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Opacity (zip)

Opacity is an innovative new editor for screen graphics. It uses the power of Core Animation and Quartz, running exclusively on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Opacity has traditional graphical features like vectors, layers and filters along with exclusive features including variables, templates, factories and much more. With Opacity, it's...

Tags: Feature, Like Thought, Opacity, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2008-03-17

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Office 2008 for Mac: The straw that broke the backs of Microsoft's Windows developers?

Could it be that a Macintosh program will be the tipping point for the confidence that ISVs have in Microsoft as a technology partner? One c-level technologist for a Windows enterprise app says "no more" to Redmond's vision. I wrote the other day about Microsoft's Mac Business...

Tags: Developer, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Office, Window, ISV, Microsoft VBA, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Engineer, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2008-05-16

Nortel Demos Virtual World Platform

Nortel demoed a virtual world prototype here in a Ottowa at a day long event. Dubbed Web Alive, the virtual world is the first project to come out of Nortel new research effort that imposes a VC-like model for funding research. Like other virtual worlds, Web...

Tags: Web, Collaboration, Nortel Networks Corp., Voice, World Platform, Web Alive, Channel Management, Telecommunications, Marketing, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2008-05-16

Putting the XP into the OLPC

So, Microsoft has managed to get in on the OLPC bandwagon and put XP in front of millions of eyeballs in the developing world. But is this move about the children's education, or it is about recruiting more Windows users. What's important to note is that Microsoft...

Tags: Team, One Laptop Per Child Project, Team Management, Microsoft Windows XP, Management, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-05-16

Introduction to BIT

This is the 1st excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Introduction This book is designed for people who interact with, but do not want to become, professional information systems...

Tags: Information System, Bear, Computer, Business Owner, Systems Decision, Dick, Jane, Systems Culture, Productivity, Data Centers, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-05-16

Yahoo! frees the Monkey, and announces prizes for a Developer Challenge

In conversation with Yahoo! Research's Peter Mika last week, I jokingly suggested that Yahoo! Search's open developer platform, SearchMonkey, might open its doors to developers this week. Well, they just did, and went a step further by announcing a month-long Developer Challenge and prizes of up to $10,000 for innovative...

Tags: Developer, Yahoo! Inc., Infobars, Search, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-05-15

VIA reveals world's lowest-power x86 processor on world's smallest board

Since nothing gets Toybox readers going quite like processor wars -- I mean, hey, it's the Crusades of computing -- I thought I'd throw this little morsel into the ring. Arriving in the Toybox inbox this morning from Taipei is news that VIA Technologies has announced their...

Tags: Board, X86 Processor, Corporate Governance, Processors, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-05-15

More on the Vista DVD playback issue

I thought I'd give you an update on the DVD playback problem that I reported on yesterday. Here's a summary of the problem: DVD playback is corrupted when one of the three screens (in this case a Wacon Cintiq WX12) is used to display the...

Tags: Problem, Microsoft Windows Vista, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-05-15

The real question: Is Microsoft still interested in Yahoo?

I actually believed Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer when he said he was walking away from buying Yahoo. I wasn't among the crowd who thought Ballmer was just posturing, waiting for Yahoo stock prices to plummet and Yahoo shareholder lawsuits to mount before sweeping back in and getting Yahoo for a...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Web Site Development, Financial Accounting, Internet, Finance, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-05-15

PhotoRecovery for Digital Media (dmg)

PhotoRecovery for Mac OSX is an easy to use application and is compatible with Memory Sticks, SmartMedia, CompactFlash, Floppy Disks and most other forms of digital media. Simply insert your digital media into the reader, and run PhotoRecovery on the media, and then save the pictures off to another location....

Tags: Digital Media, Memory, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

Software downloads 2008-05-15

Aviv Raff drops an 0-day for IE 7.0 and 8.0b on XP

I've been busy all day and just haven't been able to get to it until now, but Aviv Raff is a seriously bad man.  I follow his blog religiously as he always has some cool stuff going on and a lot of it tends to be thought provoking for other...

