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Citrix's "Kensho" Open Virtual Format tools will drive hypervisor interoperability, Microsoft Hyper-V

Citrix's "Kensho" Open Virtual Format tools will drive hypervisor interoperability, Microsoft Hyper-Vgreat good stuff.. except for the fact that citrix COST A FORTUNE!People think MS is expensive.. yea.. buy some citrix or vmware stuff.

Tags: Virtualization, PRODUCTIVITY, hypervisor interoperability, Kensho, Open Virtual Format, Microsoft Hyper-V, hypervisor, Citrix Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp., tool

Discussion threads 2008-07-15

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EmEditor Professional 9.05 (Windows)

EmEditor Professional is a lightweight but extensible, text editor for Windows, which supports JavaScript or VBScript macros, Unicode (allowing for multi-language support), text encoding support (automatic encoding detection, Byte Order Mark support, file reload with a different encoding, detection of encoding errors), plug-ins, syntax highlighting (including embedded scripts in HTML,...

Tags: Macro, Emurasoft, EmEditor Professional, Keyboards, Scripting Languages, Microsoft Windows, Mice, Hardware, Peripherals, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-19

Windows 7: An impressive upgrade

Windows 7 review:Windows 7 review: 'New' OS is just Vista with small changesPerformance enhancements"We have already determined that W7 won't make your computer run any faster. And if you are upgrading from XP, it might run slightly slower, just as with Vista. ......But it's not really anything new. We hate...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, impressive upgrade, operating system, Microsoft Windows XP

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

Blue vCard 1.0.2 (Windows)

Blue vCard is a free software, developed by Edisonweb, belonging to the suite of products for Digital Signage and Proximity Marketing called Web Signage. The program allows you to send simple electronic business cards Virtual Cards to all active Bluetooth devices near your PC. Blue vCard allows you to create...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, vCard, Edisonweb, Business Card

Software downloads 2009-10-16

Motorola Debut i865 (Boost Mobile)

Most iDEN push-to-talk phones are quite bulky, and come in either a clamshell or candy bar form factor. The Motorola Debut for Boost Mobile, however, bucks that trend. It is the first ever iDEN push-to-talk phone to come in a slider design, which gives it a rather svelte appearance. Aside...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Motorola Debut, push-to-talk, phone, Motorola Inc., Boost Mobile, push-to-talk phone

Product reviews 2009-09-18

Microsoft delivers a partial preview of its Office Web Apps

Disabled bits does not a TECHNICAL PREVIEW make.Hmm, technical preview is for... People coders that want to be ready for the released product or as near to it as is possible. Having half the bits functions disabled or not available in a tech preview makes it, ummm, useless.obvioulsy notdont...

Tags: cloud computing, Microsoft Corp., partial preview, technical preview, Web application, Office Web Apps, Microsoft Office

Discussion threads 2009-09-17

FitPlot 3.0 (Mac)

FitPlot overview The goal of this application is simple: place various pdfs (or other common graphic formats files such as jpg, tif, gif, eps, psd, image in the pasteBoard) on a virtual plotter sheet; arrange all objects in a WYSIWYG environment moving and rotating them; print the so arranged...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Image, PAOLO MARCUCCETTI, Plotters, Hardware, Peripherals

Software downloads 2009-09-13

D-Link Xtreme N Storage Router DIR-685

First announced at CES 2009, D-Link's Xtreme N Storage "all-in-one" Router DIR-685 is the first wireless router that can also work as a network storage device and as a digital photo frame. However, we wish it were a $150 cheaper stand-alone router, as its $300 asking price is too high....

Tags: Routers & switches, Network technology, NETWORKING, Web-Interface, D-Link Systems, router, Router DIR-685

Product reviews 2009-07-17

The grand Google plan against the whole Microsoft stack

The grand Google plan against the whole Microsoft stackThe problem with this is vendor lock-inYea, sure you get vendor lock-in anyway with Microsoft, Oracle, whatever...right? But this is alot more vertical. With Google, everything is in the cloud, which they host. Your custom applications will have be...

Tags: VPNs, Network security, NETWORKING, SECURITY, Microsoft Corp., likelyhood, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-07-15

Sun xVM VirtualBox 3.0: Virtual Developer's Delight

Windows 7 Ultimate RC 64-Bit Edition virtualized on Fedora 11, 64-Bit using Sun xVM VirtualBox 3.0 With little fanfare, Sun Microsystems released version 3.0 of xVM VirtualBox, the Open Source and multi-platform desktop virtualization tool for Unix, Linux, Windows and Mac. The new...

