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MyUSBOnly Free 2007 1.9 (Windows)

Lock the Bad Guys out of your USB ports with MyUSBOnly; Block Untrusted USB Memory Stick Activity in Office. Prevent data theft by blocking all but your trusted USB storage devices. Stop your files from walking away on thumb drives, mp3 players, flash cards and portable USB hard drives. Secretly...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, USB, A.C. Element

Software downloads 2008-09-22

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Apple leaves Chamber of Commerce in green dispute

Cap and TAX dramatically increases green house gassesGood for the chamber of commerce to have their eyes open. All this energy tax legislation does is move energy consuming manufacturing off shore to countries where the production of that energy is dramatically more pollution producing. Apple needs to pull it's head...

Tags: Apple Inc., Obama, manufacturing

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

Six types of IT project failure

HRM FailureThe biggest missing category/type is human resource management failure, to include poorly defined work, roles, KSAOCs the human characteristics needed to accomplish work effectively; poorly selected participants as to their KSAOCs; poorly designed/executed incentives could be routine total compensation plans or those specific to the project; poorly designed/executed work...

Tags: Human resource management (HRM), Organizational structure, HRM, IT Project Failure, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-09-21

2010 Mercedes-Benz E550 Coupe

Photo gallery:2010 Mercedes-Benz E550 CoupeDespite rough economic times and a focus on carbon footprints, the automotive industry has shown great vitality in the latter half of this decade, looking beyond the boring model updates of the past to deliver truly exciting new cars. That trend is clearly in evidence at...

Tags: coupe, Mercedes-Benz, E550 Coupe, sedan

Product reviews 2009-09-08

Over 75% of organizations haven't upgraded to latest Microsoft Office

Cause Office 2007 is a UI MESSReally, who at MS decided the ribbon was a good thing? They should be fired.Let's take up 5 rows of space at the top of my screen that I can't change, can't modify and will confuse the living cr@p out of you.And simple...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., OpenOffice, latest Microsoft Office

Discussion threads 2009-08-28

Renaissance to deliver 0.16 prototype this week with hybrid toolbar

The Renaissance project plans to release this week another prototype of its next gen OpenOffice GUI that offers a "hybrid" toolbar combining traditional menus and tabbed toolbars, project leaders say. "0.16 should be available early next week," wrote John McCreesh, marketing project lead for OpenOffice.org, in an...

Tags: Prototype, Toolbar, Microsoft Corp., Ribbon, OpenOffice, Office Suites, Software, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-08-23

Final thoughts on supermodel-blogger catfight

A few final thoughts on the "skank" blogger case. I was on The Jeff Farias Show Friday talking about this story. Jeff asked me if I was concerned about courts stomping on Internet anonymity and I said, generally, no, that courts must strike a balance between First Amendment rights of...

Tags: Court, Judge, Rosemary Port, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-08-23

The First Amendment rights of anonymous defamers

Photo posted on 'Skanks of NYC' blog Yesterday I wrote that a Manhattan federal judge has ordered Google to tell supermodel Liskula Cohen the identity of the blogger behind the "Skanks of NYC" blog, which brands Cohen "a psychotic, lying, whoring, still going to clubs at her...

Tags: Defamation, First Amendment, Cahill, Courts, D.C. Case, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-08-20

Oracle's Fusion middleware master plan starts coming together

Oracle on Wednesday launched its Fusion 11g middleware family and the effort is aimed at linking the technological underpinnings of all of the company's acquired applications, owning the market, creating one fundamental software stack for the enterprise, laying the foundation for a cloud strategy as well as a few other...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Chances, Miko Matsumura, Middleware, Programming Languages, Java, Enterprise Software, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-01

TIBCO Silver: RAD and governance for enterprise clouds

TIBCO is announcing a beta release of Silver, its RAD environment for global 2000 companies that are developing for cloud computing environments. The beta is expected to be released at the end of the month. Representatives from TIBCO discussed the merits of the company's approach to this...

