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Detritus (dmg)

Detritus is a fast-paced shoot-em-up strongly based on the old classic Asteroids. Replenish your shield with power-ups and gain new weapons. "Cleaners" appear periodically, so watch out. The keyboard controls should be self-explanatory. Binaries have been compiled for Windows and OS X, but the code is cross-platform via OpenGL, OpenAL,...

Tags: Kaolin Fire, Detritus, Keyboards, Apple Mac OS X, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Hardware, Peripherals, Software, Apple Mac OS

Software downloads 2008-06-02

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StarLight for Mac enters alpha; iPhone client in development

As a subscriber to Sirius Satellite Radio one of my favorite new applications for Mac OS X is StarLight from NiceMac LLC. It's a super simple, thin client to access the Sirius radio Web streams. Currently at version 109.a download link it's an excellent alternative to Sirius'...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Web, Apple Macintosh, Sirius, Channel Management, Desktops, Marketing, Hardware, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-11-24

iPhone vs. Android development: Day 4

It's day 4 of a 5-day course on iPhone programming. As before I'll be sharing my observations from the classroom on how development on the iPhone compares to Android development. The class is presented by Joe Conway from Big Nerd Ranch. [Read: Day 1, Day 2, Day...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Animation, Camera, View, View Transitions, Core Graphics, Android API, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-11-20

Enterprise mashups need complexity to create value

Those who drink the Web 2.0 Kool-aid live in a idealistic world where we can mentally connect a great idea to a great implementation of that idea. We live on faith that the great implementation will come, since there are plenty of smart people out there who will eventually figure...

Tags: LinkedIn, Mashup, Collaboration, Gil Yehuda

Blog posts 2008-11-19

Unstructured transparency - the management methodology that pulls us through the crunch?

I've just spent a couple of fascinating days at the HCL Global Meet in Orlando, Florida. As the name suggests this was a very international gathering of HCL's partners, clients, staff and thoughtleaders in the management and collaboration space. I've written before about...

Tags: Innovation, Pyramid, Employee, Financial, CEO, HCL Global Meet, Vineet Nayar, Nayar, HCL Tech, Krishnan, Hamel, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Leadership, Strategy, It Services, Team Management, Branding, Financial Accounting, It Operations, Management, Marketing, Finance, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-11-19

News to know: Microsoft; Psystar; Mozilla; Storm; Office 2.0

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Microsoft kills OneCare, replaces it with freebie ‘Morro' Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft kills off Windows Live OneCare and Equipt subscription services Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Microsoft...

Tags: Jerry Yang, Mary Jo Foley, RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Corp., Mozilla Corp., Office 2.0, Software As A Service (SaaS), Handhelds, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-19

Commercial vendor of spyware under legal fire

Just like every decent marketer out there, vendors of commercial malware tools are very good at positioning their tools. However, their pitches often contradict with themselves in a way that what's promoted as a Remote Administration Tool, has in fact built-in antivirus software evading capabilities, rootkit functionality and tutorials on...

Tags: Malware, FTC, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, E-mail, Viruses And Worms, Spyware, Security, Online Communications, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-11-18

Yahoo: Pondering Yang's replacement; The next move

Now that Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang is out, the handicapping begins. Who will be Yang's replacement and what will that choice reveal about Yahoo's future? The story line Techmeme revolving around Yang's departure is familiar. Yang took over the company at the second worst time in Yahoo's...

Tags: Jerry Yang, Yahoo! Inc., CEO, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Governance, Internet, Strategy, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-18

Anti fraud site hit by a DDoS attack

The popular British anti-fraud site Bobbear.co.uk is currently under a DDoS attack distributed denial of service attack , originally launched last Wednesday, and is continuing to hit the site with 3/4 million hits daily from hundreds of thousands of malware infected hosts mostly based in Asia and Eastern Europe, according...

Tags: Distributed Denial Of Service, Attack, Botnet, Security, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-11-17

Tech Awards honor techy solutions for developing world

From one-time-use syringes to fire logs made from an invasive African plant, the 2008 Tech Awards honored five innovators with $50,000 for creating technology solutions for problems in developing countries. CNET's Kara Tsuboi learns more about these seemingly simple solutions that have potential to make a big impact.

