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Advent 1.6.0.2 (Windows)

Advent is a green ring with 4 candles on top of it. It is a fun tool for the month of December. The fist candle will be lit up four weeks before christmas, the second three weeks before and so on. You need to advance your system time to see...

Tags: Advent, German IT Development, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2007-11-23

Advent Wreath 3D 1 (Windows)

It's an old-world holiday tradition a colorfully decorated wreath of fresh evergreen cuttings with 4 candles one to be lit on each of the four Sundays leading up to Christmas is shown in this beautiful Christmas screensaver. An open fire in the fireplace serves as a backdrop for a beautifully...

Tags: Advent, Tradition, Screensaver-network, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2007-06-15

Advent X 1.0 (Mac)

At last, Macintosh and Windows webmasters and web developers have a powerful, cost-effective banner advertisement solution. Advent runs on an impression-based system, meaning that administrators can specify a number of impressions, or page-views purchased and Advent will send out the allotted number of views. Advent also tracks how many times...

Tags: Advent, Web, Apple Macintosh, Banner Advertisement, Melonsoft, Channel Management, Marketing

Software downloads 2003-04-08

Advent 1.0 (Mac)

At last, Macintosh and Windows webmasters and web developers have a powerful, cost-effective banner advertisement solution. Advent runs on an impression-based system, meaning that administrators can specify a number of impressions, or page-views purchased and Advent will send out the allotted number of views. Advent also tracks how many times...

Tags: Advent, Web, Apple Macintosh, Banner Advertisement, Melonsoft, Channel Management, Marketing

Software downloads 2003-04-08

Additional Resources

Does Amazon know where it's going with the Kindle?

Amazon, please ignore AdrianNormally I'm right with Adrian, but he obviously doesn't have a Kindle, which is my favorite device. To Amazon: don't add battery sucking features (like wi-fi), we don't care about multi-purpose (it's a bookreader!), i don't want cr@apps on my Kindle (it's a bookreader!) and I don't...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-25

The surgeons of tomorrow: Miniaturized robots that go inside you

Before the advent of laparoscopic or keyhole surgery in the 70's, operations such as a stomach bypass or gall bladder removal required large incisions and long periods for recovery. The next chapter further minimizes the invasiveness of surgical procedures via robots that are millimeters in size that infiltrate our bodies...

Tags: Robots, Emerging Technologies, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-11-22

Designing High Availability for Internet Information Services

End downtime forever! - Organizations today are relying more and more on Web services for the implementation of mission-critical applications. With the advent of Service-Oriented Architectures SOAs,which make extensive use of the core Hypertext Transfer Protocol HTTP and the Secure Sockets Layer SSL, the Web server from the past has...

Tags: Web Server, CA XOSoft, High Availability, Information Service, Microsoft IIS Server, Web Servers, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Servers, Internet, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware

White papers 2009-11-17

Social book reading in the digital age

* Jennifer Leggio is on vacation Guest editorial by Andy Santamaria I know what you're thinking. You read the title of this post and thought, "Books have always been social, we share them with friends, form book clubs, and bend at Oprah's...

Tags: Twitter Inc., Blog, Andy Santamaria, E-books, Blogging, Personal Technology, Internet, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2009-11-02

Netbooks worth the upgrade to Windows 7? Heck yes!

For those who are still using XP Home in our netbook deployments, the $70 volume academic license upgrade is worth the cost of admission. $70 a pop can add up quickly, but in schools wedded to a Windows ecosystem, the advent of a netbook-capable, solid, secure OS in Windows...

Tags: Netbook, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-10-26

Microsoft makes changes to browser ballot screen; user testing to commence

Microsoft is trying to play games again.The selection screen is reasonable except for the screed under the IE8 browser indicating that it is "better faster safer easier". First of all, "better faster safer and easier" than what ? IE6 ? Firefox ? Safari ?...If the...

