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DesignSpace 1.0.6 (Windows)

DesignSpace allows you to create a custom flash-powered layout for your MySpace page with ease. You can use your own images, music, and videos or choose from existing content on other great web sites.

Tags: Flash, Point Motive, DesignSpace, Corporate Communications, Web Site Development, Microsoft Windows, Web Technology, Channel Management, Marketing, Internet, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-03-07

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What should open source do in a car?

Engine Management...The owners should be able to tweak the engine management settings.There is no reason I should be forced to stick with the 'safe' mode settings from the factory. Other Ford enthusiasts could tweak their cars and post their engine profiles online and people could adjust their cars engine...

Tags: car, Ford Motor Co., open source

Discussion threads 2009-10-30

AT&T: Google has it in for nuns, mom, and apple pie

Ummm what?Ok let's start:Blocking ambulance services: Errrm would a call to this service always be without error? no.Blocking other numbers: ok they might have a case.Does the blocking of the other numbers prevent the User from contacting those numbers by not using Google Voice?... I think not.Does AT&T has...

Tags: Federal government, Telecom & Utilities, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Sister Mary, pope, Google Inc., AT&T Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-15

Apple leaves Chamber of Commerce in green dispute

Cap and TAX dramatically increases green house gassesGood for the chamber of commerce to have their eyes open. All this energy tax legislation does is move energy consuming manufacturing off shore to countries where the production of that energy is dramatically more pollution producing. Apple needs to pull it's head...

Tags: Apple Inc., Obama, manufacturing

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

Apple declares its environmental credentials

Newsweek ArticleNewsweek recently had a list of the top 100 "green" companies. HP was surprisingly #1, with Dell at #2. Microsoft was in the top half as well. Interestingly enough, Apple wasn't anywhere in the top 100 that I saw.PR BS!What Apple fails to show is the mountains of toxic...

Tags: Public relations, Apple Inc., climate change, aluminum

Discussion threads 2009-09-30

Hey, Amazon! Are you stupid?

Edtech, or Googletech?Chris, is it possible for you to write an article where you are not excessively gushing about Google? We get the point already. For you, the sun rises and sets with Google. Google is master of the universe. Google can do no harm.As a...

Tags: Strategy, Google Inc., Amazon.com Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-13

Young man yells at cloud

Nice theory, but..."Or as Mark Twain once said, ?Put all your eggs in one basket and watch that basket.?"But isn't moving to the "cloud" putting all your eggs all in one basket...and that all you can do is watch...because you have NO control over it.And how about when your "cloud"...

Tags: Desktops, Thin clients, SECURITY, Young Man

Discussion threads 2009-09-03

CIOs hit the snooze button on Snow Leopard

Wow, how wrong can you be?Quote from the first paragraph of the article...[i]The [b]assumption[/b] was that this one feature could have the same kind of impact in opening the Mac market to corporate users as Exchange integration had on bringing the iPhone to business professionals.[/i]Seems that TechRepublic is way out...

Tags: Marketing research, Snow Leopard, snooze button

Discussion threads 2009-09-03

Microsoft calls for global patents

Who would've thunk that BIG BROTHER would come from the corporate world !Even U.S. sovereigtny is for sale!Next step is ONE WORLD Government.MS *uck off!Megalomania! Sure.. and let's use the US patent system as an example.. uhm.. NO THANKS!There's already a system in place between participating countries where patents are...

Tags: patent, patent system, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-02

Microsoft and their Photoshop diversity policy

Wow!Looking forward to hearing the PR claw back for this one. This is just in-excusable, regardless of local politics. It's not even well done!World's shortest neckCould have lifted the head a bit higher.Also, not necessarily any sinister motive. When budgets are enormous, you pay for focus groups to determine...

