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Cherry Bandit 6.0 (Windows)

Cherry Bandit is a realistic simulation of the new breed of video slot machines sweeping the U.S. Unlike traditional slot machines, Cherry Bandit has nine separate spinning wheels. This results in eight separate pay lines. There are also a variety of bonuses that actually bring strategy to slot machine play....

Tags: Wheel, Microsoft Windows, Slot Machine, Piggyback.com, Cherry Bandit, Pay Line, Bottom Row

Software downloads 2001-06-25

2X Sevens Slots 2.1 (Windows)

This is a nine-wheel, eight-payline slot machine game. Up to eight coins can be bet on each payline. Each payline which has a bet placed on it can win. Winnings are based on the symbols on the payline and the number of coins being bet on that line. There are...

Tags: Coin, Microsoft Windows, Slot Machine, Piggyback.com, Winnings, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2001-04-26

2X Dynamite Slots 3.0 (Windows)

This is a nine-wheel, eight-payline slot machine game. Up to eight coins can be bet on each payline. Each payline which has a bet placed on it can win. Winnings are based on the symbols on the payline and the number of coins being bet on that line. There are...

Tags: Coin, Microsoft Windows, Slot Machine, Piggyback.com, Winnings, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2001-01-29

Ringing Bells Slots 1.0 (Windows)

Ringing Bells Slots is a one payline slot machine game. Up to five coins can be bet on each spin. Winnings are based on the symbols on the payline. A payline is only active if there is a coin bet on it. A "symbol mover" up or down feature is...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Graphics, Slot Machine, Piggyback.com, Ringing Bells Slots, Winnings, Payline, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2001-01-26

Action Slots 3.0 (Windows)

This is a three-wheel, five pay line slot machine game. It includes a bonus feature which allows you to win a progressive bonus pool as well as a "let-it-ride" blackjack game and a "free spin" symbol. The game allows you to set your own backgrounds and sounds (or use those...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Slot Machine, Piggyback.com, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2001-01-22

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

Time for Palm to give up the iTunes sync nonsense!

Apple is leveraging the monopolyYou got your guys crossed1If M$ would do anything similar there would be a revolt.We need to be consistent and call out the bad guy: Apple.palm is wrongpalm could simply use the xml file of the itunes library apple has been providing for years for interoperability...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, palm, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, Palm Inc., bad guy, software

Discussion threads 2009-10-07

Should we share our Wi-Fi in the name of cloud?

Should we share our Wi-Fi in the name of cloud?Once all the ISPs start implementing volume capsyou can forget that idea.I'm confused...A router turns off when the PC attached to it is turned off?It's already there: FONCheck this:http://www.fon.com/en/info/whatsFonPretty big in The Netherlands already.Sounds great ... UNTIL.......the RIAA sues you because...

Tags: Routers & switches, Wireless LANs, Network technology, NETWORKING, router, Wi-Fi, FON

Discussion threads 2009-06-02

Solo Tech Netbook Mini Instant-Messenger laptop bag (black)

Solo's Netbook bag is compact, comfortable, and TSA approved, which means you can zip through airport security without removing your laptop from the bag. While it's a well crafted Netbook bag, I must back up and question the very idea of a Netbook bag. I thought the appeal of a...

Tags: Notebooks, Netbook Mini Instant-Messenger, compartment, laptop computer

Product reviews 2008-11-18

Gateway stops selling PCs direct

Gateway, one of the early PC makers that sold their wares direct, said Friday it will sell its systems completely through channel partners and retailers. The company, now a part of Acer, said shifting to a channel-based distribution model will simplify its business and cut costs. ...

Tags: Gateway Inc., PC, Acer Inc., Retail, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-25

When thinking PaaS, think about it in terms of audience

Software as a service has turned into platform as a service (as if we needed another "aaS") and as this application battle royale gets underway developers need to think about these efforts in terms of audience. For instance, Bill Appleton, CTO of DreamFactory, which makes cloudware--rich Internet...

