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How to temporarily "kill your television"-and everyone else's, too

Folks who attended the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week had been wondering just what happened to the monitors at the Panasonic booth. First, as you see at top of this post, they were displaying just fine. Then, all of a...

Tags: Consumer Electronics Show, Panasonic, Hog, Monitors & Displays, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Hardware, Components, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-01-10

Photos: Tech camp for kids

Thousands of kids are attending iD Tech Camps on college campuses around the country this summer. Jimmy McChristy, 17, shows off video animations he''s created with Adobe AfterEffects for a four-minute film takeoff on the movie The Matrix.McChristy, a Santa Fe, N.M., high school senior, is one of thousands of...

Tags: Games, PRODUCTIVITY, Corporate communications, It', photograph, game, iD Tech Camps, iD Tech, computer, Jimmy McChristy, Stanford University, camp, video game, hog, dorm, 3D modeling, Pixar Animation Studios Inc., programming, backward, Stanford, robotics, Web design, Universi

Image galleries 2007-08-09

Comcast should surcharge bandwidth hogs, Torrents downloaders

PCMag.coms Chloe Albanesius has gotten quite a reaction from her Wednesday story that Comcast is cutting off "bandwidth hogs" whose downloads are far in excess of what the broadband access provider thinks is about right.She mentions one case of a customer who downloaded 550 gigabytes of stuff, and whose service...

Tags: Comcast, General

Blog posts 2007-04-06

No price cuts for Verizon, BellSouth DSL customers

No price cuts for Verizon, BellSouth DSL customersMotorola V-710 anyone?Look up what they did to the v710. I even know a guy from Motorola who's angry about that. Verizon will do anything to make a buck. I'm considering switching to Cingular if I ever switch away from Sprint. Cingular doesn't...

Tags: Network technology, Broadband Internet, WIRELESS, Wi-Fi, DSL, cable, WiMAX, hog, BellSouth Corp., Verizon Communications Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-08-22

Folder Hog (EXE)

Find out who is the hog on your hard drive and eliminate the hogging folder. This great utility allows you to clean up space on your hard drive by removing or deleting the hog from your system. You decide which folder to clean up or save to an external media...

Tags: Folder, Hard Drive, Hog

Software downloads 2004-09-06

Additional Resources

Geek Sheet: A Tweaker's Guide to Solid State Disks (SSDs) and Linux

Is 20th-century conventional Winchester multi-platter, multi-head random-access disk technology too quaint for you? Want to run your PC or server on storage devices that consume far less energy than the traditional alternatives? Want a portable or mobile storage unit that will never fail due to G-forces or "crashing?". Looking for...

Tags: Linux, Disk, File System, Solid State Disk, Mandrake, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-07-25

The empire strikes back: Can Microsoft's ads cure my Vista psychosis?

The empire strikes back: Can Microsoft's ads cure my Vista psychosis?180 million soldMany buyers are selecting more expensive versions. Microsoft revenues are up extraordinarily. Despite Apple's ads and sales, PC sales are up significantly.And the SP 1 release usually helps sales.You might consider that the reputation you discuss...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft revenue, Microsoft Windows Vista, advertisement, Apple Inc., Vista psychosis, psychosis, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Zune

Discussion threads 2008-07-22

Please tell me an actual Apple netbook is on the way

I've said it several times before: I want a netbook. An Asus Eee would be great, the HP MiniNote is a bit pricey but looks very slick, Dell's proposed netbook is still vaporware but worthy of excitement, and I'm still waiting for US OEMs to pick up on the...

Tags: Apple Inc., Productivity, Notebooks, Apple Mac OS X, Keyboards, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Peripherals, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-07-21

Unintended Consequences and the Future of Maintenance Revenue: SAP Jettisons TomorrowNow

When Shai Agassi called me in early 2005, he asked me a loaded question: How would I respond if SAP decided to take the fight to Oracle by providing third party maintenance for Oracle's recently acquired PeopleSoft customers? I told him it would be an incredibly aggressive move, but that...

