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5 characteristics of sleazy corporate vipers

For some reason, venomous political players flock toward failing IT projects. Here are five personal attributes of snake-like corporate creatures: by Michael Krigsman

Tags: Folk, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2009-03-31

Hybrids v. Pickensplan? You do the pickin'

Some of the folks touting hybrid cars--standard fuel plus electric--think their favored technology runs against the plans of T. Boone Pickens. I recently blogged Pickens' pick of CNG as a great new transit fuel for American drivers. Over at Hybridowners they're saying electric hybrids and eventually plug-ins will...

Tags: Car, Hybrid, Folk, Hybridowners Site, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-09-03

Gates no longer the richest man thanks to Yahoo bid

The Forbes list of richest people is out and the big news is that Bill Gates is no longer the richest man. He's not even No. 2 anymore because of Wall Street's displeasure with Microsoft's bid for Yahoo. The richest folks are as follows (Techmeme, Forbes overview,...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Forbes, Folk, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Construction, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-06

And now for a sexy notebook that businesses can actually use

While Apple has received a not-unreasonable amount of buzz for its MacBook Air, even folks like the Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg, who is typically quite the Apple fanman, were forced to acknowledge that while sexy, it wasn't necessarily practical for business use. Well, Lenovo's new ThinkPad...

Tags: Lenovo Group Ltd., Blog, Folk, Notebooks, Blogging, Storage, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Internet, Josh Taylor

Blog posts 2008-02-26

Poll Test

poll is embedded here... [poll=2] that's all folks... by David Grober

Tags: Folk, Poll, David Grober

Blog posts 2007-11-29

Exhausting question: my gas, or yours?

A U.N. official has set off a little political warming trend by by himself: think of it as climate change in the blogosphere. He suggested rich countries have done a lot to cut gree nhouse gas emissions at home, so they should go on a sort of economic missionary...

Tags: Emission, Greenhouse Gas, Folk, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-08-23

Chinese Folk Tales (Mobile)

Situated in south-western China, Yunnan boasts the highest percentage of non-Han population in the country. Among the rich cultural heritage of these peoples, folklore is one of the most fascinating aspects. Catch a glimpse of their exotic cultures through four captivating myths, legends and tales from the Zhuang, the Buji...

Tags: Mobile, Folk, Renditions, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2004-07-13

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Ice Flowers 1.0 (Mac)

The inspiration behind Ice Flowers, Kapitza's 2009 festive font, is the beauty of snow crystals and the interplay between their unique designs. Ice Flowers is a derivative of our earlier snowflake font Snow. It's a much bolder interpretation of the theme, with strong black and white contrasts. The graphic style...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Font, KAPITZA, Ice Flowers

Software downloads 2009-11-06

Volko Baglama 1.0.4 (Windows)

Volko has made the baglama instrument up to a virtual instrument through VSTi technology. Baglama, or "saz" in other words, is a folk instrument. The instrument has a history of approximately 1000 years, starting from the migration and spreading of Turks in Anatolia. For centuries, bards have reflected the emotions...

Tags: Instrument, Volko, Volko Baglama, Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Operating Systems, Software, Management

Software downloads 2009-10-28

Santa's Village 1.1 (Windows)

Go on this special journey to Santa's Village. This game has multiple activities for loads of fun and learning. With hand drawn, computer painted graphics and original folk music by Dennis DenHartog from Folknotes.com created just for this game, it is a unique experience that your children will want to...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Music, EnsenaSoft, Santa, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-10-25

Net Neutrality: Why the Internet will never be free. For anything. So get used to it

The internet will be freeIf we stop allowing our lawmakers to lord over us like the new royality and start passing Amendments to the Constitutions of various states saying that AT ANY TIME..... a lawmaker can be recalled for any reason, with a 40% vote in favor of it.40%???Sorry, but...

