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Timeline Maker Professional 2.1 (Windows)

Timeline Maker Professional automatically builds and adjusts timelines to meet your changing demands. No one else can offer the comprehensive functionality, the unique tools or the visual appeal of Timeline Maker Professional - all in one package. If you can use Microsoft Office products, you can use Timeline Maker Professional....

Tags: Timeline, Microsoft Windows, Progeny Software, Productivity, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Document Management, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting

Software downloads 2009-03-07

Timeline Maker Basic 2.6 (Windows)

Making a timeline chart with Timeline Maker Student is simple and fast. Enter your events with the intuitive spreadsheet-like interface and with one click your timeline chart is created instantly. It is easy to add or change an event after the chart has been created without having to start over....

Tags: Timeline, Microsoft Windows, Progeny Software, Tools & Techniques, Productivity, Printers, Management, Hardware, Peripherals

Software downloads 2009-03-07

Additional Resources

JEFF BEZOS IS WATCHING YOU

JEFF BEZOS IS WATCHING YOUNo Kindles for us...This goes along with my statement in the other article on this subject.http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12554-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=66909&messageID=1266075We will not purchase any Kindles for family members nor for ourselves. With Amazon having this much power over a persons Kindle why would anyone consider to purchase it. This Kindle...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, JEFF BEZOS IS, Amazon.com Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-07-18

PirateBay's Sunde calls for fundamental changes to copyright

PirateBay's Sunde calls for fundamental changes to copyrightHe's rightAnd copyright law is in desperate need of fixing, but it won't happen until large numbers of people start caring about the issue. Maybe if laws are enforced and sites like Pirate Bay start disappearing, those unhappy about it will start...

Tags: Branding, pirate bay, Sunde call, Sunde, PirateBay, copyright law

Discussion threads 2009-04-20

Open source and circling the drain

Open source and circling the drainIf they make little from software......the answer is to put the software into stronger hands. There is no option of trying to become a closed-source company.Acorns fall when leaving the tree.Sun's best assets are the talented people the company is laying off and the IP...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Mergers & Acquisitions, open source, Sun Microsystems Inc., software

Discussion threads 2008-12-05

The Cablevision decision, part 1: Buffering is not copying

This Cablevision decision looks like it may make its way to the Supreme Court on questions of the interpretation of the Copyright Act, so I'd like to take an in-depth look at the decision PDF. It's long so I'm dividing it into several posts. Technology First...

Tags: Cablevision Systems Corp., Buffer, DVR, Memory, Digital Video, Development Tools, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-08-05

Spike in enterprise 'events' spurs debut of Event Processing Technical Society

The recent growth -- and expected spike -- in business event data in enterprises has led a group of IT industry leaders to form the Event Processing Technical Society EPTS, designed to encourage adoption and effective use of event processing methods and technology in applications. Among the...

Tags: Event, Podcasts, Utility Computing, Internet, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-06-03

D6: Snippets of Microsoft's morphing business model emerge

D6: Snippets of Microsoft's morphing business model emergeMicrosoft should not emulate appleMacintosh sales come from iPod sales which come from aggressive marketing campaigns. Microsoft needs to ignore Apple and focus on improving software that people use to get the work done. While the Apple may have cornered beatnik and trendy...

Tags: Sales strategy, Strategy, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-05-28

NYC prosecutors back ban on sex predators

NYC prosecutors back ban on sex predatorsI'm torn on this issueBeing the father of an 11yo daughter who uses facebook & myspace, I want her to be protected. She is not allowed to talk to anyone online who she doesn't know in real life. I monitor her usage, and she...

Tags: sex predator, sexual offender, sex offender, offender

Discussion threads 2008-02-13

Busy weekend: Kindle and Facebook beatings

Robert Scoble spent the last week giving his new Amazon Kindle ebook reader a test drive, reading a couple of books and declaring the progeny of Jeff Bezos a failure. He thinks the usability and user interface suck and it lack features such as a touch screen, social networking and...

Tags: Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-11-25

Laptops are not a luxury...

