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AlfaClock2 (exe)

AlfaClock enhances your tray clock functionality. Of course, you can customize the look of the program, adjusting fonts, colors, backgrounds and more. But, the main goal of this program is to extend your tray clock functionality. It can speak the time, start Windows applications at a specified time, indicate processor...

Tags: Tray, AlfaSoft Research Labs, AlfaClock

Software downloads 2006-07-10

AlfaMini (zip)

AlfaMini is full featured desktop clock, countdown, and stop-watch.

Tags: AlfaSoft Research Labs, AlfaMini, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2006-05-12

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A 1968 computer demo that changed people's lives

Can a computer demo change people's lives? I've seen plenty in my time but none that moved me in any significant way. Yet 40 years ago, Doug Engelbart gave a demo that did change people's lives and changed the entire course of computer systems development. On Monday...

Tags: Mr., Collective Intelligence, Computer, Demo, Productivity, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-12-02

2009: Will It Be Better For Cable TV Than 2010 ... or 2011 ... or 2012?

Satellite TV has been gaining subscribers, relentlessly this decade. Particularly DirecTV, which had 3.8 million subscribers at the end of June 1998 and counted 17.2 million, at the end of this June, according to this compilation by the Satellite Broadcasting and Communications Association of America. ...

Tags: Cable Television, Broadcasting, Satellite, Brodsky, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Cable, Network Technology, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications, Networking, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-12-02

PARC VP, hardware systems laboratory: Scott Elrod

Scott Elrod, vice president of the hardware systems laboratory at the Palo Alto Research Center, talks to CNET's Dan Farber about researching and supporting innovation at one of Silicon Valley's most storied tech institutions. He discusses new advancements in erasable ink, clean tech and what it takes to stay...

Tags: Innovation, Xerox PARC, Hardware, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Administrator

Blog posts 2008-12-02

iPhone clouds true Smartphone snapshot

Can Apple, specifically its iPhone, save an entire industry? The iPhone - now ranked the second most popular smartphone - saw strong enough adoption in the quarter ending Sept. 30 to mask the sluggishness of the overall smartphone market this past summer, according to a report by...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Research In Motion Ltd., Smart Phone, Smartphone, Smart Phones, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Why Amazon needs Kindle 2.0

Kindle-mania has arrived this holiday season -- but will it stay for good? In a recent article on Forbes.com, Andy Greenberg writes that Amazon's next e-reader won't be a game-changer, but it will keep killing the competition -- and that's why Amazon needn't upgrade its fabled gadget....

Tags: Sony Corp., Apple iPod, Amazon.com Inc., Kindle-mania, Greenberg, Kindle, Digital Music, Digital Media, Wireless, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Google analyst sees falling revenue and board conflict

Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry predicts Google's revenue will fall in the next two years and the company is about to hit its adolescent stage with board conflicts and layoffs. In a research note, Chowdhry lays out the case. The gist: The economy is putting pressure...

Tags: Revenue, Google Inc., Board, Trip Chowdhry, Contacts, VC, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Where to next for ERP et al? (part 1, SAP)

With a Gartner probability of 0.9, I guarantee that what follows is not how things will turn out. At least not exactly. Paul Greenberg's post casting the enterprise CRM runes for 2009 provides the perfect springboard for something I've been thinking about since the middle of the year. Where the...

Tags: SAP AG, ERP, Leo Apotheker, Paul Greenberg, Paul, Claus Heinrich, Wookey, Sales Strategy, Cloud Computing, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Sales Force Management, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Sales, Marketing, Software, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Tech CEOs: Will they step up in a downturn?

Technology CEOs worth their paychecks are going to use this economic downturn to revamp business models and position for the so-called post recession era. It sounds rather obvious, but why don't all CEOs follow this playbook? We've heard the mantra repeatedly: Reload in a downturn. And a...

Tags: Technology Company, Information Technology, CEO, Forrester Research Inc., Strategy, Social Networking, Management, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-02

'Semantic Web for Business' ultimately misses the mark

Weighing in at 416 text-packed pages, Semantic Web for Business could have been the latest attempt to bridge the divide between the university hotbeds of Semantic Web research and a business community ripe for persuading of semantic technologies' multifarious benefits. In that, though, the volume proves ultimately unsatisfying and a...

Tags: Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Breaking the zero-day habit

* Ryan Naraine is traveling. Guest editorial by Mike Rothman Given that this blog is called "Zero Day," I think it's fitting that I'm calling for most security professionals to ignore most of what comes out of the security research community. To be...

Tags: Security Professional, Risks, Security, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-12-02

What a difference one atom makes

A new study by researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science shows exactly how important a single atom can be in a complex molecule. Reporting in the Nov. 26 edition of the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Yang Yang, a professor of materials science...

Tags: University Of California At Los Angeles, Solar Cell, Polymer, Solarmer Energy Inc., Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-12-01

The most slacking-est time of the year

Is this what your office looks like from November to January?Statistically speaking, you're not doing any work today -- or so poll after poll out this time of year about "lost productivity hours" and "distracted workers" claims. You probably won't work for the rest of the week,...

Tags: Workplace, Hour, Aisle, Recruitment & Selection, Marketing Research, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Marketing, Deb Perelman

Blog posts 2008-12-01

Study: Cell phones distract drivers more than passengers do

According to a new study, it's more distracting to have Paris Hilton's Sidekick in the car than it is to have Paris herself. Sorry, Paris. Cell phones distract car drivers more than talkative passengers -- and hands-free devices don't make for safer driving, according...

Tags: Car, Phone, Driver, Cell Phone, Telecom & Utilities, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-12-01

Supercomputers help design better golf balls

Researchers are using supercomputers to create new balls that will improve the game of avid golfers by flying farther. They've used the supercomputers at Arizona State University to simulate the physics of golf balls and to model how air flows around a ball in flight and to study how this...

Tags: Supercomputer, Flow, Arizona State University, Clinton Smith, Direct Numerical Simulation, Results, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-12-01

Is there no end to the AutoRun madness?

* Ryan Naraine is traveling. Guest editorial by Roel Schouwenberg Let's skip any introduction and get straight to the point: We're currently facing a problem of epidemic proportions in malware that is spreading via removable devices. The U.S. army's recent...

Tags: Floppy Disk, Malware, Microsoft Corp., USB, Virus, AutoRun, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Microsoft Windows, Viruses And Worms, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-12-01

News to know: Mumbai attacks, Microhoo, Holiday shopping, HDTVs

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jennifer Leggio: Mumbai attack coverage demonstrates good and bad maturation point of social media Social media marketing opportunism during tragedy = fail Oliver Marks: Mumbai Attacks...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., HDTV, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Attack, Digital Video, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Open Source, Personal Technology, Internet, Security, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-12-01

Just what does it take to switch to desktop Linux (part 1)?

Last week, when I asked "Are you sure you don't just want to use Ubuntu?" I received a record number of talkbacks, good, bad, and in between. One of the more interesting, though, came from reader ksheppard, who responded with a challenge: ...Here's a challenge to you: Make...

Tags: Budgeting, Superintendent, Desktop Linux, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-11-30

Surveys show consumers love HDTVs, but show some confusion about HD programming

Two recent research studies have found that the demand from U.S. consumers for HDTVs hasn't slackened despite the tough economy, but confusion remains about what you do with the TV once the set is purchased. You would presume that people are seeking out HDTVs in order to...

Tags: HDTV, Survey, Blu-ray, Programming, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2008-11-30