Tags: Public relations, Marketing research, iGeneration, Photoshop diversity policy, Microsoft Corp., diversity policy, Adobe PhotoShop

Discussion threads 2009-08-25

Industry fight against Google hurts education

Everyone knows I'm something of a Google devotee. I don't think it's without reason, though. Google's Education Apps have allowed me to completely transform communication within our district this summer and provide state-of-the-art collaboration tools to teachers for free. Google's Summer of Code puts 1000 students to...

Tags: Education, Google Inc., Industry, Internet, Litigation, Business Operations, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-08-21

Insurance reform is not health care

So whose fault is your inertia?>I should have had my cholesterol checked earlier. My neighbor should have had it checked period. That?s health care, but because we have health insurance instead my care came late, and my neighbor died.Your doctor doesn't accept appointments? S/he told you never to call and...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance Reform, health care, insurance, health insurance

Discussion threads 2009-08-18

Fake Microsoft patch malware campaign makes a comeback

Fake Microsoft patch malware campaign makes a comebackHacked Linux servers often are botnet mastersand many linux machines are, oblivious to the user, participants in botnets. http://lwn.net/Articles/222153/http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=10251Oh, sure. If you say so.ntirresponsible users (or admins, in this case) regardless of OSA desktop user to clicks on a web link to...

Tags: INTERNET, Operating systems, Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, OK Here, Linux, malware, desktop user, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-08-05

Microsoft does a 180: Tech testers to get a copy of Windows 7 for free

Microsoft does a 180: Tech testers to get a copy of Windows 7 for freeStill not the right thingThe public testers are the ones taking the risks with their personal equipment to see how the software works in the wild when the hardware is not cookie-cutter and the software being...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, MicroSoft DOES, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-07-30

Microhoo lessons for open source

Microhoo lessons for open sourceThe truth is UGLY!... and it hurts!Sob, sniffle, wimper, wimper ....LOL....I think you summed it all up when you mentioned..."corporate open source backers"IMO thats NOT open source. Those are the companies striving to make money from the concept. Now you'll have all the NBM'er Microbrains running...

Tags: F/OSS, open source

Discussion threads 2009-07-30

New and better solar cells

New and better solar cellsIf enough new and better monkeys flew out of my buttthey could make wind power work, provided they didn't need to eat, breath, and crap.If if if if if if.How about a solar tech that doesn't require the mining and use or production of heavy metals...

Tags: solar cell, environment

Discussion threads 2009-07-25

$1.9m verdict is unconstitutional, Thomas-Rasset says

While an appeal is likely in the cards, the motion Jammie Thomas-Rasset's lawyers filed today was a request for new trial PDF or for the judge to alter the jury's "shocking" $1.9 million award. Thomas-Rasset's lawyers argued that (1) the jury's verdict of $80,000 per infringed...

Tags: Lawyer, Jury, Jammie Thomas-Rasset, MediaSentry, Remittitur, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-07-06

Payola bloggers, FTC is watching you

A few years back, the blogosphere was gnashing its teeth about blogger payola -- taking perks and payments from advertisers and PR firms. Many bloggers justified the practice with "I take their money and write what I want anyway!" and "Hey, this is my meal ticket and by the time...

Tags: FTC, Blogger, Blogging, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-06-22

Scorpions, Frogs, and Trench Warfare

Scorpions, Frogs, and Trench WarfareFictional stories are invariably strawmenbecause you get to make up the scenarios to justify your point. In your field, put up real world examples. Or remain silent.Wholesale change is seldom a good idea.As I've argued before completely gutting a working system and starting from scratch is...

Tags: Servers, Wow!, ordering system, Ford Motor Co., IBM Corp., Trench Warfare, Frogs, Scorpions, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-05-16

The disruptive tectonic forces at the intersection of technology and media

The disruptive tectonic forces at the intersection of technology and mediaRE: The disruptive tectonic forces at the intersection of technology and meI wish what you are saying were true. But the country is just dying, and nothing needs to come out of the present troubles.The media is just like...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, News Media, media, tectonic force, disruptive tectonic force, intersection

Discussion threads 2009-05-03