Laptops are not a luxury...We can always get rid of a few bureaucratsWe can always get rid of a few bureaucrats to save money, but that will probably never happen. There's plenty of wasted money that can supply teachers with perfectly good dual-core 802.11 a/b/g/n capable laptops with nice...

Tags: Notebooks, laptop computer, Laptops ARE

Discussion threads 2007-09-25

More obvious misgivings about Microsoft and SOA

InfoWorld blogger and MuleSource CEO Dave Rosenberg has some thoughts on Microsoft and SOA in light of, and in advance of, the recent spate of BizTalk announcements and partnerships. Like myself, he takes exception to Microsoft's claims of SOA support and affinity. Here are some excerpts from...

Tags: Microsoft .NET, SOA, Microsoft Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2007-09-12

IBM's Power6 gets help with math, multimedia

IBM's Power6 gets help with math, multimediaCan't count to 10.It only counts to 9 ... 0 to 9, not 1 to 10. :) Still, it's an interesting way to go with processors.here comes Skynet!if a computer can do 2+(2*3-10/2.5)/2 without a binary conversion, then it's not much longer...

Tags: Processors, Semiconductors, multimedia, IBM POWER6, IBM Corp., processor, chip

Discussion threads 2006-10-10

The Achilles Heel of open source?

The Achilles Heel of open source?They need to learn how to solicit the non-programmerThis is the sort of contribution someone like myself should be getting into. I know nothing about programming languages, but I can do most anything else, including simple scripting. The more we non-programmers can contribute to F/OSS...

Tags: Operating systems, SUSE SLED, operating system product, operating system, Microsoft Corp., OpenOffice.org, OpenOffice, open source

Discussion threads 2006-10-02

Open source ESB initiative goes into Apache incubation

My first meeting at the EclipseWorld conference this week in Cambridge, Mass. turned out to be one of the best. IONA Technologies detailed its bear-hug embrace of open source as a burgeoning market driver for the company. IONA is not just dabbling in open source, it does appear now...

Tags: Apache Software Foundation, Iona Technologies, Apache Incubator, open source

Blog posts 2006-09-07

Ian Murdock, cat herder

Ian Murdock, cat herderSounds interesting.Sounds interesting.Here's their blurb from their website - I'll copy/paste too, to save you clicking the link.http://www.freestandards.org/about/The Free Standards Group is an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the use of free and open source software by developing and promoting standards. Key Free Standards Group projects...

Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Linux

Discussion threads 2006-04-22

NetBeans may be a hedge for ISVS against messy client choices

I just had an intriguing analyst briefing with some NetBeans folks at Sun Microsystems, and I'm beginning to think the public discussion on the Eclipse-NetBeans thing (or is it mostly the SWT-Swing thing?) is missing the larger strategic perspective. From the vantage of an architect or CIO -- and not...

Tags: imperative, clientS, Sun NetBeans

Blog posts 2006-01-25

Ubuntu carves niche in Linux landscape

Ubuntu carves niche in Linux landscapeBuyer beware...Anyone selling Linux is basically a used car salesman. Buying Linux is like buying a car from one of those places with signs all over the place saying "No credit OK!". Real IT people with money to spend and strategic vision choose a Microsoft...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, Ubuntu, distro, Linux, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2005-09-30

Microsoft shakes up Software Assurance

Microsoft shakes up Software AssuranceHere's a crazy thoughtThey could lower their bloated prices across the board.Microsoft shakes up Software AssuranceThey need to keep shaking. Free MS consulting still doesn't justify purchasing a Software Assurance lottery ticket. There are businesses who purchased Software Assurance in order to get Microsoft's "next-generation...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Operating systems, Software Assurance, Microsoft Corp., software, Microsoft Windows, operating system

Discussion threads 2005-09-15

Who needs a business plan?

Who needs a business plan?and in a related story...monsanto patents pigs, not the genetic engineering, the offspring. That pig can't beget another pig without a payment to monsanto, so be careful with that genetically engineered offspring of your own, since you may be selling your progeny into slavery.Money makes the...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, PRODUCTIVITY, commons, software, open source, computer

Discussion threads 2005-08-04