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ClicksAndWhistles (exe)

ClicksAndWhistles is a free IRC client for Windows. It supports multiple server connections and identities. Desktop and tabbed windows, connection explorer and connection monitor, themes and color schemes including PNG backgrounds and outline fonts. Support for unicode (UTF-8) and customizable messages is included. Full text formatting support is included...

Tags: Leigh Johnston, ClicksAndWhistles, Internet Relay Chat (IRC), Microsoft Windows, Servers, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2008-07-02

DragDropLineCounter (exe)

DragDropLineCounter is a simple utility for Windows that counts the number of lines in the files that are dragged onto it. Version 1.0.4 is a bug fixing release.

Tags: Utility, Bug, Leigh Johnston, DragDropLineCounter, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2008-03-18

Additional Resources

HDTVs: How black is black?

An announcement comes today by way of Pioneer, maker of the ever-popular Kuro HDTV line, saying that its new Kuro sets are five times blacker than the Kuro line on the market today which we reviewed as the TV with the deepest blacks out there. So wait...

Tags: HDTV, Image, Ratio, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-05-07

Run Google's Android OS on your Windows Mobile device

I had a chance to play with the generic Google Android device that has been floating around at Mobile World Congress a couple of months ago. Now, you too can play with the Android OS on your Windows Mobile device as you can see in the videos posted by Leigh...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Android, Device, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Operating System, Advertising & Promotion, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Marketing, Software, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-04-14

The NERV: What First Responders Need

In this free video, you'll see how a little technical preparation goes a long way toward helping a community survive a catastrophe. In Johnston County, North Carolina, a devastating hurricane is just another day. Watch as Cisco helps keep its residents prepared with full voice, video, and data connectivity--all in...

Tags: Video, Cisco Systems Inc., Networked Emergency Response Vehicle, Corporate Communications, Crisis Management, Marketing

Presentations 2008-02-19

A camera in a pill to detect cancer

This is not the first time that the idea of swallowing a pill with a camera inside to detect early signs of cancer has been tried read this article for example. But now, researchers at the University of Washington UW have developed a device specifically designed to detect esophageal cancer,...

Tags: Device, University Of Washington, Resolution, Pill, Image, Camera, Cancer, Fiber, UW, Casing, Endoscope, Network Technology, Networking, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-01-25

Rich Internet application predictions from the experts

Earlier this month I did my 2008 predictions for rich Internet applications. My record last year wasn't as good as it could have been so I decided that this year I'd do two sets of predictions. One set are mine but the others are sets from people in the industry...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Microsoft Silverlight, Rich Internet Application, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-01-23

UK Rural Payments Agency (RPA): IT failure and gross incompetence screws farmers

A combination of IT failures and management incompetence have prevented the Rural Payments Agency RPA, which administers UK farm subsidy payments, from successfully executing its core mission despite years of effort. This extremely negative assessment is based on a new report issued by National Audit Office NAO. Accenture is implementing...

Tags: Payment, Agency, Information Technology, Accenture Ltd., U.K., Operational Accounting, Finance, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2007-12-16

Google confirms JotSpot will replace Google Pages

Last week I wrote about some interesting clues that suggested Google Pages would be replaced by something Google purchased a while ago called JotSpot. JotSpot is a tool that people have been using for quite a while to help them create collaborative websites like intranets, project management tracking, and...

Tags: Google Inc., JotSpot, Scott, Productivity, Project Management, Web Site Development, Tools & Techniques, Groupware, It Operations, It service Management, Internet, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2007-12-02

JotSpot to power new Google Sites in 2008

The usually tight-lipped Google revealed a few details on plans for Google Apps at a presentation in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where the company headquarters its AdWords team. Scott Johnston, a product manager for Google collaboration products, pitched members of the Ann Arbor Area Chamber of Commerce on the benefits of...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, JotSpot, Scott, Wiki, Productivity, Telecom & Utilities, Online Communications, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-12-01

The world's biodiesel potential

Two researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-M) have ranked 226 countries according to their potential to make large volumes of biodiesel at low cost. Their evaluation of the world's potential to produce biodiesel shows that Malaysia, Thailand, Colombia, Uruguay and Ghana are the developing nations most likely to attract...

