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- Welcome Doug Hanchard, our new government blogger
- I'd like to welcome Doug Hanchard, our new government blogger, to the ZDNet network. Doug is principal of Rapid Response Consulting and is an IT veteran with knowledge of government IT issues. He will be examining the intersection of IT and government, one of the few...
- Tags: Information Technology, Hot Button, Blogger, Doug, Government, Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-15
- Dupin 2.0.6 (Mac)
- Dupin is your iTunes duplicates manager. Dupin finds sets of duplicate tracks in iTunes based on the criteria you choose. It can then automatically select the "Keeper" tracks from among the duplicates using a variety of versatile filter options. Dupin is flexible, fast, and easy to use. With Dupin you...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, AppleScript, Apple iTunes, Doug, Dupin, Digital Music, Scripting Languages, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Consumer Electronics
- Software downloads 2009-10-04
- Join Together 5.4 (Mac)
- Join Together automates the process of joining the files of selected iTunes tracks together with QuickTime and exporting them as a single AAC Music or Audiobook file/track. Optionally, you can create a "chapterized" audio file of the exported AAC file with pointers to the individually joined tracks.Join Together comes in...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, AppleScript, Doug, Join, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- Software downloads 2009-08-25
- Microsoft shifts gears (again) with its Oslo modeling platform
- makes a little more senseI had a very difficult time sorting thru what M did and quadrant did and Doug's effusive personality only clouded things.I understand what the EF does and how it helps . I have no idea what M or Quadrant does and how that would help, even...
- Tags: Research & Development, Microsoft Corp., Doug, modeling
- Discussion threads 2009-08-17
- Daypart 1.0.3 (Mac)
- Daypart is a simple yet full-featured application that allows you to schedule iTunes playlists to play, giving you an easy way to program varied musical content throughout the week in your home or workplace.Program your iTunes music when you want, the way you want.Smart Playlists, Playlist Folders, and Genius Playlists...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Playlist, Doug, Daypart, Digital Music, Scripting Languages, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Consumer Electronics
- Software downloads 2009-08-10
- Join Together 5.3.3 (Mac)
- Join Together automates the process of joining the files of selected iTunes tracks together with QuickTime and exporting them as a single AAC Music or Audiobook file/track. Optionally, you can create a "chapterized" audio file of the exported AAC file with pointers to the individually joined tracks.Join Together comes in...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, AppleScript, Doug, Join, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- Software downloads 2009-06-05
- ScriptPal 1.1 (Mac)
- ScriptPal floats a persistent HUD (heads-up display) palette above iTunes putting just the AppleScripts you need a mouse-click or two away. Instead of having to click and scroll through iTunes' Script menu over and over again for just the two or three scripts you need during a big job or...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Script, AppleScript, Apple iTunes, Doug, ScriptPal, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- Software downloads 2009-05-25
- iTunes Library Manager 5.2.1 (Mac)
- iTunes Library Manager makes backup copies of your iTunes Music Library database file and iTunes Preferences, allowing you to easily save multiple iTunes Library and Preferences configurations that can be retrieved and loaded at any time.(I appreciate all feedback, but I cannot effectively respond to comments made here. Please email...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple iTunes, Doug, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics
- Software downloads 2008-10-18
- Rip To iPod 2.1 (Mac)
- This AppleScript rips each enabled (check-marked) CD track to iTunes and immediately copies it to iPod, deletes the file, and removes the track from the iTunes library, giving the appearance of seamless CD-to-iPod importing. You can also change your encoder on-the-fly and your Preferences-set encoder will be restored after the...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple iPod, AppleScript, Apple iTunes, Doug, Scripting Languages, Digital Music, Digital Media, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics
- Software downloads 2008-08-18
- Segway CTO to become Apple VP of product design
- A post by Über Administrator and Wise Segway Elder John Grohol on the SegwayChat message boards reveals that Doug Field is leaving Segway for Apple. Doug Field, the chief technology officer at Segway who heads their entire engineering team (and has since Day 1), is leaving Segway to become...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Doug, jason D. O'Grady, Management, Marketing, Product Marketing, Segway, Team Management, Product Design
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- Report: In deference to Apple iPhone, ATT BlackBerry 8820 will "neuter" GPS
- Doug at BlackBerry Cool has just posted that they've received a tip from an inside source at AT&T that the GPS funcitonality will be locked down on the AT&T BlackBerry 8820 due mid-September.Under this arrangement, the only GPS-like third party software compatible with the AT&T BlackBerry 8820 will be TeleNav.Doug...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, AT&T Corp., Apple Inc., GPS, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-08-16
- Black, BlackBerry Curve rumored
- First of all, chill. That's a mock-up.BlackBerry Cool was contacted last night by what BBC's Doug Soltys terms a a friend who works for a prominent BlackBerry Alliance member.Doug notes that this friend told him about a black-colored BlackBerry Curve that may well be in development.Doug opines this could...
