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SBSH Facade 1.4.9 (Mobile)

Facade is a highly customizable tab-based Home screen plug-in for Smartphone devices. With Facade, you can view your upcoming appointments and tasks directly on your Smartphone Home screen, keeping you up to date on all your important appointments and tasks.Additionally, Facade puts a launcher tool right onto that same Home...

Tags: Mobile, Smartphone, Facade, SBSH Mobile Software, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware

Software downloads 2008-10-17

Gallery: Sydney Aple Store

Quickee gallery of the teaser facade covering the Apple store in Sydney Australia. Photos: Brad Wilson. by Jason O'Grady

Tags: Jason O'Grady, Apple, Retail, Store, Sydney, Australia, Facade

Image galleries 2008-05-27

Gallery: Sydney Apple Store facade

Reader Brad Wilson sends some pictures of the unique teaser facade covering the upcoming Apple Store in Sydney Australia. A trend that started in Boston: The Sydney AUS Apple store now has a blue covering with an "ocean wave" of light blue iPod Nanos and "Drop in soon. Apple...

Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple Inc., 3G, Sydney, Facade, Retail, Cable, Cellular Phones, Digital Music, Digital Media, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Reader Brad Wilson, Telecommunications

Blog posts 2008-05-27

Off topic: The facade of objectivity

Off topic: The facade of objectivityGood post Larry!I think that what makes blogs so interesting is the fact that they're more like a conversation than anything else, and over repeated conversations you get to build up a picture of the person you are speaking to. Like you said, you generally...

Tags: Blogging, Off Topic, facade, objectivity

Discussion threads 2008-05-14

Facade 1.1 (Mac)

Facade is an attempt to move beyond traditional branching or hyperlinked narrative to create a fully-realized, one-act interactive drama, integrating an interdisciplinary set of artistic practices and artificial intelligence technologies. You, the player, using your own name and gender, play the character of a longtime friend of Grace and Trip,...

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Apple Macintosh, Drama, Facade, Procedural Arts

Software downloads 2006-10-27

Photos: In search of quake's shadows

A bunch of earthquake fanatics explores the streets, facades, basements and rooftops of downtown San Francisco.

Tags: facade, basement, shadow

Image galleries 2006-04-18

Photos: In search of quake's shadows

A bunch of earthquake fanatics explores the streets, facades, basements and rooftops of downtown San Francisco.

Tags: facade, basement, shadow

Image galleries 2006-04-18

Facade 1.03 (Windows)

Facade is an attempt to move beyond traditional branching or hyperlinked narrative to create a fully-realized, one-act interactive drama. Integrating an interdisciplinary set of artistic practices and artificial intelligence technologies, we have completed a five-year collaboration to engineer a novel architecture for supporting emotional, interactive character behavior and drama-managed plot....

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Drama, Microsoft Windows, Facade, Procedural Arts

Software downloads 2005-07-08

Additional Resources

Why enterprise networks run Windows, not the Mac

Why enterprise networks run Windows, not the MacHere's an asbestos suit.Because, boy, are you going to need it.Anyway...The reason they don't succeed is down to three things:1) TCO - ripping out your infrastructure to replace it with someone else's gear doesn't make sense unless you have to. Since good...

Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, Apple Macintosh, PC, enterprise network, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-06-05

Ubuntu as slick as Win7, Mac OS X

Ubuntu as slick as Win7, Mac OS XFrothy how the heck are you ...Linux still need polish but if this article has any merit it's a much needed in the right direction.Ubuntu will be puting more price pressure on Windows as it gets morepolished, and more people know what Linux...

Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Ubuntu, Microsoft Windows 7, Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X, Linux, Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2009-04-24

The 24-Hour Commercial: Signs of Our Times

Our ancestors drew on cave walls. We draw on buildings. There is, for instance, a two-story retail outlet in New York's Times Square devoted to all things M&M. (Not bad for a chocolate that is about the size of a shirt button.) ...

Tags: Sign, Times Square, Randall Bennett, Telecom & Utilities, Games, Personal Technology, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-04-21

IDC: Downturn to drive Linux adoption

IDC: Downturn to drive Linux adoptionMicrosoft will probably lower prices rather than cede market share, but, even a price break on the server end, and netbook end may not be enough to stop market share losses. MS does not have a suitable OS for Arm based netbooks, and for virtualized...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, netbook, Linux-adoption, virtualization, Microsoft Corp., International Data Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-03-17

Taskforce Initiative interview with Long Zheng

Taskforce Initiative interview with Long ZhengAlthough I applaud the effortsI remain dubious about any real changes. The UAC whining was most likely something Microsoft was going to change anyway - it was a mistake and the company is famous for not admitting to making any, unless they are caught red-handed.Also,...

Tags: Taskforce Initiative, Long Zheng, UAC

Discussion threads 2009-03-14

SOA design patterns, explored in detail

Many organizations' efforts to move to SOA have been mired by organizational issues, by conflicting vendor messages, and by architectures that may amount to little more than Just a Bunch of Web Services. While no two SOA implementations are alike, Thomas Erl author of SOA Design...

Tags: Podcast, Design Pattern, SOA, Thomas Erl, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-02-06

Enterprise Data Services in SOA using ODI Suite

When properly architected and executed, Data Services can provide the missing link that unifies conventional data systems with the emerging SOA paradigm. By offering a decoupled data facade and an easily virtualized API, Data Services can give SOA the opportunity to establish system control without always forcing enterprise data through...

Tags: Data Service, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2009-02-01

In the "What the hell were they thinking" department...

In the "What the hell were they thinking" department...Why Not? How much money did it cost?If the lights and eveything are bought and paid for, the workers doing the decorating already on payroll, what's the actuall cost?Plus given a time of uncertainty, a little hope in the form of the...

Tags: Grinch

Discussion threads 2008-12-14

In the "What the hell were they thinking" department...

The New York Stock Exchange, all lit up for the holidays. Nice display, but is this really an appropriate message to send to Wall Street? Or an appropriate use of company funds? Click on the photo for a full-size image. In my...

Tags: Business Operations, Finance, Financial Accounting, Government, Jason Perlow, Litigation, NYSE Euronext, Wall Street

Blog posts 2008-12-14

SBSH PocketWeather (Smartphone) 2.0.8 (Mobile)

Get world wide weather reports directly to your Windows Mobile Smartphone device using the all new PocketWeather 2!PocketWeather is the best weather tracking solution for Windows Mobile devices! Featuring a robust weather engine wrapped with a stylish and easy to use interface. Including special SBSH Facade integration placing your weather...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Weather, Smartphone, SBSH Mobile Software, Microsoft Windows, Smart Phones, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Advertising & Promotion, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-10-28

Koders.com: Ruby as programmers choice?

Koders.com: Ruby as programmers choice?Kids, Have Your Secret Scheme Decoder Ring ReadyMy sense was that Ruby was the thing two years ago but the shine isn't quite what it was. I looked into the language and have copies of the canonical books, and I have the point of view, that...

Tags: Scripting languages, Programming languages, C/C++, Ruby, programmers choice, Koders.com

Discussion threads 2008-10-16

Microsoft and Yahoo: Ballmer's 'failure' now a 'dodged bullet'

Microsoft and Yahoo: Ballmer's 'failure' now a 'dodged bullet'Microsoft and Yahoo: Ballmer's 'failure' now a 'dodged bullet'Ballmer was very lucky indeed. Now they can purchase Yahoo at a much cheaper price. Yes I'm still for the purchase.I said so at the timeWalking away from Yahoo was a good...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Steve Ballmer, dodged bullet, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-10-13