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Learn Chinese Characters Volume 1A (zip)

Learn Chinese Characters LCC is a multimedia learning program which teaches you reading and writing Chinese characters. For each character entry, it gives the English definitions, Pinyin and Zhuyin annotations, cross reference of simplified / traditional character, radical, number of strokes excluding the radical, word examples and definitions. You can...

Tags: Character, GeorgeKung, Learn Chinese Characters, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2008-10-09

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Vendor claims Acrobat 9 passwords easier to crack than ever

Password recovery software vendor ElcomSoft claims that the password verification mechanism in the new Adobe Acrobat 9 is weaker than the one used in the previous version of Adobe's product, thereby allowing them to improve the brute forcing speed a hundred times faster. The company's claim comes right after Adobe's...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Password, Passphrase, Adobe Acrobat, ElcomSoft, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Live Webcast: SmartPhone Security and Productivity, Part 2

Without a doubt, we're now dependent on our mobile phones for keeping up with the speed of business. And nowhere is it more apparent than in the rise of so-called SmartPhones. These all-in-one handsets are fast replacing a multitude of other devices by providing access to everything from...

Tags: Security, Webcast, Smartphone, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware

Webcasts 2008-12-02

Live Webcast: The Future of Marketing: Being Remarkable and the Meatball Sundae

Combining two good things does not automatically make one great thing. Case in point: a meatball sundae - Seth Godin's perfect illustration of what you get when your marketing strategy doesn't fit with your product offering. Join this live BNET Webcast, moderated by James Hilliard, featuring marketing...

Tags: Webcast, Marketing Research, Marketing

Webcasts 2008-12-02

Security Lessons and Your Personal Firewall

There's an interesting dynamic I've been noticing and discussing a lot recently - people and companies are grappling with how to project some facets of their lives and information online while keeping other areas secret. As i suggested in my previous post, it...

Tags: Facebook, Firewall, Personal Firewall, Security, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-11-30

New worm exploiting MS08-067 flaw spotted in the wild

Microsoft's Security Response Center and McAfee are warning on increased network scanning activity during the last couple of days courtesy of the very latest W32/Conficker.worm exploiting the already patched MS08-067 vulnerability. What's particularly interesting in the latest wave of copycat worms is that W32/Conficker.worm is patching the infected host in...

Tags: Flaw, Malware, Worm, Tool, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Productivity, Security, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-11-26

AppAsure: Good stuff but is it virtualization?

Naj Husain, CEO, and Dan Soschin, Director of Marketing, both of AppAssure, brought me up to speed on Replay VRA, a tool that protects messaging-based environments that include BlackBerry Enterprise Server as well as Microsoft's Exchange, SQL Server and SharePoint. While Reply VRA appears to work in virtualized environments and...

Tags: Environment, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-11-25

App Store developers stuffing the ballot box (again)

App Store developers are known for finding creative ways to game Apple's App Store for financial gain. In July 2008 crafty developers discovered that changing the titles of their apps to include all spaces and/or special characters would make them appear at the top of the category...

Tags: Developer, Review, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-11-24

Going back to Windows Media Center

I'd been using Media Center as my primary DVR since shortly after the release of Windows Vista several years ago. At the time, my intention was to learn more about the other TV-oriented technology at Microsoft, which was of particular interest to me as I worked, at the time, in...

Tags: Channel, Windows Media, Media Center PC, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Media Center, Digital Video Recorder, CableCard, Media Center PCs, DVR, Digital Video, Cable, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-11-24

The case for Scala

Programming languages are like screwdrivers for developers. One size does not fit all, so good programmers keep several in their tool belt. The problem is, new languages are coming out all the time and you've only got so much room on your belt and in your schedule to learn them....

Tags: Function, Method, Functional Programming, Language, Scala, Seq, List, Scala System, HQ9+, env:Env, David J. Biesack, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-11-24

Could BlackBerry Storm leapfrog iPhone in the enterprise?

