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Intuit pushes deeper into cloud, points to its track record.

Intuit pushes deeper into cloud, points to its track record.Any company willing to put their accounting...records on the cloud has got to be plain stupid. It's a disaster waiting to happen.Intuit could port Quickbooks Enterprise client to Linux not just the server if they are looking to pick up...

Tags: Taxes, Backups, Free trade, Financial services, PERSONAL COMPUTERS, Intuit Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-08-13

Gallery: Personal computers from the 1970s

Gallery: Personal computers from the 1970sNot Much from the Mac side has Changed!Their Leopold update will bring them up to parity with Windows 95 sp2And we had no idea...... about 2007 back then.See my small cartoon:http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/2007/10/one-day-in-1970.htmlBye,Oliver

Tags: Microsoft Windows 95, PRODUCTIVITY, PERSONAL COMPUTERS, Gallery, computer

Discussion threads 2007-10-12

Windows, take your kill switches, interrupts, reboots AND Registry: and stuff it

Windows, take your kill switches, interrupts, reboots AND Registry: and stuff itThis isn't entirely their faultDon't get me wrong, I have plenty of problems with windows like why the WMP toolbar cant be horizontal if my taskbar is on the side but there's an easy fix to this, get Windows...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Operating systems, operating system, PERSONAL COMPUTERS, Microsoft Windows, computer, Microsoft Windows Update, kill-switch, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-10-10

HP ushers in new blade PC, switches chips

HP ushers in new blade PC, switches chipsfiber/802.3 kvm solutions...there is one aspect of blade pcs that CTO's and managers must account for.. running a VGA cable to another floor is impossable without KVM extending technology. Fiber based KVM extenders are expensive yet offer great flexability (peer-to-peer fiber...

Tags: Blade servers, Desktops, Network technology, Hewlett-Packard Co., chip, PERSONAL COMPUTERS, blade PC, blade, PC, fiber

Discussion threads 2005-11-07

Tests to uproot Windows passwords begin

Tests to uproot Windows passwords beginTell me this can't be true ... its ten years old already!I have a collection of old SecureID cards in several flavors ... key fobs, credit card like access tokens, corporate ID's w/ secureID tokens etc. After being *the* industry standard for secure remote access...

Tags: Operating systems, Short-term, RSA SecurID, PERSONAL COMPUTERS, password, token, SecureID, card, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2004-06-03

Lebanon and Syria to lead the Middle East PC market

The IDC Middle East and North Africa MENA forecast said that Lebanon, the largest market for Personal Computers PCs in the Levant, is expected to account for 38% of the 222,223 units to be shipped to the region in 2004.IDC added that Lebanon continued to lead in PC shipments in...

Tags: PC Market, Levant, PC

Blog posts 2004-01-18

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Microsoft finds security hole in Google Chrome Frame

HAHA! Way to go Microsoft! They basically just told Google to suck it! The best part is they were right the whole time. Yet people blindly defended Google. It would seem Google has more software issues than anyone else.RE: Microsoft finds security hole in Google Chrome FrameI'm not...

Tags: Web browsers, security, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., attack surface, Google Chrome

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

FCC wants public comment on digital democracy - voting online

Online Voting - Destroying the integrity and fabric of democracy.On-line voting without safe guards against vote selling and guarantee that each vote was registered in private invalidates the intent and meaning of "one person, one vote."It's bad enough that this hole currently exists with the current mail-in voting process.RE: FCC...

Tags: Federal government, digital democracy, public comment, FCC

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

ChromeOS says tear down this network regulation wall

Costs"What is holding back network capacity is politics."What's holding back network capacity is huge costs.Yep, very important to push the ISPs to free up the bits. They would love to continue selling bandwidth through an eyedropper at very high prices. They need a push.Oh, and Microsoft will not like this...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Network technology, ChromeOS, netbook, fiber

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Amazon slashes price of Palm Pre to $79.99, Pixi to $24.99

I don't want ......ANY misleading bargain with a two or three year contract. Sell me the HW at a fair price and let me select the carrier and package of my choice.I am not an idiot. RE: Amazon slashes price of Palm Pre to $79.99, Pixi to $24.99When you limit...

