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RD Tabs (msi)

Windows Remote Desktop is great, except when you have to connect to dozens of them and it fills up your taskbar. Enter RD Tabs: the ultimate tabbed Remote Desktop Client. Not only does it provide all the expected ease-of-use features that tabbed applications like FireFox, Opera, and IE7 provide, but...

Tags: Remote Desktop, Avian Waves, Windows Remote Desktop, Microsoft Windows, Terminal Services, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2008-06-18

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Texting? Pull Over ...

Texting? Pull Over ...re: Texting? Pull Over ...It's scary. I went through line in a grocery store, everytime the cashier had two seconds between ringing up customers her head was down texting. I can't imagine that kind of person on the road.RE: Texting? Pull Over ...TST: None of...

Tags: Cellular phones, stat, headset, cell phone, phone

Discussion threads 2008-10-02

Google talks efficient data centers

Google is known as a search titan, but its real business is running data centers. On Wednesday, Google handed out a few key tips as it touted its data center efficiency and sustainability efforts. In a blog post, Google's senior vice president of operations Urs Hölzle outlined...

Tags: Google Inc., Data Center, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-01

Stallman vs. the cloud computing tidal wave

Stallman's recent statements regarding his dislike of "cloud computing" didn't surprise me in the least, given what I understand about his software preferences. In fact, I think this is less about Stallman's worry about the security implications of cloud computing, and more about his desire for a software ecosystems that adheres...

Tags: Software, GPL, Cloud Computing, Stallman, Tools & Techniques, Open Source, Management, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-10-01

Should engineers fix climate change?

Should engineers fix climate change?Democracy and the Long ViewThey are, of course, famously incompatible.That said, there is an argument in favor of self-interested First World countries moving as rapidly as possible towards a lower carbon footprint. On the one hand, they're the ones with the most to lose from...

Tags: global warming, ice, climate change, Joe

Discussion threads 2008-09-25

Yes folks, the cloud and parallel processing need killer apps

Microsoft's research chief Craig Mundie outlined his view of where computing is headed over the next decade or so and here is a big takeaway: The cloud and multiprocessor computing could use a few good killer applications. Mundie was speaking at the Technology Review Emerging Technology conference....

Tags: Killer Application, Parallel Processing, Computing, Craig Mundie, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-25

Green tech that shimmers. Raleigh uses LEDs, aluminum flaps for convention center's new Cree Shimmer Wall

What do you do with an exterior wall a city block long that fronts your building's heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems? That's the challenge that was posed to Thomas Sayre, who specializes in designing what people typically call public art installations. Sayre's design firm was one of three companies...

Tags: Cree, Raleigh, Green Technology, Light-emitting Diode, Wall, Sayre, Construction, Engineering, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-09-15

PT Plug-in Manager (zip)

PT Plug-in Manager is a little program for all Digidesign Protools users who have the need to manage their plug-ins. With this little app you can disable and enable your plug-ins. It can also check version of duplicates and if you own a waves bundle, you can manage these waves...

Tags: Plug-in, Maison Sonique, PT Plug-in Manager

Software downloads 2008-09-10

News to know: DEMO, Google, Live Mesh apps, Microsoft PCs

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ed Bott: Should Microsoft get into the PC hardware business? OEM licensing confusion starts at Microsoft.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: What could Microsoft bring to the PC hardware...

Tags: Google Inc., PC, Microsoft Corp., Engineering, Microsoft Windows, Sales Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Sales, David Grober

Blog posts 2008-09-09

Google makes waves and may have solved the data center conundrum

Google makes waves and may have solved the data center conundrumEasy Terrorism Target?As we rely more and more on the Net, who will defend these floating farms in a no jurisdiction, no taxes, etc, area?Any protection from pirates and terrorist?Firstly, I think this google 'solution' is cool. However as my...

Tags: Data centers, Storage, Google Makes, Google Inc., data center

Discussion threads 2008-09-08

Google makes waves and may have solved the data center conundrum

Google is pondering a floating data center that could be powered and cooled by the ocean. These offshore data centers could sit 3 to 7 miles offshore and reside in about 50 to 70 meters of water. The search giant filed for a patent in February. The...

Tags: Google Inc., Data Center, Computing Unit, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-08

All that solar energy is wasted overnight, but now there's a way to capture it

The folks at the Idaho National Laboratory say they've come up with a way to make solar energy work round the clock. The sporadic nature of solar energy and the need thus to store day-time solar for night-time use has long been one of the biggest bugaboos cited by...

Tags: Solar Energy, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-08-23

Intel's roadmap comes into focus: Can rivals respond?

Intel's developer forum in San Francisco has more than its share of chest thumping and as the roadmap comes into focus you really wonder how competitors will respond. To be sure, Intel won't have a cakewalk, but it's making a lot of waves, creating new markets (Netbooks...

Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Chip, Atom, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Hardware, Networking, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-20

Is the enterprise ready for cloud computing?

Is the enterprise ready for cloud computing?My boss likes to look at IT as a cost...center. I asked him the other day to turn off all computers then try to do business. He said he couldn't. Well then it looks like your IT is responsible for 100% of your revenue....

Tags: IT IS, cloud computing

Discussion threads 2008-08-19

Blink! Scientists move closer to invisibility cloak

Scientists at the University of California – funded by the U.S. Army and the National Science Foundation – are a step closer to developing an invisibility cloak, the team reports in Nature and Science. According to the AP, the researchers have demonstrated the ability to cloak 3D objects...

Tags: scientist, object, dan, team management, aerospace & defense, management, manufacturing, richard koman

Blog posts 2008-08-10

Everywhere I look, I see Clouds

No, not a comment on the weather in East Yorkshire this 'summer,' but rather a reflection on the recent eruption of content related to Cloud computing. Having taken a long weekend away from the computer, punctuated by occasional iPhone-powered checking of my feeds to sate the addiction, it really did...

Tags: Software, Web, Cloud Computing, Web 3.0, Cloud, Linked Data Movement, Channel Management, Marketing, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-08-05

Monkey Games (exe)

Monkey diving - when a monkey pops up , click on the little chappy to make him dive, time it right with the waves and wind. Monkey jump - this forest is ruled by the evil Primaton , who hates monkeys and deprives them of their food. This version is...

Tags: Monkey, Food & Beverage, Games, Manufacturing, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-07-28

Will industry react to new cell phone cancer scare?

Will industry react to new cell phone cancer scare?hmm...what are we going to do with microwaves, wireless routers and TV & radio stations that emit in a similar spectrum?...Go in the mountains,or... in a cave?What about Bluetooth?So I hear some people saying to use headsets instead, but if they're Bluetooth,...

Tags: Federal government, Cellular phones, Wi-Fi, industry, cell phone, FCC, Bluetooth, new cell phone cancer, radiation, cell phone cancer, phone

Discussion threads 2008-07-24

2016: "You're watching the Linux Channel."

July 24th, 2016. Josef Konsumer, a home-based employee and portfolio manager for ICBC/CiticorpChase, a Chinese-owned multinational investment bank, wakes up to hear his alarm clock go off at 8am, and gets out of bed, his 47-year old body aching from an aggressive personal trainer session from the...

Tags: PC, Linux, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Data Centers, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Supercomputers fight against bird flu

A worldwide outbreak of avian or 'bird flu' is still not excluded and health officials recognize that new drugs are needed since new strains of the virus appear everyday. Now, U.S. scientists are using supercomputers to find new drugs to fight the virus and to stay ahead of these mutations....

Tags: Protein, Compound, Supercomputer, Bird Flu, Scientist, Potential Candidate Drug, Team Management, Cyberthreats, Security, Management, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-07-16