Dabbleboard

18 Mar 2010

What can you use the application for?

Dabbleboard is an intuitive online collaboration application centered on the white board. The aim of this application is to completely reinvent the white board, to make it extremely accessible to everyone who has a computer with internet access. Dabbleboard attempts to do this by creating a simple online environment where anyone can visualize, communicate and explore ideas by drawing simple shapes that automatically are detected and transformed into rectangles, circles, diamonds, and triangles, straight and curved lines. Moreover, the real time collaboration feature that allows multiple users to view and edit the same drawings is another powerful feature that this application relies on.

What is the history and popularity of the application?

Dabbleboard has already managed to gain a good popularity among all those that generally use a classic white board. Most of its current users are using it either for business purposes or for education. Developers, designers, teachers, consultants, and students find Dabbleboard as a great alternative to the classic white board.

What are the differences to other applications?

Dabbleboard is different than other similar websites because of its ingenious feature that allows basic shapes drawn by hand to be transformed into predefined shapes. Other similar websites tend to require the user to pick each time a new shape, before actually drawing. This feature makes the drawing more fun, and most importantly, much more efficient. The drawing feels natural, enabling any user to share his ideas spontaneously, and much faster.

How does the application look and feel to use?

The website was clearly designed with the accessibility of the user in mind, for it has a very clean and simple look that manages to make the navigation enjoyable. Still, this simplicity does have any severe consequences on the overall appearance of the website, which looks really good. When it comes to drawing, it gets even more fun. The interface that offers various tools is very well arranged, allowing even a new user to draw with ease, quickly and efficiently.

How does the registration process work?

Having an account is not mandatory in order to use Dabbleboard. Everyone can draw and share their drawings with as many people as they want without having to register. However, in order to save the drawings a simple registration process is needed, that only requires a valid email address, besides the usual user name and password.
A premium account can also be created for those that want to enjoy more facilities, such as no limits on storage for documents and images, encrypted access to data that significantly increases the level of security and additional support for image formats. The premium accounts are clearly centered towards small companies that want a faster alternative to the classic white board, and who want their employers to share quickly their ideas and their vision.

What does it cost to use the application?

All pro accounts enjoy a 30 day free trial in which the user, if not satisfied with the service can cancel his account. The pricing goes as following: Pro Individual – 8$ per month. Pro Group 5 users – 30$ per month. Pro Group 10 users – 50$ per month. Pro Group 25 users – 100$ per month. Pro Group 100 users – 200$ per month.
Additionally, for more than 100 users or for companies that want to use Dabbleboard on their own servers, then dedicated solutions are available.

Who would you recommend the application to?

Dabbleboard does not target a particular group of users, being accessible to everyone that needs an effective white board and the possibility of easily sharing their drawings with others. Those that constantly work with presentations might look like the most suited to use Dabbleboard, but students for example will find it just as useful and easy to use. In the end, it can be a useful tool for all those that want to draw.

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Tags: business purposes, collaboration feature, current users, education developers, ingenious feature, multiple users, rectangles, time collaboration, triangles

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Beryl 0.2.1/Ubuntu 9.04

March 22nd, 2010 at 8:41 pm

I'm going to go over Linux in general. This is an honest, unbiased look at the Linux core. This covers all distributions and current releases.

Love:
Stability
Resource usage
Can be run CLI

Hate:
Security issues (Explained later)
Lack of hardware support
Lacks major software applications
Patching can be difficult (Depends on distro)
WAY too buggy and unfinished.
Lacks scalability
Lacks conformity across distros

I have several major issues with the basic design of Linux and all other UNIX like operating systems. They are all monolithic kernels and lack true reference monitors (AppArmor and SELinux are NOT reference monitors). They have very poor file systems in terms of security. There is no way to restrict the superuser accounts. There is no effective way to administer system policies. Difficult to completely integrate into Active Directory. Most of these are not anything that the average user would notice, nor would they care. Even some of the die-hard Linux fans don't know what a reference monitor is. I still run Linux on numerous production systems (Slackware) and I have almost twenty computers running some form of Linux, BSD, or UNIX in my test environment, which is about to get even bigger thanks to a new office.

