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CalculX 1.5.3 (Mac)

CalculX is a powerful scientific calculator for Mac OS X, featuring: Over 60 arithmetic, algebraic, trigonometric, combinatorial, statistical, bitwise, vector, and other operations. Powerful, extensible scripting language for advanced mathematics. 5 independant memories. Full functionality in hexadecimal, octal, and binary modes, and scientific notation in decimal mode. Editable, savable,...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Operation, Window, Obvious Software, CalculX, Apple Mac OS X, Construction, Apple Mac OS, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2003-10-28

3DBlur 1.0b2 (Mac)

3DBlur is a Cocoa-based first-person game in which you fly a vehicle through a series of canyons, gaining as many points as you can before you crash. Score points by flying under rocks and other obstacles that block your path. Some obstacles are more difficult than others, requiring you to...

Tags: Obstacle, Apple Macintosh, Obvious Software, 3DBlur, Mice, Games, Desktops, Hardware, Peripherals, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2002-10-31

WidgetApp 1.0 (Mac)

This is a simple application that just displays window with a lot of widgets in it, intended to help theme designers tes their themes. It displays all relevant Cocoa interface elements in all relevant modes. This includes all common widgets plus both types of tab views and scroll bars, drawers,...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Scroll Bar, Obvious Software, Construction, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2002-04-13

Landform 1.0.1 (Mac)

Landform is a free screen saver module for Mac OS X that displays randomly generated 3D terrain. It includes two types of fractals, fault formation and plasma fractals, which generate different styles of terrain, and three color schemes. You can also tweak the parameters of the fractals. Source code is...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Fractal, Terrain, Obvious Software, Landform

Software downloads 2002-02-16

Skimmer 1.0.3 (Mac)

Skimmer is an original, simple arcade game written with Objective-C/Cocoa. It makes use of OpenGL for graphics. The goal is to race around a randomly generated terrain and reach all of the blue waypoints before the time runs out.

Tags: OpenGL, Apple Macintosh, Obvious Software, Skimmer, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2001-06-14

Additional Resources

Does Chrome OS mean anything for schools?

Benefits of the ChromeOS approachOne of the features of HTML5, that commentors on other posts seem to forget, is that HTML5 web apps can be "installed" in app cache, for offline use (Google "HTML5 manifest").If web apps can be used offline AND made to perform like desktop apps, with web...

Tags: Operating systems, cloud computing, Desktops, NOW IT, HTML5, operating system, Chrome OS, Does Chrome OS, Chrome, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-28

HP vs. Dell: Showdown at the Windows 7 upgrade corral

Well, the great thing is all the competition. I like to see Acer squeezing them both from below, and of course competing with each other. Of course also great to see all the pressure on MS to innovate and lower prices.Google Chrome_OS will be hard to beatWell, with Google_Chrome_OS it...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Hewlett-Packard Co., Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Corp., Windows 8, Microsoft Windows, XPS, Microsoft Windows 7

Discussion threads 2009-11-24

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

Google makes Chrome OS open source today

I like itThe ChromeOS demo looked pretty cool!I'm almost 100% webapp-based already, so I could see myself using a simple, fast & no maintenance OS like that the majority of the time.I like it too, but, for me, I need to compile and run programs locally. I would imagine that...

Tags: Operating systems, Desktops, open source, Google Inc., Chrome, operating system, ChromeOS

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Next year is THE year for cloud computing

Here is what Indu Kodukula, CTO of SunGard Availability Services thinks how cloud computing is likely to transform the computing industry landscape in 2010. Commentary - Yogi Berra had it right - it?s difficult to make predictions, especially about the future. It?s especially difficult...

