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Manufacturer Saves Time and Reduces Costs With Simplified IT Administration

Arrow Group Industries, a manufacturer of storage buildings, needed to reduce the complexity of its IT systems. The company was using outdated hardware running Microsoft Windows NT Server version 4.0 and Microsoft Exchange Server version 5.5. The three-member IT staff spent most of its time reacting to problems and had...

Tags: IT Administration, Information Technology, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Corp., Arrow Group, E-mail Servers, Groupware, Strategy, Servers, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Hardware

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Ballmer: Windows 7 sales on a roll

Oh boy... this should be a fun Talkback... ntntyeap...for sure we'll be hearing what everyone has already said "ad nauseum".BallSack is a MoronPlain and Simple.I'm sure Win7 sales are decent. After all, it's hard to get an OS-less computer.....It is easy enough to get linuxpre-installed.Or buy a MacHowever,...

Tags: Sales strategy, Operating systems, Mac sale, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Linux, sales, Steve Ballmer, Windows 7 sale, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

Corel Digital Studio 2010

Photo gallery:Corel Digital Studio 2010In the brand-new Corel Digital Studio 2010, Corel has turned out a consumer-friendly suite of photo and video editing software; think Apple's iMovie and iPhoto, but for the PC. With it, you can edit photos and videos, burn your media to a variety of disks, create...

Tags: Corporate communications, Corel Corp., Corel Digital Studio 2010

Product reviews 2009-09-02

Coverflow for all Mac apps ??? Oh, the Horror!

Coverflow for all Mac apps ??? Oh, the Horror!Not a fanI like coverflow in exactly 1 place... the iPod application on my iPhone. For whatever reason I really do enjoy flicking through my albums by cover with my finger.Everywhere else? I pretty much despise it. I can't get into using...

Tags: Desktops, Coverflow, Mac app, Horror, Apple Macintosh, photograph

Discussion threads 2009-08-04

Casio Exilim C721 (Verizon Wireless)

Casio Exilim C721 Verizon WirelessGreat Camera / Phone Software Could be BetterLast week, I upgraded my 3-year old Samsung A990 to the new Casio Exilim C721, and have now used it extensively.The GOOD news:G1) C721 has a good camera, including optical zoom. I like the photos and controls, and feel...

Tags: Verizon Wireless, Samsung A990, C721, Casio Inc., phone, camera

Discussion threads 2009-06-19

LG enV Touch (Verizon Wireless)

Photo gallery:LG enV Touch Verizon WirelessThe LG enV Touch was a surprise to us. We thought all of the enV line of phones would be in the style of the LG enV VX9900, the LG enV2, and the more recent LG enV3.Those phones had numeric keypads on the front,...

Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, display, Verizon Wireless, LG Electronics Inc., LG enV, LG enV Touch, enV Touch, Voyager

Product reviews 2009-06-05

Crazysoft Paintball 2 for BlackBerry with touchscreen (Mobile)

Paintball IIPaintBall has returned with more addictive, faster and richer gameplay! Nice graphics with millions of colors, variety of sounds, 5 different modes of gaming. PaintBall 2 is the successor of our best seller, original game, developed in a way that we can guarantee it will keep you hours and...

Tags: Touch Screen, Group, Mobile, RIM BlackBerry, Mode, Paintball IIPaintBall, PaintBall 2, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-04-16

Verizon Wireless CDM8975

When we think of push-to-talk phones, we admit that we usually think of phones from Nextel rather than Verizon Wireless. But Verizon Wireless does offer very good push-to-talk devices, such as the rugged Verizon Wireless G'zOne Boulder and the more recent Motorola Adventure. If you prefer a more compact push-to-talk...

Tags: Verizon Wireless, CDM-8975, push-to-talk, Verizon Wireless CDM8975, display, phone, music player

Product reviews 2009-03-24

Easy 3D Objects 1.2 (Windows)

Easy 3D Objects is intended for creation of 3D GIF animations, banners, illustrations for the Web and presentation materials. You can use different types of objects: dummy cube, sprite, plane, disk, cube, frustum, sphere, cone, cylinder, annulus, torus, arrow line, space text, mirror. it is possible to assign animation paths...

Tags: 3D, Animation, Microsoft Windows, Object, Image Tools

Software downloads 2008-12-29

Samsung Omnia (Verizon Wireless)

Photo gallery:Samsung OmniaEditors' note: Portions of the Design and Features section were taken from our original review of the unlocked Samsung Omnia, since both models share a number of similarities.Back in late September 2008, we reviewed the unlocked version of the Samsung Omnia and at the time, we didn't know...