Linux works great for high volume servers. It doesn't scale very well, but it handles loads well. To explain that a bit further… My Linux servers can handle thousands of users without a problem, but Linux provides no effective way to assign granular rights to the users the way Windows does. That's the scalability that Linux lacks. Actually, not just Linux; this is an issue with just about every operating system other than Windows. Of course, let's be honest… When is the last time you had to have that granular of control over thousands of users? Probably never, even for most IT professionals. Now, if you have to host twenty websites with a full database for each… Apache and Oracle/MySQL is not a bad choice. If you have to host a website that uses Integrated Windows Authentication and SharePoint sites, you're better off with Windows. That situation is far more common than most people realize.

As I mentioned, Linux lacks conformity across distributions. This is a double edged sword… You get to customize things easier, but it makes running multiple platforms a pain.

If I wasn't an IT professional… I'd probably use Linux for just about everything. Unfortunately, my job requires far more than Linux can easily do. I really do love Linux… Even with desktop environments that aren't quite finished, kernel modules that are labeled "Dangerous," and all the other quirks that non-enterprise releases of Linux come with. You know what I'm talking about… You install Kubuntu, Debian, etc… And the fancy set of crystal icons doesn't quite render properly… your webcam won't work… Flash doesn't always work properly… But it's still fun to use, and it gets the job done.

Distros used currently:
CentOS 5
Slackware 12.2
Gentoo
RHEL 5
OpenSuSE 11.1

EDIT: Obviously hardware support is not Linux's fault, but it is still an issue with Linux and useability for desktop systems.

- Patching can be difficult – As I said, this is a distro issue that does not affect all releases. If I download OpenSuSE and Slackware, OpenSuSE will be up and running fully patched (including all packages available in repositories), long before I have even assessed what needs to be patched on Slackware.

- Lacks scalability – The scalability issues are still present. I have yet to see a standard distro that did not support LDAP, even the miniature Linux on my Lexmark printers interfaces with Active Directory. The problem is, that even with Samba4, we'll pretend it's not just an alpha, and all of the authentication you want to install, be it full PKI with biometric token, or simply NTLM/kerberos, it still cannot fully integrate into an Active Directory environment. Linux lacks the filesystem support, and the core Windows functionality (reference monitor, group policy, secure auditing, etc).

Peter

March 28th, 2010 at 3:58 pm

If your career goal is to develop new drugs then you must major in pharmacology and have postgraduate qualifications in this field.

Your undergraduate courses will need to include biology, chemistry, mathematics, physiology, cell biology, toxicology and similar related courses.

These are necessary fundamentals for you to understand the action of drugs on an organism and be able to develop new drugs.

Some higher educational institutions combine pharmacology and toxicology into a single program as does Michigan State University. Michigan State University offers PhD training in Pharmacology & Toxicology with an optional Environmental Toxicology specialization. They also offer a Professional Science Masters in Integrative Pharmacology.

Hope this helps.

Rob J

April 9th, 2010 at 3:59 pm

Yes – this has been confirmed by Apple.

MsCDM

April 9th, 2010 at 5:23 pm

They've had success in breeding captive animals (once they figured out the proper settings), but it's not foolproof or easy, or by any means going to repopulate the panda population to a point that isnt' dangerously low. Breeding animals in captivity doesn't help the species overall if their habitat is gone etc. and they aren't able to succeed in the wild.

neversummer84

May 19th, 2010 at 3:19 am

What are the hours of work?
Typically standard 9-5, 40 hours a week. Could be different if you work for yourself.

Wat are the main duties?
Building websites, coding and sometimes doing graphic design. There can also be some database management.

What additional education did ou take to do this?
Usually a degree in IT or computer science, with some training in graphic design.

Are you satified with your job?
That is a pretty subjective question. I worked as a web developer during college, and I enjoyed it very much.

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