Early availability of Geekie.org Apps

It seems that Geekie.org Apps (mail, calendar, docs & spreadsheets, personalized start page, chat) has been made available earlier than I anticipated.

The comment made on http://www.geekie.org/freddyware/2007.02/free-tools-for-our-users.8.web saying

Change of plans - though requests can start March 1, the service will not be active until after March 15. A server migration will also occur on the 15th of March.

must now be contradicted. As our DNS records were updated sooner than anticipated, Geekie.org Apps is now fully up and running. Instead of requests starting March 1, users may immediately ask for accounts. However, prepare for a scheduled server migration (and therefore downtime) on March 15.

The home page we have set up for Geekie.org Apps is located at http://apps.geekie.org and contains links and information for the services included. In case you wish to access those sites now, you can go to Geekie.org Webmail, Geekie.org Calendar, Geekie.org Docs & Spreadsheets, Geekie.org Start Page, and Geekie.org Chat / Google Talk by downloading the Google Talk client - or by logging in to Webmail and using the built-in AJAX interface. However, keep in mind that logging in to Geekie.org Apps is different from logging in to Geekie.org’s home page (blog); though, it is possible for you to choose the same username and password for both.

Go ahead and request your accounts if you wish. All accounts are functional @geekie.org e-mail addresses, with 2 GB of space and neat & tidy Gmail interface. Go ahead; try it now!

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Free online productivity tools for Geekie.org/FreddyWare users

Users who have previously dealt with FreddyWare@School, FreddyWare Forums, or other sites of the FreddyWare Solutions Enterprise Network may have previously tested out FreddyWare e-mail solutions, including but not limited to, FreddyWare Webmail powered by Google Apps for Your Domain, FreddyWare.info Webmail Beta, and other similar interfaces.

With our loss of the freddyware.net domain name, it is no longer possible to utilize the Google Apps site for @freddyware.net e-mail addresses. FreddyWare.info e-mails have been limited to site functions and workers since this problem occurred. Users were usually not offered @freddyware.info e-mail addresses.

With the launches of two new sites, Articles Base! and Geekie.org, however, we have re-setup Google Apps to work with Geekie.org. This grants users new tools usually offered as Google Accounts, including 2 GB of free e-mail space, absolutely free chat between @geekie.org and other Google/Gmail users, free access to Docs & Spreadsheets (online productivity suite, compatibility with older Microsoft Office and ODF, collaboration supported), and personalized start page. Google’s innovations have benefited us all.

Articles Base! is also being fixed at the moment, and has not been successfully launched. Once Geekie.org is officially launched and promoted on March 1, 2007, we will start opening up @geekie.org accounts. (It would be satisfactory, however, if users would have accounts on the Wordpress platform on this site before they request accounts; I could better track members this way. Please comment on this article.)

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New AMD Processors

AMD and Intel have been the dominant companies in the CPU and related industry for a long time. They’ve also been competitors. Each has developed great technologies, each with their own ideals. AMD, for example, has strained for energy-efficient processors. Intel seems to just be getting smaller and smaller; and faster.

It’s not disputed that each has sparked fierce competition in the other. Each has inspired the other. (Meaning, one may have copied certain features from the other.)

As we all know, Intel processors have defined the market for many decades. Innovative processors which seem to continually get more powerful, power the computers of so many households across the world. Computer manufacturers are comfortable working with the giant. (Dell, though, has recently chosen to start implementing AMD CPU’s in their computers; it has allowed for some price slashings.)

AMD may be more energy efficient, but it still lacks the processing power of Intel’s Core 2 Duo processors. Consider their new AMD Athlon 64 x2 6000+, which is a dual-core 64-bit processor (being significantly advanced than Intel’s 64-bit emulation). Its feature specifications clock the device at 3000 Mhz; it’s definitely faster than Intel’s Core 2 Duo E6700 series, which are clocked at 2.66 Ghz. However, AMD’s processor is considerably newer, with less “experience” in the market.

Though the pricing of AMD and Intel processors are relatively even, many consumers choose Intel just because of the reputation. AMD has lost quite a bit of market share to Intel, possibly explaining the misconceptions of many uneducated consumers.

