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- ERS GeoSHP (exe)
- ERS GeoSHP takes an ordinary JPG or BMP bitmap image file and creates a world file that goes with it containing information that GIS mapping applications use to display it as a map. You can use aerial photos, scanned images of paper maps, and even screen captures from online mapping...
- Tags: Eagle River Software, ERS GeoSHP, GIS, Software
- Software downloads 2008-07-07
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- Chrome, IE8, and longer term thinking
- Chrome, IE8, and longer term thinkingI wonder -- would others please weigh inOk, your stats here are out to lunch but I wonder about your basic point.I think it's wrong - that almost any non OS specific programming language can be used to produce a standard code base from...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Programming languages, operating system, Linux, Google Inc., IE8, Chrome, longer-term, COBOL, window
- Discussion threads 2008-09-04
- Apple releases iPhone 2.0.1 software (updated 4x)
- Apple this evening posted updated iPhone 2.0.1 software (249MB, build 5B108) via the Update feature in iTunes (iPhone > Summary > Version). Not much information is offered beyond Apple's ridiculously lame "bug fixes" description but I'm sure that details will start to trickle out soon. ...
- Tags: Software, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Tools & Techniques, Backups, Digital Music, Digital Media, Management, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- U.S. health care not getting better
- U.S. health care not getting betterThe study has predetermined the result[Michael Cannon, the Cato Institute's director of health policy studies, summed up what's wrong with the study: "The report does nothing more than reveal which nation does the worst job of satisfying the subjective preferences of the people who conducted...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, U.S. Health, medical care, health care
- Discussion threads 2008-07-18
- All the things Sun Ray won't do
- All the things Sun Ray won't doNopeI can't, maybe i'm biased too. But when you hear senior IT-ers go on about helpdesks the size of 2 to 3 headstrong, instead of the at least 10 to 25 to 100 you have nowadays with the Windows environments.The problem with Wintel desktops...
- Tags: Linux, Thin clients, Microsoft Windows, environment, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Ray, thin client, server
- Discussion threads 2008-06-26
- Can+we+cut+Microsoft+some+slack+here%3F
- Can+we+cut+Microsoft+some+slack+here%3FWho is that loon?That guy in your blog talking about pre-emptively whatever is a kook. They are the ones that act like Microsoft is the great satan. I think Microsoft has done alot to help advance this industry and no one can deny that fact. Its funny how...
- Tags: Government, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-21
- The real difference between Microsoft and Google
- Microsoft can shuffle the deck chairs all it wants. It can buy Yahoo or YooHoo. It can trot out Steve Ballmer in Spandex and a cape. Microsoft's problem in competing with Google is far more basic. It's organizational. ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Productivity, Stock Options, Internet, Investment, Human Resources, Benefits, Stock Options & Grants, Finance, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-02-15
- ERS FolderComp (exe)
- ERS FolderComp is a fast and easy utility for comparing two folders in order to determine what files are missing or different. Time to backup your files? Use ERS FolderComp to find out what files have been changed by comparing them to your last backup. Software developers will find it...
- Tags: File, Eagle River Software, ERS FolderComp, Backups
- Software downloads 2008-02-15
- How this nearly barenaked lady has been brought to you courtesy of a Skype SPIM-mer
- Skype Journal's Phil Wolff uses this screencap from a Skype SPIM Spam Over Instant Messaging session to explain how Skype SPIM-ers initiate these contacts. Phil mentions 10 ways this is done. Perhaps number 6 is the most sneakingly cunning: ...
- Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Skype Journal, Tools & Techniques, Management, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-02-07
- Morality and health care
- Morality and health careUS is still land of the free when compared to Canada[i]As Ian Welsh wrote over the weekend, Canadians get better care than Americans and pay 50% less, except for “non-essential surgery waiting times.”[/i]Well, I think that breast augmentation or male enlargement are very urgent surgeries since you...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care
- Discussion threads 2008-01-14
- How to temporarily "kill your television"-and everyone else's, too
- Folks who attended the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week had been wondering just what happened to the monitors at the Panasonic booth. First, as you see at top of this post, they were displaying just fine. Then, all of a...
