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active desktop for Employee (zip)

Active Desktop allows you to see live screenshots of multi network computers and take a control of a remote computer by controlling it's mouse and keyboard, this is especially useful when you need to assist the person who uses the remote computer, and you can edit file, open file, download...

Tags: Active Desktop, Computer, IMonitor Soft, Productivity

Software downloads 2008-03-31

Desktop Hijack Fix (zip)

License: Freeware- Restores Windows Active Desktop back to original settings- Ability to backup and restore non-default Active Desktop settings- Detects when your Active Desktop settings have changed. Description: This tool can be used to fix most problems in which your normal background is not displayed. Usually in the backgrounds place...

Tags: Desktop, Active Desktop, Random Rhyhtm

Software downloads 2008-02-27

active desktop Calendar (exe)

This fully customizable calendar with notes, tasks, alarms and contacts provides seamless integration and interactivity with the desktop background. You can organize data in layers and share them in a local network. The program integrates with Outlook to show its appointments/tasks on the desktop. Connection with Google calendars and web...

Tags: Active Desktop, Printing Calendar Data, Built-in Address Book, Desktops, Document Management, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting

Software downloads 2008-01-10

Promo Screen Calendar (exe)

Promo Screen Calendar is software which creates an active desktop calendar with your company’s logo, info and your product images set as desktop wallpaper. Having made a calendar, you can present it to your clients instead of traditional paper calendars, or put it to your web-site so that your clients...

Tags: Calendar, Active Desktop, Promo Screen Calendar

Software downloads 2006-08-03

Snow Desktop (exe)

Show snow effects on your desktop. It's special active desktop background. It is creative. This is a surprise that you bring your friends and family in Christmas season. Beautiful snowflakes and wind build an amazing scene and atmosphere for you as well as an appropriate desktop background that can be...

Tags: Active Desktop, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2006-01-13

Build 5219 (aka Sept CTP) missing PDC-demoed "mashup mojo"

Build 5219 aka Sept CTP missing PDC-demoed "mashup mojo"Active Desktop 2.0The sidebar is essentially Active Deskop 2.0 -- on the side of your screen instead of on the desktop under all your windows. The main enhancement is that "gadgets" can be written with Windows Presentation Framework, so they will...

Tags: sidebar, Active Desktop, PDC-demoed, Build 5219, Sept CTP, mashup

Discussion threads 2005-09-15

Winwall (zip)

Winwall is a free wallpaper changer software that can change your background images wallpaper on every startup, once a day or at regular intervals. It works on both the standard and the Active Desktop environment. It has the power to display JPG and GIF file type to desktop when your...

Tags: GIF, Active Desktop, Winwall

Software downloads 2005-08-22

Additional Resources

XP on XO: Negroponte has lost his bearings

At ZD's Hardware 2.0 blog, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes cites this quote from former OLPC developer Ivan Krstic about Nicholas Negroponte's rapidly shifting mission statement: In fact, I quit when Nicholas told me — and not just me — that learning was never part of the mission....

Tags: Education, Team, Microsoft Windows XP, Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Nicholas Negroponte, Team Management, Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-05-16

WinXP on XO laptops OK as long as Linux runs, too

Microsoft's agreement to offer Windows XP on OLPC's XO laptop is appropriate and long overdue. It was pure hypocrasy for Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates to publicly decry the so-called "Digital Divide" while privately refusing to support the XO simply because Linux was a supported operating system. ...

Tags: Operating System, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, XO, Gates Foundation, Linux, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Microsoft Windows, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-05-16

Verdiem spruces up its Survey PC power management software

Verdiem, one of the better known developers of power management software that counts Hewlett-Packard, Intel and Microsoft among its close partners, has delivered an impressive upgrade to its Surveyor technology. According to the Seattle-based company, the focus was on providing IT managers with even more configuration flexibility than previously available....

