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Shakira Saver (exe)

Download this cool and free Shakira screensaver. Great new pictures of Shakira will appear on your screen instead of boring black background . You can press enter key on your keyboard and get newest and most popular items related to Shakira. Version 1 includes unspecified updates.

Tags: Cool, Cool Screensavers, Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals

Software downloads 2008-06-20

Zeta Jones Saver (exe)

Download this cool and free Catherine Zeta Jones screensaver. Great new pictures of Catherine Zeta Jones will appear on your screen instead of boring black background. You can press key on your keyboard and get newest and most popular items related to Catherine Zeta Jones. This version is the first...

Tags: Cool, Cool Screensavers, Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals

Software downloads 2008-06-06

Scotts Nixie Tube Clock (exe)

Scott's Nixie Tube Clock is a cool looking clock for your windows desktop that looks like an old-style nixie tube clock. You can also choose to display the clock as a vacuum fluorescent display vfd. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Cool, Scott, Construction, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2007-11-28

Wid-It (widget)

Wid-It is a little widget similar to a Post-It. Ideal for using Wid-It as a mini-clipboard. Wid-It is a cool because it's simple. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Cool, Wid-It

Software downloads 2007-06-13

AK-Matrix Beta (zip)

AK-Matrix is an innovated technology that can simulate the human mind in teaching. One of the exciting features in AK-Matrix is the ability to learn and try in the same time. Instead of going to read or watch more and more about any programs and return again to try. (AK-Matrix)...

Tags: Cool, Technology, AK-Matrix

Software downloads 2007-03-16

Flip Clock (zip)

Flip Clock is a flash version of this classic 60's clock, designed to be easily installed on your Web site, to give it that bit of 60's cool. With large clear italic numerals on slate grey flip panels.

Tags: Clock, Cool, Flip Clock, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing

Software downloads 2006-11-13

Skype users ready for climb time

A recent entry on the fascinating extreme-exploits-meets-geekdom site Human Edge Tech, there's a piece you should check out about hooking up a laptop running Skypeto a satellite phone.True, little if any per-minute savings were achieved. Still, the unbylined authors report excellent quality, plus rave about the impossibility of eavesdropping on...

Tags: Cool

Blog posts 2004-12-15

Additional Resources

Canada adds another city to LED City list

Welland, Ontario, is the latest municipal government to commit to the LED City initiative, under which cities from around the globe are converting lighting to light-emitting diodes. A retrofit of all streetlights is under way -- 50 have gone up so far and 50 more are...

Tags: City, Light-emitting Diode, Engineering, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-09-06

LHC scientists get death threats

LHC scientists get death threatsIgnorance produces fear...And issuing death threats is not the christian thing to do. And $10.00 to a donut will get you that a religiously motivated faction is behind the threats. Something to research further.RE: LHC scientists get death threats - is it because Roger Federer lost...

Tags: Anti-Matter, LHC, death threat

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

Cool Tools - Overlay.TV can reduce training, video production costs

Overlay.TV is much better tool for training than static old WebEx. by Jennifer Leggio

Tags: Team, Video, Training, Tool, Overlay.TV, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2008-09-05

The Office (2.0): No paper? No problem.

I think I may have been the only person at this week's Office 2.0 conference using - gasp! - a pen and paper. There was no program "book" when I registered - the agenda was online only. And none of the exhibitors handed out press releases on paper - though...

Tags: Document, Microsoft PowerPoint, Appirio, SlideRocket, Digital Signatures, Collaboration, Productivity, Groupware, Fax, Microsoft Office, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Office Suites, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-09-05

Seinfeld-Gates TV commercial ... vague, baffling and unfunny, but highly riffable!

