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Nut Chuckin 1.0 (Mobile)

Nut Chuckin' is an addictive and challenging new game developed exclusively for the iPhone and iPod Touch. It is filled with original artwork, unique game play and custom music. Help Risoo the squirrel defend his trees from a gang of rogue squirrels. Risoo needs to dodge the nuts chucked at...

Tags: Nut, Mobile, Ghost Hand, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-09-14

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A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 1.0 (Mobile)

Quotes from the ebook: Preface and beginning of first chapter.PREFACE I HAVE endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their houses...

Tags: Mobile, Scrooge, Keyboards, E-books, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Peripherals, Personal Technology, Components

Software downloads 2009-11-16

Enterprise 2.0 - the non-debate

If I'd paid the full whack $2,495 to attend the Enterprise 2.0 conference I'd be demanding at least a partial refund. It seems the 'Enterprise 2.0 - what a crock' debate was less than a damp squib and more like a feeble whimper. Here's the back story: ...

Tags: Enterprise 2.0, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-11-05

Windows 7 demo: Window management

You missed a couple of gestures!You missed a couple of gestures!1. Hover your mouse over the small vertical rectangle box at the extreme right hand side of your taskbar and you get a ghost of all your open windows. This is great when you have lots of windows / programs...

Tags: Construction, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, window

Discussion threads 2009-09-30

OrthoGraph Survey 1.1.4 (Windows)

OrthoGraph Survey is a professional solution for building surveys (i.e. floor plan, elevation and cross-section surveys). The software is built for appraisers, insurance inspectors, architects, real-estate agencies, CAFM companies, flooring installers and anyone who needs digitized drawings or to calculate the area and perimeter of a floor plan even on-site....

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Plan, Survey, OrthoGraph, OrthoGraph Survey, PDAs, Marketing Research, Handhelds, Hardware, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-08-11

Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX1

Photos:Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX1Camera manufacturers seem to have chosen megazooms as their latest battlefield--and thankfully, the fight isn't just about who's got the biggest lens. In this case, the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX1 incorporates several technologies from the Alpha DSLR products, including a 1/2.4-inch 10-megapixel Exmor CMOS sensor (for 9-megapixel images) and...

Tags: Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX1, Sony Cyber-Shot, white balance, Sony Corp.

Product reviews 2009-04-30

Are fonts on Amazon's Kindle 2 too fuzzy?

Are fonts on Amazon's Kindle 2 too fuzzy?InterestingI have a first-generation Kindle and I love it. My mother, who probably qualifies as an old person with poor eyesight for these purposes, got a Kindle 2 and has not complained to me about the font being blurry. All I've...

Tags: font, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle

Discussion threads 2009-04-14

Windows 7 beta testers - get ready for a wipe and reload

Windows 7 beta testers - get ready for a wipe and reloadAnother example of why data and programs shouldn't be on the same partitionOn Windows you have to go out of your way to do that, but it's well worth the effort.Great articleI really can't wait to see what they've...

Tags: Operating systems, OS disk, Windows 7 beta tester, wipe, reload, Windows 7 Beta, Microsoft Windows 7, operating system, Microsoft Windows, clean install

Discussion threads 2009-04-08

Windows 7 Beta 1: Ribbonized For Your Pleasure

The Windows 7 Operating System has improvements over Windows Vista which include more granular tuning of User Account Control UAC security prompts, a reduced memory footprint and improved performance on less powerful systems. But will the "Ribbonization" of the new user interface created by Steven Sinofsky's...

Tags: Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Windows 7, Operating System, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Beta, Windows 7 Operating System, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-01-08

Just what does it take to switch to desktop Linux (part 1)?

Just what does it take to switch to desktop Linux (part 1)?Can answer these ...[i]Know how to access Windows shares on the network[/i]Well that's pretty easy in Nautilus using smb:// , but a simple link with an icon should suffice.[i]Have a rudimentary understanding of the file system to ensure that...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Printers, desktop Linux, KDE, GNOME, user interface, Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, desktop, printer, Microsoft Windows, Linux

Discussion threads 2008-11-30

Whispers from a ghost: Windows 7 and cloud computing

Whispers from a ghost: Windows 7 and cloud computingYou don't mention it until MS is involvedMS is a latecomer to the party. Yet you single out MS for this. Well, since you're so confident - why don't you put a bet on it? How much money will you put up...

