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Biometric IDs for African penguins?

University of Bristol researchers have developed a non-intrusive visual surveillance system for wildlife habitats. They've used their system to monitor the behavior of 20,000 African penguins on Robben Island in South Africa. By definition, conventional tagging techniques can only monitor animals which have been tagged. On the contrary, the 'Penguin...

Tags: Chest, Monitor, Researcher, Camera, Species, African, Image-recognition System, Monitors & Displays, Corporate Communications, Hardware, Components, Marketing, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-06-28

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Dock-It 2.7.3 (Mac)

Dock-It is a multifunctional dock and Finder enhancer for the Mac OS X operating system. We decided to take a different path in regards to Dock-Its feature set. Many of our competitors clutter their offerings. Dock-It is simple and to the point. It has everything one would look for in...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Dock, Applet, Gideon Softworks, Dock-It, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-07

ZippyRippy 1.0.4 (Mac)

ZippyRippy is a new program developed with one goal in mind, ripping DVD media for use on personal devices. ZippyRippy is set apart by the idea that DVD conversion should be automatic without the need to endlessly tweak controls. If a DVD with a valid VIDEO_TS folder is detected when...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Zippy Software, ZippyRippy, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment

Software downloads 2009-11-06

Weather Watcher Live 6.1.15 (Windows)

Automatically retrieve the current conditions, hourly forecast, daily forecast, detailed forecast, severe weather alerts, and weather maps for over 77,000 cities world-wide. Weather Watcher will allow you to automatically retrieve your weather data at a set interval, display the current temperature in a customized tray icon, display the current condition...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Singer, Weather Data

Software downloads 2009-11-06

Desk Drive 1.8 (Windows)

Desk Drive solves a really annoying problem. You pop a USB thumb drive or DVD into your computer and then you have to open Window's Explorer and find the mapped drive or folder. Desk Drive adds a desktop icon pointing to the drive automatically. Remove the media and the shortcut...

Tags: Media, Microsoft Windows, Blue Onion Software, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-11-05

XYplorer 8.6 (Windows)

XYplorer is a multi-tabbed dual pane file manager for Windows, featuring a very powerful file search, versatile preview facilities, a highly customizable interface, and a large array of unique ways to efficiently automate frequently recurring tasks. XYplorer is a portable file manager. It does not require any installation, stores all...

Tags: File Manager, Donald Lessau, XYplorer, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-05

AVADirect Nano Cube

AVADirect's $2,266 Nano Cube tries to take on Shuttle's XPC H7 5800 at its own small form factor game. Both systems come with smaller-than-normal SFF cases, and each requires sacrifices, even more than with a standard SFF PC, in exchange for its tiny dimensions. Therein lies our problem with this...

Tags: DVD, Consumer electronics, Games, Shuttle XPC, SFF, small form factor, Cube, Shuttle, Nano, DVD burner, PC, Nvidia GeForce, NVidia Corp., AVADirect, game

Product reviews 2009-11-04

ISO Burner 7.82 (Windows)

ISO Burner is an easy-to-use ISO Burner to burn MP3, data, ISO, audios, videos, and images to high-quality CDs or DVDs. You can create and burn ISO image file. It can support Long File Name File System, It can supports CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD-RAM, DVD+R, DVD+RW, and DVD+R DL....

Tags: ISO, Microsoft Windows, Abdio Software, ISO Burner, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations

Software downloads 2009-11-04

Spring Design sues Barnes & Noble over Alex, Nook

I kind of want to see barnes and noble win this one...The whole concept of a sliding image preview isn't exactly revolutionary, and it does look decidedly different from the bulky, 2003-esque block interface of the alex.On a personal note, I think the alex looks like some children's toy out...