- Tags: BlackBerry Curve 8300, BlackBerry Rumors
- Blog posts 2007-06-14
- Trackographer 1.0 (Mac)
- This Stay-Open AppleScript applet will monitor iTunes and send tag information from each playing track including radio streams if they provide track info to a text file. Preferences can be set to include or not include various basic tags and to create a plain text file or a tab-delimited text...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, AppleScript, Doug, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- Software downloads 2007-04-11
- Using Amazon Web services podcast
- In the latest Technometria podcast at IT Conversations, Scott Lemon, Matt Asay, and I speak with Jeff Barr and Doug Kaye about using Amazon Web Services to build sophisticated applications. Jeff is Amazons evangelist for Web services and Doug is the founder of IT Conversations and now the...
- Tags: Amazon, General, Podcasts, Software Infrastructure, Web Technology
- Blog posts 2007-02-13
- Glimpsing the future with Amazon's Web services
- Doug Kaye, the CTO at GigaVox Media has posted an interesting post on using Amazons Web services as a platform for his new podcasting system. (Disclosure: Im the Executive Producer for IT Conversations which is a GigaVox production.) The system uses S3 for storage, the SQS queue...
- Tags: Amazon, Doug, EC2, General, Software Infrastructure, Web Technology
- Blog posts 2007-02-05
- See Ya Later Doug: Burgum Leaves Microsoft Much the Wiser
- When I saw Doug Burgum at the Microsoft World Partners Conference last summer, there was an air of the short-timer about him. Not the kind who mails it in every morning with his feet on his desk, but more the short-timer who's done all he can and is waiting to...
- Tags: Doug Burgum, Dynamics AX, Dynamics GP, Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-09-12
- iCal Calling iTunes! 4.1 (Mac)
- iCal Calling iTunes! is an AppleScript application that allows you to use iCal events to schedule iTunes playlists to play. From simple iTunes alarm clock to sophisticated background music scheduler...iCal Calling iTunes! gives you whatever level of flexibility you need! Simply enter the names of iTunes playlists as new events...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Playlist, AppleScript, Apple iTunes, Doug, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics
- Software downloads 2006-05-04
- Siemens, Airbus to build in-flight cell phone gear
- Siemens, Airbus to build in-flight cell phone gearUgh - can we get a "No Yakking" section?It's against the Geneva convention to be seated between two people having loud and inane conversations about their pathetic lives.Awesome news....Doug Barney and I continued our round table discussion long into the night yesterday. My...
- Tags: Airbus S.A.S., Barney, cell phone, Doug, phone, rep, Siemens AG
- Discussion threads 2005-07-12
- DOJ to examine Adobe-Macromedia deal
- DOJ to examine Adobe-Macromedia dealI hope they don't merge!Macromedia is a friendler company than Adobe and having the two companies competing is better in the long-run for everyone.Came up at our roundtable...After breakfast, Doug Barney of Redmond Magazine joined my rep and I for a full roundtable discussion about all...
- Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, developer, Adobe Systems Inc., Macromedia Inc., merger, Microsoft Corp., Doug, Web, Microsoft FrontPage, U.S. Department of Justice
- Discussion threads 2005-07-11
- I Hate That iTunes Done Chime! 1.0 (Mac)
- AppleScript applet changes the sound iTunes plays after importing or converting a track to your choice of a System sound, no sound, or your choice of an AIFF sound.
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, AppleScript, Apple iTunes, Sound, Doug, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- Software downloads 2005-03-02
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