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MenuMinder 3.1.1 (Mac)

Create reminders straight from your menu bar, from any application. Send reminders by email, or SMS Text Message to your mobile phone. Remind yourself of important tasks without interrupting your work flow. Never forget anything ever again. Attach tasks to your reminders. Schedule your computer to plays songs, open URLs,...

Tags: Task, Apple Macintosh, Blue Software Solutions, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, E-mail, Scripting Languages, Cellular Phones, Process Improvement, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Quality, Business Operations

Software downloads 2009-11-20

SwitchDock 3.1.3 (Mac)

SwitchDock is an application that allows you to have multiple docks. Is your dock unorganized with a bunch of applications and documents? Or do you just wish you had more than one dock to put your applications in? SwitchDock is the answer to your problems. Managing and creating docks is...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Dock, Blue Software Solutions, SwitchDock, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-11-04

SwitchTop 2.1.1 (Mac)

What Is SwitchTop? SwitchTop is an application that allows you to have multiple desktops. Is your desktop cluttered with many files and documents? Do you wish you had more desktop space? SwitchTop is your answer. Easily create and manage your desktops and switch between them quickly. SwitchTop is simple to...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Blue Software Solutions, SwitchTop 2.1.1, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-10-04

MenuMinder 2.0.4 (Mac)

Create reminders straight from your menu bar, from any application. Send reminders by email, or SMS Text Message to your mobile phone. Remind yourself of important tasks without interrupting your work flow. Never forget anything ever again.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Menu Bar, Blue Software Solutions, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, E-mail, Process Improvement, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Quality, Business Operations

Software downloads 2009-08-23

Additional Resources

Cloud Engines Pogoplug

Photo gallery:Cloud Engines PogoplugWouldn't it be nice to quickly access your data from anywhere without a complicated network setup? That's exactly what the Cloud Engines Pogoplug offers. Priced at $100, this tiny gadget turns any USB external storage devices--anything from a Seagate FreeAgent Go to a Western...

Tags: NETWORKING, Network technology, Pogoplug, network, home network

Product reviews 2009-11-10

Why I'm letting someone else run my Exchange 2010 server

Why ironic?Given that exchange is the de facto standard in business email/cal having their products working as perfectly as possible with exchange is a must. Not only that, they advertise this functionality. Did you expect it to fail miserably? Your expectations must have been low. Heh.It took yearsNative Exchange support...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, E-mail servers, Groupware, Exchage, download page, Apple iTunes, IBM Corp., server

Discussion threads 2009-11-09

IBM targets Google Apps for business, undercuts pricing and touts reliability

Good newsWhile I'm not a big fan of IBM due to the usual cost associated with their offerings, I like their products overall and the fact that IBM is one of if not the largest proponent of open source software. I've used Lotus Notes and found it not as...

Tags: cloud computing, E-mail servers, pricing strategy, Premier Edition, Louts Notes, Google Inc., Google Apps, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-02

IBM goes deeply predictive, announces acquisition of SPSS

IBM dropped a big bombshell at the start of any already action-packed day for the analyst community. At this moment, I’m sitting, along with several dozen of my peers from Forrester and other firms, at the IBM Smart Analytics System launch event in Hawthorne NY. I’ll blog on IBM’s other...

Tags: Acquisition, Analytics, SPSS Inc., IBM Corp., PA/DM, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Planning, Corporate Law, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, James Kobielus

Blog posts 2009-07-28

Maxtor BlackArmor PS 110 - hard drive - 500 GB - Hi-Speed USB

Maxtor's new 500GB BlackArmor PS 110 external hard drive ($160) provides trustworthy storage and data backup solutions for the consumer that needs more space. The shape and design of the drive isn't a far departure from the FreeAgent Go, another thin external HDD from Maxtor's parent company Seagate. The PS...

