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(How to do more with Last.fm)

AmbivalenceI both like and hate the idea of a computer that knows what I like this well. My fear is that advertisers will get a hold of that and harass me...forever. Then again, being presented with ads for music that you actually like, instead of say, tampon commercials...

Tags: Last.fm

Discussion threads 2009-08-21

Open APIs reach new high water mark as the Web evolves

Open APIs reach new high water mark as the Web evolvesAPI AggregationThis is a terrific summary of a landscape-altering trend on the web. At Gigya, we also see these APIs as an enormous opportunity for businesses. By aggregating a large number of these APIs in order to simplify the connection...

Tags: API, eBay Inc., Open API, Web

Discussion threads 2008-11-05

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Cruz 0.4 (Mac)

The new social browser for Mac OS X that allows you to browse multiple pages simultaneously in split views. Cruz has an open plug-in api for extending browser functionality. Features: - Open Plug-in Architecture - Built-in Userscripting - Userstyles - Ã?????berView for Plug-in Split Views - Global Keyboard Shortcut -...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Web Browser, Plug-in, Todd Ditchendorf, Cruz, Web Browsers, Internet

Software downloads 2009-11-20

Microsoft shares a few tidbits on IE9 and (lots) more on Silverlight 4

Safari? What Safari ? :-)http://www.tgdaily.com/software-features/39495-safari-4-beta-first-browser-to-hit-100-score-in-acid3-testI know, Steve doesn't like Apple but you're supposed to be a journalist? ;-)Google chrome?IE like Microsoft is stumbling around in a new ecosystem in which spending thousands of dollars is not an option.Plus, it locks you into a insecure OS platform with...

Tags: Web browsers, Scripting languages, Spell Check, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Internet Explorer, HTML5, JavaScript, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

Apple's app approval revolt: Will it matter? Maybe

Once somebody matches the ease of the App store,Create a desktop application which makes it brain-dead simple to buy, install, arrange, and sync software and multimedia content with the Droid and it will take off like crazy. That's about the only thing the iPhone has over the Droid at this...

Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, Digital music, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, developer

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

MenuMeters 1.4b4 (Mac)

MenuMeters is a set of CPU, memory, disk, and network monitoring tools for MacOS X. Although there are numerous other programs which do the same thing, none had quite the feature set I was looking for. Most were windows that sat in a corner or on the desktop, which are...

Tags: GPL, Monitor, Apple Macintosh, Window, Network Monitoring, Raging Menace, MenuMeters, Network Administration, Construction, Open Source, Networking

Software downloads 2009-11-16

AsdGraph3D Pro Excel Addin 1.5.5 (Windows)

AsdGraph3D Excel Addin is an OpenGL-based excel addin that embeds and plots 3D scatterred points, lines, line segments, surfaces or water-tight solids with color attributes, directly from user-specified cell ranges within MS Excel worksheets of one or several open workbooks. Unlike other 3D plotters, AsdGraph3D works seamlessly within Excel, i.e.,...

Tags: 3D, Microsoft Windows, AsdGraph3D Excel Addin, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-12

Why Google released Closure Tools

another nail in M$ coffinIt seems Google is second to FSF to send M$ to its grave.You are an idiot....First of all did you even read the article...Not only the article makes no senselike your idiotic rant aggainst MS but it contains several errors.AJAX is javascript and is not unique...

Tags: Scripting languages, Programming languages, tool, Rhino, JavaScript, Java, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

CYK Desktop Twitter Interface 1.05 (Windows)

CYK Desktop: Twitter Interface Easy Version is an simple to operate no training required Twitter Interface. It has been designed with HCI Human Computer Interaction in mind - and the desktop is intuitive to use and manipulate. CYK Desktop gives you the ability to log into your Twitter Account securely...

Tags: Twitter Inc., Microsoft Windows, APO Networks, Desktops, Web Browsers, Hardware, Internet

Software downloads 2009-11-06

Twitter and web forgery

Last evening as I was winding down after a long journey imagine my surprise when I started to receive a tsunami of @ replies on my Twitter account. Apparently I was direct messaging a stack of people I don't know with a link to something that...

