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Pacifist 2.6.3 (Mac)

Pacifist is an application for Mac OS X that opens up .pkg installer packages, .dmg disk images, .zip, .tar, .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .pax, and .xar archives, and more, and lets you install individual files out of them. This is useful if you need to install just one file out of a...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Disk, Package, File, CharlesSoft, Pacifist, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-09-01

Pacifist 2.6 (Mac)

Pacifist is an application for Mac OS X that opens up .pkg installer packages, .dmg disk images, .zip, .tar, .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .pax, and .xar archives, and more, and lets you install individual files out of them. This is useful if you need to install just one file out of a...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Disk, Package, File, CharlesSoft, Pacifist, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-08-13

Additional Resources

Open Source Microsoft, plus an iPhone SDK

Open Source Microsoft, plus an iPhone SDKI expect patent holders will enforce......otherwise, what's the point to holding one? The real questions are:1. Should the patents have been granted in the first place?2. Does the existing patent system actually promote the progress of science and the useful arts,...

Tags: Apple iPhone, SDK, open source, patent, Microsoft Corp., patent-owning company

Discussion threads 2007-10-17

The Olaf Stapledon Collection (Mobile)

Olaf Stapledon Collection SymbianYou may never have heard of him, but once you read Olaf Stapledon, you'll never forget him. The Olaf Stapledon Collection contains 10 of his most famous works including, "Last and First Men" and "Star Maker", which many sci-fi afficionados consider to be the finest works of...

Tags: Mobile, Work, Science Fiction, Rampart Software Development, Olaf Stapledon Collection, Stapledon, E-books, Biotechnology, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2007-04-30

U.S. 'threatened' alleged NASA hacker, defense says

U.S. 'threatened' alleged NASA hacker, defense saysWhat a wimp...Commit the crime, do the time. Time to man up and pay for his misdeeds.I call BSI don't think that he'll avoid extradition simply because the prosecutor threatened him with the maximum sentence of a crime he allegedly committed.This crime isn't...

Tags: Hacking, troop, Super Max, hacker, NASA

Discussion threads 2007-02-16

Ideal DRM

Bill Gates recently commented that copy protections for digital media are too complex for most consumers. In the end of the day incentive systems for artists make a difference... ...But we dont have the right thing here in terms of simplicity or interoperability. An ideal DRM system, at least from...

Tags: digital-rights management, Software Infrastructure, Hardware Infrastructure, Security, PC Forum, Personal Technology, Open Source, General

Blog posts 2006-12-21

U.S. to create 'risk assessments' of air passengers

U.S. to create 'risk assessments' of air passengersAccess to Risk RatingsIf you have access to your credit rating, you should also have access to information and ratings DHS has give you. I agree with Mr. Scobel's comments in the article "The government is preparing to give millions of law-abiding citizens...

Tags: Vertical industries, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, SECURITY, government, risk assessment

Discussion threads 2006-12-05

NSA wiretapping unconstitutional

NSA wiretapping unconstitutionalNSA and UnconstitutionalityIts good to know that the American judicial system is, even if ever so gradually, waking up to its traditional role as custodian and interpreter of the nation's constitution. Its about time judges got commited to the responsibility of their appiontments and abandon political sycophancy...

Tags: SECURITY, NSA, attack, American Civil Liberties Union

Discussion threads 2006-08-17

Breaking Flash on Intel Macs

If you have an Intel Mac especially the MacBook Pro be careful when installing new Web browsers. If you do and it seems like you don't have the Flash plug-in installed, it's easy to install a non-working version of flash over a good one.The problem manifests itself like this: you...

Tags: Flash, Intel Corp., Apple Intel Macintosh

Blog posts 2006-03-22

QuickBom 1.0 (Mac)

QuickBom allows you to quickly view the contents ("lsbom") of a .pkg installer file. It can be used via the Big Cat Finder contextual menu most reccomended, a droplet, or via Apple's script menu. QuickBom just saves a trip to the terminal - try Pacifist for more features.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Droplet, Ben Hines, QuickBom, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2002-06-16

Fantasy games reach new horizons

Next-generation online role-playing games break ground thanks to better graphics and the ability to create your own stories. LOS ANGELES -- Online role-playing games are set to go to the next level. A whole new generation of online role-playing games cropped up during last week's Electronic...

Tags: Player, Games, Personal Technology, Robert Lemos, Technology News

News items 2000-05-15

France fields pacifist virus

A public-spirited virus? That's the word from France this week, where a program hidden in an e-mailed Microsoft Word document is modifying dialog boxes to include messages against French military service. This virus is spread only by Outlook Express, Microsoft's free e-mail package, according to...

Tags: France, Microsoft Outlook Express, Virus, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Outlook, Viruses And Worms, Security, Groupware, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software, ZDNN Staff, Technology News

News items 2000-04-07

Internet push helped Forbes (slightly)

The candidate's Net initiatives may have given him 1 percent more of the vote in Iowa. Not much, but the 'Internet margin' is likely to grow. SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- From a red-brick fraternity house overlooking the snowy campus of Syracuse University, Steve Forbes supporter Joe Burns knocks on the...

Tags: Forbes, Iowa, Joe Burns, Rick Segal, Iowans, E-mail, Internet, Online Communications, Glenn Simpson, Technology News

News items 2000-01-26