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Why all the recent focus on "desktop virtualization"

Why all the recent focus on "desktop virtualization"When they do something interesting...I'm actively following over 100 companies in the virtualization software space. I do my best to post something interesting on all of them from time to time. If you check, I've posted a number of articles on Endeavors Technologies.When...

Tags: Processors, computing, recent focu, X11, desktop, desktop virtualization, CPU, locality, local machine, network

Discussion threads 2008-04-11

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Flipping Fantastic

Getting the most out of Flip video cameras The picture above a still from a Flip video is of my venerable old three chip Sony VX1000 video camera, Frezzi light and associated 10 pound battery belt. In the foreground is a Flip video...

Tags: Microphone, Video Camera, Video, Camera, Flip, Flip Camera, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-21

Velocity Micro NoteMagix M17 Ultra

Velocity Micro reviewI had ordered a very expensive M17 Ultra gaming laptop from Velocity Micro as my little gift to myself this holiday season. Well, I got it last night...To start with, I was a returning customer. My desktop is a Velocity Micro rig, bought in 2007, and I've...

Tags: Wireless LANs, PRODUCTIVITY, Velocity, Velocity Micro

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

Chrome OS: Some Early Preview Videos

google should move away from linuxI suppose they could easily take away all those messes of the current os by doing that. Haha! Crummy-um "Chromium OS and Open Source" video-- the guy is calling it Crummy-um! Sounds about right.RE: Chrome OS: Some Early Preview VideosAnd ZDNet falls hook, line,...

Tags: Corporate communications, Linux, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, ChromeOS, Chrome, Chrome OS, early Preview Video, operating system, Preview Video, video

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Live from Googleplex: Chrome OS details revealed

Ubuntu 9.10 has more immediate potentialMight I suggest trying Ubuntu 9.10? A phenominal OS with much more to offer then even Windows 7.Open source, free and ready to try today...http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=1122http://www.tuxradar.com/content/vista-windows-7-ubuntu-904-and-910-boot-speed-comparisonhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYgWE6Svpaghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16-nad9N3pgNot that I have readI'd stick with 904immediate potential to sink in obscurityGoogle was Linux's last fleeting chance to turn...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Ubuntu 9.10, Linux, Google Inc., operating system, Chrome OS, Chrome

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

FCC wants public comment on digital democracy - voting online

Online Voting - Destroying the integrity and fabric of democracy.On-line voting without safe guards against vote selling and guarantee that each vote was registered in private invalidates the intent and meaning of "one person, one vote."It's bad enough that this hole currently exists with the current mail-in voting process.RE: FCC...

Tags: Federal government, digital democracy, public comment, FCC

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Firefox faces browser clone war in China

Come on ZDNet!!!!Is this really newsworthy????Newsworthy? That's not the point...ZDNet's intent was not to write about anything worthwhile. It's intent was to draw you in and to have you read further in order to get you to visit at least one more page in their web-site.If they had...

Tags: Web browsers, Web browser, Mozilla Firefox

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

BayGenie eBay Auction Sniper Free 3.3.1.8 (Windows)

BayGenie eBay Auction Sniper Free places bids in the last seconds of auctions. Features: supports 16 countries of eBay international sites * supports all time zones, does not change local machine time * no spyware, pop-ups, or adware * secure connections ssl * fast data transmission * auto update of...

Tags: BayGenie, eBay Inc., Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Ssl/Tls, Authentication/Encryption, Cyberthreats, Security, Microsoft Windows, Viruses And Worms, Network Security, Operating Systems, Software, Networking

Software downloads 2009-11-18

TurboFTP Server 1.00.709 (Windows)

TurboFTP Server supports virtual domains, which means you can set up multiple virtual domains on a physical host machine and provide different services on it. You can map any local folder path to a virtual server folder and assign individual users or groups access rights to folders within a domain's...

Tags: Virtual Server, Domain, Microsoft Windows, TurboSoft, Server Virtualization, Ip storage, Virtualization, Servers, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-11-18

Whistler XTR195 Battery-Operated Radar/Laser Detector

Whistler XTR195I paid just under $50 for the little guy last black Friday at Radio Shack.It was to be used within the city and some highway. Suffice it to say it actually works.Readings and beeping of a 2/3 of a mile proved that it actually was a trap. I generally...

