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SpacePac Duo 4.0 (Windows)

PacMan mazes meets Outer Space only you control a Jet Ship and must avoid the Alien's UFO's to survive 50 fun filled, action packed levels. Fly around the dark sky with this incredible space themed game. Capture all of the stars and power suns to complete each level and advance...

Tags: Computer Game, Microsoft Windows, PC Game Trek, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-12-03

Santa's Breakout 2.0 (Windows)

Santa is being a grinch this season and is trying to stop you from completing your breakout style game by throwing snowballs at you. You are in control of a paddle made up of candles and must bounce your ball into the bricks that Santa has created. Along your journey...

Tags: PC, Computer Game, Microsoft Windows, PC Game Trek, Santa, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-11-20

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News to know: 64-bit Windows; JavaFX; Net neutrality; Apple

Notable headlines: Ed Bott: Suddenly, 64-bit Windows is mainstream Dear Adobe, can we please have a 64-bit Flash player? Larry Dignan: JavaFX SDK preview launches: Can Sun play the RIA game? Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft launches new search...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Broadband, Apple Inc., Net Neutrality, Microsoft Windows, 64-Bit, Network Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Networking

Blog posts 2008-07-31

I'm really worried about AMD ...

I'm really worried about AMD ...Couldn't agree moreI've bought a number of AMD CPU's over the years. The Athlon X2 was an amazing product. But AMD just can't keep it up long enough to make real traction.The ATI deal like you said wasn't a bad deal in and...

Tags: Leadership, Processors, Semiconductors, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-03-20

Apple and Business -- Is it 25 Years Too Late?

Apple and Business -- Is it 25 Years Too Late?I generally agreeI have always said that Apple makes a mighty fine piece of hardware for those that find Apple provides everything they want. They look slick, run slick and they are a secure platform. But Apple computers still...

Tags: Data centers, Desktops, Digital music, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-03-07

The man behind the Commodore 64

The man behind the Commodore 64On targetHe's right about "Americans buy anything as long as its cheap".The C64 was an electrical junk pile. The failure rate was astronomincal. The floppy disk was slower than the cassette drive for the first year or two, and likewise had a huge failure rate...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Tools & Techniques, Desktops, Commodore 64, C64, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-12-12

(Photos: Tech's 10 most-hyped product launches)

(Photos: Tech's 10 most-hyped product launches)Lovely.1. The Segway only makes lazy people people fatter. 2. Apple owes a big thank you to Xerox. How the latter lost their lawsuit yet Apple won over Microsoft despite Microsoft doing the same thing...3. The Xbox wasn't very reliable,...

Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, Games, Nintendo Co. Ltd., photograph, Microsoft Windows, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc., Windows Machines, most-hyped product launch

Discussion threads 2007-06-29

Problems arise with Vista's validation

Problems arise with Vista's validationYeah -- Comedy of Errors, indeed!I have to agree with both of you guys. But I would call this all very pathetic on behalf of MS. It's really sad to see MS get so neurotic that it is driving itself closer and closer to the brink...

Tags: Games, Operating systems, game, console, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2007-02-26

Intel shows off 80-core processor

Intel shows off 80-core processorThere's also no way at present to connect this chip to memory.So, not really very useful for much of anything then.It will be hereNot much more than a decade ago various computing mags were saying "Do we really need processors faster than 300mhz.....?" Within the past...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Semiconductors, Network technology, chip, magic trick, Intel Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-02-12

Zune: welcome to the anti-social (part two)

Zune: welcome to the anti-social part twoIt's OptionalI love that lie, this DRM is optional and no one is really going to use it for their content. Same lie is told for the broadcast flag, that it's optional, and most programs won't use it to prevent you from recording...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Pocket PC, E-books, Microsoft Corp., digital-rights management, Microsoft Zune

Discussion threads 2007-01-20

Download movies to your XBOX 360

As of November 22nd, Microsoft will sell you TV shows and let you rent movies, both in SD and HD formats, through XBOX Live. They have a bunch of content on tap, but I figured this line from the November 6th press release which I missed till now...

