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Computer Assisted Visual Interactive Recognition (CAVIAR) Technology

The distinctive aspect of the CAVIAR technology is a visible, parameterized geometrical model that serves as the human-computer communication channel. Evaluation of CAVIAR flower and face recognition systems shows that their accuracy is much higher than that of the machine alone; their recognition time is much lower than that of...

Tags: IEEE, Recognition, Laptop Computer, Computer, CAVIAR-flower, PDAs, Notebooks, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Handhelds, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

White papers 2005-05-13

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2008 Honda Odyssey Touring

Photo gallery:2008 Honda OdysseyAlthough Honda claims a major update for its 2008 Honda Odyssey minivan, the results look to us like a minor facelift, just a little work around the eyes and mouth but the same old body. The front of the car exhibits some modern touches around the headlights...

Tags: Odyssey, Honda Motor Co., navigation system

Product reviews 2008-07-16

Falling Snow Screensavers (exe)

Best 45 our falling snow animated screensavers: waterfall, flower, lakes, snow, beaches, sunset, ocean, rivers, mountains, beaches and nature. Included the sound effect like water, bird, and background music.Include desk wallpaper software and animated waterfall & falling snow desktop wallpaper and screensaver. Version 5 includes unspecified updates.

Tags: Screensaver, Waterfall

Software downloads 2008-07-09

Money Tree (exe)

William the gardener has inherited a very strange house, with an even stranger tree in the yard. Help him catch the falling leaves and transplant them on apple, pear, cherry and orange trees to earn his daily money goals. If William can sell enough fruit, fight off the garden pests,...

Tags: Leave, Tree, Mumbo Jumbo

Software downloads 2008-06-16

Virtual Flower (exe)

Watch them grow or unfold. A swirling pattern of stars suddenly coalesces into a geodesic sphere with the points gracefully touching. Navigate a forest of rustling leaves, or visit an island with exotic flowers. Save as VRML, animated gifs, flash animated jpegs, flash movies, or animation frames. The VRML files...

Tags: VRML, Robert Walker, VRML File, Virtual Reality, Scripting Languages, Emerging Technologies, Software/Web Development, Web Development

Software downloads 2008-05-26

MB Celtic Astrology (exe)

MB Celtic Astrology Software is an advanced yet simple software based on the principles of Celtic Astrology. It determines your Celtic zodiac sign from your date of birth and gives you a detailed interpretation about yourself, your lucky colors, lucky month, lucky letter, lucky flower, lucky gemstone, ruling animal, ruling...

Tags: MysticBoard, MB Celtic Astrology Software, Tools & Techniques, Management

Software downloads 2008-05-22

MB Flower Astrology (exe)

MB Flower Astrology is an interesting and a user-friendly software which helps you find your lucky flower and plants based on your date of birth. The program generates a detailed reading for a person giving an insight into his personality based on his personal details - name and date of...

Tags: Birth, MysticBoard, MB Flower Astrology, Tools & Techniques, Management

Software downloads 2008-05-16

Flower Stand Tycoon (exe)

Your Uncle Potts has fallen on hard times. His flower business is about to go under and he needs your savvy business sense to save the bulbs. Help your uncle by selling his flowers throughout the city in your flower stands. Grab their customers and their market share to become...

Tags: Tycoon, SpinTop Games

Software downloads 2008-05-05

Adventures with Ubuntu 8.04

Yesterday saw the release of Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron" so I grabbed myself a copy of the .ISO and took a look. So, what's it like? First impressions Hardy Heron is what I've come to expect from an Ubuntu release. ...

Tags: Ubuntu, Western Digital Corp., PIII System, Video Cards, Memory, Processors, Hardware, Components, Semiconductors, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-04-25

XP SP3 performance gains - Nothing to write home about

Those who believed that Windows XP Service Pack 3 would provide the aging OS with a performance boost may well be disappointed. My benchmark tests show that the application of XP SP3 makes negligible difference to system performance. The Test Systems For this round...

