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Chess Vision Trainer 3.0 (Windows)

Chess Vision Trainer is a chess training system designed to develop and improve your visualization and move calculation skills in Chess. Visualization and calculation plays a major role in chess. These are the skills that separate the masters from the amateurs. The built-in chess-playing engine acts as your training partner....

Tags: Vision, Microsoft Windows, Training, Position, Chess Technologies, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Strategy, Human Resources, Management

Software downloads 2004-06-29

Chess Opening Trainer 1.1.5 (Windows)

Learn and remember chess opening theory better and faster. In addition, you can use this software as an aid in building your opening repertoire. Unlike other chess training software, Chess Opening Trainer does not randomly select training moves and positions. It smartly selects and serves the training move and position,...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Training, Chess Technologies, Chess Opening Trainer, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Human Resources

Software downloads 2004-05-25

Chess Workbook Authoring Tool 2.1 (Windows)

To become a strong player, you will find it very helpful to begin to compile your own personalized chess theory. With the Chess Workbook Authoring Tool, you can build and catalogue your own 'personal theory', as recommended by GM Lev Alburt in his book Chess Training Pocket Book. And if...

Tags: Theory, Chess, Customized Training, Microsoft Windows, Tool, Chess Technologies, Productivity, Training And Certification

Software downloads 2003-11-18

Additional Resources

Artificial intelligence's next frontier: Jeopardy

IBM on Monday unveiled Watson, a question answering system designed to play Jeopardy against humans.  Watson will be competing against humans on Jeopardy, the popular quiz show. IBM is hoping that Watson will be able to understand complex questions---presumably from Alex Trebek---and answer them fast enough to...

Tags: Human, Artificial Intelligence, IBM Corp., Watson, Financial Planning, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-27

Oracle buys Sun; Now owns Java; Becomes a hardware player;

Oracle buys Sun; Now owns Java; Becomes a hardware player;Bye, MySQL nt.RE: Oracle buys Sun; Now owns Java; Becomes a hardware player;Its altogether different area and will not be very easy for Oracle to go thorugh entire integration process. I hope Oracle keeps its focus in what it does...

Tags: Programming languages, OPEN SOURCE, Databases, Now Let, Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., hardware, Oracle-buys-Sun, hardware player, Java, MySQL, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-04-20

SLA's and the Real World

There's a solid post by Jevon McDonald (who has long questioned whether there is a viable 'Enterprise 2.0' market) this weekend, titled 'Understanding the role of Enterprise 2.0 and moving towards a Social Business' on the 'Fast Forward' blog, which is focused around the FAST search...

Tags: SLA, Information Technology, Enterprise 2.0, Jevon, Global Technology Services Division, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-04-20

Voice recognition a solution for medical luddism

Voice recognition a solution for medical luddismWonder ware that wentVery little (none?) accessibility co's at FOSE this year, except Adobe CS4 with their partner (sales - "we can no longer believe what we see. for example in John Adams"). Makes me curious sir, curious sir."Doctors don?t like keyboards."Actually it's...

Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, HEALTHCARE, Brute-Force, Adams, voice recognition, medical luddism, luddism, health care

Discussion threads 2009-04-08

Are you ready to pay for news stories?

Are you ready to pay for news stories?Beware the dreaded bandersnatchYes, but not as much as you are expecting - limited budget here and information is far more readily available than you discussed.I read EB and AKH's stuff when I want to play with my Windows PC. If it wasn't...

Tags: Strategy, news story, Internet

Discussion threads 2009-02-11

Zoom Player Standard 5.02 (Windows)

Zoom Player can be compared to a game of chess, it can be learned by a 4-year old in minutes, but it may take a lifetime to explore its feature rich yet unbloated capabilities. Zoom Player supports every format imaginable (AVI, DIVX, XVID, MPEG, Flac Audio, Monkey Audio, Matroska,...

Tags: Feature, Microsoft Windows, Home Entertainment, Digital Media, Digital Music, Tv & Home Theater, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2008-06-04

Chesspark 1 build 397 (Windows)

Chesspark was created by chess lovers to bring chess to a wide audience of casual, club, and professional players. Our modern and easy to use interface makes use of the latest technologies for the Web as well as Instant Messaging in order to make online chess accessible to everyone, not...

