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- Hobbyist Skype statistician: Skype now exceeding 10 million concurrent sessions
- Jean Mercier of Oostakker, Belgium has this real serious but frankly, real useful obsession. He runs the Skype Numerology blog, a resource dedicated to the evolving and statistically quantifiable aspects of Skype's download, usage, and related metrics over time. Yesterday...
- Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Jean, Blogging, Internet, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-10-28
- Unwanted new jeans UI feature
- Yesterday, for the third time in abouta month, I set off the anti-theft alarm upon entering and leaving a Targetor Walgreens store. No, I haven't turned to a life of petty crime,so I was puzzled and frustrated by my newfound skill. Last night,through...
- Tags: jean
- Blog posts 2006-02-21
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- Road signs for physicians
- According to BioMed Central, French researchers have developed a new iconic drug information system inspired by road signs. This icon system is named VCM, short for 'Visualisation des Connaissances Médicales' in French, which means 'Visualization of Medical Knowledge.' Like road signs, the VCM graphical language uses a small set of...
- Tags: Physician, BioMed Central, Icon, VCM, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- Fun facts about Mac OS X Leopard's icons
- Fun facts about Mac OS X Leopard's iconsResEdit nostalgiaAhhhh ResEdit, a superb tool that did more than peek inside Mac applications. One could customize applications, modify icons and even alter behavior if one understood what you were manipulating. Moving drivers or resources between OS revisions or even applications and other...
- Tags: Operating systems, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS X Leopard, BeOS, Ahhhh ResEdit, Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS
- Discussion threads 2008-03-17
- Who should be thanked for the return of Mr. Jobs to Apple?
- News of Singularity, a non-Windows operating system from Microsoft, sparked my interest in OSes past and present. It got me thumbing though the back issues of MacWEEK for memories of OSes that were built from scratch and now forgotten. But in the research, I found some ironic gold regarding NeXTstep,...
- Tags: Strategy, Job, Steve Jobs, Apple Macintosh, MacWeek, Operating System, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., NeXTstep, Singularity OS, Operating Systems, Software, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-03-07
- Skype call trend lines are changing: here's what this means
- If you want to geek out on Skype user metrics, Jean Mercier is your guy. Today, Jean posts some juicy Skype data on Skype Journal. Turns out that on Sunday, February 18, at about 19:00 GMT (that's 2 p.m. ET)...
- Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Smb/Sme, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
- Is Jazz a trojan horse for IBM Rational tools?
- CollabNet CTO Jack Repenning called in yesterday, all a-dither about Jazz being a "trojan horse" on behalf of IBM's Rational software tools. Jazz is merely a checkpoint to indicate distributed software development tools are still coming, he said. "I used Rational as a user for years, and...
- Tags: Trojan Horse, Tool, IBM Corp., Jazz, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Productivity, Java Development Tools, Viruses And Worms, Open Source, Security, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-02-07
- Top Internet music videos in 2007
- Nielsen SoundScan published its findings on most frequently streamed Internet music videos in 2007. Most streamed Internet music videos in 2007 in the US Title/Artist Streams Girlfriend/ Avril Lavigne 23,101,224 Beautiful Liar/Bello Embustero/ Beyonce & Shakira 14,500,809...
- Tags: Feat, Nielsen SoundScan, Internet Music, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, AM
- Blog posts 2008-01-24
- Britney Spears Screensaver (exe)
- This free screensaver contains many pictures of Britney spears. Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is an American pop music singer, songwriter, dancer and actress. Her debut album . . . Baby One More Time, released in January 1999, propelled her to international stardom.
- Tags: BandsScreensavers
- Software downloads 2007-12-18
- Mozilla plugs 10 more Firefox holes
- Mozilla plugs 10 more Firefox holesPreemptive strikeCan we all just admit that any of us running a browser or any other connected software is just sitting here with dozens and dozens of unpatched vulnerabilities just waiting to be exploited?We can argue all day about choosing to use an application that...
- Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, UNIX, SECURITY, Firefox hole, vulnerability, Linux, Mozilla Corp., Mozilla Firefox
- Discussion threads 2007-10-19
- Time for Apple to get its act together over the iPhone
- I have to agree with Alex Eckelberry president of Sunbelt Software on this one: Following on my previous rant, iPhone Elite (a development group that's spun off of the unofficial "iPhone Dev Team") has posted instructions on how to unbrick an iPhone via InfiniteLoop. While...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Alex, Telecom & Utilities, Team Management, Management, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2007-10-15
- Ferrotoroidicity, key to faster hard disks?
- I bet that not many of you have heard about ferrotoroidicity. In fact, Google returns only 37 results about this concept as I'm typing this. In a nutshell, three forms of ferroic material are widely known: ferromagnetism, ferroelectricity and ferroelasticity. But European scientists have discovered a fourth form, which they...
- Tags: Hard Drive, Researcher, Storage, Scientist, Domain, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-10-13
- Apple and AT&T playing "good cop, bad cop" over iPhone unlocking
- Apple and AT&T playing "good cop, bad cop" over iPhone unlockingLong shot of that jumping signI don't dispute the underlying facts. I question whether you actually show collusive behavior where AT&T is mean and Apple is sympathetic and empathetic and offers a "safer" path to the hackers and the potential...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, Travellers, AT&T Corp., Apple Inc., Apple iPhone
- Discussion threads 2007-08-30
- Thompson uses the Web to claim spot as Republican standard-bearer
- Unannounced Republican presidential candidate Fred D. Thompson is using the Web to make sure hard-core Republicans know just where he stands on the issues, the Washington Post reports.Among his messages: The Virginia Tech massacre showed that students should be allowed to carry guns to protect themselves; global warming scientists are...
- Tags: Elections
- Blog posts 2007-07-30
- Using Flickr to edit your photos
- What can you do with millions of images? Computer scientists from Carnegie Mellon University CMU think you can use web images to add realism to your photos. For example, the goal of one of their projects, named 'Photo Clip Art,' is to insert new objects into existing photographs by querying...
- Tags: Computers &, Internet, Leisure, Social Sciences
- Blog posts 2007-07-11
- Linux coders tackle power efficiency
- Linux coders tackle power efficiencyI want it!Good! I want this kernel.... :-)Unfortunately, my favorite operating system Ubuntu Linux 7.04 still has kernel 2.6.20, but I hope for a kernel update.Greetz, Pjotr.Linux coders tackle power efficiency[i]That, loosely speaking, is the rationale behind a significant change at the heart of Linux...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Linux coder, kernel, operating system
- Discussion threads 2007-06-25
- Windows Longhorn won't be reloaded, after all
- One month after a team of Windows enthusiasts hit Milestone 1 of "Longhorn Reloaded," Microsoft has put the kibosh on the project.Longhorn Reloaded -- an initiative of a handful of members of the Joejoe.org site to take up where Microsoft left off with its Longhorn client development in 2004 --...
- Tags: Windows XP, Windows client, Vista, Legal
- Blog posts 2007-06-21
- Enthusiasts progress with plans to resurrect Windows 'Longhorn'
- Enthusiasts progress with plans to resurrect Windows 'Longhorn'Come on, does anyone believeMS is going to allow them to distribute this? Not a chance.What, and get sued, Mary Jo?While I laugh, heartily, at the prospect of Microsoft suing me, SCOlike, for the mystery code they say I have on all...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Linux, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Longhorn, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2007-05-24
- Write better Rich Client Platform (RCP) applications with Eclipse by mastering these fundamental concepts
- Today, Eclipse is an ideal technology for building rich client applications. Eclipse Rich Client Platform RCP applications gain the same benefits as traditional Eclipse tools: they leverage the Eclipse component model, they focus on the new capabilities of their application (ignoring the "plumbing"), and there is a growing...
- Tags: Eclipse, Java Development Tools, Open Source, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Book chapters 2007-05-17
- HP LC4776N
- The HP LC4776N, the company's most-expensive flat-panel HDTV to be released so far in 2007, illustrates just how widely performance can vary among televisions today. Given the company's solid track record with plasma and DLP-based rear-projection--and the fact that it has borrowed heavily from Sharp for past LCD designs--we frankly...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Monitors & displays, HP LC4776N, Hewlett-Packard Co., 1080p, HDTV
- Product reviews 2007-05-09
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