Tags: TIBCO Software Inc., RAD, SAP AG, Silver, VInnie, Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Human Resources, Gender And Diversity, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-06-02

2009 Nissan Cube S

Photo gallery:2009 Nissan Cube SWith its new Cube model, Nissan seems intent on outdoing the Honda Element and Scion xB for polarizing style. Some people are going to hate the 2009 Nissan Cube's looks, and some people are going to love it. But nobody can deny the practicality of the...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Cube, Nissan Motor Co. Ltd.

Product reviews 2009-05-11

How to Avoid Collaboration Traps, Create Unity and Get Results

Collaboration - How Leaders Avoid the Traps, Create Unity, and Reap Big Results Morten T. Hansen Harvard Business Press ISBN 978-1-4221-1515-2 The great power of Morten Hansen's book 'Collaboration', the result of fifteen years of research into internal collaboration in...

Tags: Hansen, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-05-10

The Oracle open source credibility gap

The Oracle open source credibility gapIf I was in Larry Ellison's shoes......I'd do the following:1. Spin off MySQL either by selling it to the public, or by setting up a non-profit foundation and transferring all MySQL copyrights and employees to it. Ellison would get to play the good...

Tags: StarOffice, PRODUCTIVITY, Development tools, open source, Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Studio

Discussion threads 2009-04-27

AVADirect Custom Gaming PC

A dirty secret of gaming PC reviews is that vendors frequently try to submit systems with aggressive overclocking that they won't actually sell because of poor reliability, but that will last long enough to score well on our benchmarks. Imagine our skepticism when this $2,900 AVADirect Custom Gaming PC showed...

Tags: Network technology, PC, AVADirect Custom Gaming PC, gaming PC

Product reviews 2009-04-23

Would you cheat to get 'certified'?

Would you cheat to get 'certified'?Nothing"Does certification mean anything?"Nothing, the MSCE scam killed it.Sadly, too many believe in CertificationSadly, too many believe in Certification than required skills, hence it is happening.Cheers,Kathiravan Manoharanhttp://kathyravan.blogspot.comhttp://paisamechanic.blogspot.comCertification is worthlessHR is looking for a checkbox to mark. They have no clue what skills it actually takes...

Tags: Quality, training and certification, certification, Certification Program

Discussion threads 2009-03-30

Calling all carbon capture and recycling companies

Calling all carbon capture and recycling companiesRecycling is illegal.You can't make anything out of garbage!Really who would purchase anything made out of garbage?There would be no way that garbage particles could be filtered out of plastic or even paper to make the material good enough for use in these sophisticated...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Big Brother, inmate, recycling company, carbon capture, tax, global warming

Discussion threads 2009-03-23

Easy Barcode Label Pro 1.39 (Windows)

Software to design and print labels with texts, barcodes, and images. Design in WYSIWYG mode. Each element can be resized or moved easily with the mouse. Each element has characteristics that can be easily changed (size, color, position) Checksum generator for the following barcodes types: EAN13, EAN8, UPC-C, EAN14, SSCC,...

Tags: Barcode, Cellard, Mice, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-03-23

PDT 2.0: New tools for PHP developers

Recently, version 2.0 of the PHP Development Tools PDT project was officially released. PDT is one of the more popular projects at eclipse.org, with over 1 million unique downloads to date. I caught up with Roy Ganor, the project lead for PDT and Zend Studio for Eclipse to ask him...

Tags: Developer, PHP, Eclipse, Language, Tool, PHP Development Tools, Ed, PHP Development Tools 2.0, PHP Development Tools 2.0 Feature, Open Source Project, Scripting Languages, Java Development Tools, Open Source, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Development Tools, Software Development, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2009-01-27

The case for Scala

Programming languages are like screwdrivers for developers. One size does not fit all, so good programmers keep several in their tool belt. The problem is, new languages are coming out all the time and you've only got so much room on your belt and in your schedule to learn them....

Tags: Function, Method, Functional Programming, Language, Scala, Seq, List, Scala System, HQ9+, env:Env, David J. Biesack, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-11-24

Is Apple building a search engine?

Is Apple building a search engine?MS does not blank.... it just lacks imagination.Now what I found funny is that NonZ went to great lengths to try and slam Apple but his descriptions sort of sounded very MS in nature to my eyes and ears. After all complicated is a...

Tags: SEARCH, Apple Inc., Apple Building, search engine, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-11-13