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Deja Vu 3.6 (Mac)

Deja Vu offers an automatic and seamless new approach to backing up your files. It's a preference pane that shows up in your System Preferences, and it allows you to schedule unattended backups of important folders, or even your entire system. Deja Vu has been localized for English, French, German,...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Propaganda Productions, Deja Vu, Backups

Software downloads 2009-09-02

Deja vu all over again

Deja vu all over againNews is slow today.*yawn* the news must be slow today.Ehrlich was wrongHow many years and billions of people does it take for people to just get over the population bomb? Almost 3 billion people have been added to the planet since Ehrlich's book came out, and...

Tags: Ehrlich, Deja Vu

Discussion threads 2009-06-13

PlayStation - The Perils of Secrecy: is it Game Over?

PlayStation - The Perils of Secrecy: is it Game Over?Deja vu is what it is - but with a twistRemember OS2? IBM funded Microsoft to develop both OS2 and DOS. Then MS took that knowledge and made Windows, consequently blowing both OS2 and IBM DOS out of the water.It...

Tags: Games, Game players, Sales strategy, DVD, Consumer electronics, Deja Vu, Sony Corp., Nintendo Wii, game, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Corp., Secrecy, Perils, Sony Playstation

Discussion threads 2009-04-18

Deja vu all over again on health insurance

Deja vu all over again on health insuranceNothing's gonna happenThe same thing will happen that happens every time they talk about "health care reform". They'll make minor changes that have almost no effect and move on. The great "reforms" of the past have consisted of allowing prior healthcare...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, Vertical industries, Benefits, Insurance, Nothing, health care, Deja Vu, health insurance

Discussion threads 2008-05-01

Additional Resources

LG 60PS80

Photo gallery: LG PS80 seriesWhen it was announced at CES 2009, the LG PS80 series of plasma TVs earned one of our three nominations for Best of CES in the TV category. We've already reviewed the other two sets--Panasonic's G10 plasmas and Vizio's VF551XVT LED-based LCD--and both scored...

Tags: TVs, Monitors & displays, LG Electronics Inc., LG PS80

Product reviews 2009-11-02

LG 50PS80

Photo gallery: LG PS80 seriesWhen it was announced at CES 2009, the LG PS80 series of plasma TVs earned one of our three nominations for Best of CES in the TV category. We've already reviewed the other two sets--Panasonic's G10 plasmas and Vizio's VF551XVT LED-based LCD--and both scored...

Tags: TVs, Monitors & displays, LG Electronics Inc., LG PS80

Product reviews 2009-11-02

Ubuntu 9.10 = easiest, cheapest upgrade ever

Worst OS ever! You should read what Dana Blankhorn had to say about your beloved linux! I'll give you a hint, its not good. I can't believe they would release a distro with known harddrive bugs. I'm going to laugh at you when you lose all your data due...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, UNIX, Ubuntu, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-10-29

Global warming? No, no, no, it ain't me, babe

Harry, cut the BS. Write about tech some time.or get a job.Stop Preaching...and writing in a condescending tone. You and Blanchenwhatshisname should start your own site and stop posting this junk to a TECH site. Throwing in a line at the end about Green Jobs doesn't mean your...

Tags: Gender and diversity, global warming

Discussion threads 2009-10-25

DOJ probes IBM's mainframe business

M/F competitionThere use to be plug compatible m/f from Amdahl and Fujitsu. When IBM switched from bi-polar to CMOS technology, the competition was unable to make the same switch. They have left the field.A few years ago, there was a small manufacturer of a PC server capable of...

Tags: Mainframes, Servers, IBM Corp., mainframe, U.S. Department of Justice, M/F

Discussion threads 2009-10-08

Windows 7 in action: do more with the taskbar and Jump Lists

Have you tried pinning a recycle bin to the taskbar?In Vista and XP I wound up using a convoluted method of creating a special toolbar just for the recycle bin. But you can only do functions like emptying the bin by right clicking, and you have to take care to...

Tags: Apple Mac OS, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Apple Inc., taskbar, dock, Xerox Corp., Apple Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-10-05

HP MediaSmart EX495 Server

Editors' note: The HP MediaSmart Server EX495 has a very similar feature set to that of the already reviewed LX 195. For this reason, you might have a slight feeling of deja vu while reading the feature section of this review.Priced at around $700, the HP MediaSmart Server EX495 is...

