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Share Cracker 1.0 (Mac)

Share Cracker is a powerful tool for anyone that invests in the London Stock Exchange. It displays stock market information, including the FTSE 100, FTSE 250, FTSE All Share and AIM share prices, various stock market indexes such as the FTSE, AIM, Dow Jones, and others. Using this information, you...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Stock, Stock Market, FTSE, Freelance Writer, Investment, Finance

Software downloads 2009-02-13

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Ulysses core 2.0.2 (Mac)

Ulysses core is a unique text editor, which aims to give creative writers, novelists and storytellers the best writing experience available on any platform today. To achieve that, Ulysses core includes an innovative "tabbed" single-window interface, featuring integrated Notepads, a Document Browser, advanced Search&Replace capabilities and multi-document previews. Additionally,...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Text Editor, Soulmen, Ulysses

Software downloads 2009-09-15

Google Books privacy debate: Whose side are you on?

Privacy is currencyI generally understand what it is you are saying, even if it makes too much use of the "If you have nothing to hide..." argument which I doubt needs to be discussed here. However, I think some of your points are missing the bigger picture. For instance, you...

Tags: privacy issue, Google Book, Google Books privacy, privacy, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-08-13

Building walls between PR, journalists: A worst practice

One of the elements I love about social media is the tearing down of walls. I have an incredible network of contacts on multiple social networks to whom I can reach out in mere minutes. Just this morning, even, I put out an inquiry for this very blog post on...

Tags: Journalist, Newsletter, Reporter, Service, Wall, Help A Reporter Out, ProfNet, Source, Public Relations, Corporate Communications, Construction, Marketing, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2009-06-17

10 things I hate about Twitter

10 things I hate about TwitterHave your sayDo you hate Twitter as much as me, or does your life revolve around it? Are you getting sick of people of tweeting you random crap which you couldn't care less about, or are you the purportrator behind such a thing? Has Twitter...

Tags: Facebok, Twitter

Discussion threads 2009-04-24

Slicing up Sun

Being employed by a large technology company and being a freelance technology writer has its pitfalls, one of which is from a disclosure perspective: I'm not allowed to talk about strategy and forward-looking statements regarding the company I work for. The risk of...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Storage, Open Source, Processors, Servers, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-12-03

Oh Mamma.com: SEC charges Mark Cuban with insider trading

Oh Mamma.com: SEC charges Mark Cuban with insider tradingSomeone trusted Mark Cuban to do right....Then they deserve what they got.The only one Mark Cuban thinks about is himself.He even micro-manages his basketball team, firing the best coach they ever had Avery Johnson.If you or I had done this we'd be...

Tags: E-mail, SECURITY, Mamma.com, O.J., Bud Selig, Mark Cuban, SEC

Discussion threads 2008-11-17

Are telecommuters inherently greener than the rest of us?

Ah, yes, I'm enjoying another day here in front of my office window, which is flung wide open to the crisp autumn-esque New Jersey air. Because I'm a consultant and a freelance writer, it's natural that I live the life of a telecommuter, which is just the type of network...

Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Telecommuting, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-09-11

Hands-free software applications and services for your mobile phone

My fellow MobileTechRoundup podcast host, Kevin Tofel, is a freelance writer and one of his articles just appeared on the New York Times that I thought some of you may be interested in. The article is titled Souping Up a Cellphone for Maximum Multitasking and after reading the article I...

Tags: Software, Phone, Mobile, Article, Cell Phone, Cellular Phones, Telecommunications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-04-03

Server 2008: The Windows Workstation we always wanted

As discontent over Windows Vista (with or without Service Pack 1) continues to swirl, Microsoft is gearing up to launch on February 27 the "other" Windows: Windows Server 2008. Even though it is built from the same core as Vista, Windows Server is different from Vista in a number of...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server 2008, General Motors Corp., Jason Perlow, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Workstations, Servers, Software, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-02-26

Review: Microsoft's Hyper-V puts VMWare and Linux on notice

After his last foray into the “Linux guy reviews a Microsoft product” space, Jason Perlow is back -- this time to take a look at Microsoft’s Hyper-V, the hypervisor-based virtualization solution built into the newly released Windows Server 2008. Although Hyper-V is still in beta and isn't slated to ship...

