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Your tech cast-offs could benefit new project in Tanzania

Got a piece of technology you want to give away? Well, that's not small beans to Smallbean, which is collectively gadgets for schools in Tanzania. by Heather Clancy

Tags: Bean, Benefits, Human Resources, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-11-17

MythBusters spill the beans on new episodes

MythBusters dirty car vs clean carIn my days as a KC-135 Crew member, I was already aware of the low drag benefits of a rough textured paint. The painted surface on the KC-135 resembled shark skin in feel.There were studies done decades ago proving glossy surfaces on airplanes produced more...

Tags: MythBusters

Discussion threads 2009-10-05

Bean 2.4.1 (Mac)

Bean is lean, fast, and uncluttered. If you get depressed at the thought of firing up MS Word or OpenOffice, try Bean. If you use TextEdit but have to jump through hoops just to get a word count or change the margins, try Bean. If you desire a simple, beautiful...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Page Layout, Bean, OpenOffice, Word Processors, Office Suites, Software

Software downloads 2009-10-03

Beans 1.0 (Mobile)

Swipe your finger from top to bottom to eat beans. Once you get a few scoops of baked beans the fun begins. Keep eating to keep the party rocking. Note: The "Download Now" link directs you to the iTunes App Store, where you must continue the download process. You must...

Tags: Bean, Mobile, Apple iTunes, Chudigi Software, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-03-04

AutoVer 1.2.2 (Windows)

AutoVer is a configurable, automatic or real time backup and personal versioning system. It can be used as a simple real time backup or as a more complex version control system. The beauty of this system is that once you set it up which is extremely simple it does everything....

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Bean, AutoVer, Backups

Software downloads 2008-12-19

They really are the fruit of my heart

In a paper behind the firewall at Science, Johns Hopkins researchers reveal that hydrogen sulfide, the stink you just supplied, is actually a regulator of blood pressure. It's a chemical signal that tells blood vessels to relax. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Firewalls, Healthcare, Regulations, Networking, Government, Dana Blankenhorn, Blood Pressure, Bean, Hydrogen

Blog posts 2008-10-27

600 Starbucks to close. Good Riddens!

600 Starbucks to close. Good Riddens!Good RiddanceGood riddanceZD Can't SpellIt's "riddance" not "riddens". If "riddens" was supposed to be a play on words or a joke or a reference to something having to do with coffee, I don't get it.Otherwise, since you guys write about tech, maybe use that there...

Tags: Starbucks Corp., bean, Riddens

Discussion threads 2008-07-21

Using the Persistence API in Desktop Applications

The JSR 220 specification defines Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0. One of its primary goals is to simplify the creation, management, and storage of entity beans. Working towards that goal, Sun Microsystems and supporting community developers created a new Application Programming Interface API that lets one use "Plain old Java objects" or...

Tags: Desktop, Bean, Sun Microsystems Inc., API, JSR 220 Specification, Java Persistence Application Programming Interface, EJB, Software Development, Software/Web Development

White papers 2007-06-01

Using the Java Persistence API in Desktop Applications

The JSR 220 specification defines Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0. One of its primary goals is to simplify the creation, management, and storage of entity beans. Working towards that goal, Sun Microsystems and supporting community developers created a new Application Programming Interface API that lets one use "Plain old Java objects" or...

Tags: Desktop, Bean, Sun Microsystems Inc., API, JSR 220 Specification, Java Persistence Application Programming Interface, EJB, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development

White papers 2007-06-01

Bean2 (for series 60) 1.0 (Mobile)

Bean (For Symbian S60)by Tendbeyond Have you ever saw the battles between two cute beans? Especially fight via bluetooth? The game features two endearing little beans, the big eyes of them splash all the time to search where the enemy and measure how far from there to shoot. In 30...

Tags: Bean, Mobile, Tendbeyond Co.,Ltd, Games, Bluetooth, Personal Technology, Wireless And Mobility

Software downloads 2006-07-12

Bean (for series 60) 1.1 (Mobile)

Bean (For Symbian S60)by Tendbeyond Have you ever saw the battles between two cute beans? Especially fight via bluetooth? The game features two endearing little beans, the big eyes of them splash all the time to search where the enemy and measure how far from there to shoot. In 30...

Tags: Bean, Mobile, Tendbeyond Co.,Ltd, Games, Bluetooth, Personal Technology, Wireless And Mobility

Software downloads 2006-03-20

Photos: Sony cooks up new Walkman Beans

Sony's latest Walkman music player is shaped like a bean to fit in the palm of your hand.

Tags: Media players, Sony Walkman, bean, Sony Corp., music player

Image galleries 2005-08-18

Photos: Sony cooks up new Walkman Beans

Sony's latest Walkman music player is shaped like a bean to fit in the palm of your hand.

Tags: Media players, Sony Walkman, bean, Sony Corp., music player

Image galleries 2005-08-18

Additional Resources

Royal Navy gets creative in attracting engineers - develop online game

the govt needs to fix up its actwhy would anyone want to join engineering when the wall street guys paid million for doing nothing. As long as the pay compensation is not fixed engineers will be quitting to join financial industry.Call of duty 7: Modern Warfare 3?Could be.Engineering is much...

Tags: Games, game, Royal Navy, online game

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

Smartplanet: Apple can grab more share by slashing Mac prices

RE: Smartplanet: Apple can grab more share by slashing Mac pricesIf they wanted marketshare at a lower entry price they could have pulled that off years ago with cloner acquisitions and more mfg on their own part with rigid standards and practices to ensure quality and lower production costs. ...

Tags: Desktops, Notebooks, Mac proponent, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh, Audi AG, Mac Share

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Clients: fat vs. thin, net vs. note

My budget administrator has made it very clear that I need to have all of my ducks in a row very early for the FY 2011 budget process. The nearly year-long delay that municipalities tend to feel in terms of budget crunches is certainly going to be on her...

Tags: PC, Thin Client, Server, Thin Clients, Hardware, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-10-19

Secure FTP Bean 2.5.13 (Windows)

Secure FTP Bean is a Java library that allows a developer to incorporate Glub Tech's secure FTP technology in any Java application. We've had many requests to release a product that can do secure FTP and not be tied to a specific user interface UI. That request has now been...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, SFTP, Glub Tech, Secure FTP Bean, Ssl/Tls, Security

Software downloads 2009-10-19

For ZDNet readers, tripods are casual accessories

small tripodsI'd like to see a bit more about small table-top tri-pods. I haven't seen much out there I'd carry around. Bean bags might be good and some have fashioned their own at home with rice as the filler, but they require some surface area to work. I...

Tags: camera

Discussion threads 2009-10-15

Those darned kids and their multitasking

Apparently, multitasking is a bad idea. Or so a media frenzy told us a month ago. Young people especially flip between tasks in what appears to be a completely natural way and seem able to take in multiple streams of information with aplomb. "Of course!" you say....

Tags: Job, Coffee, Media, Advertising & Promotion, Corporate Communications, Recruitment & Selection, Marketing, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-10-01

The coming "big crunch" - IT systems will start failing on a large scale

ScaremongeringAll that was missing - the placard reading 'The End of the World is Nigh'.So my critical, clustered systems are going to start failing are they? Why did I cluster them then?My RAID arrays are going to start failing are they? Why did I go RAID then? And have I...

Tags: RAID, Hewlett-Packard Co., IT System, power supply, information technology, hardware

Discussion threads 2009-09-29