Tags: Web browsers, selection screen, Microsoft Corp., Web browser, Microsoft Internet Explorer, IE8, Microsoft Windows Server Update Services

Discussion threads 2009-10-07

Mozilla UX chief: What's next for Mozilla, Firefox and the Web

IE team had been laid off?!Is that what Raskin said, or you? Wherever did he or you get that idea? AFAIK they got combined with the User/GDI folks to become the Avalon WPF team. http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles/Michael-Wallent-Advent-and-Evolution-of-WPF/RE: Mozilla UX chief: What's next for Mozilla, Firefox and the Web4 years...

Tags: Web browsers, Mozilla Corp., Mozilla Firefox, Web

Discussion threads 2009-10-02

Intuit and Mint promise "no changes"; but maybe a few would be OK

I would disagree Sam...You are missing the point of Mint then. This is a financial aggregator - nothing more, nothing less - to get a birds-eye view of your financial status. These features you want, would be better served by using the Quicken Online product for a nominal fee or...

Tags: Financial services, Intuit Inc., bank

Discussion threads 2009-10-02

What if my kid went to Dawson's School of Online Learning?

As long as you are not teachingOtherwise they would be in a class called Google101.AcronymsYou gotta be careful about acronyms. SOL is a common acro for s**t-outta-luck. With the D in front, you get: da**-s**t-outta-luck. Not what you should use for a school, is it? And you can't use just...

Tags: E-learning, training and certification, Sol, education, Dawson, online learning, Harvard

Discussion threads 2009-09-28

SocialToo gives social networkers a false sense of security

False SenseI think there is an innate false sense of security with social media after the initial exposure and use of a platform (FB, TWTR, LinkedIn etc.).Anything that adds an additional layer of "false sense" needs to be brought in the light, as you did... good post.If SocialToo "GETS IT"...

Tags: Viruses and worms, SocialToo, false sense, social networker, networker, security

Discussion threads 2009-09-28

Watch Out for That Meteor, Stallman.

Show me the innovation StallmanWhile Microsoft pushes forward software technology and produces modern software, open source continues to copy the trailing edge of the innovators. Want an Office97 copy? Want a media player that works on all platforms but just not as well as Windows Media Player, want...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Jason, F/OSS, Stallman, software

Discussion threads 2009-09-22

The 10 biggest moments in IT history

Missing: Tim Berners-Lee?The Mouse, and the GUI ...... without the invention of the mouse or the GUI/WYSIWYG there would not be as many users as there are today, and I would hazard a guess that it would be restricted to business applications like accounting, and Data Analysis.LudoRE: The 10...

Tags: Mice, Strategy, Operating systems, GUI, PARC User Interface, mouse, Microsoft Corp., IT History, Xerox PARC, operating system, IBM Corp., information technology

Discussion threads 2009-09-21

The 10 biggest moments in IT history

Despite its relatively short lifespan, IT has had some huge watershed moments. TechRepublic's Jack Wallen followed the tech timeline to identify the most pivotal events. It’s unlikely that everyone will ever agree on the most important dates in the history of IT. I...

Tags: ARPAnet, Information Technology, Operating System, Dot-com, Apple Inc., Wikipedia, COBOL, Napster Inc., Wiki, Linux, Microsoft Windows 95, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Online Communications, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-09-21

Intuit's reported purchase of Mint: A fine defensive move

NervousIntuit never merged their online product and their excellent Paytrust product, and now they are likely to screw up mint, which I liked as well. This does not bode well.I dislike having my financial info on the web.Must just be me, since all those Mint users don't seem concerned. ...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Intuit Inc., reported purchase, defensive move

Discussion threads 2009-09-14

OrangeVocoder 3.3.1 (Mac)

With the advent of digital audio, realistic simulation of analog filters and circuitry has become a science of itself. We are very proud of being able to deliver you the perhaps fastest, most flexible and most transparent sounding simulation of an analog vocoder effect as a new plug in for...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Analog, Prosoniq Products Software, Digital Music, Manufacturing, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-08-29

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