On a side point, though, Intel has managed to create an 80-core chip that operates easily at a Teraflop. This is the next-generation supercomputing, one that could show us future paths such as the super computer cores used onboard fictional starships in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and the movies of the franchise. Could we, one day in the future, be using terminals connected to a central supercomputer rather than individual processors? Could we, one day, migrate to the future of advanced technology? Could we?

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Recent Innovations

Really, is it any surprise that we’re moving forward to an age where technology is becoming ever more popular and integrated with our lives? With the release of Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007, the monopolous people behind Microsoft can hope to make a killing in terms of profit. With the iPhone, we can trust that Apple will definitely start a revolution in terms of design.

Though I myself am not particularly a supporter of Microsoft, I do have to admit that the sleek and smooth designs of their new software is catching up to the long-time ideals of Apple Inc. Office 2007 is a very large step because of the great new features, distinguishing it from any of the previous versions. Vista is not such a huge step, but does pose some great innovations, such as the Aero graphics appearance, new animations and effects, plus some tweaks, additions, and modifications to the underlying code. (Which, as I am obligated to point out, seems to be restricted to all but them. It goes totally against the ideals of free-and-open-source; but then again, who can complain about this when it’s been their way for many decades?) It’s all about look, appealing to those who go for the ‘coolness’ of the products.

I have to quote a close friend of mine, who recently said, “…there’s a revolution going on, and it’s called Windows Vista…” I don’t consider it such a great product, nor do I have much respect for Bill Gates. Consider the following: Windows 3.11 was modified with hidden code to malfunction on Caldera DOS - making it seem that Caldera DOS caused the problems! Or the many anti-trust violations that Microsoft has committed, some of which were overlooked in the United States for unspoken reasons. Could we then point out the numerous bugs with Internet Explorer, which was, until recently, non-standards-compliant?

The iPhone is also not such a revolution as everyone makes it seem to be. Sure, the touch screen is a good deal, but it was about to be implemented in many competing manufacturers’ products anyway - soon. Functions like automatic switching between portrait and landscape (an old trick used with cameras), automatic adjustment of brightness depending on the environment (also used with Macbooks), as well as other things like its Mac OS X environment and its great touch screen, make it superior to many other mobile devices. It’s the next step into technology which is comparable to Star Trek’s PADD; exactly 20 years ago, Star Trek: The Next Generation revealed a handheld device with touchable controls and an extremely flat screen (similar to an LCD) which could well have been an inspiration to these devices. Still, I would love to have an iPhone, not for its music or video functions, but for its enhanced capabilities in connectivity and productivity. It’s simply better than most PDA’s at this time, especially those running on Windows Mobile.

I still cannot deny the appeal of Tablet PC’s. They feature screens much larger than the iPhone and are typically used with styluses. If a tablet PC can be trimmed down to a size much smaller than the typical laptop screen and larger than the iPhone (Sony has achieved this) - the size of a PADD would be great - the CPU, memory, hard drive would permit it to be much superior to the iPhone. However, with manufacturers making profit and the relatively high prices of Microsoft software, there’s almost no chance within the next few years of such tablets being priced cheap enough for the typical consumer.

Other innovations at this moment include new possibilities for supercomputers in sizes so small that the iPhone would be larger. Intel’s new experimentation could one day lead to a central computer core (again, I’m relating to Star Trek) that everyone in a particular group could interface with and access its massive databanks. Perhaps in such a future, which I look forward to, one could be so much more integrated with technology.

“And those are the days worth living for…” -Edith Keeler, City on the Edge of Forever from Star Trek: The Original Series

Just a note: Geekie.org now runs on the Vistered Little 1.6a theme, which allows for the cool look, great transparency effects, interesting wallpaper, etc. I really love this theme for Wordpress. If you run a Wordpress blog/site, go ahead and try it. (This links to the original author’s version 1.6; I use the modified 1.6a version which is somewhat more flexible, and organized.

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Geekie.org Up and Running

Geekie.org was recently obtained by the FreddyWare Solutions Enterprise Network. As our “About” page describes, this site will soon be developed into a prominent technological resource.

This site will officially be “launched” - promoted - on March 1, 2007.

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