plow

ZDNet Resources

• sort by:
• Relevance
• Date
• Popularity

FarmVille Tools 2.3.2 (Windows)

FarmVille Tools is a FarmVille Cheats application to help you to harvest, plow and seed your crops in one click. With FarmVille Tools, you can harvest, plow and seed all crops in 3 seconds.FarmVille Tools even has a mouse recorder tool which can help you to record your mouse moves...

Tags: Plow, Crop, Microsoft Windows, Reezaa Media, FarmVille Tools, Mice, Productivity, Hardware, Peripherals

Software downloads 2009-11-09

Additional Resources

Pocket Farm for iPhone 1.3 (Mobile)

With Pocket Farm for iPhone you can build your farms wherever you go. Pocket Farm is a casual sandbox game that let us you build farms at your own pace and sell your harvest in a fun mini-game. With only a shovel and a handful of seeds, build your farm...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Farm, Pond, Egerter Software, Pocket Farm, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-11-12

Treece and truth

Treece is in Kansas and it's a toxic town. The Treece truth is in the result: nature gives no free lunch. You take resources, there's always a cost. A real-world, palpable cost, not some numbers on a computer screen. How can we short-sighted humans really imagine we...

Tags: Kansas, Treece, Treece Truth, Productivity, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-29

What the DoD now says about open source

I could just see a commander in the field ....having to wait for procurement to get a simple map through bids while his troops are getting shot up even though it is publicly available (oh wait, isn't that how the Chinese embassy got accidentally bombed?)Always use the best tool for...

Tags: Linux, UNIX, Operating systems, Cyberthreats, SECURITY, Spyware, adware & malware, U.S. Department of Defense, open source, OpenBSD, attack

Discussion threads 2009-10-28

Can open source software stop IT failure?

I'm not so sure #1 is valid#1 is a variation of "many eyes make all bugs shallow"Does it help? Yes. But it also makes the implicit assumption that everyone that can view the code is competent to do so. So it goes back to resource allocation being an issue, if...

Tags: Strategy, OPEN SOURCE, information technology, IT Failure, F/OSS, software, open-source software

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

Farm Helper 1.7 (Windows)

Farmville is the most popular flash game on facebook for its creative features and great in game design. Farms start off as small plots of land ready for you to sink your first plow tool click into it. Users play and expand your farms to great sizes to the point...

Tags: MK Software, Farmville, Games, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-10-24

Microsoft appeals for stay of Word injunction

Microsoft didn't mention this when they should have!Great day for Open Office - i4i said it has looked at OpenOffice and found it doesn?t infringe on its patents. Oh dear. Poor Microsoft. From Groklaw -http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20090817235436439"I have a question for Microsoft. Why didn't they tell us about this i4i patent litigation...

Tags: Microsoft Word, Mary Jo-Foley, Groklaw, Microsoft Corp., Office Open XML, I4i, patent

Discussion threads 2009-08-19

SOA market growing 17% a year; to reach $10 billion by 2015

Wintergreen Research via Report Buyer has just released a six-year forecast of the SOA infrastructure industry, calculating that the market will grow to from the current $3.3 billion to $10.3 billion by 2015. (At 17% a year growth.) You may recall that Research & Markets issued a...

Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-04-23

Cloudforce London preview: CODA2Go

Salesforce.com's Cloudforce comes to London tomorrow morning. One of the key announcements will be a new version of CODA2Go, veteran accounting software developer CODA's on-demand ledger suite. Two years in the making, CODA2Go demonstrates what's possible when the bulk of the 'plumbing' is already done. Tomorrow,...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Accounting, Marketing, CODA2Go, CODA, Sales Force Management, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Sales, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-04-06

Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble! 1.0.12 (Mac)

Crazy title. Crazy fun. In the 1920s, young women had a chance to change society--by misbehaving. Immerse yourself in passionate, social upheaval. Flirt, taunt, play poker, and shave your legs to plow through superstition, intolerance, repression, and last century fashions. Uncover the town's depraved secret before it entraps your girls.Each...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Girl, Mousechief, Games, Gender And Diversity, Corporate Governance, Personal Technology, Human Resources, Business Operations, Corporate Law

Software downloads 2009-03-18

USocial CEO: 'We're gaming Digg'

One of the most difficult things to manage about the millions of users on social bookmarking sites Digg, StumbleUpon and del.icio.us is the minority of users who try to "game" voting systems to propel their chosen content to the top of the popularity lists. One company has...

