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- Freeze Frame 2.0 becomes Bokeh 1.0
- When you need all the processing power your Mac can provide, it's good to eliminate distractions. That's where Elgebar Studios's Freeze Frame and now Bokeh, its Leopard-only successor, comes to the rescue. The $17 Bokeh software lets users target a single application that's running processor-intensive tasks and...
- Tags: Distraction, Apple Macintosh, Image, Desktops, Hardware, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- Distraction (exe)
- Distraction is a game where you must navigate your bird to collect as much fruits as you can, while simultaneously avoiding missiles and other obstacles. The game is very fast paced and you must also avoid other animals that try to distract you. This version is the first release on...
- Tags: Distraction, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2007-12-27
- Google's big green energy goal: A Distraction?
- Google's big green energy goal: A distraction?Not such a bad ideaI think the press they will get if they manage it will be well worth the investment. Plus, they're unlikely to develop the technologies themselves and more likely to buy up and develop a startup energy co, providing valuable cash...
- Tags: Data centers, Google Inc., distraction, big green energy goal, green energy goal, energy goal
- Discussion threads 2007-11-27
- CAD/CIM and the SAB software selection
- CAD/CIM and the SAB software selectionSun RaysIf Sun Rays offer good OpenGL performance then I don't see why they couldn't be used. A lot of CAD/CAM work is all Unix based anyway, and sticking a Unix workstation of every desk is expensive. Also, some of the software may...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Sun Ray, Sun Microsystems Inc., SAB Software
- Discussion threads 2007-09-06
- Quantifying the Impact of Information Overload
- Thanks to Intel's Nathan Zeldes, David Sward, Sigal Lounchheim for such a thorough job quantifying the impact of information overload or what they call "Infomania":On average, knowledge workers can expect three minutes of uninterrupted work on any task before being interrupted. Sources of interruption include e–mail, instant...
- Tags: Distraction, IM, Minute, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2007-08-16
- States hang up on teenage drivers
- States hang up on teenage driversWhy not?It would seem that any distraction, be it the phone, nutrition, makeup, watching a screen, be it, GPS or a movie, foreplay, singing, talking to one's-self,etc. are all distractions, and should all be driving offenses, by anyone.While teens are singled out due to their...
- Tags: Cellular phones, cell phone industry, cell phone, phone, distraction
- Discussion threads 2007-06-04
- Digital multitasking changing how kids learn
- Digital multitasking changing how kids learnI am not convinced ...I was one of those kids who, as an only child, had no siblings distracting me while I studied but I did study with the TV, radio, or other source of distraction such as my parents blaring in the background. ...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, distraction, TV
- Discussion threads 2006-07-27
- University of New Hampshire's 'Project 54' Helps Keep Troopers' Eyes on the Road With Help From Hitachi Endurastar Hard Drives
- Distracted drivers may be the butt of many a popular joke - simultaneously chatting on cell phones, fiddling with CD players and drinking lattes while steering their cars through rush-hour traffic - but distraction is no laughing matter to law enforcement officers. What really matters are quick eyes, hands and...
- Tags: Distraction, Hard Drive, Hitachi Ltd., Storage, Hardware
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- UC Law bans classroom web access
- I love having Internet access during my grad classes. I can get additional references for any information presented with a quick bit of Googling, I can examine alternate viewpoints, or I can look at last week's homework. Of course, I can also check my email, write a blog...
- Tags: Web, Professor, Student, University Of Chicago Law School, Law School, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Sun's continuing open source problem
- Sun's continuing open source problemSun executives are fucking morons...and a scarey bunch in general. I once heard some brain dead Sun twit emotionally speak about Scott McNealy as their spiritual leader. It seems like every couple of months some "new" strategy will save them from their ultimate demise. Hey guys,...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., hardware, open source
- Discussion threads 2008-05-07
- Sometimes it takes a thousand words
- Once upon a time... I spent about three months working nearly full time with five juniors putting together a set of interlocking business process and applications models for a client. The results were beautiful: three fat binders filled with wonderfully clear IEW drawings lovingly printed on a QMS Color laser...
