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Letters From Santa Screensaver (zip)

Screensaver for windows PC's only from Santa Claus Letters and traditional images of Santa included. Personalized letter from Santa and Father Christmas. Father Christmas letters sends letters from the North Pole anywhere in the world at Christmas. We provide an interactive personalized letter from Santa in four versions. This version...

Tags: Letter, Father Christmas Letter

Software downloads 2008-05-14

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My father, the casemodder

I love hearing about these wacky aesthetic computer modifications that people do. While a lot of them definitely have the "cool" factor, most aren't exactly useful or practical. But when I heard about one particular "casemod" from one of my readers, I was intrigued. It just so happened that this...

Tags: Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-08-29

Animated Christmas Screensaver (zip)

Animated snow falling gently over a beautiful christmas scene to get ready for the holiday season. It includes smooth transition effects and uninstall option. Full functionality during the trial period. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Trial Period, Smooth Transition, Freebking

Software downloads 2008-08-28

Defendant in key RIAA decision destroyed evidence

Photo by Luke Gattuso Just because you win a brilliant legal battle doesn't mean you'll win the war. Back in April, Judge Neil Wake handed RIAA opponents a key victory, with a seminal decision against the recording association's "making available" theory of distribution. ...

Tags: Theory, RIAA, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-08-27

Amazon eyeing up the textbook market? About time

Recent reports suggest that Amazon may be readying new versions of its Kindle ebook reader for use in the textbook market. While Amazon won't confirm any of the rumblings in the blogosphere, Ars Technica reports that The new model will supposedly be considerably larger than the...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Textbook, Kindle, E-books, Personal Technology, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-08-25

YouTube Comment Snob (xpi)

YouTube Comment Snob filters out undesirable comments from YouTube comment threads. You can choose to have any of the following rules mark a comment for removal: more than a set number of spelling mistakes (the number of mistakes is customizable, and the extension uses Firefox's built-in spell checker); all capital...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox, YouTube Inc., Letter, Christopher Finke, Web Browsers, Internet

Software downloads 2008-08-25

Web archiving enterprises: keep trying

Through my keen observations, deep procrastination and occasional drunken ramblings, there are three things which annoy me about a service or product before I even use them. These three things, from a consumer's point of view, are the following: having a product with a...

Tags: Web, Page, Archiving, CSS, Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Productivity, Business Intelligence, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-08-24

Ryan Block's last day as Engadget editor-in-chief ends with 1 year update on the state of Palm

Ryan Block is ending his role as editor-in-chief at Engadget to pursue a new gadget site opportunity with long-time buddy Peter Rojas and I wish them both the best of luck and look forward to seeing what they come up with. As a fitting end to his role at Engadget,...

Tags: Palm Inc., Engadget, Ryan Block, Smart Phones, Professional Development, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Keyboards, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Career, Hardware, Peripherals, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-08-23

Windows Live Wave 3 managed beta begins

Zack Whittaker was on compassionate leave when this was posted; posted offline and scheduled to release during this week. For many weeks, months, and I'd even say for around a year now, the kind gentry over at LiveSide have been keeping us up...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Live, Beta, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-08-22

American McGee's Grimm: A Boy Learns What Fear Is (exe)

When a young boy wants to learn the true meaning of the word "fear," his father advises him to leave the safety of their village home and venture out into the wilderness. Along the way, the boy's quest for "fear" leads him to the hanging gallows, a haunted house, and...

Tags: Episode, GameTap, American McGee, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-08-21

Life without the Internet: Zapped off the grid

Life without the Internet: Zapped off the grid...."[B]But - it does show that maybe we're a bit too dependent on our devices and that we can be a bit too caught up in the technology of the day.[/B]"That's part of the lesson and the rest of your post is dead...

Tags: Engineering, MAKE SURE, phone book, Zapped off-the-grid, Third World, phone, Internet

Discussion threads 2008-08-20

New touch screen Classmates unveiled today

Intel unveiled a new iteration of its Classmate PC today, featuring a touch screen with tablet mode, a new wedge design, and motion-sensing internal hardware. According to Intel's press release, "Our ethnographic research has shown us that students responded well to tablet and touch screen...

Tags: Touch Screen, OEM, Intel Corp., Classmate, Accelerometer, Keyboards, Tablets, Monitors & Displays, Notebooks, Processors, Hardware, Peripherals, Notebooks & Tablets, Components, Semiconductors, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-08-20

Windows: You say major; I say minor

Windows: You say major; I say minorThey can call it anything they please. It is still overpriced JUNK.Get Linux :-)Duck the questionMaybe they should do another theme change. For a while it was a series number (3.1), then a year (95, 98, 98SE, 2000), then a letter combo XP,...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-08-20

Apple's MobileMe: Why don't we just call it a beta

Apple announced another 60-day freebie extension for MobileMe customers. MobileMe is the synchronization service that launched along with the iPhone 3G and App Store and you could argue that going 2-for-3 with a strikeout isn't bad. But this isn't baseball. MobileMe has been a black eye for Apple and the...

Tags: Apple Inc., Beta, MobileMe, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-19

Get your next knee online

Get your next knee onlineWelcome to McAnatomyI'll have two knees with a side of liver, to go. And throw in a coupe of those heart valves too, they look nice and fresh.I'm thinking that in my lifetime there will be the option of replacing just about every broken body...

Tags: body part

Discussion threads 2008-08-18

Compliance and IT

Compliance and ITOne Small Comment[i]for the average company with three or four sites and a few thousand employees[/i]The average company doesn't have a few thousand employees. 99% of all companies are SME's.AccuracyIf I only had a dollar for every time I was told the tracking data in some system...

Tags: compliance, IT IS, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-08-18

MSE rises like a phoenix from the beta ashes

Knock knock. Who's there? A shameless self-marketing campaign, trying to throw anything Microsoft related your way. Well, not any more anyway, as the Microsoft Student Experience has been thrown out of beta with golden depth charges. The website now looks what it actually...

Tags: Kind, Microsoft Corp., Beta, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Apple Mac OS X, Portals, Apple Mac OS, Corporate Communications, Operating Systems, Internet, Software, Marketing, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-08-16

News to know: Windows 7; Graphic card upgrades; Psystar; Netflix outage

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Where on earth are these Microsoft patches? Ed Bott: Sinofsky dishes on Windows 7 Mary Jo Foley: Sinofsky to dish on Windows 7? Wishful thinking System Center Online: Another Microsoft-hosted cloud service in the making ...

Tags: NetFlix Inc., Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Open Source, Health Care, Apple iPhone 3G, Outage, Microsoft Windows, 3G, Corporate Governance, Vertical Industries, Operating Systems, Software, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Enterprise Software

Blog posts 2008-08-15

Facebook and Beacon partners slapped with class action suit

Facebook and Beacon partners slapped with class action suit45,000 PLUS WORDS, WHY?The most memorable incident involved a man who purchased a diamond ring from Overstock.com as a surprise Christmas gift for his wife - and then found that the purchase had been broadcast to his network of Facebook...

Tags: class action, Facebook, class action suit

Discussion threads 2008-08-14

Researcher discovers Nokia S40 security vulnerabilities, demands 20,000 euros to release details

Will disclose Nokia s40 security vulnerabilities for money? Part of Security Exploration's research program, Adam Gowdiak, a well known researcher with a decent history of uncovered security issues, recently made an announcement regarding two security vulnerabilities affecting the implementation of mobile Java used by Sun and Nokia in their products,...

Tags: Nokia Corp., Mobile, LinkedIn, Security Vulnerability, Security, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-08-14