Inside Tech | Kevin Railsback

The Industry Standard is back, baby!

Kevin Railsback — 2008-02-04T08:05:32-08:00

After many months of hard work, and an exciting launch night, The Industry Standard is back! Want to know more about what the new Standard is all about, and how you can participate? Read more here at InfoWorld, or from many other sites: news.google.com And of course come check it out in person. Link up with me here: http://www.thestandard.com/people/kevin-railsback... READ MORE

JS-Kit Comments

Kevin Railsback — 2008-01-23T12:32:06-08:00

I'm in the planning process to roll out a new commenting system site-wide for all InfoWorld blogs, from a company called JS-Kit. This is the same commenting system used on Guy Kawasaki's blog and a number of other sites. So, comment below and let me know what you think. I'll be testing a few things here before rolling them out to the wider InfoWorld blog community. Thanks, and pardon the dust.... READ MORE

Here comes another bubble....

Kevin Railsback — 2007-12-04T16:01:16-08:00

Funny video about the current Bubble 2.0... READ MORE

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Massive SF Power Outage

Kevin Railsback — 2007-07-24T15:03:07-08:00

SimCity: "your city is experiencing brownouts, build another power plant" The entire South of Market (SOMA) area of San Francisco is currently experiencing repeated power outages which began shortly before 2pm. This is the tech hub of SF, and a number of high-traffic websites are completely off the grid currently, including 365Main (a major colo), Craigslist, Netflix, Technorati, Yelp, and SixApart (Movable Type, Typepad, LiveJournal, Vox, etc). InfoWorld's building near South Park is currently down as well, but our website, hosted at Hosting.com, formerly Verio, on 3rd is still up and running as of 3pm. Details on SFGate Apparently 20,000+... READ MORE

iPhone SSH access enabled

Kevin Railsback — 2007-07-24T09:00:55-08:00

The resourcefulness of folks working on accessing the Unixy goodness of the iPhone is impressive. Working off of previous accomplishments, someone going by the name NerveGas has figured out a way of getting the SSH daemon working on the iPhone. This, combined with custom-compiled utilities, is really opening up the possibilities for customizing the iPhone going forward. I'm a bit beyond my days of spending hours figuring out workarounds for restrictions, and I'll most likely continue to use my iPhone as-is. But it's heartening to see that the platform is being opened up for customization. NerveGas' Howto is located here.... READ MORE

iPhone Chat part 2

Kevin Railsback — 2007-07-13T15:17:57-08:00

Is Apple's iPhone worth the price? Eric Hill and I discuss how the iPhone fares as a multimedia device, a corporate e-mail client, a PDA, geek bling, and, oh yes, a phone. What geeks....... READ MORE

iPhone Chat part 1

Kevin Railsback — 2007-07-12T15:40:48-08:00

Is Apple's iPhone worth the price? Eric Hill and I discuss how the iPhone fares as a multimedia device, a corporate e-mail client, a PDA, geek bling, and, oh yes, a phone. What geeks....... READ MORE

iPhoneDrive: iPhone storage solution

Kevin Railsback — 2007-07-11T10:53:49-08:00

The newly released iPhoneDrive (OS X only) from Ecamm Network, allows you to use your iPhone's internal flash drive as file storage. While it doesn't make the iPhone show up in Finder like a normal USB drive would, it does provide a quick and easy way to take files with you on the go. Up until now, the only way to do this with the iPhone was to email the files to yourself. That method didn't allow you to access the files from your Mac, so it was only useful for the limited number of file types that the iPhone... READ MORE

iPhone Guided Tour

Kevin Railsback — 2007-06-22T10:37:07-08:00

Apple has posted a detailed Guided Tour, which gives a nice overview of many of the iPhone's features. This shows things which haven't been publicized before, such as the Mail settings that are available, how YouTube works (hint: just like it does on AppleTV), and how to enable/disable airplane mode. Another very cool new piece of information is that the iPhone will be able to display Word and Excel documents, not just the standard Text, PDF, etc. Check it out:... READ MORE

WWDC Keynote wrapup

Kevin Railsback — 2007-06-11T11:54:42-08:00

I'm at WWDC all week, getting my dose of IT management for the Mac environment. Other than the keynote, the rest of the week is all NDA, so I won't be able to post anything else. Other IW folks (Ephraim Schwartz and Tom Yager) will have more coverage for non-NDA interviews and discussions. Check out the InfoWorld WWDC 07 Special Report and Tom Yager's Enterprise Mac blog for more coverage. My thoughts on the keynote: Not a huge surprise. Apple fashions itself as primarily a hardware company, but one that happens to make great software. They've had a huge amount... READ MORE

Parallels 3.0 out of beta today!

Kevin Railsback — 2007-06-07T15:31:43-08:00

As Mac excitement grows pre-WWDC, Parallels has released the full 3.0 version of their excellent virtualization software. We'll have a full review up soon, but for now here are some highlights: SmartSelect - Allows for virtual OS apps to be set as the default type for a specific filetype. For instance, have Word for Windows open when you double-click a .doc file. Snapshots - Like the name says, it makes snapshots of your virtual environment, so that you can back out of changes (or busted Windows patches). This will also protect you from having to reinstall XP from scratch when... READ MORE