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Alphabetical Ordered Keyboard 1 (Windows)

April Fools' Day is around the corner. Do you find practical joke on friends, enemies or neighbors. Here is - Alphabetical Ordered Keyboard. Beginners get typing immediately with the Alphabetical Ordered Keyboard as they can find the letters easily. The letters are in A to Z order, like the alphabet....

Tags: Letter, Comfort Software, April Fools, Keyboards, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Hardware, Peripherals, Software

Software downloads 2008-10-29

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Sex, geeks and Blackbox Republic

The first time you meet Sam Lawrence, ex-CMO of Jive Software you just know he's a specially talented marketing person. He's a creative which for geeks should be an immediate affinity thing. Today, he, along with co-founder April Donato came out of stealth mode with Blackbox...

Tags: Community, Oliver, Collaboration, Groupware, Investment, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-07-14

Will Google's Chrome OS look rusty by late 2010?

Will Google's Chrome OS look rusty by late 2010?This is a thin client for webappsAs I read the press release, this is just a thin client for webapps. It looks like the only things that will run will run in a browser. They might be able to pull it off...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Operating systems, operating system, Google Inc., Google Chrome OS, netbook, Google Chrome, Web browser

Discussion threads 2009-07-08

Forget Kindle DX. How about the ZuneBook?

Forget Kindle DX. How about the ZuneBook?Isn't it a tad too prematurefor there to be Kindle fanboi-ism?No "fanboi-ism" sicI just paraphrased some of the nonsense you usually propose and added a couple of thingsHowever, isn't it premature to deride the Kindle DX?Apparently not.This one has his/her shorts in a wad...

Tags: E-books, Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, e-book, ZuneBook, Forget Kindle DX, Microsoft Zune, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-05-06

Outsourcing in this recession: will it increase?

Outsourcing in this recession: will it increase?Given that the bleeding of local jobs has helped lead TO this recession,and if people are sincere about ending this recession, then we need to look at the larger scheme and not diddle around with huff'n'puff pieces like this. I mean, doing...

Tags: Free trade, Taxes, Personal finance, recession, Obama, regulation, tax, outsourcing

Discussion threads 2009-04-26

Developers selling iPhone OS 3.0 on eBay (Updated)

Developers selling iPhone OS 3.0 on eBay UpdatedPirates?More like testers. I think Apple wants people to try this out but not the masses. I am one of those sellers and if you look a bit harder you will find the prices range from Free to $40.Jason, alot of people want...

Tags: eBay Inc., iPhone OS 3.0, iPhone OS, Jason, Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2009-04-16

Friday Rant - Conficker worm hype

Friday Rant - Conficker worm hypeHey...come on now......Chicken Little has made a pretty good living with this tactic...what's your problem? ;-)RE: Friday Rant - Conficker worm hypeI agree with you, my boss watched CNN and came in afraid to go online, I even had to run scans again on...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Spyware, adware & malware, Conficker Worm, Friday Rant, worm, paranoia, Y2K, USB flash drive

Discussion threads 2009-04-03

Google reveals secret server hardware

Google reveals secret server hardwareHow green is that?Every battery goes bad eventually, and having THOUSANDS of them leads me to ask - what happens to them when they die?RE: Google reveals secret server hardwareI am interested in how they hook that 12 volt battery up to the mobo and whether...

Tags: Engineering, Normal PC, battery, secret server hardware, server, server hardware, Google Inc., hardware

Discussion threads 2009-04-03

Google's April Fools roundup!

Google's April Fools roundup!You missed Brain SearchIf you visit Google on a mobile device (at least I was on a G1) you get a link for Brain Search which can read your brain waves if you hold your phone up to your head. You only have to think your query...

Tags: Google April Fool, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-04-01

Google's April Fools roundup!

Like ever year, Google took part in another round of entertaining April Fools hoaxes. No real products were launched this year like what happened several years ago when Gmail was launched. At that time, people thought it was a hoax since it was invite-only, and it sounded way...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Picasa, E-mail, Channel Management, E-mail Providers, Corporate Communications, Cloud Computing, Online Communications, Marketing, Internet, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2009-04-01

[April 1]: Ballmer makes it official - M$ re-enters corporate crime market

[April 1]: Ballmer makes it official - M$ re-enters corporate crime marketBallmer seeks to dethrone Jobs as reigning crime lord ntNTTripeIts hard to believe this article is taking up hard drive space somewhere. Yes, its an April Fools Day joke. But, for the most part its a wast of space...

