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PD Factory Team Slide Show Screensaver 1.0 (Mac)

People have been using parachutes for hundreds of years, even back to China in the 1100s. Around 1495, Leonardo DaVinci designed a pyramid-shaped, wooden framed parachute that Adrian Nichols jumped in the late 20th century. It descended slowly enough to land, but Nichols worried the heavy contraption might crush him...

Tags: Team, Apple Macintosh, Screensaver, Century, Performance Designs, Performance Management, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Software downloads 2003-11-26

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New ultra-thin laptops ready to catch on?

They still seem a bit over priced for what they do. I feel the same way about the netbooks too.They will NEVER take off like Netbooks becauseThey violate the netbook Trinity. These are the three contributing factors which are required for the extreme mass market appeal of a netbook....

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Notebooks, netbook, laptop computer, ultra-thin laptop, New ultra-thin laptop

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Palm Pixi (Sprint)

The debut of the Palm Pre got the tech world and gadget enthusiasts excited about Palm once again. Long considered dead in the water, Palm's innovative WebOS operating system buoyed it back into the spotlight, and the Pre was certainly a boon for the company as well as Sprint. While...

Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, Handhelds, Keyboards, capacitive touch screen, Pixi, Pre, Palm Inc., Palm Pixi, Sprint Communications, smart phone

Product reviews 2009-11-12

VSuite Ramdisk (Standard Edition) 4.2.4031.1308 (Windows)

Equipped with the most efficient, high speed CPU, RAM, and video graphics card, users will come to expect best performance out of their computers. But the sad truth is, they aren't getting the best deal. Hard disk, which forms another crucial part of computers, still very much lag behind in...

Tags: Hard Drive, Data-processing, Microsoft Windows, RAM, Romex Software, VSuite Ramdisk, Memory, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

Software downloads 2009-11-11

VSuite Ramdisk (Server Edition) 4.2.8031.1308 (Windows)

Equipped with the most efficient, high speed CPU, RAM, and video graphics card, users will come to expect best performance out of their computers. But the sad truth is, they aren't getting the best deal. Hard disk, which forms another crucial part of computers, still very much lag behind in...

Tags: Hard Drive, Server, Microsoft Windows, RAM, Romex Software, VSuite Ramdisk, Memory, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

Software downloads 2009-11-11

VSuite Ramdisk Professional Edition 4.2.6031.1308 (Windows)

Equipped with the most efficient, high speed CPU, RAM, and video graphics card, users will come to expect best performance out of their computers. But the sad truth is, they aren't getting the best deal. Hard disk, which forms another crucial part of computers, still very much lag behind in...

Tags: Hard Drive, Data-processing, Microsoft Windows, CPU, RAM, Romex Software, Memory, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

Software downloads 2009-11-11

Sony Vaio X (VPC-X115KX/N Signature Collection, gold)

Sony has thus far taken a position just adjacent to Apple's when it comes to the question of Netbooks. Rather than embracing these low-cost, low-power systems that have become incredibly popular with bargain-hunting consumers, Sony stayed out of the market initially. Its subsequent entries have skirted the outer edges of...

Tags: Desktops, Sony Vaio, Vaio X, Sony Corp.

Product reviews 2009-11-02

Onkyo SKS-HT870

Onkyo is known for having speaker expertise, even though it's not primarily a speaker company. That's because of Onkyo's success selling home-theater-in-a-box systems HTIBs, which combine a speaker system and an AV receiver in a single box, taking some of the confusion out of putting together your own system. The...

Tags: center channel, speaker, Onkyo

Product reviews 2009-10-30

Onkyo HT-S7200

Photo gallery:Onkyo HT-S7200"True" home theater fans may look down on home-theater-in-a-box systems, but sometimes that elitist attitude is unwarranted. The Onkyo HT-S7200 may technically be an HTIB, but that's just because it comes in a giant box; the system is composed of two separate components, the SKS-HT870 7.1 speaker package...

Tags: speaker, Onkyo HT-S7200, Onkyo, HTIB

Product reviews 2009-10-27

Ultrasone Edition 8

We've reviewed a number of Ultrasone headphones over the years--everything from iPod-inspired iCans to the luxurious HFI-2200s. But the new Edition 8s are, in so many ways, a very different Ultrasone. First, the Edition 8s have, according to Ultrasone, a completely original design that doesn't share any parts with...

