Category Archives: Tools

April 22, 2010

Support Details – tech support management

Ever dealt with a client where you wanted to know their operating environment? Thinks like what operating system they are running (and version), which browser type and version, whether they have JavaScript enabled etc? Sounds easy but for some clients this is like being asked to provide a detailed analysis of early 7th century rock [...]

October 30, 2009

BrowserLab live on adobe.com– also posted in Misc

I’m probably a bit behind the times with this one, but Adobe have added “BrowserLab” functionality to “preview and test your web pages on leading browsers and operating systems – on demand“. Seems to work like other paid services, but is free https://browserlab.adobe.com/ Available browser options (across mac and windows) include: IE 6/7/8 Firefox 2/3 [...]

November 12, 2008

Google releases video chat– also posted in Misc

For those that use gtalk/gmail, google have finally caught up and released voice and video chat. They even help you buy a webcam!

October 22, 2008

Aqua Data Studio 7 includes an ER modeler– also posted in Databases

Those of you who miss diagramming support when using MySQL tools will be pleased to know that the latest version of Aqua Data Studio has support for ER Modeling The Entity-Relationship (ER) Modeler we’ve built into Aqua Data Studio 7 is as powerful as even the best standalone database diagramming tools. Use it to design [...]

September 3, 2008

mooFlair on Adobe’s top 10 list– also posted in AIR, Flex

Areez Gangji has just posted on Adobe devnet an article listing the “Top 10 Adobe Flex and AIR applications for students“. I’m very proud to say that a good friend (and fellow Daemon alumni) Patrick Tai has an app on their called mooFlair which he originally built for the AIR derby. What is mooFlair? A [...]