Tags: Hard Drive, Result, Performance, Western Digital Corp., RAM, Performance Management, Microsoft Windows XP, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-04-25

Microsoft CRM Online Hunts Salesforce.com

The official GA release of Microsoft's CRM Online offering is next week, and with it comes a new chapter in the life of Salesforce.com. To date Salesforce.com has lacked a major competitor that could be seen as a worthy opponent in terms of overall size, price, functionality, and marketing chops....

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., On-demand, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft CRM, CRM, Microsoft CRM Online, Sales Force Management, Enterprise Software, Sales, Software, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2008-04-18

Hubickart Contemporary Art Screensavers (exe)

This is a contemporary art screensaver of fine art still life flower paintings. This software is just one of a series of downloadable screensavers featuring the paintings and drawings of the arist Murray Hubick. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Screensaver, Hubickart Contemporary Art Screensavers

Software downloads 2008-04-08

(Photos: Partying it up for Pi Day)

(Photos: Partying it up for Pi Day)Value of PiIf you take the first three odd numbers 1,3 & 5. Then arrange them 355/113 this gives a value of Pi more accurate than 22/7. The error is 8.48 millionths of 1%.RE: (Photos: Partying it up for Pi Day)I am a retired...

Tags: photograph, Pi Day

Discussion threads 2008-03-17

Elven Mists (exe)

Thick magical fog has its grip on the Elvenland. The amicable inhabitants lie in deep slumber, entrapped by enchanted flower buds. To achieve that, you have to connect floral nodes by laying pieces of various colors to one another. Four bonuses will help you solve level by level until the...

Tags: Intenium, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2008-03-11

Build a Vista-compatible office PC for $305 (software not included)

A reader set me an email challenge the other day - put together a cheap yet well spec-ed and relatively powerful office PC that's up to the challenge of running Vista.  To make the challenge even harder, the whole package (PC, keyboard, mouse, LCD panel and Vista OS) had to...

Tags: LCD Panel, Mouse, PC, OEM, Microsoft Windows Vista, CPU, LCD, RAM, ASUS M2A-VM, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Keyboards, Monitors & Displays, Mice, Serial ATA, Desktops, Tv & Home Theater, Processors, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Hardware, Peripherals, Components, Storage, Personal Technology, Semiconductors, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-03-08

Going platinum used to excite musicians, now it's investors

Well, records are made to be broken as any street-corner philiospher can tell you. And platinum has now broken its own price record. More valuable than saffron, or the best Russian caviar, platinum now tops out well over $2,000 per ounce. I coulod not add the zeros...

Tags: Investor, Converter, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-03-03

Vista: 32-bit vs. 64-bit & RTM vs. SP1

To augment the benchmarking of Vista 32-bit versus Vista 64-bit that I carried out the other day I decided to run a few additional benchmarks to see which platform really is the fastest.  The results are quite interesting. The Test System If you read...

Tags: Result, 32-bit, Microsoft Windows Vista, RTM, 64-Bit, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Network Technology, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Networking, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-02-22

Vista 32-bit vs. Vista 64-bit - Benchmarked

My benchmarking marathon last week seemed to generate more questions and requests for further benchmarking.  A popular request from you, Constant Reader, was to see Windows Vista 32-bit benchmarked against Windows Vista 64-bit.  You asked, I delivered.  Enjoy! The Test System ...

Tags: 32-bit, Microsoft Windows Vista, Results Let, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), 64-Bit, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-02-21

Build your own Windows Home Server for only $380

I'm a huge fan of Microsoft's Windows Home Server OS, the very capable and easy-to-use consumer server software. But the only Windows Home Server-based hardware I've had a chance to play around with is the HP MediaSmart Server EX470, which contains just one 500GB hard drive and costs a whopping...

Tags: Operating System, Microsoft Windows Home Server, Gist, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Rik Fairlie

Blog posts 2008-02-14

Some systems showing incredible SP1 performance boost - Day 6

[UPDATE: Mark Russinovich Technical Fellow in the Platform and Services Division at Microsoft emailed in to point out that he's written a detailed post on his blog explaining the reasons behind some of these dramatic improvements.  Thanks Mark!]  Some systems on which I've installed Windows Vista SP1 are showing...

Tags: Performance, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Performance Management, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-02-12