Tags: Web, Password, Twitter Inc., Robert Scoble, Security, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-11-05

Google defines its focus in Apps in 2010

Chrostopher: the need for detailed formatting as we know it is going away.Actually, the detailed formatting is moving to making it look like you want on computer screens, NOT on paper, which is quite different.All of those baroque features for printing on 8.5x11 paper are looking more stupid every day.Interesting...

Tags: OpenOffice, Document management, Microsoft Office, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

Ubuntu 9.10 advances Canonical's cloud, enterprise goals

Ubuntu 9.10 advances Canonical's ambitious push into cloud computing -- and the enterprise. Ubuntu is best known for its Linux desktop and there are several desktop improvements in this upgrade -- including a faster boot and login and enhanced audio and and 3G broadband connectivity. ...

Tags: Ubuntu, Eucalyptus, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Desktops, Servers, Software, Hardware, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-10-29

Intuit enhances Quickbooks by bringing cloud apps to desktop software

Intuit, a trusted name for some 4 million small business customers who manage their finances using the Quickbooks software, is bringing a bit of the cloud to the desktop. The company, like so many others these days, is unveiling an app store of its own and opening its API to...

Tags: Software, Desktop, Intuit Inc., Sales Force, Desktop Software, Intuit QuickBooks, Sales Force Management, Tools & Techniques, Sales, Management, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-27

Windows 7 killer deals commence; 7 days of PC specials, $30 OS upgrade

That Best Buy deal ain't bad at all......stop Geek Squad at the door take the merchandise pop in the Ubuntu CD's and I'm ready to go. Thanks Win 7 for the cheap hardware.Apple should be offering deals now, tooJust to steal some thunder from the Win 7 (vista 2.0) over-hype.Fanboi...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Media Center PCs, Operating systems, PC, operating system, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Snow Leopard, Media Center PC

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

EvriChart: A Linux Success Story

Tony Maro, CIO of EvriChart, a hospital records management and archiving business, successfully migrated his company's Windows-based line of business document management extranet application and his employees' 40-odd Windows-based desktops to a 100 percent Linux-based server and desktop infrastructure. Jason Perlow interviews Tony Maro, CIO...

Tags: Desktop, Hospital, Imaging, Health Care, Server, Computer, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Document Management, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Enterprise Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-10-20

Testers to get Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 this week; final by March 2010

Side-by-side installationYou said "Also unlike its predecessors, .Net 4 can be installed side-by-side with the previously released .Net 3.5"Notwithstanding the fact that .Net 4's predecessors actually was .Net 3.5, haven't all previous versions of .Net featured side-by-side installation?translations....[i]Microsoft is touting .Net 4 as being 81 percent smaller than its predecessors,...

Tags: .NET, Application servers, Middleware, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft .NET

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

GlassFish 2.1 (Mac)

GlassFish is a free, open source application server which implements the newest features in the Java EE 5 platform (the next version of the J2EE platform). The Java EE 5 platform includes the latest versions of technologies such as Enterprise JavaBeans EJB 3.0, JavaServer Faces JSF 1.2, Servlet 2.5, JavaServer...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Project GlassFish, Java EE 5 Platform, EJB, Programming Languages, Java, J2Ee, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2009-10-17

Fourth type of cloud computing

Close, but no cigarThere is no requirement that a cloud be publicly accessible. In many cases, corporations use cloud products to supplement existing production. In that case, the public access is via the existing security scheme and the cloud assets are never directly accessible via public IP.Also, there...

Tags: Virtualization, cloud computing, Open web

Discussion threads 2009-10-05

Trendsmap: Real time local Twitter trends

Do you ever open a web browser and just want to know what's going on in your area? Real-time search is getting more interesting by the day, but it's even more important when it's local to you. Trendsmap is on top of it....

Tags: Twitter Inc., Trendsmap, Web Site Development, Collaboration, Blogging, Search, Internet, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2009-10-04

Cocoalicious 1.0b47 (Mac)

Cocoalicious is open source Cocoa del.icio.us client for Macintosh available under the terms of the BSD License. Features: reconfigures UI layout to cut down on wasted space; shortens date display format; modifies extended search so it can now be used to search for tag intersections; enables primitive caching and conditional...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Scifihifi, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-09-25