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1-Click Answers for Mac 1.0.19 (Mac)

Answers.com is an answer engine - the ultimate online reference library, with quick accurate dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopedia, bios, tech terms, news, sports, and weather. With 1-Click Answers, just click on any word (Command+Option+G) in any application (e-mail, browser, Office, and so on), and get a quick definition or explanation. The...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, 1-Click, Answers Widget, BIOS, Desktops, E-mail, Hardware, Components, Online Communications

Software downloads 2008-06-23

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Wrangling banks' security architecture to allow transactions anywhere

If only bank websites were as simple and easy to use as an iPhone app. Believe it or not, that wish isn't far from fruition. Earlier this year, banking provider Waterfield Technologies and application infrastructure guru WorkLight teamed up to offer secure, widget-based banking...

Tags: Bank, Security, UI, Financial Services, Banking, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-06-10

Honey I just blew up the ERP

Sigurd Rinde, one of my Irregular pals is also one of the sharpest people I know. He constantly challenges the status quo in a creative way. This morning's offering made me smile: Good thing about working from home is that I can watch webstreams from conferences -...

Tags: Innovation, Business Process, Accounting, Crowdsourcing, ERP, Sig, Dick, Steve, Effectiveness, Operational Planning, Web 2.0, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Business Operations, Internet, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-01-29

Web 2.0 success stories driving WOA and informing SOA

The striking contrast between the stories that we've been hearing lately about the slow going of SOA initiatives in the enterprise and the vibrant and rapidly growing ecosystems similar to them on the consumer Web has been generating a lot of debate and discussion in the enterprise IT community recently....

Tags: Web, Web 2.0, SOA, Organization, Enterprise, WOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Channel Management, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2008-04-17

Global Search and Reservations of Hotels 2 (Windows)

Opera Widget that will allow you to easily search for a hotel in desired location and for a specified time interval. Global Search and Reservations of Hotels is a widget that will let you search for desired hotel in a desired location. Search, and Reservation - in 600 000 hotels...

Tags: Hotel, Sergesz, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2007-12-11

Y Answers 2 (Windows)

Y! Answers will answer any question you type as long as it's in the database. This is not a Y! official Widget. It was created for Y! Intern Widget Contest. Y! Answers search capability based on Questions type: All; Undecided Open for vote; Answered; Open Questions; and Best Answers. This...

Tags: Search Technology, Jagjeet Gill, Y, Microsoft Windows, Search, Storage, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2007-10-31

The 10 top challenges facing enterprise mashups

The promise of remixing existing online services and data into entirely new online applications in a rapid, inexpensive manner, often referred to as mashups, has captured the software industry's imagination since the release of first major example, HousingMaps.com, in early 2005. Since then, mashups have offered the potential to...

Tags: Spreadsheet, IBM Corp., Mashup, ProgrammableWeb, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2007-10-16

Google Web Definitions 1 (Windows)

This is not yet another Google widget. Type in a word or a phrase in this widget, and it will fetch you the appropriate definitions for that word or phrase that Google has gathered from various online sources. Quick answers to almost anything, right on your desktop without even opening...

Tags: Google Inc., Web, Microsoft Windows, Web Browser, Sharath, Web Browsers, Cloud Computing, Internet

Software downloads 2007-07-26

A bumper crop of new mashup platforms

While application developers tend to roll their eyes at the concept of end-user mashups, they remain one of the more promising new trends in software development this year. And while it's certainly true it's early days yet for mashups, the tools that enable them remaining rather limited, seems to...

Tags: Wikis, Widgets, Web services, Web as Platform, Web 2.0 Platforms, Web 2.0, Two-Way Web, The Long Tail, SOA, Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, SaaS, RSS, Right To Remix, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), Products, Open APIs, Mashups, JSON, Governance, Global SOA, Gadgets, Enterprise Wikis, Enterprise Web 2.0, Enterprise Mashups, Encouraging Unintended Uses, Design Patterns, Customer Self-Service, Cost-effective scalability, Business Models, Ajax

Blog posts 2007-07-23

Bouncy Ball 1.2 (Windows)

A ball that bounces. Pick it up and throw it around your desktop. Possibly similar to Go Go Redball. Widget on Apple's site. Bouncy Ball shows some of the issues with the built in animator routine in Yahoo. Widget Engine and looks for answers. This version is the first release...

