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- Hog
- A program that uses an excessive amount of computer resources, such as memory or disk, or takes a long time to execute.
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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 1.5.4 (Windows)
- 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, Datanation, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2004-09-06
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- iMp3 1.7 (Windows)
- iMp3 is HuellaSoft's mp3 player. It is an easy to use player that doesn't hog memory. iMp3 includes playlist capabilities, mp3 information editing, and multiple color schemes to keep your music listening a unique experience.
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, MP3, HuellaSoft, iMp3, Digital Music, Digital Media, Media Players, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics
- Software downloads 2009-11-20
- AOL: Will Armstrong get any honeymoon?
- Time to send out some free AOL signup disks ntntGood Bye AOLThe sooner AOL is just a shadow in the rear-view-mirror of technological history, the better.Since day one they were a success because of aggressive marketing not due to providing anything of any value to their customers.When they bought Time...
- Tags: Transportation, America Online Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-19
- Vizio VO320E
- Photo gallery: Vizio VO320EVizio chose to adorn its VO320E 32-inch LCD with claims of environmental consciousness, saying the little set exceeds Energy Star guidelines by 15 percent. But that's not a very high standard, and according to our tests the Vizio, while definitely no power hog, sips just...
- Tags: TVs, Monitors & displays, Vizio, Vizio VO320E
- Product reviews 2009-11-16
- Netbooks dead? Not when sales are up 264% percent
- My prediction:Intel and MS and the major brands are trying to drag the market upwards in size and cost to maintain their margins. They will shortly face a barrage of products based on ARM class processors and Linux (Chrome?), which will cost much less and have much better battery lives....
- Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, sales, netbook
- Discussion threads 2009-11-16
- Google's storage price cuts and a big missed backup opportunity
- SkyDriveYup, as ReadWriteWeb points out:"SkyDrive offers a free 25 GB of online storage for your files and also serves as the central repository for Windows Live Photos as well as the documents created via the new Office Web Applications service, Microsoft's challenge to Google Docs. But where's Google's answer to...
- Tags: Backups, Google Inc., backup, storage
- Discussion threads 2009-11-11
- uTorrent 2.0 beta 16850 (Windows)
- uTorrent is a powerful and efficient BitTorrent client. Most of the features present in other BitTorrent clients are present in uTorrent, including bandwidth prioritization, scheduling, RSS auto-downloading, and Mainline DHT. Additionally, uTorrent supports the protocol encryption joint specification and peer exchange. Unlike many torrent clients, it does not hog valuable...
- Tags: BitTorrent, Beta, µTorrent, RSS, Microsoft Windows, Internet, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2009-11-03
- Enterprise IT's trust level of Google will increase
- TechRepublic's CIO Jury finds that IT leaders trust Microsoft more than Google as a technology partner, but tune in next year. Jason Hiner outlines the latest findings in the TechRepublic CIO Jury. In a nutshell, it looks like this: So...
- Tags: Google Inc., Information Technology, Enterprise, Jason Hiner, E-mail, Strategy, Online Communications, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-26
- Net neutrality: a faster Internet for all
- If I pay my ISP for fast speeds, I should get it.If I pay my ISP for fast speeds, I should get it.I do [b]not[/b] want my internet to slow down just because some person on the [b]other[/b] end didn't pay for priority traffic.Net Neutrality had to happen in the...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Internet Service Provider, Net Neutrality, faster Internet, Toll-Free, population density, Internet
- Discussion threads 2009-10-23
- uTorrent Portable 1.8.4 (Windows)
- uTorrent is a powerful and efficient BitTorrent client for Windows. Most of the features present in other BitTorrent clients are present in uTorrent, including bandwidth prioritization, scheduling, RSS auto-downloading, and Mainline DHT. Additionally, uTorrent supports the protocol encryption joint specification and peer exchange. Unlike many torrent clients, it does not...
- Tags: BitTorrent, µTorrent, Microsoft Windows, RSS, Operating Systems, Software, Internet
- Software downloads 2009-10-23
- mySQL starring as Peter Pan
- the solution is simple...Oracle must commit 1 billion for MySQL and the deal will sail through.That would work, but...I don't know if Oracle is willing to commit to that. Instead they're doing the old National Lampoon "buy this magazine or we'll shoot this dog" trick, laying off 10% of Sun's...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., MySQL
- Discussion threads 2009-10-21
- Podcast: Can Windows 7 erase Vista memories?
- I am a linux user, but...I believe it CAN erase memories of vista just like XP erased ME. Don't get me wrong, I hate M$, but I do think they can, unfortunately, survive vista, and in all fairness, vista is not as bad as people think, it's pretty bad, but...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, podcast, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows 7, Vista memory, memory
- Discussion threads 2009-10-14
- menuApp 1.04 (Windows)
- menuApp is an application that allows you to configure menus and use them to launch your favourite programs, music files, documents, websites, etc. It's fast, doesn't hog a lot of resource and is easy to setup and use so long as you can handle a text editor. What's more, it...
- Tags: Menu, desktopApps, menuApp, Microsoft Windows, Keyboards, Web Site Development, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Peripherals, Internet
- Software downloads 2009-10-14
- Apple fixes iPhone 'coma mode' with OS update
- still a battery hogI have continued to have the same battery problem as mentioned by others. My iPhone's battery literally drains before my eyes on standby and that is without doing push or anything in the background. I really like my iPhone, but this is a clear illustration...
- Tags: Engineering, Smart phones, Apple iPhone, battery, Apple Inc., coma mode, Apple fixes iPhone, Apple Fixes, phone, software, operating system
- Discussion threads 2009-10-13
- 73% of residential VOIP subscribers to use wireless VOIP phones by 2009
- COIP Cellular Over Internet Protocol is Bandwidth Hog Answer to VOIPInteresting,Having been an advocate of VOIP since beginning, and seeing the improvements in technology eliminating the early poor quality call clarity. Cellular Over Internet Protocol, or COIP, as in VOIP, has broken new ground with the first dial tone on...
- Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, VoIP phone, phone, wireless, VoIP, CoIP
- Discussion threads 2009-10-13
- Head cracking time on health care reform
- "And I can get back to writing about tech."NO - get to writing about TECH now - and stop using this site for your liberal soapboxing!the only head that will crack wil be Obama'sReal Americans are concerned about deficit, death panels and the slippery slope to socialism.This 'reform' will fail...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, health care, soapboxing, healthcare reform
- Discussion threads 2009-10-08
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