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Widgets 1.0 (Mac)

A collection of useful routing plug-ins for TDM that simply your mixes and give you more flexibility than you ever dreamed possible. Widgets includes a mono-to-stereo Split, stereo-to-mono Monoizer, A/B/X Switcher, L/R Channel Swap, and the Stereo Fix, which finally brings intelligent stereo file handling to the Pro Tools mixer!

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Stereo, Cool Stuff Labs, Widgets, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2000-08-23

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Google Wave: It's still a work in progress.

At a press conference at Google I/O, the development team behind the new Google Wave product was bombarded with a bunch of forward-looking questions: Is this an e-mail killer? How does it integrate with other Google services? Who are the competitors? What about advertising? Consumers or businesses? ...

Tags: Google Inc., E-mail, Team Management, Online Communications, Management, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-05-28

Energy-efficient chips are cool, but Intel is reaching much deeper in eco-innovation

OK, OK, we've all heard a gazillion and one things this week about why Nehalem, er the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series, is like, a total breakthrough in terms of energy efficiency. Intel calls the chip its most revolutionary product in the past 15 years shades of Pentium and all...

Tags: Intel Corp., Chip, Desktop Virtualization, Wi-Fi, Processors, Wireless And Mobility, Hardware, Virtualization, Semiconductors, Components, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-03-31

Announcing the latest Google App: Google Soul

I had a brief Twitter conversation this evening with fellow ZDNet blogger, Jennifer Leggio. It went something like this (well, actually, it went exactly like this, thanks to the miracle of TweetDeck): Me (aka @mrdatahs): @google A suggestion :) http://education.zdnet.com/?p=2197 [shameless self-promotion aside] Jennifer (aka...

Tags: Google Inc., OpenOffice, Office Suites, Software, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-02-26

Microsoft's retail effort: Here's some unsolicited advice

Microsoft has launched an effort to open retail stores to "create deeper engagement with consumers and continue to learn firsthand about what they want and how they buy." It even hired a Wal-Mart alum to head the effort. Not surprisingly, Microsoft's idea spurred a good bit of head scratching. But...

Tags: Retail Company, Microsoft Corp., Product Development, Retail, Product Marketing, Microsoft Windows, Strategy, Research & Development, Business Operations, Marketing, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-02-13

CRM 2009 - Companies to Watch For - Live and Let Die - Part 1

We're heading into the forecasting homestretch now. You've seen what I'm thinking 'sup for 2009 with this post, this post, and this post.  Now we move onto the final one or two or three (we'll see how long I can go writing each one before I get tired or sick...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Oracle Corp., Vision, SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., Sales, CRM, SDN, BPX, Marketing Functionality, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2008-12-10

We Got GMail Themes!

We Got GMail Themes!ThemesI like the themes as well. Weird how my 4 gmail accounts I use for my orders online, junk accounts, and travel expenses all got the theme option, but my main email account doesnt have the theme option yet. Anyways, 1. Star wars Theme2. Philadelphia Sports Teams...

Tags: E-mail providers, cloud computing, Google Gmail, Gmail Themes, Xubuntu, SSD

Discussion threads 2008-11-20

The end of the world?

Probably not. Today (Wednesday, well it is for me anyway), we see the first beam test of the LHC, the Large Hadron Collider, in the CERN's labs in Switzerland. The point of this, quite frankly, bloody huge experiment is to try and recreate the Big Bang on...

Tags: Apple iPod, Big Bang, Computer, Digital Music, Digital Media, Productivity, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-09-09

Mozilla Ubiquity: Is Mozilla building out a different kind of RIA platform?

Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo. I watched the Mozilla Ubiquity video last night and it struck a chord. The crew over at Mozilla Labs is doing some very cool, forward thinking stuff. In the process, I think they're evolving what the browser is into...

Tags: Ubiquity, Rich Internet Application, Mozilla Corp., Channel Management, Web Browsers, Marketing, Internet, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-08-27

Microsoft Meets Open Source: Glasnost 2.0

Last week I spent two days on campus in Redmond with about 40 of my industry colleagues at the Microsoft Technology Summit, an annual invite-only event where Microsoft selects a swath of people from all over the world -- key technology influencers -- to learn about what the company is...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-03-31

Are Routers the Next Big Target for Hackers?

