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Air Traffic Controller (Mobile)

Stressing over your inbox? Try being an Air Traffic Controller!Mpowered Air Traffic Controller for BlackBerry will make you feel like you are running the control tower of a major airport, giving pilots the instructions required to safely fly their jets through your radar space.Air Traffic Controller is easy to learn,...

Tags: Mobile, Jet, RIM BlackBerry, Mpowered, Difficulty Factor, Games, Handhelds, Personal Technology, Hardware

Software downloads 2007-10-21

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MB Sikidy 1.0 (Windows)

MB Sikidy is a wonderful divination software that does free sikidy divination and lets you know if you have any chance of facing troublesome situations in the time ahead. Even if there is an indication that you may go through tough situations, this wonderful software will let you know the...

Tags: Situation, MysticBoard, MB Sikidy, MB Sikidy Software, Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Windows, Strategy, Management, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-11

Xobni expands to include enterprise but where are Web, Mobile and even Mac versions

Search tools more than important!!!Good that mostly everbody knows that in business life nothing works without e-mail and even that important is a reliable and fast search tool for Outlook! One of those is Lookeen It has so many features which lighten your work that is amazing. It works with...

Tags: Groupware, Microsoft Office, Mail.app, Entourage, Web, Xobni, Microsoft Outlook, Apple Macintosh, mobile

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Are today's new iMacs and Minis game-changers?

It's been a logn time since Apple was ...... competitive at these retail price points but that day may finally have come! Good for Apple and good for the rest of us. Still, EdTech has always enjoyed extremely aggressive enterprise-level discounts from the top tier of PC vendors...

Tags: Keyboards, Mice, Desktops, Apple Inc., keyboard, mouse, Apple iMac

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

Easy Sudoku 1.63 (Mac)

Easy Sudoku is a great way to start playing the relaxing puzzle game of Sudoku. The game has gentle background music, great graphics, and three different assists. Registered users enjoy three different tilesets and an extra gane mode: X Factor Sudoku. Game Features 3D Graphics and particle effects, custom built...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Window, Music, Bonehead Projects, Games, Construction, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-09-04

Could open source have built Silicon Valley?

Could open source have built Silicon Valley?Silicone Valley?Isn't "Silicone Valley" down in Orange County, where all the plastic surgeons are? ;)By your own admission, it's Constitutional.I think Silicone valley would exist only they would be a lot poorer for it. The turnover rate for companies would be higher. We also...

Tags: patent, Silicone Valley, software, open source

Discussion threads 2009-07-27

Has the U.S. already lost green tech to other nations?

Has the U.S. already lost green tech to other nations?No.Govt. sponsored research is only a big edge for products where the government is the customer (nuclear bombs, stealth jets, tanks, etc.)When the market decides that green products and tech is desirable, then a market with less government baggage will produce...

Tags: COMPANIES, green technology, government

Discussion threads 2009-07-08

Firefox 3.5 final prepped to ship early next week

Firefox 3.5 final prepped to ship early next weekThat's great!While I'm already satisfied with the current speed of FF3, a little speed boost never hurt anyone. I didn't install the beta on any of my machines, but I did try it while running a Fedora 11 Live CD. Even under...

Tags: Web browsers, Firefox 3.5, Mozilla Firefox, early next week

Discussion threads 2009-06-25

Shuttle XPC H7 5800

You can find plenty of small form factor gaming systems out there, notably from Falcon Northwest and Maingear, but the Shuttle XPC H7 5800 might be the smallest chassis we know of that still supports multiple graphics cards. As much as we credit Shuttle for loading up its small H7...

Tags: Video cards, Network technology, TV & Home Theater, Shuttle, XPC H7 5800, Shuttle XPC H7 5800, Shuttle XPC, Maingear X-Cube

Product reviews 2009-06-23

What really happened with SAP Business ByDesign?

Many of us who have been following the SAP Business ByDesign saga have used a combination of first hand accounts, intuition, inference and plain guess work to figure out what's been going on with the product. Or is it service? As far as I can gather, those commenting in detail...