Tags: Bouncy Ball, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2007-07-11

Sony VAIO FZ180E

The midsize Media Center laptop is a hard concept to get one's head around. Those interested in playing movies, especially via Blu-ray, are likely to want a 17-inch or larger display, while mainstream users often turn to 15-inch laptops for their mix of portability and pricing--not a surfeit of media...

Tags: Notebooks, Keyboards, Desktops, Blu-ray, Media Center laptop, laptop computer, Sony Vaio, Sony Corp., keyboard

Product reviews 2007-06-18

Life without Google Day 5: The Kartoo experience

Life without Google Day 5: The Kartoo experienceVery nice!!!I don't it will do the work Google is doing for me but it's refreshing and highlight things you don't see will Google.Thanks.While you looking at other sites, can you......find one that does newgroups usenet searches? Right now, Google is the...

Tags: Blogging, SEARCH, RSS, searchCrystal, Google Inc., KartOO, Usenet

Discussion threads 2007-06-13

Google's risky advertising business

Michael Arrington continues to be quite displeased with the PayPerPost business model."How much is your soul worth" he asks, in TechCrunch's second "Soulless" PayPerPost story.BUT, are media souls really in danger of being compromised merely because of one new advertorial entrant into the publishing market?TechCrunch has reassuringly undescored that IT "does not accept...

Tags: AdSense, Advertising, AdWords, Google, Google Ads

Blog posts 2007-05-28

MoveOn.org accuses MySpace of "selective online censorship"

I'm not at the Personal Democracy Forum, but I have been receiving regular updates from MoveOn.org about what they believe is selective censorship of some user-generated content from MySpace.A pamphlet was to be distributed by MoveOn.org to an early afternoon panel featuring MoveOn's Executive Director Eli Pariser and MySpace's main...

Tags: Regulatory

Blog posts 2007-05-18

Gradebook Buddy 1.1 (Windows)

Here is a sliding grading tool for teachers and students. Just slide the card to show the number of problems in an assignment and you get the corresponding grades for the number of wrong answers. The widget provides grades for assignments with 6 to 99 questions.

Tags: Assignment, Grade, Andrew Mantle, Widget, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2007-03-27

Amazon answers Yahoo: Askville launches

“Ask a question, get real answers from real people,” Amazon touts at its new Askville, “a better place for you to ask, answer, meet, and play!”Beta launched last month, Amazon’s Askville is a new competitive entrant to Yahoo Answers, which celebrated its one year anniversary last month (see “Yahoo Answers,...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Amazon&rsquo, s Askville, Askville, Social Media, Social Networking, Television, Amateur Content, Social Web, User-Generated Content, Culture, Search, Web 2.0, Business Models

Blog posts 2007-01-04

In this season of jingles, perhaps now is the time to get Jangl'd

When was the last time you gave your phone number to someone, and then later, wished that you hadnt? Maybe its that psycho ex-signficant other? Or, perhaps you unwittingly gave your number to some company only to find that they handed it over to some telemarketer who wont leave you...

Tags: Jangl, Telephony, Personal Technology, Podcasts, General

Blog posts 2006-12-01

Answers Search Widget 1.0 (Mac)

Search the Answers website for answers to any question or about any subject from the Dashboard in Mac OS X Tiger. Contains search dialog for a answers.com search, which opens up a web browser to display the results.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Monster, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2006-08-30

Homework Assistant 1.1 (Mac)

The HomeworkAssistant widget takes a user entered search term and submits it to the Library of Congress, Answers.com, Nature.com, MSN Encarta, Google Scholar, and National Geographic search sites. The resulting notebook contains a "top results" page from each site.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, AquaMinds Software, Notebooks, Desktops, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

Software downloads 2006-07-20

Answers Widget 1.0.2 (Mac)

The Answers Widget for Mac OSX gives you quick access to Answers.com directly on your dashboard. Get instant access to Answers.com content drawn from Wikipedia, American Heritage Dictionary, Roget's Thesaurus, and Columbia University Press Encyclopedia as well as maps, company snapshots, stock prices, legal, medical, nutrition, and various quality sources....

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Answers.com, Apple Mac OS X, Wiki, Desktops, Investment, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Online Communications, Hardware, Finance

Software downloads 2005-07-06