Tags: Smart phones, Price-cutting, Palm Inc., Pixi, Palm Pre, Amazon.com Inc., phone

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

My new daughter is a lot like Linux

Windoze is a boys smelly diaper, Linux is a girls one, that's the messageI guess some people will never be mature enough to get it.Handling the learning curve...is not very hard. Particularly when you let them use the simple Gnome user interface which the standard Ubuntu has.Maybe this website of...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, diaper

Discussion threads 2009-11-16

Is it OK to use OEM Windows on your own PC? Don't ask Microsoft

RE: Is it OK to use OEM Windows on your own PC? Don't ask MicrosoftI built my current desktop in July and purchased/installed an OEM version of Vista Home Premium. I also took advantage of Microsoft's free upgrade to Windows 7 Home Premium which I installed on the same PC....

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Desktops, Operating systems, cost difference, Microsoft Corp., OEM, Is it OK, Microsoft Windows, PC

Discussion threads 2009-11-15

An interesting exchange on politics and IT

Was just thinking about thisExcept I was thinking about what I've heard Linux advocates say in the past, that most consumers make dumb technology choices, and whether this squares with advocating for free markets? Yes, I think it does. People will buy products that they can relate to and feel...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, PRODUCTIVITY, information technology, Linux, computer, software

Discussion threads 2009-11-14

Talking Dictionary 9.9 (Windows)

Talking Dictionary is a speech enabled 250,000 word English dictionary and thesaurus. Like all the talking software products on this site, Talking Dictionary has been designed for use by the non sighted person. All of the controls are easily remembered keyboard shortcuts and it is a very fast and easy...

Tags: RWF Talking Software, Talking Dictionary, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows ME, Microsoft Windows 95, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-13

Did Microsoft copy Mac OS for Windows 7? Yes ... uh, wait ... no ...

How do you like this....Microsoft has just patented "sudo":http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20091111094923390RE: Did Microsoft copy Mac OS for Windows 7? Yes ... uh, wait ... no ...Of course, Microsoft has been copying things from the Mac for years. Look at Windows and Mac OS from the very beginning... the Mac had a...

Tags: Operating systems, Desktops, Sudo, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh, operating system, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Apple Mac OS

Discussion threads 2009-11-12

WinX Video Converter Platinum 5.1.4 (Windows)

WinX Video Converter Platinum is a specially designed for converting videos between all of popular video formats including most portable multimedia devices such as Apple iPhone, iPod, iTouch, Sony PSP, PS3, PDA, Zune, Mobile phone. and many common video formats such as AVI, FLV, WMV, MPEG, MP4. With WinX Video...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Video, Video Format, Digiarty Software, WinX Video Converter Platinum, Corporate Communications, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-11-12

ProgDVB 6.23.2 (Windows)

ProgDVB is a software which allows you to watch SAT-Television and listen to Radio channels directly from satellite by using DVB-PCI cards with hardware decoders on the board, SAT-dish, and personal x86-compatible computers. This software has options for working with network broadcasting and Audio/Video recording of the stream to different...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Broadcasting, Hardware, ProgDVB, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-11-11

TR Dojo: Five reasons why Windows 7 XP Mode will encourage upgrades

In all honesty though . . .In all honesty though - I'm not seeing anything that runs in XP but won't run in Vista/7. The only things that had issues where antiviruses and firewalls - but all of those offered upgrades eventually.It's the UI now more than anything elseI've been...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Windows7, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, Win7, XP Mode, Win 7

Discussion threads 2009-11-10

1-abc.net Personal Addresses 2.00 (Windows)

One of the first tasks for computers was how to organize contact data of friends, relatives, shops, companies, authorities or customers. Nowadays, addresses or telephone numbers can be saved to data bases, to word processing files, to text files or can even be organized on your mobile phone or online....

Tags: Phone, Microsoft Windows, Data Base, Telecom & Utilities, Productivity

Software downloads 2009-11-09

Windows 7's default UAC bypassed by 8 out of 10 malware samples

RE: Windows 7's default UAC bypassed by 8 out of 10 malware samplesyawnWho can I trust *now*....Even Ed Bott said '7' was more secure!The Windows Infect Season is not over yet.. Nothing's changed.... That people even USE Windows these days is quite remarkable.... It must be the power of habit...

Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, malware, UAC, Microsoft Windows 7

Discussion threads 2009-11-05