Tags: Researcher, Biodiesel, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-10-19

Why Windows users don't switch to Mac

Over on Apple Matters I came across an interesting post by Steven Leigh which considers 8 reasons why Windows users don't switch to Mac. Leigh is a recent Mac switcher and he has an interesting insight into the issues surrounding making a switch, but I think that there are...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Truth, User, Ignorance, Leigh, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2007-10-10

Biodiesel with a special Australian flavour

GoingGreen is an international gathering of privately-owned GreenTech companies today in Davis, California. Wandering around huge trays of fresh fruit and vegies, and a few recyclable glasses of California wine, I found one of the Aussie guys here. Paul Johnston is representing Terra Fuel. They're...

Tags: Greenhouse Gas, Engine, Biodiesel, Brisbane, GoingGreen, Johnston, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-09-11

Consulting objectivity

Suppose your company wanted to hire a consultant to advise on appropriate computing infrastructure strategies for the next five years. Suppose further that you're down to two choices distinguished mainly by their answers to the question: are you biased toward one technology over its competitors?One says that he isn't: that...

Tags: Sun Solaris, Tools & Techniques, Desktops, Paul Murphy, Sun Ray, Sun Microsystems Inc., right software, first reaction, software, consulting

Blog posts 2007-08-30

Microsoft readying Channel 8

While rumors swirl that Microsoft might be considering buying FaceBook, the company is continuing to build out its own famiy of blogs, wikis, video and other community-outreach tools to connect with current and potential users.The latest new social-networking site in Microsoft's arsenal? Channel 8.Microsoft Developer Mark Johnston posted a teaser...

Tags: Corporate strategy, Web 2.0, Web video

Blog posts 2007-07-12

Microsoft's Google concessions

Microsoft's Google concessionsMotive?Since I would assume there is no charge for Google's desktop search component, what is Google's motive for wanting to be there? Why is Google so insistent that its desktop search be able to replace Microsoft's (which it could to begin with, but that's apparently anotehr discussion)?Carl RapsonDid...

Tags: SEARCH, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., desktop search, desktop

Discussion threads 2007-06-20

The birth of spinplasmonics

You might have heard of spintronics, a technology that uses the magnetic quantum properties of the spin of electrons, or plasmonics, another one which 'involves the transfer of light electromagnetic energy into a tiny volume, thus creating intense electric fields.' Now, researchers at the University of Alberta U of A...

Tags: Engineering &, Innovation, Nanotechnology, Science &, Nature

Blog posts 2007-05-31

Digital privacy behind virtual walls

Ubiquitous computing was the only subject discussed at the 5th International Conference on Pervasive Computing held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on May 13-16, 2007. As reports the National Post, in the future, everything will be a computer. As ultra small computers can now embedded in virtually everything, pervasive computing applications...

Tags: Computers &, Internet, Leisure, Robotics, Social Sciences, Wireless &, Telecom

Blog posts 2007-05-27

Gaming comes to business software

One of the biggest challenges when businesses implement sales force automation — even after the softwares up and running — is getting sales people to actually use it. Entellium CEO Paul Johnston took to the stage for the end-of-day seesion at SaaScon yesterday to explain how his company...

Tags: CRM

Blog posts 2007-04-19

A Pulitzer Prize for Dave Winer (the bearded, prickly one)?

Blogging had its tenth birthday party this week. What a big big boy it has become. Even I acknowledge that not each and every 70 million bloggers are fools and not each and every one of their 1.5 million daily blogs are idiotic. The question is how to determine value...

Tags: Uncategorized

Blog posts 2007-04-08