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- HourWorld 3.3.7 (Mac)
- HourWorld shows the light and dark areas of the earth with the positions of the sun and moon. Twilight is displayed with both beauty and geometric precision as it blends from daylight into full darkness around the world. The primary screen displays up to 14 clocks, showing the current time...
- Tags: Clock, Sun, Apple Macintosh, Phone, Paul Software Engineering, HourWorld, Twilight, GPS, Telecom & Utilities, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware
- Software downloads 2009-07-31
- Live Deskpicture X 3.1 (Mac)
- An alternative to a static desktop picture - Install a self-updating time-zone map of the earth with day, night, twilight and city lights. The map updates automatically as the world turns. High resolution maps and graphics are individually crafted for 16 different monitor sizes from 800 x 600 all the...
- Tags: Earth, Monitor, Apple Macintosh, Pixel, Paul Software Engineering, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components
- Software downloads 2007-04-07
- HourWorld Lite 3.1.5 (Mac)
- Just select a location. HourWorld Lite will help you find out the time, tell you what the moon will look like, and when the sun or moon will rise or set there. HourWorld Lite can even help you determine the ideal light settings for your telescope. Version 3.1.5 preloads time...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Animation, Paul Software Engineering
- Software downloads 2004-04-21
- Live Deskpicture 1.2.2 (Mac)
- Stop using that static, unchanging picture on your desktop, and put on a dynamic image of the earth that updates as the world turns. Highresolution maps and beautiful, specially-generated graphics are individually crafted for six different monitor sizes from VGA (640x480) all theway up to 1280x1024 pixels.While you work or...
- Tags: Earth, Monitor, Apple Macintosh, Pixel, Image, Paul Software Engineering, HourWorld Live Deskpicture, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components
- Software downloads 2001-04-14
Additional Resources
- B&N's Nook e-reader: Weirdly unrevolutionary
- In addition to this posting, please visit this clarifications posting to get the whole picture. It would be nice to say, as Matt Miller has, that the e-book and e-reader market was revolutionized today. It simply got more interesting. A careful reading of the $259 Nook's...
- Tags: E-reader, Device, E-book, Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Inc., Wireless, B&N, Nook, Cover-flow, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- News to know: SOA, Google Voice app; Twitter bots; Google Wave; Clunkers
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Joe McKendrick: More SOA tools emerge in the cloud Jason Hiner: Forget the iPhone app, Google Voice coming as...
- Tags: Google Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Jason Perlow, SOA, Microsoft Corp., Bot, Twitter, Attack, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), XML, Security, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-08-10
- Layer 7 Technologies Security in the Cloud
- Paul Rochester, CEO, and Scott Morrison, VP Engineering and Chief Architect, of Layer 7 Technologies, dropped by virtually to introduce me to their company's technology and the philosophy behind their products. After a while, I was able to understand the approach they were taking and how extensible and flexible it...
- Tags: Layer 7 Technologies Inc., XML, Security, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-07-30
- Layer 7 Application Services Governance
- Layer 7 Technologies', CEO, Paul Rochester, and VP of Engineering/Chief Architect, K. Scott Morrison, stopped by telephonically to introduce their company, its philosophy and bring me up to date on their product portfolio. The company offers server appliances and virtual appliances that take on the tasks of firewall, compliance enforcer,...
- Tags: Web, Layer 7 Technologies Inc., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Channel Management, Web Services, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-07-23
- Do IT pros demand Apple's new Xserve?
- I posted this morning that Apple has debuted its new Xserve with Intel Nehalem processors, but I didn't give the full rundown of the product. So here's the who, what, why and how. Apple today announced an updated Xserve that it says "delivers...
- Tags: Apple Xserve, Information Technology, Apple Inc., PC Magazine, Servers, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-04-07
- The Future of Unix
- Present day commercial Unix versions are well behind the research community. As far back as 1982 the single machine focus of Unix development became an issue in the research community. Accordingly a number of people at Bell Labs including Dennis Ritchie and Rob Pike, both of whom had contributed to...
- Tags: Plan 9, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-03-20
- From Chapter Four: The Unix and Open source Culture
- This is the 41st excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: BIT: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Roots (2) In its present form this commitment to publication and peer review, originally derived from the core academic and scientific approach giving rise to the science...