Tags: Software, Power Management, PC, Power Consumption, Survey, Verdiem, Desktops, Hardware, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Microsoft delivers another update to Office Live Workspace

Microsoft rolled out quietly on May 15 its 1.1 update to its Office Live Workspace service, which is currently in beta test. The 1.1 bits are available from the Microsoft Downloads site. adds performance updates, making Office Live Workspace run faster with Microsoft Office programs, plus the...

Tags: Microsoft Office Live Workspace, Microsoft Office Live, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Images: Mars is getting a new visitor

NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is expected to search for life after it touches down near an icy region of the Red Planet on May 25.On the morning of May 25, Mars will receive a new alien contraption from Earth, the Phoenix Mars Lander. Its three month mission is to sample...

Tags: Surface, Earth, NASA, Phoenix Technologies, It', CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-05-15

A robotic chef for your kitchen?

The European Commission has founded a project named 'Co-operative Human Robot Interaction Systems' CHRIS for a cost of €3.65 million. The project, which started in March 2008, will last 4 years. It is based at Bristol Robotics Lab BRL which will work with the University of the West of England...

Tags: Project, CHRIS, Service Robot, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Safari "Carpet Bomb" attack information released

Nitesh Dhanjani released information about some of his newest research on the Safari web browser this morning, and interestingly enough, Apple has decided NOT to fix some of the issues he presented. Dhanjani reported three issues, as follows below from his blog: 1. Safari Carpet Bomb.It...

Tags: HTML, Apple Safari, Apple Inc., Issue, Safari Carpet Bomb.It, Security, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Off Topic: Integrating mobile devices can be a challenge

I've been working through a project for a KG client that involves running through the same script on Windows XP, Mac OS X (10.5) and Linux SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop. I mentioned the overall parameters of that effort in the post Off Topic: Desktop evaluation - Linux, Mac OS and...

Tags: Microsoft ActiveSync, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Mobile Device, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Apple Mac OS, Linux, Desktops, Handhelds, Software, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-05-15

News to know: Comcast-Plaxo; Icahn-Yahoo; Linux; Microsoft

Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Comcast buys Plaxo: Will social networking and TV fly? Dennis Howlett: Comcast scoops up Plaxo: good move Dan Farber: Comcast goes social with Plaxo acquisition Techmeme EIC podcast: HP-EDS; Google; SaaS Adrian...

Tags: Plaxo Inc., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Comcast Corp., Workday, Microsoft Corp., Zoho, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Rootkits, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, UNIX, Software, Hardware, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware

Blog posts 2008-05-15

What's wrong at OpenSolaris

The OpenSolaris community just released the first complete "Project Indiana" edition of the OS - and in that process demonstrated why community enthusiasm for the product seems to have weakened recently. It's a great product -everything from ZFS to a new package management system...

Tags: OpenSolaris, Intel X86, Developer Argument, Sun Solaris, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Get the AOL Succubus Off My Back!

Get the AOL Succubus Off My Back!Can you preserve your existing email address?Can you dump the monthly fee and preserve your existing AOL email address from when you were dialup if you go with their free web access?RE: Get the AOL Succubus Off My Back!AOL email has been free/web based...

Tags: E-mail providers, E-mail, PRODUCTIVITY, America Online Inc., AOL Succubus, Back!, AOL Succubus Off

Discussion threads 2008-05-14

Images: Microsoft puts universe on your desktop

Stargazers can find black holes, radiation fields, and supernovas right from their desktops with Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope. by CNET News.com

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Desktops, Hardware, CNET News.com, telescope, Microsoft, aerospace

Image galleries 2008-05-14

Linux's biggest victory so far - Splashtop to ship on ASUS motherboards

In what I think is the biggest victory for Linux so far, DeviceVM's Splashtop Linux desktop will ship across the entire P5Q range of motherboards, with more to follow by the end of the year. DeviceVM, the award-winning developer of Splashtop™, today announced the proliferation of their innovative software...

Tags: ASUS, Motherboard, Model, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-05-14