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Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Geek gifts ideas

Lists ... if there's one thing that people seem to what at this time of year it's lists. In the run up to the Holidays I've planned on posting several kit lists for the Holiday season covering a wide variety of different kit. Today allow me to...

Tags: Kit, gifts, geek, holidays, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Image galleries 2008-12-08

Get in Line for Good Deals

Shoppers across the San Francisco Bay Area set their alarm clocks extra early to welcome Black Friday, the traditional start to the holiday shopping season. At electronic superstores like Circuit City, $299 laptops were among the first big items to sell out. People didn222t seem to mind waiting in hour-long...

Tags: black friday, shopping, electronics, christmas, holidays, news, Holiday, TVs, Notebooks, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

Videos 2007-11-23

Additional Resources

Viewsonic introduces $100 VMP70 HD media player without network connectivity

Viewsonic is best known for its computer monitors, but it also offers HDTVs, mostly through online retailers. Now it hopes to expand its living room presence with its first media player, the VMP70. The good news is that it can handle 1080p HD, though that's...

Tags: ViewSonic Corp., Network, 1080p, Network Connectivity, Media Player, VMP70, Ethernet, Networking, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-11-05

Season's Greetings Vol. 2 1.0 (Mac)

Specially for Apple Mail, Season's Greetings Vol.2 helps you to efficiently create snazzy, personal greetings for every occasion throughout the holidays. Be it for Christmas, New Year, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or Thanksgiving, this volume has your wishes covered. The 22 high-quality templates enhance the Mail Stationery collection to make it simple...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Equinux, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-11-04

Birthday Calendar Lite for Facebook for iPhone 1.3 (Mobile)

With Birthday Calendar Lite for Facebook for iPhone view all your Facebook and non-Facebook friends birthdays in a beautifully laid out list format. You can sort by upcoming birthdays, last name or first name. Milestone birthdays and soon upcoming birthdays are clearly highlighted. You can select which friends to receive...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Facebook, Mobile, Birthday, BigDates Solutions, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-11-02

Birthday Calendar for Facebook for iPhone 1.3 (Mobile)

With Birthday Calendar for Facebook for iPhone view all your Facebook and non-Facebook friends birthdays in a beautifully laid out list format. You can sort by upcoming birthdays, last name or first name. Milestone birthdays and soon upcoming birthdays are clearly highlighted. You can select which friends to receive day...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Facebook, Mobile, Birthday, BigDates Solutions, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-11-02

Thanksgiving Boom for Firefox 1.0.2 (Windows)

Celebrate the fall harvest, family and the things we're thankful for. We've gathered some great sites into the toolbar from online games and holiday history, to the recipes you'll need to wow the family. Explore the links, enjoy the theme. These themes are free and we switch your default search...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Brand, Theme, Toolbar, Microsoft Windows, Brand Thunder, Branding, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-10-29

Ecoboom for Firefox 1.0.1 (Windows)

Be green with this eco-friendly nature theme for your Firefox browser. Includes links to leading sites, environmentally friendly products and an easy way to contribute to rain forest preservation--you're browser is something to be proud of. These themes are free and we switch your default search engine to BING, ASK...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Brand, Theme, Microsoft Windows, Brand Thunder, Branding, Web Browsers, Marketing, Internet

Software downloads 2009-10-29

Virtual TimeClock Client '09 Release 3 (Mac)

The Virtual TimeClock Pro Client is the full featured netowork client for connectivity to the Virtual TimeClock Server. Virtual TimeClock time and attendance software is full featured and powerful, yet easy to manage and use. Designed for the busy owner or manager without a lot of technical expertise, our time...

Tags: Software, Apple Macintosh, Employee, Time Clock, Redcort Software & Development, Virtual TimeClock Pro Client, Virtual TimeClock Pro, Advanced Reporting, Tools & Techniques, Management

Software downloads 2009-10-28

Virtual TimeClock Server '09 Release 3 (Mac)

Virtual TimeClock time and attendance software is full featured and powerful, yet easy to manage and use. Designed for the busy owner or manager without a lot of technical expertise, our time clock software can be up and running in a few minutes. Take advantage of powerful auto discovery networking...

