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Exploding Marbles! (exe)

Exploding Marbles! is a cool 3D marbles game that features excellent graphics, superb sound effects, terrific music and great animations. Among some of the features are: high score table, options for sound, music and mouse speed, skinnable GUI and great graphics and animations. This version is the first release on...

Tags: Mouse, Animation, Graphics, Music, Hardy Creations, Mice, Hardware, Peripherals

Software downloads 2008-09-16

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Creative Commons for students

I was in a meeting today about an after-school program where students are creating a lot of digital content. As much of this content is being tagged, students need to identify the copyright holder for individual media. While the copyright holder is rightfully the student who created the...

Tags: Creative Commons, Student, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Advertising & Promotion, Digital Media, Security, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-02

Midi to Audio (exe)

Midi to Audio is easy to use software to make conversions from MIDI format to WAV audio format. Using the technique of synthesis said in "wavetables", this converter gives more realism to your MIDI creations as he allows working with samples of real instruments. Midi to Audio has a powerful...

Tags: Audio, MIDI, CCLA Software

Software downloads 2008-10-01

House votes to save webcasters, Senate votes today

House votes to save webcasters, Senate votes todayRE: House votes to save webcasters, Senate votes todayThank God. I know I called and wrote my congresspeoples.RE: House votes to save webcasters, Senate votes todayever since the napster ruling in 2000, the music industry record companies have gotten greedier. I agree...

Tags: Strategy, Peer to peer (P2P), Advertising & Promotion, Digital media, Webcaster, record company, U.S. Senate, industry

Discussion threads 2008-09-29

Free lunches for schools?

Free lunches for schools?I think that after you assesswhat went wrong you should continue to nurture your Linux lab. It takes time to start, but once you get it rolling you can actually involve the students. Give them a sense of ownership. Just a thought.Am I in a Time Warp?What...

Tags: Breezy Badger, Free Lunch

Discussion threads 2008-09-26

Jackson Browne and Copyright

Jackson Browne's decision to sue the McCain campaign over the use of one of his songs in a TV ad in Ohio raises serious "fair use" issues. Why can authors such as myself lift whole paragraphs from copyrighted works by way of citation, but we can't lift portions of...

Tags: Advertisement, Song, Media, John McCain, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-09-26

Modelmaker Lite (zip)

A software for creating 3d models. Export/import DXF, Obj file formats. Includes pre-made shapes library for easy modeling. Create your own shapes by revolve, extrude, height field, mesh, tessellation, import, edit --then export to your creations to your favorite rendering program. Intuitive modeling features. Real world XYZ points/triangle faces info...

Tags: Modeling, Leroypro, Research & Development, Business Operations

Software downloads 2008-09-23

Block War 2 (zip)

Block War 2 is a challenging platform game where you must conquer some of the hardest traps and enemies. The game supports a handful of single player levels, along with a few splitscreen multiplayer levels. Players can also create and share their custom map creations and appear on the Winner's...

Tags: Aertcz Productions, Games, Corporate Governance, Personal Technology, Business Operations, Corporate Law

Software downloads 2008-09-23

Demo Jam Live: SAP meets enterprise 2.0; The ROI of spell check

Welcome to Demo Jam Live--SAP's developer fest meets American Idol. Here's how it works: Techies submitted proposals for their newfangled enterprise creations and the list was whittled down to a few key finalists. These finalists will then duke it out for the best demo of the night--as judged by the...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Data Integrity, ROI, SAP AG, Apple Inc., Enterprise 2.0, SAP Data, Applause-o-meter, Panaya, Roi/Tco, Programming Languages, Asset Management, Enterprise Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-09

Harry Potter nerd loses big to JK, WB

Harry Potter nerd loses big to JK, WBI see both sides of this oneOn one hand, there's good reason to believe that a control-freakish author is determined to control commentary about her creations at all cost, regardless of what copyright law actually says, but I think it might have been...

