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Offshoots 1.4b (Mac)

About Offshoots Animates the wallpaper of your desktop with growing trees. The growth follows some easy-to-hack parameters. The offshoots lazily follow your mouse cursor or random points. Also available as a screensaver. - I really like my desktop wallpaper. Can I make the trees grow over it? Yes: you...

Tags: Desktop, Apple Macintosh, Mouse, Screensaver, Window, Digital Waters, Default Option, Mice, Construction, Hardware, Peripherals

Software downloads 2009-09-02

CocoPad 1.0 (Mac)

A simple pad in which you can draw whatever you like with a mouse or tablet pen: sketches, notes, messages, computations, drawings... Draw on a blank or ruled surface, with squares or transparent as to write over other windows' content. Import or export your sketches using one of several common...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Digital Waters, Tablets, Mice, Construction, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Peripherals

Software downloads 2007-12-29

InstantShot! 2.5 (Mac)

InstantShot!: screen capturing, the smart way. Do you often use screenshot software and feel that something is missing? Don't you feel like they're not so efficient and that they are way too complicated? Tired of long menus? If you answered "yes" to one or more questions, InstantShot! is the software...

Tags: Software, Apple Macintosh, Screen, Capture, Digital Waters, InstantShot!, Tools & Techniques, Desktops, Management, Hardware

Software downloads 2007-12-22

FastIcns 3.1 (Mac)

With an innovative and easy-to-use interface, and you can create your own icons in a few steps. How does FastIcns work? Pick your favourite file, folder, or image and drag it over the cube then check the preview and then double-click the cube to save as an icns file,...

Tags: Folder, Apple Macintosh, Format, Image, Digital Waters, FastIcns 3.1, Edit Menu, Apple Mac OS X, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS

Software downloads 2007-09-16

Additional Resources

BusinessWeek: Apple is most innovative company

BusinessWeek: Apple is most innovative companyCongrats Apple! Question for the Apple zealots though...Yay Apple! Wow, #1 most innovative company. That's fantastic. A reason for celebration.However, this news isn't entirely good for the Apple zealot who consistently maintains that MS [b]never[/b] innovates and only ever copies from Apple. Yet here we...

Tags: Leadership, Digital media, Digital music, Apple Products, Apple Inc., innovative company, BusinessWeek

Discussion threads 2009-05-28

Green-tech design tool helps clean-tech designer

It wouldn’t be very green of a clean-tech company to waste lots of materials while designing and developing and testing its product, would it? Autodesk sure doesn’t think so. The well-established CAD software company continues to reposition some of its core 3-D products as great tools for...

Tags: Autodesk Inc., Clean Technology, Tool, Ocean Treader, Productivity, Telecom & Utilities, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-05-07

Digital storm of protests for New York Times defense of AIG bonuses

Digital storm of protests for New York Times defense of AIG bonusesI vote MORE MUCKRAKING on ZDNETCouldn't agree more ... but I think 10 years in jail rather than a million dollar bonus is a tad unfair ;-)Good news for HollywoodThe government has given itself the power to break contracts...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, American International Group Inc., AIG Bonuses, New York Times Co.

Discussion threads 2009-03-18

If Facebook, Twitter gain on Google for referrals, will marketing dollars follow? [Poll]

Ironically, I came across this Advertising Age piece via a link posted on Facebook and this Mashable piece on Twitter. Armed with data from Hitwise, a Web analysis firm, Advertising Age noted that Facebook is starting to generate more traffic than Google search for some larger Web...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Twitter, AdAge, Marketing Research, Marketing, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-03-11

HP TouchSmart IQ816 - Core 2 Duo T8100 2.1 GHz - 25.5" TFT

Above all else, we have to credit HP for taking a risk with its N-trig-powered line of TouchSmart all-in-one PCs. No other Windows desktop vendor has ventured into the relatively uncharted touch-based waters, and any future developments in touch on the desktop will likely use the TouchSmart series as a...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Desktops, Advertising & Promotion, Intel Core 2 Duo, TFT, menu screen, TouchSmart IQ816, Hewlett-Packard Co.

Product reviews 2008-12-12

Did the big boys really kill OLPC?

Did the big boys really kill OLPC?Look at where the story originated fromThe UK. You know, Ant-Microsoft, Anti-Intel.This is just another attempt to bolster the country's "home grown" Linux initiative.I am sure they where happy to have the XO use AMD chips (Dresden, Germany) though quite angry they where not...

Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, One Laptop Per Child project, Microsoft Corp., Linux

Discussion threads 2008-08-11

The newspaper's last stand

Interesting news today...or was it yesterday? I have no idea. I got off an eleven hour flight from Johannesburg this morning, and then had to race to the US embassy to get more visa pages in my passport because I've managed to fill every available visa slot with stamps, causing...

Tags: Newspaper, CBS Broadcasting Inc., London Underground, Consumption Habit, E-books, Internet, Personal Technology, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Tranquil Waterscapes 1.0 (Windows)

Tranquil Waterscapes brings the peaceful beauty of the Rocky Mountains to your computer screen. Cascading and flowing waters soothe and relax you in their natural, wooded settings. Features High Definition video and digital audio in stereo sound. Options include a sound on/off function, volume control, choice of five scenes, selection...

Tags: Scene, Blissive Software, Microsoft Windows, Corporate Communications, Digital Music, Digital Media, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2008-05-12

What Microsoft-Yahoo merger break-off means for enterprises

Now that Yahoo gets to remain a stand-alone company for a few more months, you may think that a battle royale between Microsoft and Google over the online advertising and social networking/communications services future has little bearing on enterprises. But you'd be wrong. Here are seven reasons...

Tags: Google Inc., Merger, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Enterprise, Channel Management, Smb/Sme, Hardware Upgrade, Sales Strategy, Marketing, Hardware, Sales, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-05-04

What about the trust issues in the Microsoft/Yahoo bid?

Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Yahoo! raises many questions. High in the list will be discovering Microsoft plans for the merged development organizations. On the press call, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's CEO was careful to point out the extent to which Microsoft 'respects' Yahoo!'s development efforts. The fact is that Yahoo! is...

Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Del.icio.us, Yahoo! Inc., Fact, Flickr, Microsoft Corp., Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-02-01

Digital media ethics: it's personal

Digital media ethics: it's personalObvious AnswerOf course it is theft to copy cd's you checked out of the library or to copy DVD's you rented from Netflix or Blockbuster. You do not own the copy and have not paid for the right to own the material in question. That is...

Tags: music industry, file-swapping, CD, X-Copy, recording industry, ethics, digital media

Discussion threads 2007-10-17

Sprint's WiMax dilemma

Sprint's WiMax dilemmaWiMax - its our digital democracy - its our digital economyWiMax in the < 1ghz spectrum represents the greatest advancement of the US economy of all time. This is because it is the spectrum that goes through walls, is fully mobile, and because the towers were already built...

Tags: Wi-Fi, WIRELESS, WiMAX, Sprint Communications

Discussion threads 2007-10-10

NASA fights wildfires from the sky

Last week, I wrote that NASA was checking coastal waters from space. It seems that NASA wants to appear as a very environmental-friendly organization. It is helping the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA with airplanes monitoring great lakes algae. It also is collaborating with the U.S. Forest Service...

Tags: NASA, System, Data, Imaging, Sensor, Aircraft, Ikhana UAV Gives NASA New Science, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-09-03

M-Audio Torq Mixlab

If you're looking to dip your toes into the waters of digital DJing, the M-Audio Torq Mixlab package ($129) is a smart way to go. The package gives you a scaled-down "LE" version of their Torq DJ software and a beefy USB hardware controller. Used together, the Mixlab package is...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Digital media, Digital music, Torq LE, Torq Conectiv, M-Audio, Torq LE software, Mixlab, MP3 DJ, software

Product reviews 2007-08-01

Are virtual crimes against the law?

Virtual and real worlds are colliding, and not necessarily in a good way. Second Life, a popular online fantasy world, now has crime and it's not virtual law enforcement that is looking into the situations, reports the Washington PostPolice in Belgium and Germany are looking into crimes that been committed...

Tags: Law enforcement, International

Blog posts 2007-06-04

MacTopos Mid-Atlantic 2.0 (Mac)

Camp, bike, and hike in Shenandoah National Park. Fish, kayak, and canoe in the coastal waters. With MacTopos, enjoy the Mid-Atlantic States at their best! James Associates, producer of MacGPS Pro software, now offers MacTopos Mid-Atlantic States for the ultimate topographic digital map solution.Two Mid-Atlantic States DVDs contain the entire...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, James Associates, GPS, Desktops, Tools & Techniques, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Management

Software downloads 2007-05-29