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MeD's Movie Manager 2.7.7 (Windows)

MeD's Movie Manager is a simple to use, yet customizable, movie manager. It gets the movies info from IMDb, and episode info from tv.com. It's written in java and supports most systems with Java RE 1.4.2 installed. Version 2.7.7 improves HTML export now opens a dialog showing the progress. ...

Tags: Movie, Microsoft Windows, Bro, MeD

Software downloads 2009-03-22

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Best Buy adds $197 HP laptop to Black Friday lineup

I hate agreeing with linuxbut alas I must do it this time :( He's right, this is some cheap hardware. Intel celeron? Who uses that anymore? I guess its good for kids, but any power user will not want this laptop. I'm holding out for a...

Tags: Notebooks, Processors, Black Friday lineup, laptop computer, Intel Celeron, Best Buy Co. Inc., Black Friday, HP Laptop, Hewlett-Packard Co.

Discussion threads 2009-11-24

News to know: Bing-Twitter; Net Neutrality; eBay; VMWare; Nook; 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. Larry Dignan: Microsoft lands Facebook, Twitter deals for Bing Sam Diaz: Tweets on Bing: Watch out for more noise,...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Twitter Inc., Net Neutrality, VMware Inc., eBay Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Software As A Service (SaaS), Podcasts, Microsoft Windows, Managed Hosting, Emerging Technologies, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-22

Don't tase me in the chest, bro

Seems like a legal memo to me...It seems to me that when a person receives an electric shock, it doesn't matter where it enters the body, chest, legs, shoulder, neck etc. All the same.Taser is starting to cover it's behind, now that a Canadian judicial enquiry has determined that in...

Tags: What-if IT, NOW IT, TASER, aspirin, chest, cop, risk

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

Don't tase me in the chest, bro

Taser International has formally notified customers that shocking someone in the chest can cause an "adverse cardiac event." by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Chest, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-10-21

Office Web Apps: OneNote (Office Web Apps: New screenshots)

Office Web AppsNot at all impressed with the Offfice Web Apps....while the other issue that many will still have to decide upon, if they want/ or should allow their own, or business data to be stored on the web/ internet/ cloud.....MS, along with many others pushing Web based apps have...

Tags: cloud computing, Office Web Apps, Office Web, Web application, Microsoft Office, New screenshot, Microsoft Office OneNote 2003

Discussion threads 2009-09-17

With photo and video, Apple iPod touch, nano reinforce new market segment

Rumors are flying about Apple's next-generation iPod touch, which hasn't seen much of an update in the last few months and remains ill-equipped to continue as the phone-free little brother to the iPhone 3G S. Since big brother acquired a faster processor, better...

Tags: Apple iPod, Apple Inc., Video, Apple iPod Touch, Photograph, Camera, Rumors, Flip, Arrington, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-07-06

(Getting screamed at, Air Force initiation style)

(Getting screamed at, Air Force initiation style)They should have had a conversation with grandparentslike me. I was in the AF, this is something they will endure all through training. A lot of their parents were not in the service, so many will not really have any idea of why...

Tags: Workforce management, Air Force, initiation

Discussion threads 2009-06-26

Guy Kawasaki's Twitter account hijacked, pushes Windows and Mac malware

Guy Kawasaki's Twitter account hijacked, pushes Windows and Mac malwareMore details about severity of attack[i]On Windows machines, a user falling for the bait gets to a series of Web pages featuring pornographic content and, at the end, a prompt to update a video codec. That fake codec is...

Tags: Operating systems, Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Apple Mac OS X, malware, Microsoft Windows, Apple Macintosh, Guy Kawasaki, attack, user interaction, disk image, Twitter

Discussion threads 2009-06-24

Business spending on cloud computing rises to $9.6 billion in 2009, up 22%

Business spending on cloud computing rises to $9.6 billion in 2009, up 22%ERP Software as a Servicehttp://www.valgeninc.comName of the Software: ValGn-ESProvides the best web based ERP Solutionno investments, just pay and useERP Software as a Servicehttp://www.valgeninc.comName of the Software: ValGn-ESProvides the best web based ERP Solutionno investments, just pay...

Tags: Virtualization, Channel management, Enterprise resource planning (ERP), cloud computing, Web, ERP, software

Discussion threads 2009-05-07

I haven't had a good rant recently

I haven't had a good rant recentlyheh . . ."This is why we ZDNet bloggers tend to stick to our area of expertise so we don?t say anything stupid about, say, rain forest frogs, if we don?t know anything about frogs of the rain forest."Well, an occasional ZDNet blogger has...