- Tags: Consumer Electronics Show, Panasonic, Hog, Monitors & Displays, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Hardware, Components, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-01-10
- Genesys Enterprise Routing Solution V.7.5 Using DB2 on System P6 570 Server (16-Way) With a DS4700 TotalStorage System
- Genesys' Enterprise Routing Solution, used to connect to the premise switchs, is able to support one or multiple sites. A typical ERS includes interaction control components and reporting components. It provides the best Inbound Voice solution with the top technology in terms of balancing accessibility, flexibility and performance. Its Inbound...
- Tags: P6, Server, Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, IBM DB2, ERS, Performance Management, Call Centers, Human Resources, Workforce Management, It Operations
- White papers 2007-12-01
- Leading Dubai University Empowered to Deliver Cutting-Edge Learning Environment
- In accordance with its mission statement, the American University in Dubai AUD is a firm believer in providing 'Academic programmes, services, facilities and technologies that support team-based learning'. AUD was keen to explore the latest technology-based teaching methods - such as online e-classrooms and live lecture streaming. AUD deployed Nortel...
- Tags: Nortel Networks Corp., Environment, Ethernet, Networking, Network Technology
- Case studies 2007-11-19
- N.J. man gets two years jail for AOL spam scam
- N.J. man gets two years jail for AOL spam scamNot harsh enoughShould be a longer sentence.Not enough timehe should have been sentenced to 20 years. Maybe this will stop a little bit of the spam we receive dailyRE: N.J. man gets two years jail for AOL spam scamthats great he...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, e-mail spam, spam, America Online Inc., spammer, spam scam, intermediate system
- Discussion threads 2007-11-05
- Apple, hackenomics, and the waning anonymity (and obsoletion) of cash
- Apple, hackenomics, and the waning anonymity and obsoletion of cashWhat A Load!Apple sells a product. It sells that product and tells you, quite clearly, that this product is only being sold with the understanding that you will operate it with an AT&T contract. Period. End of story.If people weren't trying...
- Tags: DMCA, Apple Inc., AT&T Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-10-30
- Web 2.0: Surfing your way to sanity
- Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk tries to unpack the the intersection of Silicon Valley cubicle culture and Web 2.0. The huge numbers of wise luminaries gathering to discuss Web 2.0 at the Summit in San Francisco make important questions leap into my mind and rattle around like a...
- Tags: Web, Team, Cubicle, Chris, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-10-19
- Microsoft sets pricing on Office 2008 for Mac
- Microsoft sets pricing on Office 2008 for MacThe usual rip offWhy any UK Mac user would bother with 'Office For Mac' is beyond me. Quite apart from the availability of Open Office, look at the pricing !http://store.apple.com/Apple/WebObjects/ukstore.woa/9154042/wo/8Y4Zqra4c3CV3tSIge7QjzEXMBX/0.0.28.7.5.5.3.5.1.1.1.3.1£299.95 = $605 US dollars$605 US dollars verus FREE. No contest.All you APPLE guys......should...
- Tags: Desktops, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Office, pricing strategy, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-09-25
- From the grave, SunRocket sues Vonage over customer list
- Yes, there is a "ghost of SunRocket." That'd be some legal entity called SunRocket LLC, formed to preside over the dissolution of SunRocket's assets.Assets presumably, principally being, the late VoIP-ers 200,000 strong subscriber list.SunRocket LLC isn't pleased with what they view as the "illegal" way in which Vonage obtained a...
- Tags: Vonage Holdings Corp., SunRocket, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-08-24
- A Bluetooth speakerphone (for car/office/home) goes to the ZDNet reader who...
- A Bluetooth speakerphone (for car/office/home) goes to the ZDNet reader who...Bluetooth SpeakerphoneGreetings,I would like to have a chance of testing the new product, I've allways had my bluetooth head set on me since it was a new tech.I'm also on the go most of the time since my job required...
- Tags: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Bluetooth Speakerphone, speakerphone, user experience
- Discussion threads 2007-08-06
- Intel readies massive multicore processors
- Intel readies massive multicore processorsApplicability: Top 5...PleaseThis is a great milestone for chip development. However, what's the "payoff"? What do you do with a chip that has 80-96 processing cores? It challenging now with the possibility of 8 and 16.I'm not saying that this work is irrelevant...
- Tags: Processors, Borkar, Polaris, processor, Intel Corp., FP MAC, memory, multi-core processor
- Discussion threads 2007-06-14
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