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Caffeine 1.1 (Mac)

Caffeine is a tiny program that puts an icon in the right side of your menu bar. Click it to prevent your Mac from automatically going to sleep, dimming the screen or starting screen savers. Click it again to go back. Hold down the Command key while clicking to show...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Caffeine, Lighthead Software, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-09-04

Caffeine 1.2 (Windows)

If you have problems with your PC locking or going to sleep, Caffeine will keep it awake. It works by simulating a keypress once every 59 seconds, so your machine thinks you're still working at the keyboard, so won't lock the screen or activate the screensaver. Version 1.2 added...

Tags: Caffeine, Zhorn Software, Keyboards, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-05-07

Is Starbucks selling a wonder drug?

Is Starbucks selling a wonder drug?more likely kool aidprobably the only true fact is [i]A Swedish study shows women who drink a lot of coffee having smaller breasts, and men who drink a lot larger ones.[/i].The rest of the 'findings' are most likely to be from studies sponsored by the...

Tags: Food & Beverage, caffeine, Starbucks Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-03-30

On energy drinks Terrell Owens is not your doctor

Lead researcher Roland Griffiths notes that energy drink brands like Red Bull, Rockstar and Monster contain 10 milligrams of caffeine per ounce, 14 times more than in a can of soda, or 7 cups of coffee. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Caffeine, Beverage, Energy Drink, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-09-29

Do brain-boosting drugs count as Ed Tech?

Do brain-boosting drugs count as Ed Tech?Do brain-boosting drugs count as Ed Tech?Why not use something natural that doesn't have the side effects like ginko or DHMA (sp?)Athletes on steroids...no difference. I guess we should all be able to take our drug of choice. It seems like more and more...

Tags: Performance management, Caffeine, performance, brain-boosting drug

Discussion threads 2008-04-10

Off-topic: bring on the freak olympics

Off-topic: bring on the freak olympicsRobot leagueScrew the bio-enhancements, I want to see robot armies squaring off against one another.Still, the question is one of where you draw the line. Players in days of yore didn't have access to proper nutrition, vitamins and exercise routines that we now...

Tags: Robots, Performance management, Caffeine, home run, robot

Discussion threads 2006-08-04

Additional Resources

Liveblog: Microsoft CEO Ballmer kicks off Windows 7 availability

Dang I wish I was there to see it in person.RE: Liveblog: Microsoft CEO Ballmer kicks off Windows 7 availabilityI was down in NYC on Tuesday for the Windows 7 launch for IT Pros and Developers. I think they did a nice job with that launch. And we...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Windows 7 availability, LiveBlog, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., operating system

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

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

Crop circles: What's Google trying to tell us?

Biofuel competition?My hope is that is it not something as simple as Orwell's books being made available on Google Books. My thought is crops, space craft, space age technology, future technology...biofuel. Perhaps some sort of biofuel grant competition or similar?! It must be big if they are using...

Tags: Google Inc., Chrome OS, biofuel, operating system, Chrome

Discussion threads 2009-09-15

News to know: VMWare; Facebook acquires Friendfeed; Facebook Search; MS Office;

Wow, that's usefulCrikey. Good round-up. That'll save someone having to do too much research!When FB bought FF, we gave Google caffeine a new name =) http://www.dontdoitdan.co.uk/2009/08/things-i-have-invented/DanCdontdoitdan.co.uk

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Facebook, VMware Inc., Microsoft Office

Discussion threads 2009-09-02

FriendFeed should have been part of Facebook from Day One

same!I've got a friend feed account too, but never really have used it!Did you read all the stuff about how when FF was bought, Google announced their new engine, caffeine. We decided to call it something else http://www.dontdoitdan.co.uk/2009/08/things-i-have-invented/ =)DanCdontdoitdan.co.uk

Tags: Facebook

Discussion threads 2009-09-02

The incredible shrinking GOOG! 25% smaller...

oddmaybe that's how they're making google faster - just by indexing less?Analysis is way too simpleSimply looking at the number of returned results is a useless criterion for determining search quality. I Googled my name and got 489,000 results - none of the first 30 or so referred to me....

Tags: Web browsers, Noone, Paradigm-Shift, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-08-13

News to know: Clearwire; Google Caffeine; innovation; Office and Nokia; VMWare; Windows 7

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: Clearwire bets on fourth quarter WiMax tipping point Garett Rogers: Google to Caffeinate search results ...

Tags: Innovation, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Google Android, Nokia Corp., Clearwire Corp., Andrew Nusca, Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Windows, VMware Inc., Matthew Miller, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Mobile Operating Systems, Data Centers, Smart Phones, Virtualization, Microsoft Office, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Office Suites, Software

Blog posts 2009-08-12

Google Caffeine and the perception game

side-by-side caffeine/google comparisoncomparegoogle.com This has been helpful in finding difference in search results for the two algorithms. Just put in some keywords and see what changed. Could be helpful for SEO engineers.YesYou are dead-on. Google has always been making under-the-hood changes constantly and incrementally that slowly change their search engine...

Tags: SEARCH, Marketing research, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-08-11

Google to Caffeinate search results

Google announced a top secret project called Caffeine yesterday -- it's mostly under-the-hood stuff, so users shouldn't immediately notice any differences between the old technology and the new. One of the goals of Caffeine is to index content much faster -- that means Google could be trying...

Tags: Google Inc., Search Result, Blogging, Search, Internet, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2009-08-11

Google Caffeine and the perception game

Google is asking for your help checking out its tweaks to its search engine---not that you'll notice much difference. These Google search changes would usually happen behind the scenes without much fanfare. So what's this about? Perception. In a blog post, Google wrote: For the last...

Tags: Game, Google Inc., Search Engine, Search, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-11

Are Google's 'Caffeine' search results more like Bing's?

no caffeine neededGoggle's search is best.Trying to emulate the inferior results from M$ bang, is not the way to go.Total Disagree...You give Linux a bad name, you really do. Google would not be spending millions of dollars to revamp their search engine if they really thought Bing was a non-issue...

Tags: SEARCH, Viruses and worms, Microsoft Corp., search result, Goggle, Google Inc., Bing

Discussion threads 2009-08-11

Are Google's 'Caffeine' search results more like Bing's?

It's hard to imagine big, bad search monopolist Google quaking in its boots over Bing (or even Bing+Yahoo). Yet just a couple of months after Microsoft launched Bing, Google announced it is tweaking its own search infrastructure. Google officials said on August 10 that the company is...

Tags: Google Inc., Search Result, Corporate Communications, Blogging, Cloud Computing, Marketing, Internet, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-08-11

The coffee cure for memory loss

The coffee cure for memory lossUnfortunately, these things tend to by cyclictoday's panacea is tomorrows thing to be avoided at all costs. Over my lifetime, I have seen at least 3 such reversals about coffee, and the caffeine that it contains.I also have evidence, though for you it might be...

Tags: memory loss

Discussion threads 2009-07-06

Why SOA really, really matters in a cloud computing world

Back in early 2006, I published a piece on the impact of delivering SOA-ready services via online, on-demand venues such as online marketplaces. Here is an update on the piece, revised to meet today's cloud computing realities. Since I wrote the first piece, we have seen many of the principles...

Tags: On-demand, SOA, Service, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Web Services, Managed Hosting, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-06-10