Tags: Hypervisor, Disadvantage, Operating System, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, Xen, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Virtual Machine, News, VMWare ESX, Hyper-V, Jason Perlow, Virtualization, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Operating Systems, Open Source, Servers, Hardware, Software, Storage, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-02-14

Hollywood unions and the digital revolution

Hallelujah, Hallelujah. Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show" and Stephen Colbert's "The Colbert Report" return to the air tonight. It's just in the nick of time, too, because primary season is now fully under way, and I need their parody skills if I'm going to endure several more months of policy...

Tags: Benefit, Internet, John Carroll, Management, Media, Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage, Problem, Strategy, Studio

Blog posts 2008-01-07

Striking writers and digital media

The members of the Writer's Guild of America WGA, a union that consists of most of the writers responsible for TV and movie content produced by the LA-based movie industry (a position defended by the fact that union contracts require most sets to use only union writers), continues unabated, thus putting...

Tags: Digital Media, Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-01-03

He likes it: Linux guy gives Windows Home Server a (qualified) thumbs up

It seems every time I do a Windows Home Server WHS post, the comments end up evolving/devolving into a debate over whether Linux or Windows is a better home-server platform. I decided to ask a Linux aficionado, Jason Perlow, to provide his take on WHS. Here's Perlow's WHS review: ...

Tags: Linux, Microsoft Windows Home Server, Server, Jason Perlow, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2007-12-24

(Photos: Dinosaur sightings: Lotus Symphony 3)

(Photos: Dinosaur sightings: Lotus Symphony 3)By Crapware You Meant Windows Vista Right?Thought so.RE: (Photos: Dinosaur sightings: Lotus Symphony 3)Back when it was created, Lotus Symphony was a great and powerful product for those who managed to master it. It was just too complex for most business users who felt more...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, IBM Corp., Lotus Symphony, Dinosaur Sightings, Lotus Symphony 3, photograph

Discussion threads 2007-11-20

Open source market getting frothy, Paglo?

Back in the 1990s, when the Internet market was getting frothy, we got many neat prize packages delivered to my home. I was then, as I am now, essentially a freelance writer, of no real consequence. But Budweiser actually sent me a 12-pack of beer to celebrate...

Tags: United Parcel Service Of America Inc., Box, Open Source, BEA Jolt, Internet, Real Estate, Web Site Development, Business Operations, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-10-25

A Mac-eye view of Microsoft's EU defeat

European courts are still carrying the torch forward over Microsoft's antitrust practices. That news may bring a smile to longtime Mac users who know all too well the ways that Microsoft can squeeze its competition, whether by withholding compatibility technology, or at times, even its products. Or at least, it...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2007-09-17

'Volta': Microsoft's dev platform in the Cloud?

Next week is Microsofts much-touted Mix 07 conference. Microsoft has been saying for months that the company will share its vision for its Live development platform at the Las Vegas show. No one from Microsoft is ready or willing to talk publicly about the details yet. Soma Somasegar, the...

Tags: Web 2.0, Development tools, Corporate strategy, Code names, WPF/e, Windows Live, SQL Server, Research, Google, Database, .Net Framework

Blog posts 2007-04-23

AGLOCO: You can't pronounce success?

AGLOCO: You can't pronounce success?Are Ad-based Companies Afraid---------------------------------------------------------It appears that Agloco's business model, if successful, would be a threat to many ad revenue-based Web sites. Notice where the nay-sayers are coming from, and primarily from the tech field. Most tech gurus (and I am an intermediate-level geek) know about as...

Tags: AGLOCO NETWORK, Agloco Network Blog, AglocoYou.com

Discussion threads 2006-12-08

DC libraries are closed but Wi-Fi bookmobile is open for business

All public libraries in Washington D.C. are being closed due to renovation. While theyre closed, they have found have found an interim solution to serve its patrons – in the good old bookmobile, reports the Washington Post. Inside the bookmobile based in the low-income Shaw district...

Tags: bookmobile

Blog posts 2006-10-20