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Fire Time 1.0 (Mobile)

The ultimate portable fireplace with a clock. Listen to it's crackle or use any of your own favorite music as background sound. Perhaps you are planning a romantic evening or maybe you just need the occasional time-out to meditate and refresh your mind? Better for the environment, without the maintenance...

Tags: Mobile, HAL Computing, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-05-14

The Fishing Almanac 2009 3.035 (Windows)

Choose the right time to fish worldwide. Plan your fishing trips with comprehensive information on the sun, moon, tides, weather, tidal, or solunar based predictions and location maps. The Fishing Almanac also contains useful fishing tips for both the beginner and more experienced angler's and allows you to quickly log...

Tags: HAL Computing, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2008-10-27

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Cloudy views and more aaS

Microsoft's entry into the so-called cloud computing space sparked off some collateral knock about posts between Tim O'Reilly and Nick Carr with Tim Bray and Stephen O'Grady joining in. At first blush each seems incredibly reasonable. When taken together they become as dense as some of...

Tags: Google Inc., Network Effect, Cloud Computing, Network, Microsoft Corp., Tim Bray, Tim, Stephen, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-10-28

Of telescopes, patents and the death of discovery

“If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants." --Isaac Newton. [The opinions expressed here are mine alone, and not those of Google, Inc. my current employer.] It isn't really a surprise that I ended up...

Tags: Software, Patent, Astronomer, Astronomy, Amateur, Computer, Computing Science, Tools & Techniques, Productivity, Management, Jeremy Allison

Blog posts 2008-06-04

Arthur C. Clarke: All These Worlds Are Yours

For every person, there are personalities who’s influence and life’s work that can shape one’s imagination and destiny. For some people, they are world leaders, musicians, poets, and philosophers. For me, the Grand Masters of Science Fiction float to the very top of that august group â€" and...

Tags: Work, Computer, Productivity, Nanotechnology, Emerging Technologies, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-03-19

The tyranny of the majority

The tyranny of the majorityHi Paul, too true.What OS you use should be driven by the requirements specification matched to the particular strengths and weaknesses of each potential solution... not dogma.All operating systems have differing capabilities, and until someone produces something akin to HAL-9000 or Star Trek's LCARS no one...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, UNIX, tyranny

Discussion threads 2008-03-17

Microsoft reorg: Who's in; who's out

Microsoft reorg: Who's in; who's outMaybe Microsoft should emulate Apple again...and concentrate on publicizing products, not org charts.But then, when you look at their products.......Not much importantThis is further indication of how a once might tree has fallen and is rotting further.All of the Ballmerian box shuffling cannot hide this...

Tags: Channel management, Micorosoft, YAHMic, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-02-15

Inside one PC buyer's mind (aka: A message for Michael Dell, Microsoft and other PC makers)

Inside one PC buyer's mind (aka: A message for Michael Dell, Microsoft and other PC makers)Interesting concept"But, the more I think about it, the more I realize that Sue is 100 percent right to not know what operating system she's using."Too bad, to not know there are alternatives to the...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), RAID, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Bloatfarm, PC

Discussion threads 2007-08-22

Sharpening that personal productivity axe

As many of you will remember we had an extensive discussion here last week about my belief that externally imposed work processes ultimately lead to standardised ways of thinking about those work processes. Kind of a Nixonian thing: grab them by their work processes, and pretty soon their hearts and...

Tags: What users care about, Unanswered questions, Enterprise Policy, Apple

Blog posts 2007-07-19

Munich's $44.5M 14,000-PC desktop Linux migration project: So far, so good

Munich's $44.5M 14,000-PC desktop Linux migration project: So far, so goodMicrosoft was actually cheaperAn earlier story had it that MS has actually come in with a bid that was $30 million cheaper but Munich still went with Linux.ArthasNo kiddingMy question is, who the hell thought that was a fair price?...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Good Grief, Linux, Microsoft Corp., government

Discussion threads 2006-10-30