Posted on January 27th, 2010 by Carel
Filed under Apple, Entrepreneurship, Technology
It’s official it’s the Apple iPad. See Engadget’s live blogging. Here’s a picture one of this first official pictures:
I want one!!!
Posted on December 15th, 2009 by Carel
Filed under Apple, Technology
Sun Computer’s vision is: “The Network is the Computer“, well I think this is finally starting to take shape in the form of cloud computing. Bandwidth, even at speeds approaching 30MBps, is still orders of magnitude slower than main memory. However, I love the netbook-type (or webbook) computer that a company called, Litl, recently launched. [...]
Posted on January 30th, 2009 by Carel
Filed under Apple
One reason that I’m a fan of Apple products is that they really think about design, even the internals of their products. The recent unibody MacBooks are great example.
Here is another cool design from tayasui.
Yanko Design’s blog contains numerous beautiful designs, including this one:
Do you have any interesting design websites?
Posted on August 13th, 2008 by Carel
Filed under Apple, Business, HCM, SAP, South Africa
Update: January 1, 2009 – I’m not with ROC anymore.
First off, I apologize for the lengthy silence. I’ve been busy! As of July 1, I’m the CEO of ROC Americas, Inc. and a board member of ROC Global. ROC’s vision is to be THE Global SAP HCM specialist, and after just 7 weeks with ROC [...]
Posted on October 24th, 2007 by Carel
Filed under Apple, Business, Entrepreneurship, SAP, Technology
I think that the exponential increase of on-demand video (youtube.com, Yahoo! video) will allow entrepreneurs to learn on-the-fly from some incredible sources. The problem with Youtube is that it takes time to find quality videos, like this Sellingpower interview of SAP Americas CEO, Bill McDermont.The Stanford’s Educations Corner is an entrepreneur’s best friend. It contains [...]
Posted on June 6th, 2007 by Carel
Today I decided to switch from Apple’s iWeb to Wordpress for my business blogging. I will migrate the old blog entries over time. Here is the link to my old blog: http://web.mac.com/cbekker/iWeb/CarelsBlog/Blog/Blog.html
Posted on October 17th, 2006 by Carel
Filed under Apple, Business, Charity, South Africa
Apple’s recent launch of the iPod Nano (PRODUCT) RED triggered this blog entry. Technology makes our lives much easier and more productive, but technology can also make a huge difference in less advantaged people’s lives in the rest of the world. In the follow paragraphs I list a number of interesting and worthwhile projects aimed [...]
Posted on August 30th, 2006 by Carel
Filed under Apple, SAP, Technology
With Ruby on Rails (RoR) it is possible to develop a blogging engine in 15 minutes. Watch this 15 minute video demo-ing RoR. The Ruby language was developed by Yukihiro Matsumoto (Matz) in 1994. According to Matz:
“Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming. It has many features to process text [...]
Posted on August 25th, 2006 by Carel
Filed under Apple, Business, Technology
In an earlier post I mentioned Google Spreadsheets. I decided to use this web app for a fairly detailed spreadsheet recently. My initial comments are:
The good…
The web-app is fairly responsive and you can easily and quickly update a spreadsheet. Navigation within a spreadsheet is fairly snappy.
Smaller spreadsheets load quickly from the Google site. Smaller spreadsheets [...]
Posted on August 8th, 2006 by Carel
Filed under Apple, Technology
This week Apple announced a lot of great products at WWDC in San Francisco during Steve Job’s keynote. The one product that impressed me the most is a feature called “Time Machine”. Time Machine will be part of the upcoming Leopard OSX release. It provides full automatic backups and phenomenal and very intuitive recovery of [...]