Tags: Team, SAP NetWeaver, SAP AG, BYD, Engineers, Team Management, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Management, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-06-22

Will Ubuntu remain a minor player

Will Ubuntu remain a minor playerWhat's novel here?Not the fact that you can try Ubuntu.It's the fact that you try any operating system.How is that happening? Most likely Click2Try is another open source hoster running Xen, much as Amazon Web Services, only they are moving ahead with easy 'on...

Tags: Linux, Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Only Problem, Ubuntu, minor player

Discussion threads 2009-06-17

Geomate.jr

Designed to get kids away from their video games and into the great outdoors, the Geomate.jr is like the Easy-Bake Oven of handheld GPS devices. It is a simple handheld device that distills the GPS experience down to its core function, telling you where to go, and adds a fun...

Tags: GPS, Handhelds, Monitors & displays, Games, Geocaching, Geomate.jr

Product reviews 2009-05-14

Using selfishness to put crowds to work for you

Using selfishness to put crowds to work for youGood griefHave we become this ignorant where the concept of Adam Smith's invisible hand is counter-intuitive and surprising?No wonder we've elected a freaking marxist as president.Code without good documentation has difficulty reaching critical massWhile some simple utilities can get by without documentation,...

Tags: Wiki, Investment, Self-Interest, good documentation, selfishness

Discussion threads 2009-05-07

Easy Sudoku 1.6 (Mac)

Easy Sudoku is a great way to start playing the relaxing puzzle game of Sudoku. The game has gentle background music, great graphics, and three different assists. Registered users enjoy three different tilesets and an extra gane mode: X Factor Sudoku. Game Features 3D Graphics and particle effects, custom built...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Window, Music, Bonehead Projects, Games, Construction, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-05-01

Canon PowerShot SX10 IS

Photos:Canon PowerShot SX10 ISThough a 20x zoom lens may be yawn inspiring in these days of 24x and 26x lenses, I think 20x is plenty, and perhaps even a bit too long given the difficulty of making a good lens that can cover so broad a focal range as the...

Tags: Monitors & displays, Canon Inc., LCD, SX10, EVF, Canon PowerShot

Product reviews 2009-03-23

Survey says: Cloud computing proving to be a two-edged sword in a down economy

Survey says: Cloud computing proving to be a two-edged sword in a down economyToo much hypeRemember when everyone said "client/server" computing was going to kill the mainframe? Yeah that was before something called the Internet took off. Of course such idealistic notions forgot to consider the fact that if you...

Tags: Virtualization, cloud computing, Survey Says, two-edged sword, sword, survey

Discussion threads 2009-03-09

Just what does it take to switch to desktop Linux (part 1)?

Just what does it take to switch to desktop Linux (part 1)?Can answer these ...[i]Know how to access Windows shares on the network[/i]Well that's pretty easy in Nautilus using smb:// , but a simple link with an icon should suffice.[i]Have a rudimentary understanding of the file system to ensure that...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Printers, desktop Linux, KDE, GNOME, user interface, Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, desktop, printer, Microsoft Windows, Linux

Discussion threads 2008-11-30

Linux: The Joe Sixpack Strategy

Linux: The Joe Sixpack StrategyTruth in advertising.Given the seriousness of a decision to attempt Linux, people should be told that the software they bought won't work, their music won't play, and they'll have to rediscover everything they thought they knew about computing.Linux is a full (and perhaps full-time) commitment. ...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux

Discussion threads 2008-11-03

Is Wintel IT Expense a Giffen good?

Is Wintel IT Expense a Giffen good?Theoretically, Murph should be rightLinux should be the cheaper. That is simply based on product cost. It's hard to compete with free. Google exemplifies the best use of Linux."Theoretically", if all OSs had equal pools of equally smart and well...

Tags: Linux, Branding, Operating systems, Strategy, Giffen, operating system, brand, Wintel

Discussion threads 2008-08-04

Forrester: Vista is 'New Coke' in the enterprise; Firefox, Apple gain a little

Forrester: Vista is 'New Coke' in the enterprise; Firefox, Apple gain a littleNew Coke?Actually, given the way it has been and is being sold, is it not the New Kool-Aid?With Vista selling so well already ...... as shown in revenues from the previous quarter, Microsoft can expect to gain substantially...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Mozilla Firefox, Forrester Research Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Mac OS X, Mendel, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-07-24