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PixIt 1 (Windows)

Tired of sorting through files named like image0001.jpg to find the holiday picture of Aunt Bessie. Want to date stamp and caption your vacation snapshots. Wish you could get all of those action shots of the junior league games oriented correctly. You need PIXIT to help you do that with...

Tags: Dirt Simple Software, Digital Cameras, Mice, Digital Photography, Microsoft Windows, Games, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2007-01-05

SQL PathFinder for Oracle 1.1 (Windows)

SQL Pathfinder is for Oracle SQL programmers who live in an environment where multiple versions of SQL scripts and multiple SQL execution environments exist. Pathfinder determines the SQL path that SQL Plus will use, and traces and displays all of the script dependencies for your SQL script. The dependencies are...

Tags: Oracle Corp., SQL, Microsoft Windows, Dirt Simple Software, SQL PathFinder, Pathfinder, Programming Languages, Databases, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2006-11-21

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Intel to pay AMD $1.25 billion as companies end litigation war; Is it a new chip era?

Inhell got off cheaplyProbably AMD needed the cash now because it would have gotten a lot more in a trial.This is good news for computer usersGood news all around. The cross licensing will allow advancements with a minimum of lawyer intervention.Won't matter, AMD is toastThey haven't produced a CPU worth...

Tags: Semiconductors, Network technology, Processors, litigation, phenom, amd, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., chip

Discussion threads 2009-11-12

The Levelator 1.4.1 (Mac)

The Levelator is software that runs on Windows, OS X universal binary or Linux that adjusts the audio levels within your podcast or other audio file for variations from one speaker to the next, for example. It's not a compressor, normalizer or limiter although it contains all three. It's much...

Tags: Audio, Apple Macintosh, Levelator, UI, Microsoft Windows, Podcasts, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Internet

Software downloads 2009-02-07

Should Microsoft give Windows 7 away for free?

Everyone has recognized that Windows 7 is "Vista done right." So should Microsoft just give the OS away for free? Today, Gizmodo is suggesting that Microsoft should either give the OS away, or offer it "dirt cheap," because the OS is quite simply the antidote...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Operating System, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-01-29

I like Windows Mobile and am not ashamed to admit it

I like Windows Mobile and am not ashamed to admit itWeb Sites/Upgrades/EnhancementsThere are also a number of sites that you can link and sync your data with. www.plaxo.com is one of them and upgrading to the new TouchFlo 2D is easily done. You can visit http://www.ppcgeeks.com or http://www.xda-developers.com/index.php...

Tags: Operating systems, Handhelds, Advertising & Promotion, iPhone UI, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Microsoft Windows, mobile, Apple iPhone, phone

Discussion threads 2008-10-30

Lessig: Five proposals for ending copyright wars

Lessig: Five proposals for ending copyright warsThis article is right on track...Now if we can just get the lobbyists to leave Washington and get the Congress to repeal all the copyright acts passed since 1975.Never Going To HappenThe recent meltdown of Wall Street and the financial markets world wide pretty...

Tags: patent

Discussion threads 2008-10-14

Weekend Gadget Guidance: Get MS Office Ultimate for $59.95

Weekend Gadget Guidance: Get MS Office Ultimate for $59.95No thanksI wouldn't take a free copy of Office...not with that godawful ribbon bar. You know you've screwed up the user interface of a product when a predominant question on websites seems to be "How do I print?". If you...

Tags: OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, MS Office Ultimate, ribbon, Microsoft Corp., Weekend Gadget Guidance

Discussion threads 2008-08-22

Sprint: Can it convince customers to stay?

Sprint: Can it convince customers to stay?Sprint's customer service is execrable*.Sprint's customer service was the reason I dumped them years ago. The customer service was so bad that if I faced a choice of Sprint or going without a cell phone, I'd go without. They will never under any circumstance...

Tags: Product marketing, Customer relationship management (CRM), Sprint Communications, AT&T Corp., customer service

Discussion threads 2008-08-06

10 Myths About Running Open Source Software in Your Business

When it comes to open source software, there are two camps: there are open source zealots who insist that Windows never works, and Linux is king! and then there are the naysayers who would sooner eat dirt than troubleshoot an Apache web server. So, who is right? If only it...

Tags: Software, Open-source Software, Open Source, Tools & Techniques, Management

White papers 2008-07-01

Is there really a market for an open source router?