Tags: Innotek VirtualBox, Developer, Operating System, Sun Microsystems Inc., OpenGL 2.0, Desktop Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Hardware, Virtualization, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-06-30

Semantic Search Round Table at the Semantic Technology Conference

Wednesday's opening Keynote here in San Jose sees Guidewire's Carla Thompson joined on stage by senior representatives from many of the more interesting players in the Semantic Search space; Tomasz Imielinski from Ask, Peter Norvig from Google, Riza Berkan of Hakia, Scott Provost from Microsoft, William Tunstall-Pedoe of the UK's...

Tags: Result, Search Engine, Search Result, Question, True Knowledge, Carla, Tomasz, Questions, Wolfram Alpha Team, Search, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2009-06-17

DTV Transition? Done. Now Make My DVD Problem Go Away!

My DVD collection is 3 layers deep and takes up 2 tall ugly fiberboard IKEA book cases. I'd like to get them out of my living room and into a random access, cataloged digital media format. Got any ideas? Over the weekend, I...

Tags: Movie, Digital Television, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-06-15

Quick All to PDF 4.1 (Windows)

Quick All to PDF is a PDF Creator that allows user to change any printable file to PDF. You can use Quick All to PDF as a virtual printer. Quick All to PDF is simple and speedy to use. All you are required to do is to open the file...

Tags: Adobe PDF, Microsoft Windows

Software downloads 2009-06-04

SilverFast DC Pro Studio 6.6.0r5 (Mac)

SilverFast DC Studio Pro high-end Digital Camera Software addresses the specific needs of the digital photographer. The application combines the award-winning powerful functions of SilverFast with the unique Virtual Light Table. The Virtual Light Table provides the user with the capability to effectively view, organize and manage their digital image...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Camera, Virtual Light Table, SilverFast DCPro

Software downloads 2009-05-26

Is an IBM purchase of Red Hat inevitable?

Is an IBM purchase of Red Hat inevitable?Jboss would complement Websphere?Really? Is that like how MySQL is going to complement Oracle's flagship product? Doesn't make sense to me, these products are in direct competition with eachother.I think the biggest threat to RedHat's business model is CentOS. Smart...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, Servers, Storage, IBM Corp., Red Hat Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., X64, Linux, Sun T2, server

Discussion threads 2009-05-15

CRIKEY! He can swallow whole companies! But not communities.

Boy, what a big beautiful snake he is, mates. He eats multi-billion dollar companies with all their assets, WHOLE. But even big old  Constrictus Siliconvallis cannot squeeze the Open Source community. So, suffice to say, the Sun Microsystems story didn't end the way...

Tags: Oracle Corp., MySQL, Sun Microsystems Inc., JCP, Programming Languages, Java, Open Source, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-04-20

Pano Logic adds remote access in version 2.6

Pano Logic has been offering desktop virtualization products since 2007 if my memory serves me well. Their take on desktop virtualization is based upon a a cute little box having ports for a monitor, keyboard, mouse and other things, called a Zero Client. The high level view is that the...

Tags: Remote Access, Virtual Desktop, Pano Logic, Desktop Virtualization, Desktops, Hardware, Virtualization, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-04-13

Today's Cloud: garbage; Tomorrow's? insanely great

The near term truth about cloud computing is that it's only useful for enterprise applications if you're a user manager who wants to get around the obstacles in IT - that's what supported time sharing in the seventies and could make it a short term success again today. ...

Tags: Agent, Data, Real Estate, Business Operations, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2009-03-23

Live coverage of Apple's iPhone 3.0 preview event

Welcome to live coverage of Apple's iPhone 3.0 preview event. The event is over now but you can read about it here as it unfolded. [ See also: Apple announces copy and paste, MMS, Spotlight, more for iPhone ] 08:47am: While we're waiting, what...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Gameloft, Developer Beta, Games, Personal Technology, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2009-03-17

Start your company with a credit card and a cloud

Despite the bad economy there's never been a better time to start a company. Why? Because you don't have to buy a single server or application. Whip out your credit card, load and go - on a cloud-powered data center. But this isn't just for startups: any...

Tags: Software, Credit Card, App, Cloud Support Option, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Tools & Techniques, Servers, Open Source, Hardware, Storage, Management, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2009-03-03