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String Therapy 1.0 (Mobile)

To start with, String Therapy runs a little like that old windows screen saver we all know and either love or hate. Things change, though, when you start drawing on the screen for yourself. You doodle, and the pad doodles right back at you. Left to itself, the program will...

Tags: Mobile, Therapy, Improbable Software, Construction

Software downloads 2009-07-08

Bush Election Screensaver 1.0 (Windows)

Show your support for George W Bush to be re-elected as President of the United States in 2004. Displays a flag animation using Flag3D technology, a highly specialized and ultra realistic physics simulation.

Tags: Screensaver, Improbable Software, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2004-09-01

Kerry Election Screensaver 1.0 (Windows)

Show your support for John Kerry to be elected as President of the United States in 2004 with this 3D flag screen saver. Displays a flag animation using Flag3D, a specialized technology for accurate flag simulation.

Tags: Screensaver, Microsoft Windows, Improbable Software

Software downloads 2004-09-01

Real US Flag Screensaver 1.0 (Windows)

The Real US Flag screensaver displays the American flag using Flag3D technology, a highly specialized and ultra realistic physics simulation. The flag can be displayed in several scenes with different backgrounds. You can use your own backgrounds, music and display your own slogans in any font, size and color. Supports...

Tags: Background, Screensaver, Microsoft Windows, Improbable Software

Software downloads 2004-08-13

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Virtualization and Emulex

Although I wouldn't have thought of Emulex and virtualization technology at the same time, a conversation with the company changed my viewpoint.  How did Emulex achieve the improbable? Read on. Here's what Emulex says about itself Emulex makes a wide range of enterprise-class products...

Tags: Emulex Corp., Storage, Virtualization, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-12-01

Anti fraud site hit by a DDoS attack

Anti fraud site hit by a DDoS attackGee.I'm not part of the problem and I didn't lift a finger or pay a dime for the privilege. Hey Windows boys, care to chime in? :-) (That's a taunt in case you didn't catch my drift.)Must resist...... urge to respond...

Tags: Operating systems, SECURITY, operating system, Anti-fraud site hit, Anti-Fraud, Microsoft Windows, site hit, distributed denial of service

Discussion threads 2008-11-17

The obligatory "Victoria Falls" post

The obligatory "Victoria Falls" postThe 800 lb Gorilla in the roomThere is no doubt that Moore's Law is making some very amazing things happen in CPU land. The T2+ would be even better if Sun could make CPUs that can clock to 4 Ghz (or EVEN 2 Ghz), but for...

Tags: Network technology, Processors, T2+, T2

Discussion threads 2008-04-15

Cryogenically frozen RAM bypasses all disk encryption methods

Cryogenically frozen RAM bypasses all disk encryption methodsYour correct.If you lock up your system and store in a safe when not in use then no one can get to it. As long you are using and in possession of the computer they can't do this. Also for those who are...

Tags: Memory, RAM, disk encryption method, Cryogenically, disk encryption

Discussion threads 2008-02-22

Wind River's John Bruggeman on Google Android and the advent of mobile internet devices

Read a full transcript. The Android open source mobile platform made a splash in October when Google announced it, along with the Open Handset Alliance OHA. An Android software development kit SDK came on Nov. 12, and the first Android-based open source platform mobile phones are...

Tags: Google Inc., Wind River Systems Inc., Google Android, Phone, Mobile, Open Source, Internet Device, Mobile Internet Device, Carrier, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2007-12-11

Does listening signal commitment?

A comment by occassional contributor Michael Kelly in last Monday's discussions of the reasons people cite for what they perceive as "the Linux desktop failure" caught my eye as precisely expressing two phenonmena I've seen but never put together. Here's the key bit, responding...

Tags: Product, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2007-10-01

Better build those barricades real high

Josh Greebaum's thoroughly enjoyable explanation of his epihany at Office 2.0 is wrong. Or at least I hope so. Like Josh, I am from the PC generation. The first machine I bought was an Apricot Xi back in...for £1,799. A lot of money in those days. Like Josh, I remember...

Tags: Microsoft Excel, Office 2.0, IBM Corp., Like Josh, Atlassian, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2007-09-08

BlackBerry CEO: here's why there won't be any more major outages

In an interview with eWeek, Research In Motion co-CEO Jim Balsillie thats him says the BlackBerry blackout of last month has been "unambigiously solved" and whats more, wont hapen again.eWeeks Wayne Rash noted "that the improbable combination of events, which included the failure of a minor software upgrade...

Tags: Balsillie, failover, Jim, News, Outages, RIM BlackBerry, Russell Shaw, Uncategorized

Blog posts 2007-05-14

The Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection (Mobile)

Grab your deerstalker and magnifying glass and accompany Holmes and Watson on all their cases in The Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection. While "The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes" is omitted due to copyright restrictions, the The Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection contains the rest of the Holmes cannon: A Study in Scarlet...

Tags: Mobile, RIM BlackBerry, Rampart Software Development, E-books, Handhelds, Personal Technology, Hardware

Software downloads 2007-05-06

Is it Dell vs. SPEC? or Dell vs. Linux?

In exploring SPEC.orgs site for yesterdays blog I came across something interesting: specifically a configuration problem with a benchmark result for the dual Xeon, eight core, 2.66Ghz Dell 2950. The composite score for this machine on SpecWeb_2005 is 16,830 - a number that puts it third from the...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp.

Blog posts 2006-12-13

Tech firms to tackle Linux desktop standards

Tech firms to tackle Linux desktop standardsAll I can say isit's about darn time! This is really the last major hurdle for Linux to clear before it can truly compete on the consumer desktop.I will acknowladge that there are several distros that do a wonderful job but there are applications...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, Desktops, Linux, desktop, Microsoft Windows, Linux desktop

Discussion threads 2005-10-17

Chinese leader predicts 'Asian century' for IT

Chinese leader predicts 'Asian century' for ITbring it on asiaI think a good number of us westerners can hold our own in tech. I don't see this so much as a fight than a joint project in human destiny.This will help curb EmigrationThis will keep China and India from experiencing...

Tags: Vertical industries, communism, information technology, leader, government

Discussion threads 2005-04-11

Is Microsoft taking dead aim at Linux?

Is Microsoft taking dead aim at Linux?Welcome to bizaro worldAt least we agree open source is a threat to MS in the enterprise, indeed a position acknowledged by MS themselves."but it strikes me that OpenOffice is just not that big a threat -- at least not unless or until Linux...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Linux, GPL, SCO Group Inc.

Discussion threads 2004-11-09

Sherlock Holmes Collection Vol. 1 1.0 (Mobile)

The game is afoot Watson, there'sno time to waste! Grab your deerstalker and magnifying glass and come along withSherlock and Watson on an adventure in deduction with TheSherlock Holmes Collection Vol. 1 - the first two Sherlock Holmes novels:"A Study in Scarlet" and "The Sign of Four.""... when you have...

Tags: Mobile, Palm Inc., Deduction, eReader, Adventure, Rampart Software Development, E-books, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2003-04-17