Tags: Chess, Player, Chesspark, Microsoft Windows, Instant Messaging, Channel Management, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-05-27

If you call someone a 'nerd' are you a moron? (Part 2)

Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk continues his examination of what it means to be a nerd in part 2 of his review of David Anderegg’s new book, “Nerds.” Last week, I wrote about the concept of being a nerd. And about a book called “Nerds: Who They...

Tags: Dr., Real World, Chris Matyszczyk

Blog posts 2008-02-08

OLPCs to be dual-boot Linux/Windows machines? Why?

OLPCs to be dual-boot Linux/Windows machines? Why?windows software is all ready on a lot of embedded devices.windows software is all ready on a lot of embedded devices. all though Linux has the embedded market rapped up Microsoft's there.Because MS Learned with VistaMicrosoft learned a valuable lesson with Vista. They need...

Tags: Operating systems, windows software, Dual-boot Macs, One Laptop Per Child project, Microsoft Corp., operating system, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-01-09

Microsoft officially 'extends support' for Novell's Silverlight Linux port

Microsoft officially 'extends support' for Novell's Silverlight Linux portOnce again, Novell is in first place with Linux!I guess the MS Novell deal HAS done some good for Linux.Shame on the nay-sayers!Not sure if this is good or bad. Do we have any guarantee that MS will notpull the rug...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Silverlight, Linux, Novell Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-09-05

Big Bang Mancala 2.3.4 (Mac)

Visually and technically stunning, Big Bang Mancala is the start of a whole new universe of casual gaming. Featuring incredibly tight integration with Apple technologies, Big Bang Mancala lets you enjoy a casual game within the context of all the great iApps that make using Mac OS X such a...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Big Bang, Freeverse

Software downloads 2007-06-30

Sun's Schwartz: Don't forget that Java is open sourced

Since the conclusion of last week's JavaOne event in San Francisco, I've been e-mailing back and forth with Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz about Java and the deathmatch that clearly looms ahead between it and competing cross-platform runtime environments from Adobe and Microsoft (Flash and Silverlight, respectively). Between the relevance...

Tags: General, Legal, Open Source, Software Infrastructure

Blog posts 2007-05-16

Worm uses QuickTime to spread on MySpace

Worm uses QuickTime to spread on MySpaceIts not a quicktime bugThis is a vulnerability in the MySpace site and internet explorer. The quicktime file is just the carrier. The file has java script code added to it, which is normally used for scripting mov files. Its IE and MySpace that...

Tags: Linux, Web browsers, Microsoft Windows, Cyberthreats, Digital music, Digital media, Operating systems, MySpace, Apple QuickTime, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer

Discussion threads 2006-12-04

Novell and Microsoft enter into late night spitting match over $40M "IP payoff"

Novell and Microsoft enter into late night spitting match over $40M "IP payoff"Leverage or Over a BarrelFrom the text of Hovsepian's Open Letter:[i]"We have a strong patent portfolio and we have leveraged that portfolio for the benefit of the open source community."[/i]I find the use of the word 'leverage' most...

Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Novell Inc., Linux, Microsoft Corp., IP

Discussion threads 2006-11-20

Intel slide not over yet says AMD sales chief

I've been writing about a revitalized Intel an SVW sponsor and its bid to win back market share with its Core 2 Duo chips and an ambitious roadmap. My view has been that AMD has had the party all to itself with its low-power consuming high-performance Opteron server chips--and now...

Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp.

Blog posts 2006-09-11

DRM to join death and taxes. Will Sun's DReaM spare us the nightmare?

DRM to join death and taxes. Will Sun's DReaM spare us the nightmare?And if...... the content providers successfully require DRM, and if the content providers are mistrustful of open source, then to the degree that DReaM is open-source oriented it will be ignored or opposed by the only people...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Sun Microsystems Inc., tax, digital-rights management

Discussion threads 2006-04-24

Big Bang Chess 2.3.4 (Mac)

Winner of Apple Design Award! Visually and technically stunning, Big Bang Chess is the start of a whole new universe of casual gaming. Featuring incredibly tight integration with Apple technologies, Big Bang Chess lets you enjoy a casual game within the context of all the great iApps that make using...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Big Bang, Freeverse

Software downloads 2006-03-27