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- Homer Babbidge Library, University of Connecticut: Speeding the Attainment of Knowledge
- The Homer Babbidge Library serves the main campus of the University of Connecticut in Storrs, Connecticut. The library had received requests from students, faculty and the administration to reduce the lines and delays that were occurring. The principal goal in installing RFID technology, therefore, was to make check-out and security...
- Tags: Knowledge, Checkpoint Systems Inc., Homer Babbidge Library, RFID, Wireless, Security, Biometrics
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- ZDNet blogger: working from home
- More and more people work from home every day. Not only that, more and more people don't work from their offices, or "where they're meant to work". With the Internet, intranet's and extranet's, email and unified communications with VoIP and Blackberry devices, it makes life much easier...
- Tags: Phone, Tea, Blogger, E-mail, Online Communications, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Hands-on review of the Logitech Squeezebox Boom
- After seeing my mildly skeptical post about the release of its Squeezebox Boom Internet radio device, Logitech offered to send me a sample unit to review, promising me I'd be pleasantly surprised with the audio output from the compact unit. I've been testing it out over the last few weeks,...
- Tags: Station, Radio, Logitech, Boom, Music Services, Advertising & Promotion, Engineering, Wireless, Marketing, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-10-04
- DiceChecker (exe)
- DiceLock security DiceChecker DLL Library incorporate random number tests in your applications. The C++ library contains classes implementing Frequency test, Block frequency test, Cumulative sum forward test, Cumulative sum reverse test, Runs test, Longest run of ones test, Overlapping template matching test, Rank test, Universal test, Approximate entropy test, Serial...
- Tags: C++, DiceLock Security, C++ Library, C/C++, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Software downloads 2008-10-03
- Creative Commons for students
- Creative Commons for studentsminors...One thing to bear in mind is that minors cannot license or re-license their own work without their parent's consent. Students can in some cases simply pull down content from the web and re-use it -- if the use is covered by "fair use" -- which...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Creative Commons
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- VIDEO: iTunes, mp3 rippers paved the way for RealDVD
- There's another legal showdown brewing between Hollywood and the techies. RealNetworks and the motion picture studios are headed off to court over RealDVD, just-released software that allows users to rip their personal DVD collections into a PC or portable hard drive. Yeah, just like everyone's been doing with music CDs...
- Tags: Rip, CD, Video, MP3, Apple iTunes, Music, RealDVD, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Student Technology Day: "Windows Cloud" revealed
- Steve Ballmer was next door in the Queen Elizabeth Hall talking to the TechNet/TechEd people about Office Live, and mentioning that there would be a major announcement at the PDC on the 27th October. Once he finished there, he popped next door and told us a similar thing. ...
- Tags: Microsoft Office Live, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows, Collaboration, Office Suites, Software, Operating Systems, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Amazon launches pre-emptive strike against Microsoft's planned cloud platform
- Amazon launches pre-emptive strike against Microsoft's planned cloud platformNot really fighting MS cloudMore like fighting the traditional web hosting firms like GoDaddy that too offer Windows Server, IIS, Asp.Net and Sql Server services. Would like to see their pricing model tho.RE: Amazon launches pre-emptive strike against Microsoft's planned cloud platformAs...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Pricing, Servers, Microsoft Corp., Amazon.com Inc., strike, pre-emptive strike
- Discussion threads 2008-10-01
- Student Technology Day: how to start a start-up
- Andy McLoughlin spoke a little while ago about how he started up his own web start-up, Huddle.net, from a simple idea in a pub to a fully working business and enterprise collaboration suite. It's a large network of hosted workspaces; yet another project management and team collaboration service based on...
- Tags: Inspiration, Family, Huddle.net, Collaboration, Groupware, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Infamous vendor of "AntiVirus XP" badware sued
- Infamous vendor of "AntiVirus XP" badware suedcombofix, smitfraudfix, etcI used all the usual tools to remove at least one incarnation of this s__tware, and it still kept coming back! Had to run the "uninstaller," then run smitfraudfix, then manually remove the folders and registry keys!All I can say is...Thank goodness...