Tags: Ultrasone, headphone

Product reviews 2009-10-21

Toshiba Qosmio X505-Q850

Toshiba's Qosmio line has always been the company's experimental playground for high-end systems, from massive gaming rigs to inventive multimedia home theater laptops. While there were a lot of interesting ideas there, you often ended up with slightly overpriced systems with out-of-date video cards or non-functioning Webcam hand gesture controls....

Tags: Notebooks, Toshiba Qosmio line, Toshiba Qosmio, Toshiba Corp.

Product reviews 2009-10-19

Of snow, rocks, a book, and another partisan attack on IBM

Title shotFirst thought is RISING SUN which fits, though loosely, on many fronts ... down to the name of Larry Ellison's yacht I vaguely recall.Copyright waived.Rights to make more suggestions reserved.Donations gratefully received :-)Some thoughts1. Ethanol from corn is a very stupid idea - foisted onto the American public via...

Tags: Mainframes, Servers, SECURITY, Prom, IBM Corp., dress, mainframe

Discussion threads 2009-10-17

Nokia Mural 6750 (AT&T)

Photo gallery: Nokia Mural 6750Nokia has given U.S. carriers an interesting selection of cell phones over the past few months. We've seen quality music phones, quirky square models, and basic handsets just for making calls. The newest device to land on our desk, the Nokia Mural 6750 for AT&T, falls...

Tags: Engineering, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, AT&T Corp., Mural, Nokia Corp., phone

Product reviews 2009-10-16

Sennheiser HD 800

Model changes at the upper end of Sennheiser's headphone line don't happen very often. The previous flagship--the still available HD 650s--were introduced in 2003, and remain in the line. Their predecessor, the HD 600s, came out more than a decade ago, and are still popular with audiophiles. I've reviewed both,...

Tags: headphone

Product reviews 2009-10-15

Can a laptop ever be too thin?

Ralph Lauren is on the receiving end of a blogosphere backlash today over an apparent Photoshop job gone awry. It turns out there is such a thing as too thin. I mention this because yesterday both Dell and Sony introduced new laptops that give new meaning to ultra-thin. The trend...

Tags: Apple MacBook Air, Apple MacBook, Dell Adamo, Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, John Morris

Blog posts 2009-10-08

Motorola Barrage (Verizon Wireless)

Photo gallery:Motorola BarrageMotorola has a long history of creating durable cell phones, but with the occasional exception, they've ended up at Nextel. As we've long encouraged Moto to spread the rugged love, we were glad to see it launch the Motorola Barrage for Verizon Wireless. So named (or so we...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, feature set, Motorola Inc., Verizon Wireless, Motorola Barrage

Product reviews 2009-10-08

Bose SoundDock 10

Believe it or not, iPod speakers were once rare objects--and Bose's SoundDock was one of the first to hit the market back in 2004. Since then, the company has followed up with the SoundDock II ($299) and the SoundDock Portable ($399), even as the iPod speaker category has become completely...

Tags: Corporate communications, Digital music, Digital media, Smart phones, Bose, Apple iPod, video

Product reviews 2009-10-02

The coming "big crunch" - IT systems will start failing on a large scale

ScaremongeringAll that was missing - the placard reading 'The End of the World is Nigh'.So my critical, clustered systems are going to start failing are they? Why did I cluster them then?My RAID arrays are going to start failing are they? Why did I go RAID then? And have I...

Tags: RAID, Hewlett-Packard Co., IT System, power supply, information technology, hardware

Discussion threads 2009-09-29

Intel Developer Forum notes: Dinner with AMD...does an ARM linkup make sense?

What is AMD's overall plan?What's is AMD's overall plan? How do they anticipate keeping up with intel?huh?"AMD could provide an X86 component which ARM doesn?t have. And ARM could provide highly optimized high-performance processors running at very low power"I am very confused as to what you are proposing. AMD is...

Tags: Leadership, Semiconductors, ARM, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-24

News to know: IDF; Skype; New neutrality; HP; Palm; Madoff

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. John Morris: Intel: 32nm is just the beginning Sam Diaz: Intel on laptop chips: Speed kills Mary Jo...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, Hewlett-Packard Co., Twitter Inc., Palm Inc., Andrew Nusca, Skype Technologies S.A., Laptop Computer, Intel Corp., Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Windows, Notebooks, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Notebooks & Tablets, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-24