Tags: Servers, server, HP MediaSmart, hard drive, HP MediaSmart Server, Hewlett-Packard Co.

Product reviews 2009-10-02

Microsoft makes Web development tools available for free

right...'free tools' that cost you arm and leg when you realized you just missed a small component not included in the 'stack'...kind of like getting a free car with no wheels.RE: Microsoft makes Web development tools available for freeFor example? What would one of those components be?Give an ExampleWhat...

Tags: Channel management, OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Microsoft Visual Studio, Web development, Web Development Tools, Microsoft Corp., Web, proc, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-09-24

Verizon enters mobile management services; enough to take it beyond early adopters?

Verizon will announce its entry into a new market today, offering a full suite of services designed to help business customers analyze usage, manage devices, maintain security and more through a suite of software tools. Deja Vu. Just yesterday, I posted about Zenprise, a...

Tags: Mobile, Information Technology, Verizon Communications Inc., Mobility, IT Organization, Wireless And Mobility, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-09

Nokia 7610 Supernova

Photo gallery:Nokia 7610 SupernovaThe Nokia 7610 Supernova gave us deja vu when it first arrived in our offices, and it wasn't due to its common slider design. Instead, we remembered that we had reviewed a Nokia handset with that same model number almost five years ago. We thought perhaps the...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, slider mechanism, Supernova, Nokia Corp., slider design

Product reviews 2009-09-02

Samsung PN50B860

Photo gallery: Samsung PNB850/860 seriesIn the battle between plasma and LCD, the former generally comes out ahead in most areas of our picture quality tests, while the latter has dominated the less-important, but somehow costlier, dimension of depth. LCDs like the Samsung and Sony edge-lit models, and the...

Tags: Monitors & displays, TVs, TV & Home Theater, PNB850/860 series, Samsung PNB850/860, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., plasma

Product reviews 2009-08-25

Samsung PN58B860

Photo gallery: Samsung PNB850/860 seriesIn the battle between plasma and LCD, the former generally comes out ahead in most areas of our picture quality tests, while the latter has dominated the less-important, but somehow costlier, dimension of depth. LCDs like the Samsung and Sony edge-lit models, and the...

Tags: Monitors & displays, TVs, TV & Home Theater, PNB850/860 series, Samsung PNB850/860, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., plasma

Product reviews 2009-08-25

Samsung PN58B850

Photo gallery: Samsung PNB850/860 seriesIn the battle between plasma and LCD, the former generally comes out ahead in most areas of our picture quality tests, while the latter has dominated the less-important, but somehow costlier, dimension of depth. LCDs like the Samsung and Sony edge-lit models, and the...

Tags: Monitors & displays, TVs, TV & Home Theater, PNB850/860 series, Samsung PNB850/860, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., plasma

Product reviews 2009-08-25

Samsung PN50B850

Photo gallery: Samsung PNB850/860 seriesIn the battle between plasma and LCD, the former generally comes out ahead in most areas of our picture quality tests, while the latter has dominated the less-important, but somehow costlier, dimension of depth. LCDs like the Samsung and Sony edge-lit models, and the...

Tags: Monitors & displays, TVs, TV & Home Theater, PNB850/860 series, Samsung PNB850/860, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., plasma

Product reviews 2009-08-25

Confusion over Windows 7 upgrade path

Poor MarketingMicrosoft should have removed 64bit from the chart all together and added a note that you can't upgrade from 32-bit to 64-bit and vice versa.Other than the confusing 64bit chart, this is a non-issue, people are more likely to buy a new computer with 7 then to upgrade an...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, 32-bit, Windows 7 upgrade path, Windows 7 Upgrade, Home Premium, computer, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-08-19

Making the tablet computer "classroom-ready"

Deja VuSince it's already been tried so many times before, what makes you think it'll work this time?Tablets are dirty, if not now, they will be soon as people can't keep their fingers off them ;-)WiznotesWhat do you think about students from high school to college using Wiznotes for taking...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, tablet, tablet computer, Wiznotes, computer, software

Discussion threads 2009-08-16