Tags: Digg, USocial, Leon Hill, Games, Personal Technology, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-03-06

Neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet, nor hail they said could stop the BlackBerry

Neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet, nor hail they said could stop the BlackBerryflashlight?I would've probably gone for the waterproof flashlight for the basement cleanup, myself, but it's a good story anyway!Off topic...but it got me thinking about something that happened around this time a couple of years ago. Here's...

Tags: Handhelds, RIM BlackBerry

Discussion threads 2008-12-12

From Chapter Three: The Windows Culture

From Chapter Three: The Windows CultureBring in the ClonesIn that timeframe, there was no way I could afford any computer from a brand name (I didn't have Billy's rich parents and had to work at Burger King to feed my tech habit). The two things that made my choice easier...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Sun Microsystems Inc., PC, computer, Amiga

Discussion threads 2008-11-14

Jump the connection revisited (Cracking Open the IBM PC Jr.)

Jump the connection revisited (Cracking Open the IBM PC Jr.)Here is a modern solutionSimply gut the JR and put an Intel Mac mini inside it.You will then have a modern computer that can run the superior MacOS X or the malware sucking Windows.IBM PC Jr.The IBM PC Jr. was...

Tags: Desktops, IBM PC, Cracking Open, PC, IBM Corp., computer

Discussion threads 2008-08-07

The Associated Press plays role of Metallica in Napster-esque war with bloggers

The Associated Press plays role of Metallica in Napster-esque war with bloggersHey, Jennifergood and HOT blog. Exactly what we needed :)Good Job, Jen...As a published author and a blooger of sorts myself, I am damned happy to be a part of the Internet and what it has done both professionally...

Tags: E-books, Postal Service, Metallica, e-book

Discussion threads 2008-06-18

A visit to the Microsoft Newseum

A visit to the Microsoft NewseumI AgreeWe all remember the Mac story!MS is all about packaging and marketing.Come on Paul...Microsoft has completely changed the landscape of IT FOREVER. I am in a constant upgrade cycle here. I have MCSEs and MCSDs working 365 days a year on upgrades. Our CFO...

Tags: Operating systems, ROI/TCO, Microsoft Corp., Unix, Microsoft Newseum

Discussion threads 2008-06-18

Bulls in the corn field, beware! Ethanol from corn? Mooooo.

Those are market bulls of the two-legged sort similar to the ones currently jacking up crude oil futures. The next great investment bubble may focus on the fields of Iowa. Today's Department of Agriculture numbers on the American corn crop (the world's largest) are not encouraging for corn...

Tags: Biofuel, Corn, Corn Production, Current Estimate, Khosla, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-06-10

Why business users should grab a copy of Microsoft's new robotics toolkit

If you're a business user who thinks Aibos and sumo robots are fun and cute but irrelevant to the enterprise-software world, read on. On April 9, Microsoft is delivering a first test release of the third iteration of its robotics toolkit, Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008. The...

Tags: Robotics, Microsoft Corp., Robotics Toolkit, CCR, Robots, Team Management, Emerging Technologies, Management, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-04-09

Can the Microsoft cathedral really do business with the open-source bazaar?

It sounds like the "show-down" between Senior Vice President and General Counsel Brad Smith and a panel of open-source backers at the Open Source Business Conference OSBC on March 25 didn't plow any new ground. Smith extended the same olive branch that Microsoft has been holding aloft,...

Tags: GPL, Patent, Brad Smith, Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-03-26

Will OOXML get the ISO standards nod? It's not a given

Will OOXML get the ISO standards nod? It's not a givenIt's a sad day in Hooterville.........When not even one blogger or announcer know what a "Standard" method of accomplishing a task is.Even considering OOXML as a "standard" is like unto calling a car a "standard" for driving on a highway....

Tags: Government, OOXML, Microsoft Corp., ISO standards

Discussion threads 2008-03-01