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PimpZilla (jar)

PimpZilla is an ode to blaxploitation movies. It's interface is supposed to represent the semi-luxurious, furcoated, kitschy dashboards of pimpmobiles from the 1970s. It's probably the most tacky and overdone piece of GUI design out there, aimed solely for true Internet connaisseurs. Fur and gold wasn't enough--PimpZilla now includes white...

Tags: Tweak, Marco Troost, PimpZilla, Internet

Software downloads 2007-11-12

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Phishers increasingly scamming other phishers

A new study conducted by Marco Cova, Christopher Kruegel, and Giovanni Vigna, provides factual evidence of a well known practice by experienced phishers, namely, backdooring phishing pages that they would later on distribute for free across the IT underground, in order to build a covert network where other phishers would...

Tags: Kit, Cybercriminal, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-08-04

Yahoo! SearchMonkey Developer Challenge illustrates diversity

Back in May Yahoo! opened up their SearchMonkey platform, and kicked off a competition in which developers could put SearchMonkey through its paces. The whole Yahoo! open platform initiative continues to grow apace and largely unchallenged by Google and Microsoft, with BOSS rolling out earlier this month,...

Tags: Developer, Yahoo! Inc., StumbleUpon, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-07-16

What's in a name? For LimeLeap, apparently, a whole lot

Someone asked me the other day if I thought IT solution providers (what you might call a reseller, VAR or systems integrator) could build a reasonable branding message around green tech or environmental issues. While I haven't seen a whole lot of these companies do anything publicly, two jumped to...

Tags: Green Technology, Luzuriaga, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-06-01

AIR Twitter client Twhirl gets bought by Seesmic

I think this is the first case of an AIR application being acquired so it's a pretty cool day for RIAs on the desktop. Twhirl has been gaining a ton of momentum because it's so well designed and I think it shows off why RIAs on the desktop are going...

Tags: Desktop, Web, API, Rich Internet Application, Twitter, Twhirl, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-04-04

Yahoo unveils voice enabled search; Initial availability limited to BlackBerry

Yahoo on Wednesday rolled out oneSearch 2.0, which features a voice enabled mobile search. However, don't expect wide availability since the service is initially available for "select Blackberry devices." OneSearch 2.0 at the CTIA wireless show in Las Vegas announced its latest version of its mobile search...

Tags: Mobile, Voice, Yahoo! Inc., Mobile Search, RIM BlackBerry, Search, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-02

Outage hits Windows Live Hotmail, Messenger users

Outage hits Windows Live Hotmail, Messenger usersRE: Outage hits Windows Live Hotmail, Messenger usersI am unable to use both messenger and the web interface for hotmail, but I can access Hotmail just fine through the Outlook Connector.Yup. Some can get on, ohters can't.My users have been complaining all morning. UGH!TechNet...

Tags: Manufacturing, Messenger, Windows Live Hotmail, outage, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-02-26

Yahoo revamps mobile

At CES in Las Vegas, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and VP Marco Boerries demonstrates new upgrades to the the company's Go platform for mobile devices, such as new widgets for e-mail and a new interface to access weather, sports, and stock information.

Tags: Mobile, Stock, Yahoo! Inc., Advertising & Promotion, Investment, Marketing, Finance

Videos 2008-01-08

Jerry Yang offers sneak peak of Yahoo's future: Life!

Yahoo co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang made his inaugural CES appearance, outlining how he plans to evolve his company ahead of the curve and to become an indispensable starting point for consumers' Web experience, which has become richer and more complex over the last decade. "We call this Life with...

Tags: Jerry Yang, Mobile, Yahoo! Inc., Advertising & Promotion, E-mail, Marketing, Online Communications, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2008-01-07

Voyage Century Online (exe)

Voyage Century is the first 3D nautical online game in MMORPG history, gives priority to scene of sea, with scene of land as supplement. The story in Voyage Century Online begins on Mediterranean Sea from 16th Century a pivotal episode in history which big powers played the despot and great...

Tags: Internet Gaming Gate, Voyage Century, Internet, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2007-12-29

3 simple ways to optimize for Google PageRank

A mathematical analysis of the PageRank algorithm shows there are 3 simple, legal things you can do to increase your PageRank score. These aren't bogus SEO techniques like hidden text, link spam and page cloaking that will get you banned from Google. These techniques use...

Tags: Public Relations, Google Inc., Page, PageRank, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2007-12-04

Hidden flight simulator application in Google Earth

Though it's nowhere close in features to the competition, Marco Gallotta found a hidden flight simulator feature inside the newest version of Google Earth -- it's actually not too shabby for the first go-around. There are two airplanes to choose from, several airports and of course the satellite imagery...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Earth, Satellite, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2007-09-01

Build ERP on social media: not a joke

Shel Israel is undertaking a research project for SAP:I am trying to answer a single, overwhelming question: "What is going on in the world with regard to social media? ...Mostly I am looking for real people with stories and personal experience about what is happening with blogging, video, online communities...

Tags: ERP, Enterprise applications

Blog posts 2007-07-17

Travels of Marco Polo (exe)

Travels of Marco Polo. An addicting puzzle game. Start the expedition from Venice through to Asia and back. Build your caravans, cargos and wealth. Travels of Marco Polo features 75 levels of play. Your achievements in the game will be rewarded with. Version 1 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or...

Tags: Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2007-07-13

An iPhone Review: Spectacular

Despite my reservations about AT&T, which were well founded and widely documented, I did go to the AT&T store at 38th Street in Tacoma, Washington, yesterday to buy an iPhone. Several "spectacular" features of this launch deserve mention.The hardware iPhone: Spectacular.and OS integration is spectacular. Matthew Miller covers many of...

Tags: Business &, Technology

Blog posts 2007-06-30

A new postal service... from space

In September 2007, the European Space Agency ESA will launch its Foton M3 microgravity mission from Baikonur. The spacecraft will carry the Young Engineers Satellites (YES2) payload. The goal of this experiment -- designed by 500 European students -- is to send a 6-kilogram package from space to earth. This...

Tags: Engineering &, Innovation, Space &, Aerospace

Blog posts 2007-05-15

Emotiv's man-machine melding interface technology

The human-computer interface has always been clunky. You grapple with various manual input devices to give commands to a computer. Voice interaction is starting to take hold, at least for unforgiving call center applications or "call home" commands, but mind control--connecting our brains to computers--remains elusive. Startup Emotiv Systems is...

Tags: Entertainment, General

Blog posts 2007-03-06

ERP End-User Business Productivity: A Field Study of SAP & Microsoft

In this white paper, measurements are discussed of how end users of Enterprise Resource Planning ERP applications describe the impact of Microsoft and SAP applications on their business productivity. This research found that Microsoft Dynamics end users on average rated their experience with Microsoft applications more favorably than SAP users...

Tags: Microsoft Dynamics SL, ERP, Microsoft Corp., SAP AG, Microsoft Dynamics, Business Productivity

White papers 2007-03-01

Reducing drug development costs

As it now costs a whopping $800 million to develop a new drug, American researchers have developed a forecasting computer model which could reduce drug development costs, saving hundreds of millions of dollars per new drug. Their Bayesian network model is based on publicly available data about 500 successful and...

Tags: Computers &, Internet, Health &, Medicine

Blog posts 2007-02-15

Summary of the Understanding Apollo presentation

Mike Chambers gave a presentation in December about Apollo that has some good overview information. Thanks to Marco, I saw that they uploaded the recorded version of that presentation so I did an overview of what was covered. A lot of it is news weve heard before, but it did...

Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Adobe, Apollo

Blog posts 2007-01-16