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Secret Legacy of Nikola Tesla 1.0 (Mac)

Young Laura Jones picks up a mysterious box left to her grandmother by scholar and inventor Nikola Tesla, with whom her grandmother worked with during her youth. The box contains clues to the locations of the part needed to start Tesla's greatest invention, the location of which is also unknown,...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Grandmother, Macgamestore, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-09-24

Honda demonstrates prototype walking assist devices

Honda demonstrates prototype walking assist devicesNot there YetMy grandmother is 99, will be 100 in July 09 (Yay G'ma!) and she's like many elderly, using a walker not just for 'stability' but more importantly for balance and support. She actually supports part of her weight with her arms when using...

Tags: grandmother, Honda Motor Co.

Discussion threads 2009-04-15

More Snow Leopard screenshots and video leak out

More Snow Leopard screenshots and video leak outIn other words, nothing new.$129 for the option to not install printer drivers and a new name for Undo! Awesome! RE: More Snow Leopard screenshots and video leak outThis should be a free update. You pan it from a 30 sec vid...

Tags: Operating systems, Apple Mac OS X, Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, UNIX, Microsoft Windows, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Snow Leopard, Snow Leopard screenshot, Apple Inc., grandmother, netbook, Microsoft Corp., video

Discussion threads 2009-02-26

BlackJack Run Lite 1.0 (Mobile)

BlackJack Run is not your grandmother's BlackJack! The object is to get the highest score for each of the five rows, without busting, all before the time runs out for the round.

Tags: Mobile, Grandmother, Seahorse Software, BlackJack Run, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-08-06

MRSA still vulnerable to soap

In all the growing excitement over MRSA, the "deadly," "flesh-eating" bacteria which the media is turning into another "gay plague," one very important point is being almost systematically ignored. It's still vulnerable to soap. Simple lye-based soap. Wash your hands and, if you've been using the rest...

Tags: Medicine, Grandmother, Sales Tools, Advertising & Promotion, Sales, Marketing, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-01-15

MawMaw's Clock 1.1 (Mac)

Remember your grandmothers large wood grained LCD clock? Heres a rendition of that venerable icon of yesteryear. MawMaws Clock floats above your desktop, continuously displaying the current time in the same old reliable way that MawMaws clock used to do!

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Grandmother, Tee-Boy, MawMaw, MawMaws Clock, Monitors & Displays, Desktops, Hardware, Components

Software downloads 2007-05-10

Istria 1 (Windows)

Istria is a RPG like other made with RPGMaker, but just tiles came from this soft. It was programming with DarkBasic (alias 3D Games Creator) and the editors were made with PureBasic. In this game, you control a young man who have to find is grandmother. She is the key...

Tags: Grandmother, BasicUnivers, Istria, Microsoft Windows, Games, Development Tools, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2006-11-09

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Users should be smug, and why the Apple iPhone makes you feel smarter

It works and it is NOT MicrosoftIt is so nice when people have the option to choose what they want than some lethargic aged NT kernel that is a virus/worm magnet.GOOD bye Windows Mobile it was as if you never existed!ha haI am happy!:)Now to get rid of Windows on...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Operating systems, computer, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., operating system

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Linux to your grandma this Christmas

finaly:)RE: Linux to your grandma this ChristmasEldy is definetly a great piece of software, works on windows and linux and it's absolutely free of charge and ads freelong live the no profit European Associazione Eldy!RE: Linux to your grandma this ChristmasNot a viable option. Grandma already has enough problems trying...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, value-add, Linux, grandma, Eldy

Discussion threads 2009-11-11

Dear Microsoft: What's the deal with Windows 7 upgrades?

Location?38.921473?N 77.066946?WYep, same here ...... stonewalled at every turn. With you ...... I can see, because you've been pulling on Microsoft's scab lately. But in Ed's case, I don't know why they would treat him like that.^o^Message has been deleted..Believe it or not ...... it makes little difference. The...

Tags: upgrade media, reverse engineering, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

Microsoft makes changes to browser ballot screen; user testing to commence

Microsoft is trying to play games again.The selection screen is reasonable except for the screed under the IE8 browser indicating that it is "better faster safer easier". First of all, "better faster safer and easier" than what ? IE6 ? Firefox ? Safari ?...If the...

Tags: Web browsers, selection screen, Microsoft Corp., Web browser, Microsoft Internet Explorer, IE8, Microsoft Windows Server Update Services

Discussion threads 2009-10-07

Injury to insult: Madoff victims data stolen in laptop theft

Was it running windows, or linux?If it was running windows, you could just click cancel, and get in as the admin. There are times where even XP will allow you to click cancel at the login box, when enabled. That's what I call security!Because MS is more secure. eomWhat...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Madoff Victims, laptop computer

Discussion threads 2009-09-23

Deconstructing United Airlines: Where Customers are Transactions

United Airlines: Customers are Merely Transactions If you're a loyalty marketer and look at my United profile, you find something that would make you 4.5 on a scale of 5.0 when it comes to warm and fuzzy.   You'd see hundreds of thousands of United Airlines frequent flier FF miles;...

Tags: Customers Ltd., Mile, Customer, United Corp., United Airlines, Corporate Communications, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Marketing, Human Resources, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-08-20

Shock Horror 'Social Media': Who Will Save/Train the Children?

Parents with Save / Train, that's what they are there for.for many parents today, this is new to them since the older you get, the less change you want to see. At a younger age, you're more inclined to adapt. Another thing is, more parents are getting home...

Tags: Save/Train, social media, Horror

Discussion threads 2009-08-12

Family Mystery: The Story of Amy 1.0 (Windows)

Join Amy on an eye-opening search through an ancient family album and learn the secrets of her past in Family Mystery - The Story of Amy. Orphaned while still in infancy, Amy never got to meet her parents and her grandparents never spoke of their past. But when Amy discovers...

Tags: SpinTop Games, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-07-30

Family Mystery - The Story of Amy (Windows)

An orphan since infancy, Amy never got the chance to meet her parents and her grandparents never spoke of their past. But her grandmother's diary and a book of old photographs sends Amy on an eye-opening journey into her family's exciting, amusing, and shocking history. Join Amy as she flips...

Tags: Object, GameHouse, Amy, Microsoft Windows, Games, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-07-16

Posh Boutique 2 (Windows)

Join Alicia for more fast fun in Posh Boutique 2, the sequel to the hit time management game that's been called, "the type of game you simply can't afford to leave lying there on the rack." After taking over her grandmother's line of fancy clothing stores, Alicia decides it's time...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, GameHouse, Alicia, Time Management, Games, Productivity, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-07-15

Will the Chrome OS make Google more loved or hated in OS world?

Will the Chrome OS make Google more loved or hated in OS world?Chrome OS and Google DominationHow does one compete against a "free" product?As much as I like and enjoy using its products though I have been using Bing faster and Ask more relevant a lot more lately, Google is...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Operating systems, Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Google Inc., Chrome, operating system, Chrome OS, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-07-08

Is Twitter making us all self-centered?

I made a comment on Twitter this morning about how I don't feel as if I fit in anymore. That wasn't some "woe is me" decree implying that I was going to leave Twitter. Perish the thought. It was more of an observation on the way that Twitter has impacted...

Tags: Twitter, Networking, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2009-07-07

Posh Boutique 1.0 (Mac)

It's Alicia's birthday and she has a big surprise coming! Her grandmother, Lily, has decided it's time for Alicia to take over her chain of posh boutiques. Alicia thinks it sounds like a dream come true but in reality it takes a special someone with great timing, a keen business...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Customer, Macgamestore, Alicia, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-06-25