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Practical Scriptwriter 1.91 (Windows)

Practical Scriptwriter is a standalone scriptwriting and formatting application developed in conjunction with professional writers and education to remove the burden of script formatting and allow writers to concentrate on writing. Start writing without any knowledge of script formats, or even which media your work is destined for. Script formats...

Tags: Work, Practical Software Design, Advertising & Promotion, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, TVs, Marketing, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment

Software downloads 2009-10-28

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Mac ZFS is dead: RIP.

fortunatelywhile zfs is cool, there are enough other file systems, so we users won't miss it muchHow about EXT4 and BTRFS?What do you think of EXT4 and it's destined successor, BTRFS?NTFSActualy has similar features to most of these but maybe its not implemented as well.Apple picks NetApp WAFL over...

Tags: Storage, Mac ZFS, Actualy, Robin, Apple Macintosh, NetApp Inc., ZFS, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

Microsoft: Human error caused critical SMB2 vulnerability

did not explain why the fix was not back-ported to Windows Vista and other That very bad. I was wondering this myself when news broke that Win 7 was not vulnerable.What were they thinking? Fixing a bug and "forgetting" that other versions may actually be vulnerable?Or had they actually recorded...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), SECURITY, Hulu Desktop, Microsoft Corp., critical SMB2 vulnerability, SMB2, SMB2 vulnerability, vulnerability, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Saluting SAP & Oracle Communities

This is a fascinating big enterprise week in the US, with Oracle Open World dominating downtown San Francisco and making the taxi drivers very happy, and SAP TechEd running concurrently in Phoenix. Oracle do a good job of putting Open World online and...

Tags: Oracle Corp., SAP AG, Corporate Communications, Leadership, Strategy, Marketing, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-10-13

Logic Circuit Designer 1.5 (Windows)

From the practical point of view, this paper refers to an educational software developed as a technological tool for understanding the logic circuits operation. Using such an interactive designer software, we have the main advantage and the opportunity of removing all the possible design errors even before proceeding to the...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Ivan Andrei, Logic Circuit, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Management

Software downloads 2009-10-07

Driving Enterprise Software Financial & Business Value

While my day job is very much designing social business design with my colleagues at the Dachis Group, today we're announcing a loose federation of experts we've named 'enterprise advocates'. The intent, as outlined on the site, is to be advocates for the...

Tags: Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-10-06

FOWA 2009: Microsoft Surface 'proof of concept' actually pointless

Grats on being closed mindedWell done for putting someone down, your price point argument is fair but doesn't negate the number of possible uses of the surface device, which frankly are only limited by imagination, something that seems to be questionable for you.How do you define genuine uses? That sentence...

Tags: Tablets, FOWA 2009, Microsoft Surface, proof of concept, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-01

Apple iTunes 9

Photo gallery:Apple iTunes 9As one of the most popular programs for managing music and video content on a personal computer, Apple's iTunes software has become an indispensable part of our digital life. Version 9 of iTunes brings a handful of enhancements to Apple's ubiquitous media software, including an improved storefront,...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, iTunes LP

Product reviews 2009-09-25

Lenovo ThinkPad T400s (MultiTouch)

Lenovo's ThinkPad brand is virtually synonymous with business laptops, and the company like IBM before it has spent years perfecting the nondescript black-box system, with its iconic TrackPoint and double set of mouse buttons. We liked the 14-inch T400s ("s" for "slim") when we first saw it earlier this year...

Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, Microsoft Windows 7, Notebooks, T400s, Lenovo Group Ltd., touch screen, Lenovo ThinkPad

Product reviews 2009-09-15

CAD-Profi 6.11.15 (Windows)

CP-System is add-on software for building design without the overhead involved in Building Information Modeling commonly known as BIM. CP-System works with AutoCAD, AutoCAD LT using LTX, progeCAD, BricsCAD, ZwCAD, CADopia and other IntelliCAD brands. CP-System represents a much easier, low-cost and practical approach to the needs of designers who...

Tags: AutoCAD, CADDIT, CP-System, CAD, Branding, Microsoft Windows, Software, Marketing, Operating Systems

Software downloads 2009-08-10

Some important truths about pen-testing

Guest editorial by Alberto Soliño Penetration testing is a highly scientific, metrics-driven approach to IT security that has been in practice since almost the dawn of the modern computing era when programmers first began conducting organized tests, or “hacks” of their own, or others’ technologies to test...