Is there really a market for an open source router?Certainly isAs someone who installed Tomato on an old Linksys router, I think there is a market for this. Myself and others like me have looked on places like Craigslist to find the particular models that the open source firmware will...

Tags: Routers & switches, NETWORKING, Home networking, ShadeTree, Linkys Routers, open source, open source router, router, DD-WRT Firmware

Discussion threads 2008-06-30

Meet Jerry Yang, pinata

Meet Jerry Yang, pinataYahoo customers are walking.http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/06/marketers-see-l.htmlEveryone thinking Yaoo/Google was such a great idea, think again.RE: Meet Jerry Yang, pinataShame, really, because Yang esssentially stood up for employees and customers.Gee, what a concept.If MS took over Yahoo, there would have been massive layoffs, and the Yahoo products, and the consumers...

Tags: INTERNET, Benefits, Investment, Yahoo! Inc., Yang, Meet Jerry Yang, Microsoft Corp., Jerry Yang

Discussion threads 2008-06-16

The 16 TB RAM PC: when?

The 16 TB RAM PC: when?We splurged on the 16K RAM for our //e...We splurged on the 16K RAM for our //e, as well as the 80 column card and Microsoft BASIC card. That was one smokn' Apple II. We even had a data coupler and that new...

Tags: Server-side, RAM, memory, 32-bit, 64-bit, Web

Discussion threads 2008-06-12

Cellular medical imaging for the people

This is not an innovation which will make much sense to Americans. A UC Berkeley scientist, Boris Rubinsky, who also works for Hebrew University in Jerusalem has developed a system for moving complex medical images over cellular links. The key to success is placing the...

Tags: Phone, Hospital, Physician, Medical Imaging, Imaging, Image, Wireless Link, Mergers & Acquisitions, Telecom & Utilities, Healthcare, Investment, Finance, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-02

Has math instruction actually changed in the last 40 years?

Has math instruction actually changed in the last 40 years?It depends....In my kids' school district, math teaching is geared toward taking the district assessments and focuses specifically on learning what will be on the next assessment. Assessments are given quarterly. While this school district didn't exist 40 years...

Tags: math instruction, calculator

Discussion threads 2008-04-30

The battle for the soul of your smartphone

The battle for the soul of your smartphoneI hope cell phone companies are upset enoughI really hope cell phone companies are getting upset enough to change their slavery, er, subscription plans. Frankly, cell phone "contracts" are some of the worst contracts in the business. I don't know of any other...

Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, INTERNET, Telecom & Utilities, Handhelds, Google Inc., ARM, soul, cell phone, smart phone, cell network, PLEASE MAKE, camera, phone, GPU, mile copper

Discussion threads 2008-02-12

Will touch drive Microsoft Surface sales or will Surface drive touch?

Will touch drive Microsoft Surface sales or will Surface drive touch?re: Will touch drive Microsoft surface sales[i]Call me a Luddite, but if the Surface had a keyboard, I'd definitely prefer it over touch or speech.[/i]I think I'm a bit like that... I like the keyboard, though digital or physical probably...

Tags: Sales strategy, Keyboards, Sales force management, Apple Inc., sales, Microsoft Surface, Microsoft Surface sale, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-01-08

Haptics for stroke victims

If you think of haptics at all, it's likely in terms of force-feedback joysticks. It's a game. But it's not a game for stroke victims. A Rice robotics team under Marcia O'Malley right is harnessing haptics to promote faster stroke recovery and more accurate measurements for therapists. The...

Tags: Therapist, Joystick, Marcia O'Malley, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-12-07

One year later, Vista really is more secure

One year later, Vista really is more secureSo, let me get this straight...Less patches released = more secure? Wow, I'd like to release my own operating system based on that premise. I'll be sure to put you on the top of my sales calls and promise to only...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), operating system, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP, secure

Discussion threads 2007-10-31

Unresponsive iPhone touch screens

Unresponsive iPhone touch screensHow many more Apple hardware failures will we see...It isn't five minutes since the Mac battery recall, and already we are seeing the iPhone is now iPhailed.With Apple, are the users paying the extra premium for better quality products, or rather is it just Appletalk for shiny...

Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, Desktops, Touch-Screen Technology, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., touch screen

Discussion threads 2007-10-16