Tags: Storage, Operating systems, Storage management, Microsoft Windows, cloud computing, I/O, Microsoft Windows 7, basket, ghost, IBM AIX, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-10-30

The Ghost of Windows ME

The Ghost of Windows METhe Ghost of Windows METhis is friggin stupid. Your blogs get worse each day. If only the linux fanboys could concentrate more of their time not bashing Microsoft and do something productive with their time.Thanks for the SPOOKY story.In Fact, thanks for the laugh. Happy...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows ME, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., computer, Microsoft Windows XP

Discussion threads 2008-10-29

Norton AntiVirus 2009

Symantec has been listening to its users, and this year the company delivers a slimmed-down and faster Norton Antivirus 2009. Almost all the security vendors have recognized the changing threat landscape and have rethought traditional protection. We especially like the Insight feature, which identifies "trusted" files and applications and doesn't...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, SECURITY, Norton Co., Norton AntiVirus 2009, Symantec Norton AntiVirus, Symantec Corp.

Product reviews 2008-10-10

Norton Internet Security 2009

Symantec has been listening to its users, and this year the company delivers a slimmed-down and faster Norton Internet Security 2009. The suite of tools packs in the kinds of features people want most in an Internet security suite including some forward-looking technology. Almost all the security vendors have recognized...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, SECURITY, Norton Co., Norton Internet Security 2009, Norton Internet, Norton Internet Security, Symantec Corp.

Product reviews 2008-09-09

Poker Ghost 2.4 (Mac)

See how fun and easy it is to use a voice-driven interface to analyze your online Texas Hold 'Em game! Poker Ghost 2 becomes the first Texas Hold 'Em Poker assistant to utilize speech recognition! Just sit and play your online game and tell your Mac the cards that come...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Assistant, Candywriter, Games, Speech Recognition, Personal Technology, Emerging Technologies

Software downloads 2008-08-08

Microsoft says it's time to stop worrying about Vista - Does that make you feel any less worried?

Microsoft says it's time to stop worrying about Vista - Does that make you feel any less worried?There are still issues...Network performance still needs work.File copy performance still needs work.The ghost town that is Ultimate Extra's needs to start giving us what we were promised and paid $100 extra for.I...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., operating system, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2008-07-09

(Fun with openSUSE 11.0)

(Fun with openSUSE 11.0)But it's not Blue Like Windows ...Let's see who runs with that.I'm running OpenSuSE 11 on 2 machines and love both the KDE and GNOME desktop implementations. And, as an added surprise, all the server bits are there as well.If you've looked at Ubuntu or other...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Novell OpenSuse, openSUSE 11.0, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE 11, Linux, Microsoft Windows Vista, operating system

Discussion threads 2008-06-27

Fun with openSUSE 11.0

Fun with openSUSE 11.0Virtualized OpenSUSE 11.0I too am a devoted Ubuntu user, and decided to check out OpenSUSE 11.0. I downloaded the 32bit GNOME LiveCD and loaded in with Virtualbox in Windows XP. I got through the whole setup fairly quickly but when the "system" rebooted it crashed and said...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, desktop virtualization, openSUSE 11.0, KDE, KDE 4, Novell OpenSuse, Novell Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-06-26

Mojo Gesture 2.2 (Windows)

Mojo Gesture provides FREE Windows desktop support for mouse gestures, including Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox etc. Simply draw a symbol with the mouse pointer as a convenient substitute for common actions, such as: close, maximise and minimise actions. Mojo features an optional themed control panel: a floating unobstrusive click-through...

Tags: Mouse, Gesture, Microsoft Windows, Cityzen451, Mojo Gesture, Mojo, Mice, Hardware, Peripherals

Software downloads 2008-06-12

Mojo Desktop Sidekick 2.5 (Windows)

Mojo Sidekick provides FREE support for Windows mouse gestures, including Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox. Simply draw a symbol with the mouse pointer as a convenient substitute for common actions, such as: close, maximise and minimise actions. Mojo features a themed control panel: a floating unobstrusive click-through character or clock....

Tags: Mouse, Gesture, Cityzen451, Mojo Sidekick, Mojo, Mice, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2008-05-28