Archive for the ‘Reviews’ Category

Craigslist – A Haven For Pirated Software?

Sunday, March 1st, 2009

Recently, we upgraded one of our Macbook Pro laptops with the idea of selling the old model on Craigslist. Within an hour of posting the laptop, there were a handful of interested parties. The question asked by most of the interested parties was, "What software is installed?" This question seemed ...

Review: The 2008 Social Technology Predictions

Sunday, December 7th, 2008

photo credit: dharma Technology predictions are always challenging. A detailed knowledge of the past and a thorough understanding of the industry are required to attempt to predict the future. Major financial upheavals are difficult to predict and can definitely shorten growth cycles. We are going to review the social technology predictions ...

Is Google Doing Something Evil?

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

We have to preface this post by stating that we love Google Apps. We've been using Google Apps at Deft Labs for almost two years and have had a fantastic experience. It's an excellent product for the price. Everyone pays $50 per user per year for a slew of business ...

Google’s App Engine

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Recently, we've been researching cloud computing so we decided to take a look at Google's App Engine. We had hoped to write this earlier, but it was some time before we received access from Google to use App Engine :-) We're excited to see cloud computing move forward but, as ...

WordPress 2.5

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

We decided to take the plunge and upgrade to WordPress 2.5. Despite the many prompts to upgrade in the WordPress administration tool, we decided to wait a few weeks to before upgrading the application. The process was easy but definitely required more typing than we expected. With over 15 plugins installed, ...

Yahoo! User Interface Libraries

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

We are always on the hunt for web technologies that add functionality and decrease development time. We have been tracking The Yahoo! User Interface Libraries (YUI) for a while and are finally ready to slap on the Deft Labs seal of approval :-) photo credit: V.P.Tz. Paradigm Shift For more than a ...

Google’s OpenSocial API – No Beef (yet)

Friday, November 2nd, 2007

Yesterday, Google released their OpenSocial API. As a social application service provider we're excited about the concept of write once run anywhere. What's the problem? It's all hype right now. Google should have spent more time polishing OpenSocial before they released the product. The only live site that supports applications ...