The first touch screen BlackBerry has finally arrived and the iPhone is clearly in its cross hairs. Learn the pros and cons of the new BlackBerry Storm and see how well it stacks up against the iPhone as a business device. by Jason Hiner

Tags: Touch Screen, Apple iPhone, Multimedia, Research In Motion Ltd., Smart Phone, RIM BlackBerry, BlackBerry Storm, Smart Phones, Keyboards, Handhelds, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Peripherals, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2008-11-24

Is Command & Control Management Inefficient?

When most people think of how businesses are organized, they visualize command and control management: the pine tree visual with the leaders at the top. Since we are entering the Western festive season here are some appropriate images to illustrate this. The traditional 'Christmas Tree'...

Tags: Fractal, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-11-24

IDC Making the business case for IT consolidation

Based on industry trends and customer data, IDC provides recommendations to help you get started with your IT consolidation initiative, explores business impact and benefits and shares customer examples to learn from.

Tags: Business Case, Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, IT Consolidation, International Data Corp.

White papers 2008-11-24

White T-Mobile G1 appearing, same lame keyboard lighting as the brown one?

It looks like the white T-Mobile G1 is starting to appear in stores for those who don't like the black or brown models. However, after first checking out the brown model, getting my own black model, and seeing the pictures of the white one I would highly advise that you...

Tags: T-Mobile G1, Condition, T-Mobile, Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-11-23

Go ahead...Hang out on MySpace. Wait, what?

The MacArthur Foundation just released a study suggesting that, not surprisingly, given the integration of social media into business and modern culture, the time kids spend with so-called new media, is generally neither wasted nor particularly harmful. In fact, as one of the lead researchers points out in the...

Tags: Youth, Media, Social Media, MySpace, Barack Obama, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-11-21

Getting started with ADO.NET's Entity Framework

The ADO.NET Entity Framework is a new way to build the data access layer of your Windows or web applications. It's an Object Relational Mapping ORM technology that makes it easy to tie together the data in your database with the objects in your applications, by abstracting the object model...

Tags: Microsoft ADO.NET, Model, Packt Publishing, ADO.NET Entity Framework, .Net, Databases, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Download resources 2008-11-21

Sun updates NetBeans with PHP support

Version 6.5 of the open-source NetBeans IDE has support for the PHP scripting language and a preview of Python support. Sun Microsystems on Wednesday introduced a version of the open-source NetBeans integrated development environment IDE, with expanded support for web and Java software development. The...

Tags: IDE, Environment, Sun Microsystems Inc., Python, PHP, Sun NetBeans, Development Environment, Development Tools, Java Development Tools, Scripting Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Matthew Broersma ZDNet.co.uk, Sun, NetBeans, Ruby on Rails, scripting

News items 2008-11-20

Live Webcast: Using VoIP to Cut Costs in a Slowing Economy

Businesses of all sizes are now realizing the need to not only cut costs but continue to provide infrastructure and tools to grow their businesses. Business VoIP technology has proven to lower costs while providing improved business communications. Nevertheless, there are still those who remain skeptical,...

Tags: Webcast, Business Communication, Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Networking

Webcasts 2008-11-20

Hands On: The BlackBerry Storm

First off, a warning: Be very skeptical of any review you read in the next 24 to 48 hours that proclaims to be the definitive word on the Blackberry Storm. While clearly I have my own early impressions, the Storm is so different than any other smartphone...

Tags: Touch Screen, Apple iPhone, Phone, Screen, Network, Verizon Communications Inc., Customer, Video, RIM BlackBerry, Plan, Blackberry Storm, E-mail, Handhelds, Keyboards, Online Communications, Hardware, Peripherals, Josh Taylor

Blog posts 2008-11-19

What's blowin' in the wind? Alternative energy in China

A new study of the Chinese wind energy market finds the country's growth will likely continue despite the global economic spasms. EER's report finds China will be #1 in generating electricity from wind by 2011. As much as the once communist state now embraces a brand of capitalism,...

Tags: China, Alternative Energy, Wind Energy, EER, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-11-19