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- Password Pair 1.0 (Mac)
- Password Pair allows you and a distant associate to establish an identical long and complex password that you can use to encrypt and decrypt files. You may then transfer the encrypted file securely over the Internet. Password Pair uses a "Handshake" technique similar to that used in your web application...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Password, Esoteric Video, Password Pair
- Software downloads 2009-04-19
- Quickset Alarm 2.1 (Mac)
- Quickset Alarm is an efficient alarm timer written in AppleScript. It requires very simple data entry via your keyboards numbers row or your numeric keypad. Alarms can be set to any time within the next twenty four (24) hours. Once you learn proper format, any time can be entered in...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Esoteric Video, Quickset Alarm, Keyboards, Scripting Languages, Hardware, Peripherals, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- Software downloads 2004-01-12
- PhoneTone'r 1.1 (Mac)
- PhoneTone'r is an efficient AppleScript application that will automatically dial any telephone number copied to the clipboard! It requires you to place the mouthpiece of your touch-tone phone close to your computer speaker. PhoneTone'r will convert a word number to its proper numerical format and also copy it back to...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Phone, Computer, Esoteric Video, PhoneTone'r, Telecom & Utilities, Productivity
- Software downloads 2003-12-26
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- Sony Bravia KDL-52XBR7
- Among higher-end LCD TVs, a 120Hz refresh rate is fast becoming a standard feature. Typical HDTVs refresh at 60Hz, so doubling the refresh rate allows TV makers to add dejudder video processing that smooths out the picture, reduce blurring in motion, and match the frame rate of 1080p/24 sources like...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Monitors & displays, Sony Corp., Sony KDL-52XBR7, XBR7, TV
- Product reviews 2008-12-09
- Logitech Harmony 510
- The Logitech Harmony 510 is the replacement for the Harmony 520, which is being discontinued. Except for a slightly different color scheme silver on black instead of black on silver and the addition of four color-coded buttons below the keypad, it's essentially the identical unit. The catch: Logitech cut the...
- Tags: Consumer electronics, DVD, Logitech, Logitech Harmony, Logitech Harmony 510
- Product reviews 2008-11-19
- Sony BDP-S350
- Sony has been the public face of Blu-ray since the format's inception, and while most of the focus during the bitter Blu-ray vs. HD DVD format war was on the company's PlayStation 3, Sony has been making standalone Blu-ray players from the start, beginning with the $1,000 BDP-S1. Unfortunately, that...
- Tags: Consumer electronics, DVD, Game players, Media players, Monitors & displays, TV & Home Theater, Sony BDP-S350, Sony Corp., Sony PlayStation 3
- Product reviews 2008-08-05
- Video: Picking a Linux distribution
- Video: Picking a Linux distributionSuSE 11 not ready for prime time.Check the forums. Lots of problems with multi-boot, hard drives, especially raid, others - check their forum.I tried it on brand new machine. Had trouble with Seagate Cheetah drive and adaptec raid. Tried 10.3, went smooth as silk.If you have...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, video, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-08-05
- European archives release vintage films online
- European archives release vintage films onlineMore competition is good, especially if it's free!This type of offering is great for a number of reasons: it brings art that was essentially lost back into the mainstream, and it presents a wider range of content to the public that will compete with the...
- Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), MORE COMPETITION, public domain, domain, cartel, DMCA, DVD
- Discussion threads 2008-02-12
- When it comes to green tech, should companies share and share alike?
- While Harry obsesses over cars this week, I'm going to delve into the more esoteric. And I'll start by asking one of those squirmy ethical questions. Here goes: If someone invents some piece of green tech that could vital or key in halting or even reversing the damage that humankind...