I've recently seen a great Black Hat presentation by Felix FX Lindner (see pic 2) and a blog posting by Petko D. Petkov PDP (see pic 1) on the subject of hacking routers.  What seems to be clear is that they are becoming a bigger target.  PDP, of the gnucitizen group, recently...

Tags: Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-03-04

Cynergy unveils Cynergy Labs and Project Maestro

Cynergy, a company that has been steadily expanding and leading in the rich Internet application development space announced a new initiative, Cynergy Labs, that is dedicated to testing and exploring new UI paradigms and uses for RIA technologies. The first example is Project Maestro, a multi-touch interface a lot like...

Tags: Rich Internet Application, Cynergy, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-01-03

Google Gears next steps closer to Prism, Adobe AIR

Google Gears next steps closer to Prism, Adobe AIRprism bookmarklet as comparisonthanks for the reference to Dion Almaer's work. it's interesting to me because not long ago, i tossed together an experimental mozilla prism bookmarklet to generate desktop webapps on--the-fly (http://prismspectrum.com/bookmarklet). i do believe adobe air and similar projects...

Tags: XML, PRISM, Google Gears, Mozilla Corp., prism, wrapper, Google Inc., Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe AIR

Discussion threads 2007-12-20

I love Linux, but it's not going to save the world

I love Linux, but it's not going to save the worldlol. This makes it perhaps even worse:I recently came across a little distro that can extend the lifespan of your computers even more: Antix Lysistrata. Antix is based on Mepis 7, which in it's turn is based on Debian. Antix...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Antix

Discussion threads 2007-12-14

New graphics chips enable next-generation games

New graphics chips enable next-generation gamesnVidia suckswhile i'm throwing gas on the fire... OSX and Linux sucks too!Let the flame wars begin!nVidia sucksCopper - Kettle - BlackNuff said!"sharp" and "smooth" aren't the right words . . ."albeit with images that are less sharp and motions less smooth than pricier cards...

Tags: Games, Video cards, chip, graphics, graphics chip, budget card, NVidia Corp., card, game, DirectX, DirectX 10, video card

Discussion threads 2007-06-29

iRiver X20 (4GB)

Asia gets all the cool stuff. Case in point: the iRiver X20, a flash MP3 player with tons of features and great sound quality. Why iRiver decided to keep this lovely device from the Americans is beyond me, but luckily, we've tracked down a site that sells the player in...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Media players, Digital video, X20, iRiver X20, iRiver

Product reviews 2007-06-11

Microsoft hopes 'Milan' table PC has magic touch

Microsoft hopes 'Milan' table PC has magic touchWay coolI think we have a winner. Now, why are there no pics in a story that's begging for them?I wonder...[i]"Our legal team feels really good about our IP situation," Thompson said.[/i]Since this is basically the same thing you see in malls, etc....

Tags: Leadership, Strategy, Microsoft Corp., PC, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-05-30

Has the era of open source science really begun?

Has the era of open source science really begun?It began a long time agoThe last few decades are the anomaly, not the rule. Open science began with the Enlightenment, and even today the Federal Circuit to the contrary is still hanging on, if a bit battered.That may be true...but...

Tags: OSS, open source

Discussion threads 2007-04-19

Bungee Labs starts off Web 2.0 Expo with a bang -- web development as a service with a low-cost hosting model

Its time to add another IT category to the official IT lexicon: software development and deployment as a service SDDS. And this ones a keeper.Thats my conclusion after seeing a demonstration of Bungee Labs new Bungee Connect offering, which combines the virtues of online web application development with a near-real-time...

Tags: Web Services, Virtualization, Testing Tools, Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SOA, SaaS, Open Source, Microsoft, Internet, IDEs, Google, Enterprise 2.0, Eclipse, Developer Tools, content delivery network, Application Lifecycle Management, Amazon, Akamai

Blog posts 2007-04-16

Microsoft MSN vs. Windows Live dance continues

The “brand war” between MSN and Windows Live is still to be settled, so suggested the man who leads them both for Microsoft, Steve Berkowitz, senior vice president of the Online Services Group, responsible for marketing, sales and business development for both MSN.com and Windows Live.Keynoting at SES today in...

Tags: Search, Microsoft, Search Advertising, Advertising

Blog posts 2007-04-11