Tags: Keyboards, Smart phones, Monitors & displays, Handhelds, Cellular phones, Obviously IT, Verizon Wireless, Samsung OMNIA, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Omnia, touch screen, RIM BlackBerry, full-QWERTY

Product reviews 2008-11-25

Patriot Warp V.2

Intel recently plunged into the solid-state drive market and sent storage industry hype through the roof with its ground-up design. After our own tests confirmed its speed, we wondered whether the results were indicative of SSDs across the board or simply a testament to Intel's hard work and ingenuity. The...

Tags: Patriot Warp V.2, Intel Corp., hard drive, SSD

Product reviews 2008-11-18

Tired of Google Search? Try SearchMe

Tired of Google Search? Try SearchMeTired of Google? Use someone else and you'll be backYou have failed to cover one important aspect ... can it search worth anything?The best bit about the hype of Cuil and Wikia Search was that it helped show the kids what search was like before...

Tags: cloud computing, Web browsers, Google Inc., Try SearchMe, Google Search, SearchMe, Arrow Keys

Discussion threads 2008-09-10

Google Chrome vulnerable to carpet-bombing flaw

Google Chrome vulnerable to carpet-bombing flawjust proves that no software can ever be without any flawsntmore typical ZDnet FUDChrome prevents access to user folders including the desktop using permissions. R-E-A-S-E-A-R-C-HRE: Google Chrome vulnerable to carpet-bombing flaw"Raff’s code shows how a malicious hacker can use a clever social engineering lure...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Web browsers, SECURITY, Google Chrome, Google Inc., carpet-bombing flaw, flaw

Discussion threads 2008-09-02

RedRover Navigate 1.1 (Windows)

RedRover Navigate is an easy-to-use, lightweight navigation tool that gives you the same convenient back or forward movement that you use in Web browsers. RedRover Navigate runs automatically every time you start up Excel, recording the cells as you visit them whether you got there by clicking on the cell,...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Cell, RedRover Software, RedRover Navigate

Software downloads 2008-05-29

LG Glimmer

Alltel has long been the fifth wheel when compared with the big four national carriers. It isn't offered in as many states, and its cell phone lineup has traditionally been rather mediocre and stale (with a few notable exceptions like the LG Scoop and the Motorola Rokr Z6m). That has...

Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, LG Glimmer, LG Electronics Inc., touch screen, phone

Product reviews 2008-03-27

Apple's cookie monster: Safari CRS

Apple rushed the latest version of OS X to market because of Steve Job's promise to the Mac faithful. And we've been paying for it ever since. 10.5.2 is almost up to Apple's traditional quality. My last serious peeve: the Safari CRS (Can't Remember . . . um-m, Stuff) bug....

Tags: Irony, Data Storage, Apple Safari, Apple Inc., Cookie, Storage, Storage Management, Hardware, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-02-20

Crazysoft Paintball 2 for BlackBerry without touchscreen (Mobile)

Paintball IIPaintBall has returned with more addictive, faster and richer gameplay! Nice graphics with millions of colors, variety of sounds, 5 different modes of gaming. PaintBall 2 is the successor of our best seller, original game, developed in a way that we can guarantee it will keep you hours and...

Tags: Touch Screen, Group, Mobile, RIM BlackBerry, Mode, Paintball IIPaintBall, PaintBall 2, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-02-03

Google Earth inner workings described in newly published Google Patent App

I've just come across a very recently published U.S. Patent application by Google that appears to explain the inner workings of Google Earth. More specifically, the technology described in this Patent app deals with how mapping-related information within a database makes its way...

Tags: Geography, Google Inc., Database, Server, Google Earth, Information, Model, Object, Patent App, Keyhole Mark-up Language, Server 130, Servers, Hardware, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-12-13

Dashwire mirrors your mobile phone content to the web

I recently had the chance to meet with Ford Davidson from Dashwire to discuss their new free service that is starting to roll out today. Dashwire is a service that mirrors the content on your mobile phone to a personal web account. I personally was quite excited about the service...

Tags: Web, Phone, Mobile, Module, Dashboard, Cell Phone, Video, Photograph, Service, Dashwire, Search Box, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2007-10-22

Do we really need classes on Vista?

Do we really need classes on Vista?Well...Perhaps the majority don't need much help or for that matter classes in Vista, but there sure is a minority who just don't and never have had computers, let alone computers with Vista. So, it makes sense if you're teaching in a school where...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), PRODUCTIVITY, GUI, Microsoft Windows Vista, computer

Discussion threads 2007-09-17