Tags: Solution, Free Trade, Finance, News, kara tsuboi, the tech, tech awards, san jose convention center, developing countries, 3rd world, india, china, asia, building, syringe, schools

Videos 2008-11-13

Working at 99% CPU utilization

If you're reading zdnet blogs you're almost certainly not a typical corporate PC user and thus you won't naturally share that person's perceptions of IT things. To see just how something like virtualization appears to that average user - share the experience: commit 99% of your PC resource to something...

Tags: PC, CPU Utilization, Blog, CPU, Blogging, Virtualization, Desktops, Internet, Hardware, Paul Murphy, Data-processing, Data-processing Management

Blog posts 2008-11-13

Social network for CEOs – best practices

The Best & Worst of Business Networks Yesterday, I spoke with Ken Ross, the serial entrepreneur who has launched several successful software firms (e.g., Ross Systems, Pillar). Ken's a really nice fellow and someone whose company and counsel I value. I called Ken...

Tags: Network, Best Practice, CEO, Ken, Social Networking, Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2008-11-12

Google earnings estimates cut (again); Search budgets scrutinized; Shares fall

Updated: Wall Street is busy cutting its estimates for Google's fourth quarter amid multiple signs of a slowdown. However, analysts note that Google is a black box and the company could still prove to be recession resistant. But investors aren't sticking around to find out. On Monday,...

Tags: Google Inc., Earnings Estimate, Search Engine Marketer, Marketing Research, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-12

Ncomputing the benefits of operating system virtualization

In a rapid fire presentation, the Ncomputing folks provided a very interesting view into what they've been doing to help organizations take advantage of the unused power in today's desktop systems to support many workloads. As I mentioned in the post Ncomputing: Sharing the power of a single computer, this...

Tags: Operating System, Benefit, ClearCube Technology, OS Virtualization, Ncomputing, Parallels, Server Consolidation, Blade Servers, Operating Systems, Desktops, Servers, Hardware, Software, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-11-12

Yahoo Under Fire

Patience for Microsoft and Yahoo's never-ending dance is wearing thin. It's time to put aside the bad boardroom blood and hook up on search -- now.

Tags: Yahoo! Inc.

Articles 2008-11-11

Rigged PDFs exploiting just-patched Adobe Reader flaw

Just three days after Adobe shipped a patch with fixes for a critical Adobe Reader vulnerability, hackers are using booby-trapped PDF files to fire exploits against Windows users. [ SEE: Heads up: Patch your Adobe Reader now ] The in-the-wild attacks, first spotted by...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe PDF, Flaw, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Microsoft Windows, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-11-07

Ballmer: We're not interested in Yahoo anymore

Updated: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said the software giant has no intention of making a new offer for Yahoo--even though the Internet company is on sale relative to its first offer. Via ZDNet Australia Techmeme Speaking at a Committee for Economic Development of Australia CEDA lunch...

Tags: Jerry Yang, Steve Ballmer, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Public Relations, Web 2.0, Mergers & Acquisitions, Business Structures, Internet, Corporate Law, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-07

Ballmer: We're not interested in Yahoo anymore

Ballmer: We're not interested in Yahoo anymoreBallmer is not pretendingThey're indeed not interested in Yahoo anymore. Die YahooYHOO.Yeah right !!! Ballmer isn't interested in Yahoothe same way he isn't interested in Webkit. talk about a load of CRAP !!!MS will fail at every Internet push.http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/07/hotmail_new_interface_complaints/Yahoo or not, MS is a...

Tags: Portals, INTERNET, Web technology, Investment, Yang, Yahoo! Inc., Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-11-07

GM Hockey 2009 (exe)

Do you ever thought of becoming a General Manager for your favorite NHL team? Well, here's your chance. With GM Hockey 2009, you can do everything that comes with the job: trade players, put them on waivers, blame your coach for the long losing streak and even fire him, blame...

Tags: Team, Player, General Motors Corp., Logique Eclectic, Team Management, Games, Management, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-11-07

Alienware M17

With Alienware's recent M17x laptop still relatively fresh, why would the Dell subsidiary launch a new model? The new M17 (minus the "x") system trades Nvidia graphics for ATI (including a multi-GPU CrossFireX option) and also includes optional Intel Quad Core 2 Extreme CPUs. Those new parts drive the price...

Tags: Processors, Alienware M17, Alienware

Product reviews 2008-11-06