Tags: E-books, textbook

Discussion threads 2009-04-28

Charlie Miller: Macs lacking in security

Charlie Miller: Macs lacking in securityWhat do professional hackers know about hacking?Miller brings up the tired marketshare defense but seriously, what does a professional hacker know about hacking? [b]NOTHING!![/b] I'd much rather believe people like frgough who, in his professional expertise, tell us that marketshare isn't what keeps OS X...

Tags: Desktops, Hacking, Apple Macintosh, Charlie Miller, security, Miller

Discussion threads 2009-03-25

When will we learn?

When will we learn?Chicken or the Egg Close or the FailureI believe most mid-market ERP projects are doomed before the INK dries on the contract. Think about what drives most SMB buying decisions, "PRICE". Why? Becuase most ERP applications are considered comparable to these uneducated buyers. Any...

Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Enterprise software, Getting It Right, ERP, software

Discussion threads 2009-01-29

Apple threatens Palm over Pre

Apple threatens Palm over PrePalm says "BRING IT ON!"The Pre looks NOTHING like the iPhone. Apple would make more from court cases on iPhone clones.the Apple is rotten insidethis is a stark contrast with the image Apple projects to the consummer.These threats are no different then the IP FUD...

Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, warning sign, Companies, Apple Inc., Palm Inc., Pre

Discussion threads 2009-01-23

Review: iolo System Mechanic

There's always an arms race when it comes to the jack of all trades system tool: registry cleaner, anti-spyware, defragmenter, settings control panel. Some ZDNet readers, including myself, default to a combination of the free but popular CCleaner, Ad-Aware, Spybot Search & Destroy and an antivirus program. ...

Tags: Hard Drive, System Mechanic, Productivity, Microsoft Windows, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-01-21

Apple's Jobs being treated for 'hormone imbalance'; Will remain at helm

Apple's Jobs being treated for 'hormone imbalance'; Will remain at helmThe opposite would have happened at Microsoft...If rumors were that Steve Ballmer's health was failing and he would have to step down as CEO of Microsoft, Microsoft stock would probably triple over night. There's no denying that top leadership is...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, imbalance, job, Apple Inc., Apple job

Discussion threads 2009-01-05

HTC Touch Diamond (Sprint)

The HTC Touch Diamond for Sprint showed up a little early to the CTIA Fall 2008 party, after a certain news outlet leaked the information prematurely. However, our concern wasn't so much over the broken news but, rather, would Sprint's version be better than the unbearably slow unlocked Touch Diamond...

Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, Handhelds, Operating systems, Sprint Touch Diamond, Sprint HTC Touch Diamond, Sprint Communications, Touch Diamond, HTC Touch, High Tech Computer Corp., HTC Touch Diamond, smart phone

Product reviews 2008-09-12

DoS vulnerability hits Google's Chrome, crashes with all tabs

DoS vulnerability hits Google's Chrome, crashes with all tabsChrome will have security problems, and they will NOT all of a sudden gainshare. That said, the Google brand is very powerful, and people use it every day to search, and there will be lest resistance to trying Chrome than there was...

Tags: Web browsers, SECURITY, Google Chrome, Chrome, DoS vulnerability, Google Inc., DOS, vulnerability

Discussion threads 2008-09-03

An Analysis of Network Scanning Traffic as It Relates to Scan-Detection in Network Intrusion Detection Systems

Network Intrusion Detection is, in a modern network, a useful tool to detect a wide variety of malicious traffic. The ever present prevalence of scanning activity on the Internet is fair justification to warrant scan detection as a component of network intrusion detection. Whilst current systems are able to perform...

Tags: Network Intrusion Detection System, Rhodes University, Network, Intrusion Detection System, Network Intrusion Detection, Analysis, Intrusion Detection, Network Administration, Networking, Security

White papers 2008-08-14

Scrabble-Scrabulous standoff spells L-A-W-S-U-I-T

Scrabble-Scrabulous standoff spells L-A-W-S-U-I-TWHAT???So they let the app slide for two years until they launch their own competing version that proves to be a fraction as popular, THEN they go after these guys cuz their own app can't cut it?I call bullspit!If it was a rights infringement, they should have...

Tags: Games, Scrabble-Scrabulous, Facebook, patent, game

Discussion threads 2008-07-25