Seinfeld-Gates TV commercial ... vague, baffling and unfunny, but highly riffable!It was OKThe ID made me laugh. Not being a Seinfeld fan, I'll assume there were other jokes that I just didn't get.The Apple ads tell you as much about OSX as this did about Windows, but this ad...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Seinfeld-Gates TV commercial, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

Chrome's JavaScript poses challenge to Silverlight

Experts speaking at Microsoft's TechEd conference in Australia warn that JavaScript will continue to get speedier, making it the biggest rival of Silverlight technology. The biggest rival for Microsoft's next-generation Silverlight web technology will be JavaScript, not Adobe's ubiquitous Flash, according to experts speaking at Microsoft's TechEd conference in...

Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, JavaScript, Chrome, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Suzanne Tindal ZDNet Australia, Silverlight, Microsoft, Adobe, Flash, Google

News items 2008-09-05

XO sold through Amazon this year...Who cares?

The One Laptop Per Child OLPC program will begin selling its XO laptop via Amazon this year in a reprise of its Give One Get One (G1G1) program, according to Ars Technica and several other outlets. Although the Ars piece paints this a real boon for OLPC, whose G1G1...

Tags: Developing Country, Amazon.com Inc., One Laptop Per Child Project, XO, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-09-05

Microsoft slashes Xbox 360 prices

Microsoft slashes Xbox 360 pricesIt's about time this other shoe droppedIt's been anticipated for ages, in consideration of just how LONG the 360 has already been on the market. Even at these price points MSFT should continue to make profit on the hardware; you would think that after three years...

Tags: Game players, Blu-ray, Games, wii, Xbox360, Microsoft Xbox 360, Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft Corp., hardware, Blu-ray disc, game

Discussion threads 2008-09-04

Seinfeld

SeinfeldHow did this make it past focus groups?My theory is that they told the focus group subjects it was for a different company, and the subjects responded favorably. Therefore, we're all wrong and Microsoft is right.Wow, that's just brilliant!Windows' image is no longer tarnished. They are now being associated with...

Tags: Marketing research, Microsoft Corp., Seinfeld, Microsoft Windows, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-09-04

Adobe and NBC to provide live streaming of NFL games

Adobe and NBC to provide live streaming of NFL gamesSilverLight gets shown upBallmer must be throwing chairs somewhere in Redmond.RE: Adobe and NBC to provide live streaming of NFL gamesThat is pretty coOLNFL coming to a browser near you thanks to Flashping back from http://bits.samiq.net[... As Ryan Stewart notes, the...

Tags: NFL, NFL Game, live streaming, NBC, Adobe Systems Inc., game

Discussion threads 2008-09-04

Video: Google demos speed benchmarks for Chrome

Video: Google demos speed benchmarks for ChromeCrash ChromeCrash Chrome by typing :% into the OmniboxIt will also speed up the timeit takes google to track, capture, and store your personal information for future sale or use.RE: Video: Google demos speed benchmarks for ChromeThe best use-case...

Tags: Corporate communications, Scripting languages, Web browsers, cloud computing, Chrome, Google Inc., video

Discussion threads 2008-09-04

Google's Top 10 Cloud Computing List

Dontcha just love Top 10 lists? At the Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco today, Matthew Glotzbach, who leads the Enterprise Products team at Google, offered a "Top 10 Things I Can Do in the Cloud That I Couldn't Do A Year Ago." No surprises that many of the tasks...

Tags: Google Inc., Cloud Computing, Mobile, E-mail, Productivity, Web Browsers, Advertising & Promotion, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Online Communications, Internet, Marketing, Software, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Access Virtualization for Mac OS X - Aqua Connect ACTS 3.0

Aqua Connect is an exception. It focuses on providing access virtualization for users of Mac OS-based servers. (For those keeping track, the post, Aqua Connect Access Virtualization for Mac OS X, introduced the company back in December 2007.) This time, the good folks at Aqua Connect are in the process...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Access, Operating System, Environment, Unix, Aqua Connect, Apple Mac OS, Virtualization, Operating Systems, Apple Mac OS X, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Desktops, Software, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-09-04