Tags: Sales channel, E-books, NDA, Barnes & Noble Inc., B&N, credit card, patent, Nook, password

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

VueScan 8.5.38 (Windows)

VueScan is a scanning program that works with most high-quality flatbed and film scanners to produce scans that have excellent color fidelity and color balance. Its very easy to use, and also has advanced features for restoring faded colors, batch scanning and other features used by professional photographers. VueScan changes...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Hamrick Software, VueScan, Scanners, Hardware, Peripherals

Software downloads 2009-11-03

LG 60PS80

Photo gallery: LG PS80 seriesWhen it was announced at CES 2009, the LG PS80 series of plasma TVs earned one of our three nominations for Best of CES in the TV category. We've already reviewed the other two sets--Panasonic's G10 plasmas and Vizio's VF551XVT LED-based LCD--and both scored...

Tags: TVs, Monitors & displays, LG Electronics Inc., LG PS80

Product reviews 2009-11-02

LG 50PS80

Photo gallery: LG PS80 seriesWhen it was announced at CES 2009, the LG PS80 series of plasma TVs earned one of our three nominations for Best of CES in the TV category. We've already reviewed the other two sets--Panasonic's G10 plasmas and Vizio's VF551XVT LED-based LCD--and both scored...

Tags: TVs, Monitors & displays, LG Electronics Inc., LG PS80

Product reviews 2009-11-02

FaxAmatic 09.11.01 (Windows)

"Send and Receive fax with single computer and modem or network with multiple modems. FaxAmatic will add a fax generating print driver to your system, giving you the ability to generate a fax from any document and send to any fax machine in the world. Popular with oil companies. The...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, ElectraSoft, Fax, Modems, Hardware, Components

Software downloads 2009-11-02

Holiday Gift Guide 2009: Blu-ray Players/Home Theater Systems

With prices for both players and discs plunging, this may be the holiday season for Blu-ray. Already online movie streaming is making inroads—even on Blu-ray players themselves. Some of these picks are integrating on-demand video services into their feature sets, hoping to keep themselves relevant in...

Tags: NetFlix Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Disc, Blu-ray, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-11-01

Schreiben 5.5 (Mac)

Most of us don't need Word. They want something more beautiful and easier-to-use than TextEdit without paying the price for an overloaded program with a mysterious look-and-feel. Schreiben German for the act of writing or a letter focuses especially on this and comes with some elaborate functions. This includes automatic...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Snippet, MOApp Software Manufactory, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software

Software downloads 2009-10-31

Averatec D1130 All-in-One

The Averatec D1130 All-In-One is a stripped-down version of the D1133 we reviewed last month, and while this version cuts the price down to only $399, it also strips away many of the features that gave the higher-end model some value. With its puny 1.6GHz Intel Atom chip, 1GB of...

Tags: Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Monitors & displays, Averatec Inc., D1133

Product reviews 2009-10-30

Acer Aspire Revo AR1600-U910H

Typically our challenges with the emergent Nettop category have been that real budget PCs cost just a little bit more and provide a dramatic performance uptick, and similarly priced Netbooks offer equivalent performance with the added benefit of portability. The Aspire Revo 1600's price tag alone answers those issues. ...

Tags: Wi-Fi, Performance management, Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Wireless and Mobility, Semiconductors, Acer Inc., wireless networking

Product reviews 2009-10-30

Ubuntu 9.10 advances Canonical's cloud, enterprise goals

Ubuntu 9.10 advances Canonical's ambitious push into cloud computing -- and the enterprise. Ubuntu is best known for its Linux desktop and there are several desktop improvements in this upgrade -- including a faster boot and login and enhanced audio and and 3G broadband connectivity. ...

Tags: Ubuntu, Eucalyptus, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Desktops, Servers, Software, Hardware, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-10-29

FishCode Library .NET 2 (Access) 17.0.3589 (Windows)

FishCode Library .NET is an all-in-one information, knowledge, and document management system that allow you to organize Note, Code, File, Image, WebVideo and URLRSS into an easy-to-use outline format.

Tags: Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Windows, FishCode Library .NET, Document Management, Managerial Accounting, Groupware, RSS, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Internet

Software downloads 2009-10-29

ImageLobe 2.2 (Mac)

ImageLobe allows you to easily apply powerful visual effects to your images. It uses new Quartz Composition effects that are built into Leopard. Over 40 sophisticated visual effects available. Simply drag an image onto the app, select an effect and then drag the image back out to save it. It's...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Effect, ImageLobe

Software downloads 2009-10-28