Tags: CIO, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, cloud, Indu Kodukula

News items 2009-11-17

Hackers bypass Windows 7 activation

lol...and double lolwhoever thinks that windows 7 is any better than any previous disaster they created will be dispelled soon.Google will take over and leave MS in the dustGoogle is going to take over and leave the lethargic Windows in PC dust.loverock's mother herei must apologize for my 44 old...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Linux

Discussion threads 2009-11-16

Sony Vaio L117FX (Core 2 Quad Q8400s 2.66GHz, 6GB RAM, 1TB HDD, Windows 7 Home Premium)

Had Apple not introduced a 27-inch iMac for $1,699, we'd have fewer reservations about Sony asking $1,999 for its new 24-inch Vaio L117FX. Yes, HP's TouchSmart 600 expanded on some of Sony's innovations from its previous generation all-in-ones. Sony also doesn't even attempt to match HP's creative multitouch software. But...

Tags: Desktops, Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium, RAM, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Sony Vaio, Sony Corp., HDMI

Product reviews 2009-11-13

Eric Schmidt on whether Google is getting evil

I Am A Victim of EvilHere is evil to me.I cannot stop Google from spamming me...or at least one of their Google Groups.A while back I bought an Ubuntu mini 9 from Dell.It was great.I loved it.It got stolen by some druggos while I was using it at Westlake plaza...

Tags: E-mail, Spam, Eric Schmidt, Google Inc., Evil, Google Groups, motto

Discussion threads 2009-11-12

Microsoft Patents Sudo - So Sudo me!

i do think that it time for some rule and regulation .and some major MS legal bashing . anti-trust Adrian this is shameless self promotionYou would not even have this if a reader had not given it to you. Means nothing but what youre getting out of it, HITS....

Tags: Idiocy, patent, Microsoft Corp., Adrian

Discussion threads 2009-11-12

End-to-end encryption is the key to protecting data and reputations

In order to avoid the financial and brand damage associated with data breaches, businesses need to consider deploying end-to-end encryption as a tamper proof way of securing data. Commentary - Media outlets around the globe highlight new data breaches at an alarmingly regular rate. Forrester estimates that the cost...

Tags: PCI, Organization, Data Breach, PCI DSS, Encryption Key, encryption, security, Paul Meadowcroft Thales, Special to ZDNet, Paul Meadowcroft, Thales, Special to ZDNet

News items 2009-11-11

Bing 2.0 debuts

Bing Image SearchSpeaking of Bing, I recently did some Bing Image Searches, and found that they produced better results than Google Image Searches.Just keeps getting better.I don't know how anyone using Bing could find anything to complain about. In fact all the complaints I do see come from people...

Tags: SEARCH, Bing, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-11

Microsoft gives up to 1 million Xbox modders the boot from Live

Exactly. I could not agree moreno different then many other things.In NASCAR, the team owns the car, NASCAR the rest.You are perfectlly free to do with your car whatever you wish, NASCAR just will not allow you to run it at their events.Microsoft is not stopping them from modifying their...

Tags: Game players, Linux, Games, EULA, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox, hardware functionality, hardware

Discussion threads 2009-11-11

Worm inflicts Rick Astley wallpaper on jailbroken iPhones

But... but... but... OS X is Unix! It is immune!Hmm, guess not.Now, let's list the "attacks" and then cue the double standards...1. iPhone must have the [b]worst[/b] security model out there because hackers only go after the low hanging fruit.2. I don't care [b]why[/b] no one attacks Windows Mobile, all...

Tags: Smart phones, NonZealot, Apple iPhone, security

Discussion threads 2009-11-08

Zero-day flaw found in web encryption

Bad oneBecause the bug is actually in the spec and because of an incomplete spec there is no obvious solution which will not risk breaking a lot of software.On the positive side, the vuln can only be exploited by someone on the network path (it is a man-in-the-middle attack), which...

Tags: NETWORKING, SECURITY, Web, zero-day bug

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

What would make you trust Microsoft?

Flame on!Let me save a couple people the time of posting"Microsoft is the most evil thing on earth and should be destroyed" - Linux Geek, Ole Man, D.T, No More Microsoft Software ...."I trust Microsoft with my life" - Mike Cox, Loverock, ... "They are a company. I trust them...

Tags: SECURITY, Microsoft Corp., extremist, open source, MHD

Discussion threads 2009-11-05