Tags: Intuit QuickBase, Platform, PaaS, Salesforce.com AppExchange, DreamFactory, Cloud Computing, Tools & Techniques, Project Management, Sales Force Management, Management, It Operations, It service Management, Sales, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-23

CODA2Go and the economics of PaaS

I had the opportunity to talk money last week with Jeremy Roche, CEO of CODA, the venerable UK-based business software vendor that has become the poster child for Salesforce.com's platform ambitions after the release at DreamForce Europe of its new on-demand financials application, built and delivered entirely on Force.com. Why...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Roche Holding AG, PaaS, On-demand, CODA2Go, Force.com, Coda, Sales Force Management, Sales, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-05-13

MyVu Personal Media Viewer (universal edition)

The future hath arrived. Tech enthusiasts have long theorized that video players in the form of glasses were imminent, and it was only a year ago that some of the first models started to hit the market. Now, the category is in full swing, with plenty of versions made to...

Tags: Corporate communications, PMV, Myvu Personal Media Viewer, video, cable

Product reviews 2007-10-16

CA Anti-Virus Plus CA Anti-Spyware 2008

CA Anti-Virus Plus CA Anti-Spyware 2008 holds the middle ground, neither improving nor declining with this year's offering. The code is leaner, resulting in faster scans; however, there are too few features here to warrant much excitement. Also, this is the only antivirus product we tested that attempted to download...

Tags: Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Kaspersky, Computer Associates International Inc., antivirus, CA Anti-Spyware 2008, CA Anti-Virus, CA Anti-Spyware

Product reviews 2007-10-12

UPDATE: ATI driver flaw exposes Vista kernel to attackers

See update below for official response from ATIAn unpatched flaw in an ATI driver was at the center of the mysterious Purple Pill proof-of-concept tool that exposed a way to maliciously tamper with the Windows Vista kernel.Purple Pill, a utility released by Alex Ionescu and yanked an hour later after...

Tags: Attacker, Driver, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., ATI Technologies Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Kernel, Tool, Flaw, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2007-08-09

Apple legal set sights on PocketMac

Apple legal set sights on PocketMacApple needs to lose another court caseThis strikes me as bullying pure and simple. Apple has lost their previous attempts to establish look-and-feel copyright, so they're concentrating their efforts on intimidating small outfits that lack the resources to fight back.Apple's bluff needs to be...

Tags: Desktops, PocketMac, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-02-02

Apple Power Mac G5 Quad

Thanks to its two dual-core 2.5GHz PowerPC G5 CPUs and 4GB of 533MHz SDRAM, the Power Mac G5 Quad is the fastest Mac we've ever tested. Though our $5,949 review unit with no monitor included a professional-grade Nvidia Quadro video card, we expect great performance from lesser Power Mac G5...

Tags: Desktops, Apple Computer Inc., Apple Power Mac, Apple Power Mac G5, Power Mac G5 Quad

Product reviews 2006-01-19

Trojan piggybacks on Microsoft patching

Trojan piggybacks on Microsoft patchingNot a new idea at all....This has been going on for years. One more time:STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES!Slutty behavior not appreciatedPutting up crappy Anti-Microsoft articles like this is NOT going to get you anymore love from the slashdot crowd.:DOn a more serious note!http://www.pumpupthemovie.com/toss.htmlslow news...

Tags: Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, trojan horse, Microsoft Corp., e-mail, news day

Discussion threads 2005-01-26

Novell launches test of open-source project

Novell launches test of open-source projectThis is all very good, but...I've sometimes wondered what purpose is behind projects like Mono. I know that Mono is intended to bring .NET programmers to Linux, but how far is the project supposed to go? Is it meant to become a major development platform...

Tags: .NET, Application servers, Middleware, Development tools, Mono Project, open source, Novell Inc., Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Corp., Mono, Linux

Discussion threads 2004-05-06

Court case sparks Microsoft-EU spat

Court case sparks Microsoft-EU spatpretty much cooks the goose[i]The German case reviewed by the court concerned the rights to a system of collecting drug-sales data owned by IMS. [b]The court ruled that an abuse of a dominant position could come when a refusal to share data with a rival reserved...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Servers, IBM IMS, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2004-04-29