- Tags: Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, antivirus, Infamous vendor, AntiVirus XP
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
- Blue Icon Library (zip)
- Instantly enhance your software with readily available, professionally designed icons. Blue Icon Library contains dozens of icons that are designed to look strict and stylish. These icons will enhance the appearance of any modern application, and won't look out of place in business-oriented products. The icons come in a variety...
- Tags: Icon, Icon Empire, Tools & Techniques, Management
- Software downloads 2008-09-30
- Microsoft christens next tool suite release 'Visual Studio 2010'
- Microsoft christens next tool suite release 'Visual Studio 2010'I dont think that's true.VS brings together many well understood tools into a convenient IDE. I mean, if you know unit testing on VS, then running JUnit on Eclipse is a small learning step, right?In many way, Visual Studio does the same...
- Tags: Microsoft development tools, .NET, tool, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft .NET, PHP
- Discussion threads 2008-09-29
- Norway to challenge closed iTunes model
- Norway to challenge closed iTunes modelAnd so it begins......although Norway aren't part of the EU you can be damn sure the Trade Commission are watching this one closely.It would solve DM problems, but create a large one for Appleas if many iPods are purchased on the strength of iTunes, then...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Apple iTunes, Apple Inc., iTunes Model, iPODS
- Discussion threads 2008-09-29
- Escalation in the storage wars
- Escalation in the storage warsSun's competitors' strategyWere Sun to produce a superior storage product, would you expect it to come to dominate the market?I would expect not, because Sun has neither the products specialized for defined uses nor the controlling connection with a wide range of customers to implement it.Yes,...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., information technology, SAS HBA, storage, IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-29
- Apple TV: End of an error?
- Apple TV: End of an error?Microsoft crushed Apple in the living room.First off, AppleTV was only called a hobby by Jobs AFTER it was clear that it was going to be an unmitigated disaster. Has he EVER released any sales figures on this thing? Second, the combination of Windows Media...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Apple Inc., Apple TV, TV
- Discussion threads 2008-09-29
- Best platforms for book on "tape"
- Best platforms for book on "tape"They could use their ownAs an example, in our ninth grade the students study four novels. Three of the four are available through the Central Mass Regional Library System in a format that allows storage/playback on MP3 players including the iPod as well as burning...
- Tags: Digital music, Branding, Digital media, Microsoft Windows XP, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-29
- SharpRecognize (msi)
- SharpRecognize is a C# parser library which supports all aspects of the latest language specification, including features like generics, anonymous methods, LINQ, and unsafe code. The result of the parse process is a code model which can be semantically analyzed, modified, and dumped to C# source code again using numerous...
- Tags: Message, Compiler, SharpRecognize, C#, .Net, Programming Languages, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Software downloads 2008-09-29
- iRingtunes X (dmg)
- iRingtunes X is a very easy to use utility to create ringtones for your iPhone. iRingtunes X has the following features: ringtones for your iPhone are created with the simple click of a button; ringtones for your iPhone can be created from any unprotected song in your iTunes library; protected...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Purple Ghost Software, iRingtunes X, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics
- Software downloads 2008-09-29
- Walmart to pull plug on DRM servers
- Walmart to pull plug on DRM serversThe lie in their emailBeginning October 9, we will no longer be able [b] [i] refuse [/b] [/i] to assist with digital rights management issues for protected WMA files purchased from Walmart.com.Edit: Whoops! How do you do a strikethrough in Talkback?Edit edit:...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, server, digital-rights management, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-28
- Go West young IT worker!
- Go West young IT worker!Greeley, not SouleNo one disputes that Greeley made the phrase famous:Greeley's editorial in the New York Tribune in 1865 was addressed specifically to young civil servants in Washington, D.C. who were complaining that the government didn't pay them enough, given the high cost of living in...
- Tags: Soule, Greeley
- Discussion threads 2008-09-26
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