Tags: Harry Potter

Discussion threads 2008-09-09

A way to assign copyright globally

A way to assign copyright globallySo would you sign an FLA?Not yet. I don't know what the safe guards are. Sometimes the change from that which is free to that which is out of freedom's reach is one of small unnoticed steps. The Open Source code base...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, developer, Fla

Discussion threads 2008-08-27

This week's rants

This week's rantsYou've got it.I never tire of Robin Harris telling the world that MS has lost all their data...a classic. Even when he admits other filesystems are worse. Why then MS? Well they are the biggest and deserve to be blamed...so there..pouted Robin in reply to that question. ...

Tags: Linux, Blogging, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Seinfeld

Discussion threads 2008-08-23

Third party support, threat or menace?

Third party support, threat or menace?Channels and ecosystems require relationships between partiesHey Dana, I think maybe you missed part of my point. If a company that doesn't do anything to help the project progress and only tries to make money from it while waiting for the developers to do the...

Tags: Fax, Third-party, developer

Discussion threads 2008-08-20

JoJo's Fashion Show 2: Las Cruces (exe)

Return to the runway with Jojo for another season of high style and fast fun. Last season, Jojo and her daughter, Rosalind, took the fashion world by storm. Now they need your help assembling stylish outfits for their latest line - Las Cruces. Use your eye for mixing and matching...

Tags: Women, SpinTop Games, JoJo, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources

Software downloads 2008-08-20

LPlug (plsc)

LPlug is a plugin for Messenger Plus. Live to play Lendetta in Windows Live Messenger. You can download LPlug, login or register and start playing immediately. Thanks to it's auto-updater by mynetx creations, you will get a new version as soon as there is one available. You need Messenger Plus...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Live, Lendetta, LPlug, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2008-08-15

DVB-H and government overreach

DVB-H and government overreachData formats are not part of a business model.They're used by software whose sale generates revenue. Just as the OOXML debate was about market share, so the Microsoft changes in data format were the result of the company's ability to provide unique features the public wanted....

Tags: Strategy, DVB-H, government, DVB-T, business model

Discussion threads 2008-08-08

Eight excellent PC upgrade ideas

Eight excellent PC upgrade ideasI did all eightNow I have a new computer.Check first is a good idea.For example, a computer may be capable of managing a maximum of, say 1 GB of RAM, so adding more will be ineffective. It's possible to play Blu-ray with existing hardware using...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Memory, PC, RAM, computer, Nero, monitor, software, hardware

Discussion threads 2008-07-31

Citizen journalism and traditional news

I've been experimenting recently with CNN's site for "citizen journalism" named iReport.  I created a few video posts of myself in response to requests for questions targeted at future visitors to Wolf Blitzer's "The Situation Room" (you can see my iReport site here - http://www.ireport.com/people/JohnCarroll). There are a few kinks in...

Tags: Video Camera, Video, Camera, Corporate Communications, Marketing, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-07-21

Protocol handlers cause Mozilla Firefox 3 remote command execution vulnerabilities

Protocol handlers cause Mozilla Firefox 3 remote command execution vulnerabilitiesThe point is moot......[b]if[/b] you put your FF session in an AppArmor 'sandbox'--the below comes FREE as in beer in openSUSE /etc/apparmor/profiles/extras. Just go into YaST control center->AppArmor->Manually Add Profile and select both usr.lib.firefox.firefox-bin and *.firefox.sh and you are golden--a five-minute...

Tags: Web browsers, Novell AppArmor, Protocol Handler, execution vulnerability, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Corp., Mozilla Firefox

Discussion threads 2008-07-16

Geek Sheet: Configuring Synergy2 to Share Keyboard, Video and Mouse

It's time again for another Geek Sheet. This time, we're going to show you how to share keyboard, mouse, and video click for short demonstration between multiple desktop computers, using different Operating Systems with a free Open Source program called Synergy2. Are you geeky enough that you...

Tags: Mouse, Video, Synergy2, Client, Screen, Mice, Keyboards, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-07-08