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Annual 2012 Predictions

Once again, it is time to look into the crystal ball and take stock of the business of technology in the new year. Some of my predictions from last year have come to pass while a few from the years before are still trying to have their day in the sun. Let’s have some fun and look at what I thought would be important trends in this past year and then take a look at what might be on the horizon.
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Assessing Your TimeMachine Backup Strategy

Since returning to a predominantly Macintosh household a few years ago, we have been diligently maintaining backups on our shared TimeMachine volume. Everything is being kept current, and it has been comforting to watch the periodic swirl of the TimeMachine backup status icon in my toolbar. However, we have yet to test this backup strategy and it is now getting to the point where it would be good to know that it’s working.

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Convert OpenOffice to Microsoft Office

My first exposure to OpenOffice was a demo from a Sun representative where he was extolling the virtues of Sun’s StarOffice while running his actual presentation from another product (Microsoft PowerPoint). It clearly wasn’t ready for general consumption at that point, but it quickly improved and became the predominant office platform outside of Microsoft Office.

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Windows Crashes Deliverer

There are quite a few kinds of malware that can infect your PC, and Windows Crashes Deliverer is among one of the tricker to extricate. It masquerades as an anti-virus application and in fact gives the appearance of a valid application, this malware is part of a relatively new class of malicious programs that can be described as rogue anti-spyware or scareware. For these programs, the objective is to convince you to buy it to protect your machine and in the process of doing so create the appearance of damage on your machine.

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BEGIN END.

After the software development lifecycle, programs experience certain evolutionary transitions. There is the moment of genesis when the initial application demonstrates capabilities in a proof of concept, but that is ultimately superceded by a succession of modifications that eventually jeopardizes the maintainability of that code.

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