of the key places that you should go to online in order to find the person you are looking for. Chances are you already know some of these websites and you have taken the time to search through but I encourage you to read the article right to the end. I am sure there is a tip in here that you haven’t thought of.

The obvious place to start looking is on user forums. I know there are millions of forums on the Internet and you are thinking, what is this guy talking about. Well you should narrow them down by listing key interests of your friend. For instance, Is your friend into sports, what kind of sports? Once you have that in the bag then it easy to go to a search engine to look for those forums

Here is a useful tip Google.com has a facility that enables you to search through forums (only). This is the best way to quickly find any forms on the internet. This feature is called “Google groups” i.e. you can log in to Google groups and search for any forum available online over there.

You now have the weapon that will help you find “John” or “Michelle” – your friend with ease. Let me just share one more tip on how to find a lost friend phone number

Social networking sites like Myspace and Facebook offer the best avenue to find people online – so do sign up with them and do a friend search there. Chances are you will be able to find the person you are looking for with ease. It really shouldn’t be hard to find people online with all the new developments that have come up on the net in recent years. So do not be intimidated by the vast amount of pages to sift through.