Tags: HTML, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Blog, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Aviv Raff, Blogging, Web Browsers, Internet, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-05-14

Security Researcher to release Cisco rootkit at EUSecWest

According to good friend Robert McMillan of IDG News, Sebastian Muniz, a researcher with Core Security Technologies, has developed malicious rootkit software for Cisco's routers, which he will release on May 22 at the EuSecWest conference in London.  This will mark the first time at least publicly that someone has released a...

Tags: Black Hat, Cisco IOS, Router, Cisco Systems Inc., Robert McMillan, Rootkits, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-05-14

Icahn reportedly preps his board slate for Yahoo

That Yahoo proxy war looks like it's on, but with a new cast of characters. According to Reuters, billionaire investor Carl Icahn will move ahead with an alternate slate of board of directors. The goal: Turn over Yahoo's 12 directors at once and sell Yahoo to Microsoft--or...

Tags: Board, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-14

Polar Bear Threatened, says U.S. Global warming acknowledged in public.

Polar Bear Threatened, says U.S. Global warming acknowledged in public.Theory vs. enumerationSo, the gov't says Polar Bears are threatened because sea ice will disappear. That's a theoretical prediction.However, actual enumeration of polar bear populations shows their numbers increasing.Perhaps Polar Bears actually do better when there's less ice making it difficult...

Tags: polar bear population, bear population, polar bear, bear, U.S. Global warming, Polar Bear

Discussion threads 2008-05-14

Google losing cellphone battle?

Google losing cellphone battle?Well, the idea is that CUSTOMERS will choose their phone, just like theychoose their PC. Dell does not need to do deals with internet service providers for instance. But, YES, right now, the carriers are the ones that select the phones that you can use with their...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Tea Vui Huang, Google Inc., phone, LiMo Foundation, Linux, carrier, cell phone

Discussion threads 2008-05-14

Google about to launch Flash API for Maps

Google about to launch Flash API for Mapsw00tThat's a bit freaking fantastic! I think Thought Den will be using that a lot (if the samples start to work...)Think of new genre of games we'll be able to make to make! Fly a country in 10 minsStrategicly conquer EuropeReal-life Risk!Thought Dan...

Tags: Flash API, Google About, API, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-05-14

Cloud computing

I recently read the post, When Is the Right Time to Launch Your Own Cloud? and thought Alistair Croll was on to something. We're all hearing quite a bit of media chatter about "cloud computing." Sometimes suppliers may use other terms such as "Mesh computing" or "Elastic Cloud Computing." All...

Tags: Cloud Computing, Supplier, Organization, Data Centers, Channel Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-05-14

A new take on 'Web 3.0' ?

A new take on 'Web 3.0' ?Was semantic web designed by amateurs?My take is that 'semantic web' is implicit in the journalist's reference to 'professionals' and his phrasing is simply saying that Web 3.0 adds expertise to structure the chaos of Web 2.0. I'm not too keen on the way...

Tags: Channel management, Semantic Web, Web, Web 3.0, Web 2.0

Discussion threads 2008-05-14

Veil (exe)

Have you ever thought that you can hide a file or a folder behind another file? If you have thought about it before but you don't know how to work that up, Veil will do the job for you. Veil not just only hide your file or folder, it also...

Tags: File, HideIT, Recruitment & Selection, Security, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Software downloads 2008-05-14

First, a game of green. Then, fade to black

It is truly astonishing that I mention the word Apple in a post and I get more talkbacks than pretty much anything I write about. Puh-leeze, get a grip. Anyway, just back from reluctantly leaving my old PowerBook G4 with the kindly (actually, can someone half my age be kindly?)...

Tags: Brain, Query, Apple Inc., Games, E-mail, Web Site Development, Notebooks, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Internet, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-05-13