Tags: Software, Apple Macintosh, Employee, Time Clock, Redcort Software & Development, Virtual TimeClock Pro, Advanced Reporting, Tools & Techniques, Management

Software downloads 2009-10-28

Sprint and Palm announce 15 Nov date and $99.99 price for Pixi

The Palm Pixi was first announced back on September 9th with no pricing and availability stated as "in time for the holidays". Today, Sprint and Palm announced that the Palm Pixi will be coming to Sprint on 15 November for $99.99 with a two-year contract, $50 instant rebate, and $100...

Tags: Palm Inc., Sprint Communications, Palm Pixi, Palm Pre, Pricing, Smart Phones, Marketing Research, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2009-10-26

Hebrew Calendar for iPhone 1.6 (Mobile)

Hebrew Calendar for iPhone application provides a Hebrew Calendar, or Luach, designed to look and behave similar to the built in Calendar application. The following features are provided Jewish holidays, support for Diaspora or Israel Sedra schemes, English translations provided for Hebrew holiday names, setup events, anniversaries, appointments, birthdays, holidays,...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Holiday, Mobile, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-10-26

Ding Dong, The Vista's DEAD!

This Halloween, let's all celebrate what we're really feeling: The Wicked Vista is DEAD! In the United States, we've got a bunch of frivolous holidays. I've always regarded Halloween as a particularly frivolous holiday, one in which we encourage our...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Halloween, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-10-24

News to know: Bing-Twitter; Net Neutrality; eBay; VMWare; Nook; Win7

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Microsoft lands Facebook, Twitter deals for Bing Sam Diaz: Tweets on Bing: Watch out for more noise,...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Twitter Inc., Net Neutrality, VMware Inc., eBay Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Software As A Service (SaaS), Podcasts, Microsoft Windows, Managed Hosting, Emerging Technologies, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-22

eBay 'cautiously optimistic' heading into the holidays, but outlook disappoints

EBay's third quarter results weren't too shabby, but the company's outlook disappointed some on Wall Street. In addition, the company said it was "cautiously optimistic" heading into the holiday season. The company reported net income of $349.7 million, or 27 cents a share. Non-GAAP earnings were $501.5...

Tags: eBay Inc., GAAP, Financial Accounting, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-21

T-Mobile announces 3G BlackBerry Bold 9700 with 624 MHz processor

The new BlackBerry 9700 from T-Mobile comes as no surprise given all the leaks. I was actually in a T-Mobile store a couple months ago and a salesperson mentioned it was coming in an offhand manner. T-Mobile made it official today though and announced that the BlackBerry Bold 9700 would...

Tags: Processor, T-Mobile, RIM BlackBerry, BlackBerry Bold, 3G, Handhelds, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2009-10-21

Active Desktop Calendar 7.87 (Windows)

This fully customizable calendar with notes, tasks, alarms and contacts provides seamless integration and interactivity with the desktop background. You can organize data in color coded layers and share them in a local network. The program integrates with Outlook to show its appointments/tasks on the desktop and offers connection with...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Active Desktop, XemiComputers, Printing Calendar Data, Built-in Address Book, Desktops, Document Management, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting

Software downloads 2009-10-20

Efficient Calendar 1.41 build 60 (Windows)

Efficient Calendar is a professional, elegant and easy-to-use scheduler, planner and reminder. It saves your time by allowing international holidays and major holidays of some countries to be imported directly. Multiple calendar views, such as Day, Week, Month and Year views as well as list view are available so you...

Tags: Event, EfficientSoftware.net, Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Windows, Management, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Operating Systems

Software downloads 2009-10-14

WinOrganizer 4.1.1515 (Windows)

WinOrganizer is a full-scale personal information manager PIM that helps you organize and plan your business and personal life. It's a planner, notepad and address book combined in one powerful application.The computer version of the organizer comprises all features of its paper prototype in a more comfortable way, which makes...

Tags: Password, Holiday, Microsoft Windows, TGS Labs, WinOrganizer, Internet, Productivity, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software

Software downloads 2009-10-14

Efficient Reminder 1.41 build 60 (Windows)

Efficient Reminder is a professional, elegant and handy appointment, meeting, holiday and event reminder software program. With her help, you will be able to catch up with your meetings, amaze your girl when dating her, pay each month's bills in time and prepare for your mom's birthday in time. With...

Tags: Event, EfficientSoftware.net, Microsoft Windows, Construction, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-10-14