- Tags: Commons, Green Technology, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-01-15
- Pioneer PDP-5080HD
- Black-level performance is one of the most important aspects of picture quality. When a display can produce a deep shade of black, it not only improves the realism and the punch of dark scenes, it also makes colors look richer and more saturated. So why did we like Pioneer PDP-5080HD...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Monitors & displays, Consumer electronics, Pioneer PDP-5080HD, plasma
- Product reviews 2007-08-21
- Playing music severely degrades network transfer performance in Vista
- Playing music severely degrades network transfer performance in VistaWorkaround found[i]I guess the moral of the story is, don't play music while transferring files across a network.[/i]Well, you can get at least a partial workaround by starting a video playback and then pausing it.Adrian is this after the stability and performance...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, NETWORKING, vista, Adrian, Microsoft Windows Vista, QoS, operating system, network, performance
- Discussion threads 2007-08-21
- Philips SRU8010
- Philips' Pronto line of universal remotes was once the pinnacle of home theater cool--super customizable touch-screen models with a dedicated community of users who shared icons, macros, codes, and tricks on many an online message board. In the face of stiff competition from Logitech's PC-programmable Harmony line, the Pronto line...
- Tags: Home entertainment, Consumer electronics, Philips SRU8010, Philips Electronics N.V.
- Product reviews 2007-08-17
- Like the Windows Start button, but better (Installing SUSE)
- Like the Windows Start button, but better Installing SUSEYou can right-click on the button and select the KDE start menu instead.Bonita pero sosaBonita descripción del proceso de instalación, pero bastante floja, se hubiera tenido el mismo resultado si solo comentabamos "siguiente, siguiente, siguiente "La instalación no es tan asi cuando...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows, SuSE
- Discussion threads 2007-07-06
- Is Flash better than Java?
- For various reasons, Java applets have never worked all that well but we some folks use them anyway, for example in business charting and other graphic visualizations. Over the past few years alternatives to Java in and around the browser have been gaining traction, especially Flash. In this article I...
- Tags: Sun, Scripting, Programming, Java, General, Community
- Blog posts 2007-04-05
- Good introduction to multicore systems
- With mainstream processors going dual-core and soon quad-core, anyone with an interest in computing may want to read up on how multicore systems work. David Kanter has a good introduction to multicore systems.Even to the casual observer, it is apparent that the time of multicore computing is upon us....
- Tags: multi-core, Processors, Desktop, Hardware, Servers
- Blog posts 2006-12-12
- Maxtor Fusion 500GB Personal Web Server
- So you return from vacation, eager to share with friends your photos and videos. You download your files to PC, and cue up your favorite photo-sharing site, perhaps Flickr or Sony ImageStation. Flipping through your pictures, the awful truth sets in: do you really want your parents to see...
- Tags: Routers & switches, Network-attached storage (NAS), Network technology, NETWORKING, Storage, Web server, server, Maxtor Corp., router
- Product reviews 2006-11-14
- Logitech Harmony 670
- Most of the Logitech Harmony universal remotes we've seen in 2006 have sported a flat, wedge-shaped design. They look slick, but apparently quite a few users are still pining for the textured feel of Logitech's older, peanut-shape clickers. Logitech has answered with the Harmony 670, a $150 model that utilizes...
- Tags: Monitors & displays, Logitech, Harmony Software, Logitech Harmony, Logitech Harmony 670, LCD
- Product reviews 2006-10-20
- AOL Video
- Following in the footsteps of online movie vets CinemaNow and Movielink (as well as upstarts Guba.com and Amazon Unbox), AOL Video now offers a selection of A-list Hollywood movies for viewing on a computer and on many portable devices. Yet another content choice for Windows users, AOL...
- Tags: video, America Online Inc., AOL Video
- Product reviews 2006-09-28
- Howard Rheingold about our mobile world
- Howard Rheingold is the well-known author of Smart Mobs and many other books describing the evolution of our societies. His last book predicted the transformation of our society into a mobile one. Four years later, and with thousands of posts published on the collective blog organized around this theme, his...
- Tags: Howard Rheingold, mobile, telephone
- Blog posts 2006-07-20
- Logitech Harmony 550
- We've long been fans of Logitech's Harmony line of universal remote controls. As good as they are, however, there's still a large segment of the population who just won't pay iPod prices for a remote. It's precisely that audience at whom the $150 Logitech Harmony 550 is targeted....
- Tags: Game players, DVD, Consumer electronics, Logitech, Logitech Harmony
- Product reviews 2006-03-31
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