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iMovie '08 Library Compressor 1.2 (Mac)

Movie '08 Library Compressor is a simple program to reduce the size of your iMovie '08 library. This application will compress all the DV files in your iMovie library to save huge amounts of disk space! Using H.264 compression, you can shave as much as 93% of the space of...

Tags: Apple iMovie, Apple Macintosh, Nik, Tools & Techniques, Management

Software downloads 2007-11-06

TiVo Decoder 1.3 (Mac)

TiVo Decoder is a simple AppleScript droplet which uses the open source TiVoDecode program to convert the video files from your TiVo Series 2 from .tivo files into plain MPEG-2 files. Just drag and drop your .tivo files on it and get an MPEG-2 video out. You can then use...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, MPEG-2, TiVo Inc., Nik, TiVo Decoder, Digital Video, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2006-12-12

Super Oda Dice Roller 0.5b2 (Mac)

What makes a dice rolling program good enough to call it "Super Oda?" Well, how about the ability to roll ANY number of dice using standard "3D6" terminology? What about the ability to add mathematical operators to those rolls, so you can multiply dice by other dice? What about being...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Nik, Desktops, Tools & Techniques, Hardware, Management

Software downloads 2006-06-13

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Wacom Bamboo Fun Pen & Touch CTH661

I'll admit, I've never used a pen tablet before. I guess, in that respect, I'm Wacom's target customer. Its new line of multitouch-enabled tablets are designed and priced for budget-minded consumers, and unlike many of its more professional brethren, Wacom aims for a look that's simpler than ever before. The...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, Bamboo, Wacom

Product reviews 2009-10-05

Partly cloudy: Google's Gmail goes down; outage chronicled on Twitter

Users are complaining on Twitter techmeme that Google's free Gmail e-mail service is down. TheNextWeb reports that Dutch news service NU.nl had to remove ads served by Google-owned Doubleclick because they weren't loading. We could only verify the...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Gmail, Twitter Inc., Outage, TC, UTC-4, E-mail Providers, Cloud Computing, Internet, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-09-01

Cisco warning: Serious flaws in Wireless LAN controllers

Cisco warning: Serious flaws in Wireless LAN controllersAre other products involved?I understand that Linksys is a part of Cisco. Are any of the Linksys wireless routers effected by this flaw?RE: Cisco warning: Serious flaws in Wireless LAN controllersRyan;I'm not a fan of 'I know something you don't know'. Please...

Tags: Wireless LANs, LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless and Mobility, flaw, Wireless LAN Controller, Cisco Systems Inc., WLAN, wireless

Discussion threads 2009-02-10

Powerset's smarts are Microsoft's gain

Larry Dignan pours lukewarm water on Microsoft's acquisition of Powerset. Talking about Google's near monopoly in the search market, Larry says: Microsoft can reinvent search, but it’s still running up a natural Google monopoly. The analogy here is Windows: Microsoft didn’t have the best operating system on the planet....

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Powerset, Wiki, Document Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Speech Recognition, Channel Management, Search, Enterprise Software, Online Communications, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Investment, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-07-01

Cast your vote in the Windows 7 release date prediction pool

Cast your vote in the Windows 7 release date prediction poolLost cause by then[i]- XP SP3 will keep it alive until then while MS franticly tries to push Vista harder and bring it up to snuff.[/i]Vista will be a lost cause by then. Too tainted except by the most...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Windows 7 Release Date Prediction Pool, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Windows7, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2008-04-09

Nik Color Efex Pro 3.0 (Mac)

Nik Color Efex Pro 2.0 photographic filters offer features and functionality that are designed to make digital photographic enhancements and digital photography not only easier, but better. Recognized as the leader in digital photographic filters, the three Adobe® Photoshop® plug-in collections from Nik Color Efex Pro 2.0 provide you with...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Filter, Image, Nik Software, Nik Color Efex Pro 2.0

Software downloads 2008-03-21

Twitter, Qik, Mogulus: you're all dead

...as far as enterprise land is concerned. My Enterprise Irregulars colleagues have been debating the merits of some shiny new toys like Twitter, Qik and Mogulus. The conversation kicked off with the extremely smart Jason Corsello: Maybe this is Scoble specific but I just don't get it. ...