Tags: Backups, Maxtor Corp., Maxtor BlackArmor PS 110, FireWire, hard drive, Seagate Technology LLC

Product reviews 2009-07-01

News to know: Intel-Nokia; Netbooks; Security Essentials; Oracle; Win7

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Dana Blankenhorn: Intel-Nokia deal boosts open source Jason Hiner: A Nokia, Intel partnership makes sense, but they...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Security, Oracle Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Nokia Corp., Dana Gardner, Dana Blankenhorn, Microsoft Corp., Beta, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Netbook, Intel Corp., IBM Corp., Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-06-24

Netpal netbook: consumers only

I've spent the last day and half immersed in Intel's Classmate PC Eco System Summit, talking to Intel developers, folks from Microsoft and Canonical, local OEMs handling Classmate sales and distribution, and hardware and software vendors developing for the Classmate platform. Scanning Google News tonight, however, I came across...

Tags: ASUS, Disney Corp., Parental Control, Netbook, Classmate, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Hardware, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-06-16

IBM's CloudBurst is a credible step forward

About six months ago, I accused IBM of “cloud-washing” its solutions and services when it launched its Project Blue Cloud marketing campaign. Its aim with this effort was to lure customer conversations about cloud computing in its direction so it could learn what enterprises wanted from this new technology. IBM...

Tags: IBM Corp., Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Portals, Storage Management, Blade Servers, Servers, Hardware, Internet, Storage, James Staten

Blog posts 2009-06-16

Guest Post: Steve Wylie on The Enterprise 2.0 Conference

I'm heading over to the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston on June 22. If you're interested in the social customer and how businesses should respond to them - and how workplace performance can be improved - this is the one conference you shouldn't miss all year.  I mean that.  Go. ...

Tags: Information Technology, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-06-11

Microsoft: 'We touch every piece' of auto business

If you're a first responder, which would you prefer to use to get to the site of a car crash? Google Earth? MapQuest? If you work for OnStar, Microsoft's Virtual Earth is now the preferred choice. Last week, OnStar announced that it now uses...

Tags: Car, Vehicle, OnStar, Microsoft Corp., Service, Ford Works, Car2Go, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-05-21

Cloud vs sand: Google vs Microsoft

Cloud vs sand: Google vs MicrosoftGeeks make it right.Marketers make it look right.Which one do you want behind your business?Google may look like Sun in 20 years but then Microsoft will look like DRI. I can imagine a similar report with far different findings to be release from Microsoft....

Tags: Data centers, E-mail servers, Now Let, Who-ever, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., server

Discussion threads 2009-05-05

IBM - Wantin' and Gettin' Stimulus Money

Give them the same consideration that GM, Chrysler, etc. are getting IBM has a PR problem. Asking for stimulus money from the U.S. government while transferring jobs overseas is not going over well in the U.S. CNN picked up on it and ran this on-air story recently....

Tags: IBM Corp., Stimulus Money, Government, Vertical Industries, Financial Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-03-30

Where Worlds Collide - and then there's Sharepoint

I'm at the Open Source Business Conference where Jonathan Schwartz, Chief Executive Officer, Sun Microsystems, Robert Youngjohns, President, Microsoft North America and Dr. Robert Sutor, Vice President, Open Source and Linux, IBM Corporation have just keynoted. This is my third OSBC, a conference primarily framed...

Tags: Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp., Budgeting Reality, Business Goal, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-03-25

Red Dragon Blue Fon_e50 (Mobile)

Dragons... more and more of them from our Dragons collection. Our themes are unsigned, but they are fully tested on all proper Nokia handsets to work very well as we have more than 500 themes developed. Best themes - for you.To see all our themes choose Advanced search and Easy...

Tags: Theme, Mobile, Telecom & Utilities, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-03-13

FlowerBlue_e50 (Mobile)

We have made a couple of themes for you... if you love flowers! Check them out - White flowers and Blue flowers! Our themes are unsigned, but they are fully tested on all proper Nokia handsets to work very well as we have more than 500 themes developed. Best themes...

Tags: Theme, Mobile, Telecom & Utilities, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-03-12

Coders urged to take up open source in downturn

Coders urged to take up open source in downturnAnother good point: Open Source gives programmers more options. If oneemployer goes under or lays you off, your knowledge of the product will get you a job at another company working in the same area. You can also strike out on your...

Tags: learning curve, eTrade, open source, Free Software

Discussion threads 2009-03-03