Tags: Steve Ballmer, corporate crime market, crime market, APril 1, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-04-01

April Fools Day: The 'Rosebud Technology' hoax & Xanthoma

April Fools Day: The 'Rosebud Technology' hoax & XanthomaI remember...I remember the first time I saw Evian bottled water and thought it was a joke, considering they spelled Naive backwards as the name. I mean seriously. French tap water sold in America at a high premium price to credulous people...

Tags: Bottled Water, Xanthoma, Rosebud Technology

Discussion threads 2009-04-01

April Fools Day: The 'Rosebud Technology' hoax & Xanthoma

On the day we celebrate tricks, it's perhaps a good time to remember a major computer industry hoax: Rosebud Technology. At the April Macworld Expo in San Francisco this is no joke, a group of Mac tricksters hoped to lure the press into covering an exciting and new networking technology...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, David Morgenstern, Desktops, Hardware, Management, Strategy

Blog posts 2009-04-01

HHS tells vendors get the FAT out

HHS tells vendors get the FAT outGovernment needs to go on a diet anywayChuckle. Well done. I liked this one much better than the other April Fool's joke.MS should not have sued Tomtom.Entities are tired of being held hostage by Microsoft. Especially in this economic climate. Open standards...

Tags: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, TomTom, Microsoft Corp., April Fool

Discussion threads 2009-04-01

Gadget Gal's daily deals: Dell Studio 15 laptop, Motorola bluetooth headset, Altec Lansing speakers

A Dell Studio 15 laptop, a Motorola bluteooth headset, and a speaker system from Altec Lansing. It may be April Fools' Day, but these deals are not to be laughed about. Here are Gadget Gal's deals for Wednesday, April 1: 1. Get the...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Speaker, Headset, Satellite, Bluetooth Headset, Laptop Computer, Motorola Inc., Satellite Speaker, Network Technology, Networking, Jennifer Bergen

Blog posts 2009-04-01

Is Apple's new 17-in. MacBook Pro overpriced vs. Dell, HP, Lenovo, Sony?

Is Apple's new 17-in. MacBook Pro overpriced vs. Dell, HP, Lenovo, Sony?contradictory[i]McCracken notes that he didn't weight the categories, ...But his findings are pretty clear: a distinguishable Apple tax that makes Macs more expensive just doesn?t exist, ...[/i]These two paragraphs contradict one another, and render your conclusions errant. More thoughtful...

Tags: Notebooks, Sony Corp., Apple Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Apple MacBook, new 17-in, Apple MacBook Pro, Lenovo Group Ltd., Hewlett-Packard Co.

Discussion threads 2009-04-01

Outrageous Comcast updates to customer agreement - all your systems belong to us

Although this post has appeared on April Fools day, this is no joke. I hate to admit it, I'm a user of Comcast's services. I just received an absolutely outrageous notice from Comcast with my bill this month.  In this notice, Comcast claims the right to...

Tags: Comcast Corp., Agreement, Productivity, Cable, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-04-01

Microsoft launches new netbook-like Windows Server option

Microsoft launches new netbook-like Windows Server optionNetbook-like?Does this mean we'll see OEM's building Atom-based business servers? ;)Windows Server Foundation vs. WinWESSSo what is "WinWESS" then? Is it just Windows Server Foundation, but including Hyper-V and having the ability to connect to an SBS domain with CAL interoperability? ...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Servers, Operating systems, WinWESS, Microsoft Windows Small Business Server, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, netbook, server

Discussion threads 2009-04-01

Conficker tracking - all's quiet, so far

Conficker tracking - all's quiet, so farInteresting...... since the amount of spam I've received today is much greater than it has been in the past. Somebody has ramped up the effort on the bad guys' side.RE: Conficker tracking - all's quiet, so farHrmmm well no duh! Did you...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Linux, E-mail, Viruses and worms, Conficker, quiet, computer

Discussion threads 2009-04-01

Windows 7 includes anti-idiot feature

Windows 7 includes anti-idiot featureThis just proves one thing.With this new feature, I'd say Microsoft thinks their end users are idiots. No pun intended, but if APLE did something like this, I would definitely be looking into something different." In a world without walls & fences, Who needs windows &...

Tags: Operating systems, Construction, anti-idiot, anti-idiot feature, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-04-01