Tags: Microsoft Xbox, General, Software Infrastructure, Wired & Wireless

Blog posts 2006-11-26

DemoFall hits, misses and maybes

Rafe Needleman provides the wrap up of our DemoFall 2006 coverage, collecting the hits and misses from our ZDNet/CNET team who attended the event (see the Demo blog on News.com and on ZDNet): Hits Rafe Needleman, CNET.com: I was only able to stay for one day of the conference, but...

Tags: Dash Navigation

Blog posts 2006-09-28

Microsoft warns game developers of security risk

Microsoft warns game developers of security riskWorld of WarcraftThis has been happening for a long time now.Accounts been hacked into and all their gold and equipment being transferred to another character to be sold off.There are viruses/trojans that look for WoW on your computer to steal your account details.You even...

Tags: Games, Microsoft Corp., game, software, security

Discussion threads 2006-08-15

Bill Gates kicks of the "D" conference

Updated 11:50 PM PST: Bill Gates held court at the D all things Digital conference at the Four Seasons in Carlsbad, Calif., touching on the usual topics (Vista, Office, Google, Xbox) during a Q&A with hosts Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher. In the middle of the Q&A, the discussion was...

Tags: Bill Gates, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp.

Blog posts 2006-05-30

Donated computers - the good, the bad, and the ugly

Donated computers - the good, the bad, and the uglyOld ComputersYou have my sympathy. Do you want or need P1 166/200 computers? I have 5 I'll send you on my nickel. I might even be able to send you Win95 disks for some of them. Might be more useful...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, computer

Discussion threads 2006-03-28

OS X flaw exposes Macs

OS X flaw exposes Macsi agree.......it clearly states that this flaw opens Mac OSX to drive by attacks...........where's all the posts flaming Apple........they seem to be strangely missing, if this was a windows flaw, there'd be all sorts of posts with bad spelling,although it is pretty hard to spell MAC...

Tags: Desktops, SECURITY, Operating systems, operating system, flaw, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., OS X flaw, Apple Mac OS X

Discussion threads 2006-02-21

A long winding road out of beta

A long winding road out of betaI prefer the longer beta of the crappier softwareFor Example, Microsoft could beta Longhorn for years and I wouldn't have a problem with it. The only Betas that I do have a problem with are those that coincide with rival product releases...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, MSN Hotmail, beta, software

Discussion threads 2005-02-11

Intel preps speedier Pentium 4

Intel preps speedier Pentium 4I wonder if they'll include...... a stick to put marshmallows on??Hey ANOTHER Paper launch...Gee InHell is on a roll... A paper 3.46 EE that is not faster thena 560, a Paper Launch server chippie on the 9th, and now a Big YAWN... Paper Lauched 3.8 Gig....

Tags: Processors, Semiconductors, Network technology, IBM POWER5, Intel x86, irony, Intel Pentium 4, Intel Corp., chip, clock speed, Inhell, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Pentium

Discussion threads 2004-11-05

The servers cannot take the strain, captain!

The servers cannot take the strain, captain!Online games ALL suffer the same problem.Latency! Or as the games call it, LAG.Over the holiday weekend we had the grand kids here and I watched them play Halo on the PC. Even with a very fast DSL line, the problem I...

Tags: Games, server, Star Trek, game, online game

Discussion threads 2004-09-07

Pocket Trivia for Pocket PC (MIPS) 1.0 (Mobile)

POCKET TRIVIAPocket Trivia is an exciting trivia game developed for Pocket PC devices that challenges the player's knowledge of the Star Trek universe. This exciting and graphically appealing game features 1,600 questions and 400 pictures, along with humorous sound effects that even a casual fan will enjoy. Multiple-choice questions include...

Tags: Mobile, PC, Picture, Pocket PC, Games, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Hardware, Personal Technology, Software

Software downloads 2002-02-22