- Tags: Noorda, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-03-13
- Failure in Silicon Valley and the guild of entrepreneurs
- Here is the second part of my conversation with Silicon Valley veteran Bill Coleman. The first part is here: How will the recession affect Silicon Valley? Mr Coleman is optimistic about Silicon Valley's long term prospects but he is pessimistic about the current situation. "These days...
- Tags: Silicon Valley, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Productivity, Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-03-05
- Some general considerations for small systems change
- Let's assume a scenario under which the older system you're thinking about upgrading is relatively small, support costs are high, and you can't obviously transfer its workload to some other, larger, machine with adequate idle capacity. Specifically, lets assume you have a Sun 490 from a few...
- Tags: Risk, Staffing, Vulnerability, Intel X86, Tolerance, Sun Sparc, Unix Skill, Linux, Sun Solaris, UNIX, Processors, Operating Systems, Security, Open Source, Software, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-03-03
- Everybody loves virtualization
- Everybody loves virtualizationOne of my pet peevesVirtualization is useful for testing and development environments. It makes no sense whatsoever for production environments.UNIX has a very nice scheduler that is built to handle hundreds/thousands of processes at a time. It automatically doles out CPU and memory and I/O resources. It has...
- Tags: cloud computing, Storage management, Utility computing, Operating systems, UNIX, virtualization, Sun Solaris, IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-02-18
- Microsoft’s Windows 7 line-up: The good, the bad and the ugly
- Microsoft’s Windows 7 line-up: The good, the bad and the uglyMicrosoft was surpised by how well Ultimate sold in Vista.Why would the company consider the Vista SE version less likely to be popular? Is this another example of the company understating expectable good news?RE: Microsoft???s Windows 7 line-up: The...
- Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, netbook, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Ultimate Edition, Microsoft?s Windows 7, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-02-03
- News to know: Obama's inauguration streaming; Windows 7; Google; RIM
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Andrew Nusca: Where to watch Obama's presidential inauguration online Jennifer Leggio: Inauguration 2009: Can social networks handle it? ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Research In Motion Ltd., Microsoft Windows 7, Palm Inc., Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Matthew Miller, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Obama, Dan Lyons, Microsoft Windows, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Software, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-01-20
- Thomson Reuters bets on Content remaining King with Calais 4.0
- Global information behemoth Thomson Reuters today announces the latest version of its Calais web service, delivering on earlier promises with respect to 'Linked Data' and firmly staking out the company's intention to be a significant player in the shifting market for timely and authoritative information. I'll take...
- Tags: Thomson Reuters Corp., URI, Tague, Team Management, Corporate Governance, Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2009-01-14
- Where to next for ERP et al? (part 1, SAP)
- With a Gartner probability of 0.9, I guarantee that what follows is not how things will turn out. At least not exactly. Paul Greenberg's post casting the enterprise CRM runes for 2009 provides the perfect springboard for something I've been thinking about since the middle of the year. Where the...
- Tags: SAP AG, ERP, Leo Apotheker, Paul Greenberg, Paul, Claus Heinrich, Wookey, Sales Strategy, Cloud Computing, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Sales Force Management, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Sales, Marketing, Software, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Transcript: PDC08 Keynote â€" Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia and David Thompson
- Todd Bishop, TechFlash; Ed Bott, ZDNet; Kip Kniskern, Liveside; Rafael Rivera, Within Windows; Paul Thurrott, Windows Supersite; and Tom Warren, Neowin; and Long Zheng, Istartedsomething â€" and yours truly--did a group blog of the first PDC keynote. Here's the live blog transcript (speakers: Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava,...
- Tags: Keynote, Ed Bott, Mary Jo Foley, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Service, App, Liveside, Neowin.net, Tom Riley, Signal God, Paul, MJ, Azure, Z, Red Dog, Download Link, Saruhan, Bluehoo, MOS, SSDS, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Blog posts 2008-10-27
- Stealth Company decloaks... as Siri
- Silicon Valley stealth-mode startup, Stealth Company, revealed a little more about itself overnight and rebranded as Siri. Stealth Company's website has proved vague at best over the past few months, for example tantalising with allusions to underpinning technology; "We are not building...
- Tags: Software, SRI International, Siri, CALO, Tools & Techniques, Management, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
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