- Tags: Client, Mathematics, Modeling, Research & Development, Team Management, Business Operations, Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- Microsoft walks away from Yahoo: Assessing winners, losers and Plan Bs
- Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer walked away from his bid for Yahoo and left numerous questions hanging. The biggest ones: What's plan B for Microsoft? Can Yahoo deliver? And who are the winners in the aftermath of the Yahoo saga. Here's your cheat sheet to the aftermath (Techmeme,...
- Tags: Google Inc., Jerry Yang, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-04
- Microsoft walks: Five reasons why it's a good move
- Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made the right call. He walked away from Yahoo. Last ditch talks about a friendly merger between Microsoft and Yahoo unraveled when Yahoo wouldn't budge from an asking price of $37, $4 a share more than Microsoft was willing to pay Techmeme. Given...
- Tags: Steve Ballmer, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microhoo, Microsoft Windows, Financial Accounting, Corporate Law, Operating Systems, Software, Finance, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-03
- Ballmer still claims Microsoft might walk away from Yahoo
- Ballmer still claims Microsoft might walk away from YahooTo quote the old westerns......"if you're going to shoot, shoot". I agree that Ballmer's most recent comments are mere posturing. If he wanted to walk away which he should do, he would have done it already.Hard to say really...If MS...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., BALLMER STILL, stock
- Discussion threads 2008-05-01
- Has math instruction actually changed in the last 40 years?
- Has math instruction actually changed in the last 40 years?It depends....In my kids' school district, math teaching is geared toward taking the district assessments and focuses specifically on learning what will be on the next assessment. Assessments are given quarterly. While this school district didn't exist 40 years...
- Tags: math instruction, calculator
- Discussion threads 2008-04-30
- Microsoft: Does a Yahoo proxy war add up?
- Microsoft has three clear paths to take with regards to Yahoo acquisition: It can make a hostile bid, raise its offer or walk away and hope for a better price later. Given that Microsoft's "negotiate or else" deadline passed Saturday the software giant should be making its...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- Microsoft earnings cheat sheet: Vista SP1 impact; Strong results expected; Is Yahoo a Distraction?
- Microsoft earnings cheat sheet: Vista SP1 impact; Strong results expected; Is Yahoo a distraction?Overseas pricing is a rip offMicrosoft reduced US prices for Vista by an reasonable amount but reduced the horrendously high UK prices hardly at all. With the weakening dollar the ratio of UK price to US price...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-04-24
- Microsoft earnings cheat sheet: Vista SP1 impact; Strong results expected; Is Yahoo a Distraction?
- Did Microsoft keep its focus amid all the Yahoo hubbub? It may not matter given the bump from the weak dollar that Microsoft is expected to get in the third quarter. According to Thomson Financial, Microsoft all resources is expected to report fiscal third quarter earnings of...
- Tags: Revenue, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Earnings, Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Xbox Shipment, Operational Accounting, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Finance, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-24
- Whoa, WOA: Are acronyms clouding up the cloud?
- ZDNet colleague Dana Gardner points to Michael Meehan's recent post on the Web Oriented Architecture WOA -- Mike spoke with some industry practitioners who apparently didn't think too much of the "WOA" moniker, striking them "as redundant and nothing particularly new, an empty suit if you will." Just another fancy...
- Tags: Web, SOA, Web Oriented Architecture, SOA Folk, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Channel Management, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- What is a sustainable business anyway?
- Once you penetrate some of the sustainability hype the key question at board level is this: what action are you actually prepared to take? For a problem like climate change, where there is no regulatory hurdle and action is voluntary though enlightened by self interest, what action is enough? ...
- Tags: Carbon Dioxide, General Motors Corp., James Farrar
- Blog posts 2008-04-10
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