Tags: Revenue, Maintenance, Oracle Corp., Customer, SAP AG, TomorrowNow, Software As A Service (SaaS), Public Relations, Tools & Techniques, Mergers & Acquisitions, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Management, Investment, Finance, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2008-07-21

The myth of Windows "Workstation" 2008

The myth of Windows "Workstation" 2008If you want a better Windows experience...switch to Linux/KDE. Sorry I just couldn't resist. I don't really believe that. I do believe if you want a better Windows experience run XP or even W2k. No matter how much I experience Vista it...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, workstation

Discussion threads 2008-07-16

Yahoo's desperate search times call for open source

Yahoo has opened its search for developers to customize in its latest step in what it calls its Open Strategy, a plan to make Yahoo a platform. The effort is dubbed Yahoo Search BOSS, which allows "allows developers and companies to create and launch web-scale search products...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., BOSS, RealNetwork, Open Source, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-10

Adobe ships critical PDF Reader, Acrobat patch

Adobe ships critical PDF Reader, Acrobat patchTwo words:Foxit. Reader.Like MacOS, you have the added "security" layer of being a minority target. Until Foxit reaches Acrobat's market share, no one will bother much writing exploits, or even looking for holes. (Yes, also like MacOS, you may not get targeted, but...

Tags: Patches, SECURITY, Foxit, Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe Acrobat, Acrobat patch, critical PDF Reader, PDF Reader, patch, Adobe PDF

Discussion threads 2008-06-24

Compass Universal Mail Client (exe)

You don't need the clutter of a Web browser to access you're Windows Live Mail, Gmail, or Yahoo Mail account. The Compass mail client provides a very clean minimalist look that puts focus on your Internet e-mail and not on the Web browser. It feels as if you are using...

Tags: Client, Web Browser, Compass, Internet, E-mail Providers, Web Browsers, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2008-06-12

Prices up, consumption down--market economics working for gasoline consumers?

Prices up, consumption down--market economics working for gasoline consumers?Don't PanicSomeone should write "A Hitchiker's Guide to the Fake Oil Crisis."American's are freaking out because we cannot drive our monster SUV's from the distant suburbs each day to work. Two SUV families where mom and dad each take one over 30...

Tags: Gas Prices, SUV, government, Sure China

Discussion threads 2008-06-11

Browser memory usage - the good, the bad, and the down right ugly!

Browser memory usage - the good, the bad, and the down right ugly!Just for fun: could you add Epiphany, Konqueror and Dillo?It would be fun to have the lightweight browsers Epiphany, Konqueror and Dillo into this comparison. Just for the heck of it.... :-)Greeting, Pjotr.are these raw figuresOr is...

Tags: Web browsers, Web browser, Opera Software, memory usage, Mozilla Firefox, memory

Discussion threads 2008-06-05

Browser memory usage - the good, the bad, and the down right ugly!

So how much memory do modern web browsers consume when pushed hard? This was the question prompted by my Firefox 3.0 a memory hog? post yesterday. So how do the browsers stack up against each other? The Test I took six...

Tags: Opera Software, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, Web Browser, Results Here, Web Browsers, Internet, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-06-05

Firefox 3 RC2: still flawed

The world seems enamored of Firefox 3. I'm not one of them. I would like to be if it wasn't for the flaws I keep finding when using the Mac version. Now before the Mozilla PR squad descend like a ton of hot bricks as is their practice the moment...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, RC2, Web Browsers, Internet, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-06-05

News to know: Windows 7; Firefox 3.0; Yahoo; SOA; Nokia

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Windows 7: To wait or not to wait? That is the question Microsoft continues paring back the Windows Live family Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Firefox 3.0 Release Candidate 2 available from FTP servers ...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Windows 7, Nokia Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Camcorder, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Apple Mac OS, Operating Systems, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-05

(Firefox 3.0 a memory hog?)

(Firefox 3.0 a memory hog?)What am I missing here?It looks [b]obvious[/b] to me that FF 3 uses much less memory than IE 7. So what is the question?ThanksAre you trying to make Firefox look bad? Check your sources!So, you show that Firefox is taking up ~159MB in image - http://content.zdnet.com/2347-12554_22-204465-204467.html?seq=2Yet,...

Tags: Web browsers, memory hog, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Microsoft Internet Explorer

Discussion threads 2008-06-04

Firefox 3.0 a memory hog?

Firefox 3.0 a memory hog?Surely, like all programs, the answer is...."Only what it needs, and no more.".To anyone who might feel like crying "RAM is cheap!", then I would say speaking as a programmer that that would be no excuse for sloppy work.Not a definitive answer just yetIf you want...

Tags: Web browsers, Flash memory, memory, Mozilla Firefox, Web browser, Mozilla Firefox 3.0

Discussion threads 2008-06-04