Tags: Process, Security, Penetration Testing, IT Security, Information Technology, Organization, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-07-20

MSDN Webcast: Coping With Complexity: Best Practices for User Experience Design (Level 200)

One of the design principles for great user experience is that a user interface should feature as much as necessary and as little as possible. Why? Because software applications and Web sites have become more complex and a lot of this complexity is passed onto the user interface. It is...

Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Webcast, Complexity, Best Practice, Channel Management, Marketing

Webcasts 2009-07-08

iPhone executes SMS binary code as root

iPhone executes SMS binary code as rootNo, iPhone is NOT UNIX basedWe all know that OS X [b]is[/b] UNIX certified.We also know that iPhone OS [b]is[/b] OS X.Therefore, iPhone OS isn't just UNIX based, it [b]is[/b] UNIX.Therefore, it is immune to all malware.At least I think that is how the...

Tags: Text messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Smart phones, Operating systems, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Unix, SMS, binary code, iPhone OS, Miller

Discussion threads 2009-07-02

EC software law could divide open source

EC software law could divide open source Her's an idea, be a big boy and pick something elseYou don't like product "A", use product B, C, D, E, F, G, etc.Don't like that, write your own code.Considering there are allready US laws for negligenceIF you kill someone with your crappy...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, software, EC software law, EC Software, open source

Discussion threads 2009-06-11

2009 Toyota Camry Hybrid

Photo gallery:2009 Toyota Camry HybridThe Prius may stand out as the iconic hybrid, but for those not needing to broadcast their green credentials to such a degree, Toyota also has the Camry Hybrid. Other than hybrid badges on sides and rear, the 2009 Toyota Camry Hybrid looks just like any...

Tags: Toyota Camry, Camry Hybrid, Toyota Camry Hybrid, Toyota Motor Corp.

Product reviews 2009-06-04

Windows 7 to open another round in Apple-Microsoft rivalry

Windows 7 to open another round in Apple-Microsoft rivalrywhat crap is thatthe crap you sit onOf course it does.Most people I know that use Macs use it for one reason:the OS. It doesn't hurt that the hardware looks great too, but to get OSX was the #1 reason they...

Tags: Tablets, Operating systems, Desktops, Notebooks, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Apple Inc., rivalry, operating system, tablet, Microsoft Corp., PC

Discussion threads 2009-06-03

Living with a netbook: Toy or tiny notebook?

There is no denying the popularity of netbooks, but there's still much debate about who's buying them and for what purpose. Netbooks were conceived for emerging markets--along the lines of the OLPC's XO laptop and Intel's Classmate PC--but they turned out to be more popular in developed countries. More recently,...

Tags: Notebook, Netbook, Intel Corp., Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Hardware, John Morris

Blog posts 2009-05-13

NCIS: Episode #140: Breakout

NCIS: Episode #140: BreakoutNCIS ScriptPaul, keep taking the medication mate.Paul, you really are losing it.If you were to assess laptop marketshare by what you see used on TV, then you could easily be forgiven for concluding NOBODY BUT Apple makes laptops!This clearly isnt the reality of the world - its...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, NCIS, TV, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Paul

Discussion threads 2009-05-09

eDrawings RapidFire Lite 6.1 (Windows)

eDrawings RapidFire Lite allows you to view, print, publish and share your STEP (*.stp, *.step), IGES(*.igs, *.iges) and STL(*.stl) files. eDrawings allows an unlimited number of recipients to easily review, mark up and cross-section your models and provide feedback on product designs without having to purchase any additional software. STEP/IGES/STL...

Tags: Standard Template Library, Cross-section, Microsoft Windows, eDrawings RapidFire Lite, eDrawings, eDrawings File

Software downloads 2009-05-08

Hybrid cloud or half-hearted kludge?

Hybrid cloud or half-hearted kludge?Application specific local caching servers make a lot of sense.But, it might be nice to have a generic way of doing it like Gears for the client. How about a sort of Gears for servers, so that you can automatically download an application to a local...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Managed hosting, cloud computing, software-as-a-service, software

Discussion threads 2009-05-07