Tags: I-don't-know-what, Internet, Net Neutrality

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

Celtic Music for iPhone 2.0 (Mobile)

With Celtic Music for iPhone enjoy listening to this great collection of hundreds of songs - new and old, and ranging in styles from Celtic folk to Celtic rock. Listen to full-track songs from artists such as Enya, Loreena McKennitt, and The Pogues. It plays the music in shuffle mode....

Tags: Apple iPhone, Song, Mobile, Music, nuTsie, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-10-21

How long until Windows 7 market share beats Mac OS X Leopard/Snow Leopard?

RE: How long until Windows 7 market share beats Mac OS X Leopard/Snow Leopard?snow leopard is 10.6 the figures don't even mention that!!!???!Years if you look at adoption ratesBased on percent of existing users. RE: How long until Windows 7 market share beats Mac OS X Leopard/Snow Leopard?One week.RE: How...

Tags: Operating systems, Windows 7 market share, Mac OS X Leopard/Snow Leopard, Microsoft Windows 7, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

SCO story ends with a whimper

William Shakespear should have expanded on his "first ... the lawyers" bit!It is hard to feel sorry for people who go crying all the way to the bank!BAH-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!Good riddance.Someone remind meThis turned out exactly how Bitty/No Ax predicted, right?: o )SCO Xenix & UnixRather sad that their expertise at delivering...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, SCO Group Inc., BSD, Linux, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

T-Mobile Sidekick data outage tests mettle of 800,000 customers, carrier

And before the gloating over a MS screw-up goes too far......try this one on for size, regarding Apple Snow Leopard hosing ALL data when logging in as a "guest". http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9139250/Snow_Leopard_bug_deletes_all_user_dataLOL...LOL...ROTFLMAO :DThat's the cost of secrecy...secrecy enables you to get by just swiping your deficiencies under the rug but that...

Tags: Data centers, Storage, T-Mobile, T-Mobile Sidekick, secrecy, Microsoft Corp., Lol, straight face, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-12

Teens are generation Apple as iPod, iPhone dominance reigns

Look at fall 2007Two years ago, 13% said they planned to buy a Zune. And, almost none of them did.Apple owns this market in the USA and will until the category of MP3 player is no longer relevant.I wonder how many teens plan to buy a Windows Mobile 6.5 phone?Big...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Media players, Microsoft Windows 7, Operating systems, Apple Inc., MP3, MP3 player, iPod iPhone dominance reign, dominance reign, Microsoft Windows, Apple iPod

Discussion threads 2009-10-07

Are we acting like silly fuels?

There is a steady flow of news these days about the drawbacks of our energy "system." The bad news seems to flow like...greenhouse gas, or even coal ash during a downpour. America's natural gas reserves are increasing as more and more deposits are found. The catch: fracking...

Tags: Coal Ash, Telecom & Utilities, Wiki, Online Communications, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-06

Verizon-Google changes mobile landscape; Customers have real options again

Over $100/mo for iPhone?Huh? It's the same prices and plans as any other smartphone. And for many, AT&T's service is better than Verizon's Notwork.RE: Verizon-Google changes mobile landscape; Customers have real options againActually... I only pay 70/month with Sprint.RE: Verizon-Google changes mobile landscape; Customers have real options agThis is...

Tags: Smart phones, Verizon Communications Inc., High Tech Computer Corp., Google Inc., HTC Hero, mobile, phone

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

Update: Collecting bad stories about Ticketmaster

It's like the mobA while ago, there was a "government inquiry" into Ticketmaster and their practices. The newspapers read like it was the mob against the government. And the inquiry just went away. Without government proactively acting to protect us, we are at the mercy of big, greedy...

Tags: Vertical industries, box-office, Ticketmaster Corp., government

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

XP to Vista? No, if it ain't broken, don't upgrade it

XP is not broke,Vista new improved or fixed anything.Message has been deleted.I will have to agree with Zack on this one..MS of course wants to convince you that you need an upgrade so Stevey's stock goes up. MS controls the OEM's like a over bearing husband. I will conclude that...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Well XP, UAC, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP, Service Pack 2

Discussion threads 2009-09-29