Tags: Quality, Twitter, Scoble, Blogging, Strategy, Internet, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-01-08

Color Efex Pro 3.0 (Windows)

Nik Software Color Efex Pro 3.0 filters are the leading photographic filters for digital photography. The award-winning Color Efex Pro 3.0 filters are widely used by many of today's professional photographers around the world to save time and get professional level results. Whether you choose the Complete Edition, Select Edition,...

Tags: Filter, Nik Software, Nik Software Color Efex Pro 3.0 Filter, Color Efex Pro 3.0 Filter, Digital Cameras, Digital Photography, Microsoft Windows, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2007-12-01

Nik Sharpener Pro 2.0 (Mac)

Sharpening an image enhances the overall visual impression of that image, and is an essential step in creating a good digital print. Nik Sharpener Pro 2.0 offers features and controls necessary to achieve optimal sharpness in any image. This tool simplifies the process by providing you with controls that are...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Image, Nik Software, Nik Sharpener Pro 2.0

Software downloads 2007-07-09

A surprising switch back to Vista from Mac OS X

A surprising switch back to Vista from Mac OS Xthe interface?maybe i've forgotten what an interface is because we can't be talking about the same thing. do you mean the interface that sometimes you click, sometimes you hover with no feedback to distinguish what's expected? or the interface,...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Construction, Apple Mac OS, Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Macintosh, operating system

Discussion threads 2007-05-07

A surprising switch back to Vista from Mac OS X

I must admit I was more than a bit surprised to read this post by Nik Cubrilovic of OmniDrive this morning. Seems his Mac OS partition vanished but the NTFS partition he had set up for Boot Camp on his Mac survived the gremlin attack. Nik installed Vista and describes...

Tags: Windows, Vista, Software, Mac

Blog posts 2007-05-07

MIX076: The remix from day one

In the aftermath of MIX07 day one, with the announcements around Silverlight (see yesterdays ZDNet coverage from Mary Jo Foley, Ryan Stewart and myself), the blogosphere is weighing in with more coverage and analysis. Steve Gillmor has emerged from his cave to comment on the calculus of Microsofts latest moves...

Tags: General, Microsoft, Web Technology

Blog posts 2007-05-01

LG KE850, a preview of iPhone?

LG KE850, a preview of iPhone?Gizmodo was pulling a prankTake a look, the iPhone they were discussing was released today, from Cisco, who own the trademark on that name:http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/cellphones/the-iphone-lives-but-the-trademark-belongs-to-cisco-222336.php"What a maroon . . . ."as Bugs Bunny would say. All over the web this morning there seems to be...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, LG Phone, Apple iPhone, LG Electronics Inc., Apple Inc., phone, Cisco Systems Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-12-18

EC2 extends Amazon's S3 with pay-per-use server

TechCrunch has the scoop on Amazon's extension to its S3 storage-in-the-cloud service. According to Nik Cubrilovic's post, the new service--called EC2--will let users access compute capacity by setting up virtual server instances hosted by Amazon. Pricing for the server usage is 10 cents per instance hour, and then the S3...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc.

Blog posts 2006-08-24

MashupCamp Day 2: The mashups

Day 2 of MashupCamp included geek dating—each presenter had five minutes to show their mashup to a rotating group of campers. David Schorr’s Weather Bonk and Ski Bonk mashups were among the more sophisticated mashups. Weatherbonk, for example, integrates 21 data feeds and overlays some of them on Google maps....

Tags: mashup

Blog posts 2006-02-21

Is Firefox dropping the ball, like Netscape in 97?

Is Firefox dropping the ball, like Netscape in 97?Weight of "innovation"Firefox is going the same route so many other "innovative" (particularly open source, but proprietary software does it as well, to drive upgrades) software products go: buried under their own weight. Forefox has always had minor glitches like this in...

Tags: Web browsers, Netscape Communications Corp., ForeFox, Mozilla Firefox, memory, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7

Discussion threads 2006-02-13

Is Firefox dropping the ball, like Netscape in 97?

Lately Netscape got overtaken by IE in 1997 - will Firefox in 06... I've been noticing a number of people criticising the performance of the latest versions of Firefox, since 1.5. Nik Cubrilovic, a developer at online storage company OmniDrive, is the latest to point out performance issues...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox

Blog posts 2006-02-13