Tags: Engineering, radar, detector, battery, laser

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Get Youtube Video 1.5 (Windows)

Get Youtube Video is used to download the the video from Youtube Web site to Local machine, so the video can be watched offline. It's very easy to use, just copy the web page link(e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42aKiDxbpUs), and paste it into Get Youtube Video, then click Download button to start download...

Tags: YouTube Video, YouTube Inc., Microsoft Windows, Video, VeryTools, Corporate Communications, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-11-17

VirtualBox 3.0.12 (Windows)

VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is now the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software. Features: Modularity: VirtualBox has an extremely modular design with well-defined internal programming interfaces and a client/server design,Virtual machine descriptions in...

Tags: Innotek VirtualBox, Microsoft Windows, Virtual Machine, Desktop Virtualization, Virtualization, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-11-17

Microsoft confirms 'detailed' Windows 7 exploit

Ummm interesting....so just block 139 and 445...445? great that port aggain.Is SMB blocked to/from internet by th firewall by default?RE: Microsoft confirms 'detailed' Windows 7 exploitPorts 139 and 445 are blocked by default for Internet access by Windows firewall in Windows 7 and any commerical hardware firewall. They are enabled...

Tags: Firewalls, SMB/SME, SMB protocol, Microsoft Windows 7, firewall, Windows 7 exploit, Microsoft Windows, small and medium business, Microsoft Windows Vista, operating system, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-16

Dell's answer to Apple's Mac mini - The Inspiron Zino HD

People Actually Buy These Things?Almost a $1000.00 for a cutsey, low powered designer computer? Do people actually buy these things? Maybe they should check out your Very Best Kit list.adrian please 959$ you dont put 959 for a low-end entry level machine you can have...

Tags: Desktops, Apple Mac Mini, Dell Inspiron, Dell Computer Corp., Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2009-11-16

Is imminent Chrome OS launch reckless?

First Impressions"first impressions are extremely important."Yup, Vista SP1/SP2 is a good operating system. Microsoft botched the initial release of Vista, and it gave a good operating system a permanently bad name.reckless not sure dangerous surely i may sound stupid or ill inform but ...What will be Chrome...

Tags: Operating systems, operating system, Chrome OS, Chrome, imminent Chrome OS

Discussion threads 2009-11-14

BayGenie eBay Auction Sniper Pro 3.3.1.8 (Windows)

BayGenie ebay Auction Sniper Pro tracks eBay auctions and automatically places bids in the last seconds of auctions. Features: integrated browser; supports bidding groups; supports 16 eBay global sites, including eBay US, Canada, Germany and United Kingdom; eBay login integration; supports all time zones, does not change local machine time;...

Tags: BayGenie, Microsoft Windows, eBay Inc., Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Security, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications

Software downloads 2009-11-11

RemoteRegistryCleaner 1.2 build 250 (Windows)

RemoteRegistryCleaner scans a remote or local machine for Windows Registry errors and fixes them up for smoother running of the computer. RemoteRegistryCleaner also scans and list obsolete and unwanted Windows files and deletes them which results in faster performance of the computer. RemoteRegistryCleaner is the worlds first and one-and-only registry...

Tags: Network Computer, Microsoft Windows, Computer, WorkMoment, RemoteRegistryCleaner, Productivity, Thin Clients, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-11-10

18 truths: The long fail of complexity

Agree *****One of the best distillations of what 'risk' actually is, and why complexity exponentially increases it, I have read.But more to the point takes a realistic, rather than optimistic or pessimistic, view of how to asses it. And correctly acknowledges the 'human' factors involved in both cause, and...

Tags: Strategy, HEALTHCARE, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

Disk2vhd 1.3 (Windows)

Disk2vhd is a utility that creates VHD (Virtual Hard Disk - Microsoft's Virtual Machine disk format) versions of physical disks for use in Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines VMs. You can run Disk2vhd on a system that is online. Disk2vhd uses Windows' Volume Snapshot capability, introduced in...

Tags: Disk, Microsoft Corp., Volume, Disk2vhd, Microsoft Windows, Desktop Virtualization, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Virtualization

Software downloads 2009-11-03

Is Microsoft a dinosaur to Google's mammal?

Random comments...How odd the mixed metaphors sound... "built from the ground up to work in the cloud"...The dinosaurs were around for tens of millions of years, and we mammals can barely say the same. The crown of creation can be wrested from the head of the wearer by something unforeseen--like...

Tags: Desktops, OPEN SOURCE, Ideation, Google Inc., desktop, dinosaur, Linux, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-02