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Quick Weather (exe)

Quick Weather shows the current satellite sky and cloud conditions, precipitation, and Outlook images (440x300 pixel). The easiest and quickest way to view the current world wide images from The Weather Channel updated every 3 hours just by clicking the little icon located in your tray-bar near the clock. Available...

Tags: Mc & RENOX, Quick Weather, Microsoft Outlook, Groupware, Network Technology, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software, Networking

Software downloads 2007-03-02

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Texas Instruments pulls power management efforts under new division

Quick update on Texas Instruments TI, which looks at power management from the guts of the chip level. Here's the blog I wrote last week describing some of those efforts. I wasn't all that surprised to hear that the company has pulled all its power management and...

Tags: Power Management, Texas Instruments Inc., Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-07-05

When microblogging keeps you cozy (aka "My holiday with Plurk and Kwippy")

A quick holiday evaluation of microblogging services Plurk, Kwippy and even Identi.ca. Invites for the Kwippy closed beta are available via TalkBack. by Jennifer Leggio

Tags: Conversation, Twitter, Plurk, Kwippy, Microblogging, E-mail, Blogging, Open Source, Online Communications, Internet, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2008-07-05

Weather Desktop Wallpaper and Screensaver (exe)

Current weather conditions on your desktop wallpaper and screen saver. Other features: Graphical view of current weather conditions for cities around the world on a beautiful map of Earth. Weather forecasts for up to seven days for US cities. Time Zones. It is also possible to use your own pictures...

Tags: Desktop, Desktop Wallpaper, Screensaver, Weather, GimmeGoody

Software downloads 2008-07-04

Can Mozilla's security metrics project end the patch-counting nonsense?

Can Mozilla's security metrics project end the patch-counting nonsense?Can Mozilla's security metrics project end the patch-counting nonsense?I only had a quick look at the spreadsheet so I may be wrong. However it looks like this is bug counting exercise with a bit of 'how long were we exposed?' thrown in....

Tags: Patches, patch-counting nonsense, security metric, Mozilla Corp., nonsense, security

Discussion threads 2008-07-03

Airport security part 4: Attack of the body scanners!

If you read my blog postings semi-often, you know that I'm very, very critical of problems with airport security.  Nicole Wong of the Boston Globe reported that Boston's Logan International Airport will become the next airport to implement full-body scanners (thanks for the link from the LiquidMatrix guys!) that can see...

Tags: Imaging, Airport Security, Privacy, Transportation Security Administration, Image, Attack, Madness, Scanners, Document Management, Security, Hardware, Peripherals, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-03

Virtual Desktop (exe)

Too many open windows on your desktop at a time? Virtual Desktop will create new desktops for you and let you to switch between desks and windows quick and easy. This project consist of two applications: one NT service which manage desktops and another which create desktops. This version is...

Tags: Virtual Desktop, Free Soft, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2008-07-03

RapidDowner (exe)

RapidDowner is a download manager for Rapidshare Services. Along with link management and image recognition. Use this program to by pass the 110 minute waiting time limit and make it in a few minutes. Built on the .net framework and forum supported. Make Rapidshare your free hosting service. This is...

Tags: Minute, Friend-Soft IT Solutions, RapidDowner, .Net, Backups, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2008-07-03

Calling all auto engineers: this is an emergency

Calling all auto engineers: this is an emergencyThere are no engineersTheir parents made sure they went into business and got MBAs due to the wonders of globalization!Too many chiefs, not enough indians.-MWhy not just drill for more oil?I think it is simply amazing how everyone in Congress is standing around...

Tags: Food & Beverage, Total Cost, food

Discussion threads 2008-07-02

Guest post: An ode to the humble spreadsheet

Guest blog: Bob Warfield has founded three startups, run R&D at Borland, developed software for Callidus and Oracle and created tools for Rational/Pure Atria. He currently works for SaaS customer service company Helpstream.  He is responsible for Quattro Pro, the Borland spreadsheet, and is the inventor of the notebook tabs...

Tags: Spreadsheet, Productivity, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-02

What is the best method for picking up an iPhone 3G on July 11th?

What is the best method for picking up an iPhone 3G on July 11th?Going EarlyI have a pretty decent sized AT&T Wireless store a quick walk down the street from my place. I'm guessing since it isn't in the busier parts of town it won't have a ton of traffic...

Tags: Cellular phones, WIRELESS, 3G, Apple iPhone, iPhone 3G

Discussion threads 2008-07-02

Now I know we're in a recession

Now I know we're in a recessionPricingYou can't sell coffee at those prices in a mainstrean coffee chain on a long term basis. Certainly not when it's either a coffe or a gallon of regular unleaded :-) A Sophie's choice indeed.Well, Starbucks in Vienna, Austria, EU, does (Starbucks is more...

Tags: Auto Industry, Starbucks Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-07-02

Panasonic Viera TH-50PZ850U

Ever since we gave the Panasonic TH-50PZ800U an Editors' Choice award as our favorite plasma HDTV so far, we've been bombarded by variations of the same question: "Is the more expensive TH-50PZ850U better?" After finally getting the chance to review the 850U, our answer is "no." The TH-50PZ850U is the...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, TH-50PZ850U, Panasonic, HDTV, TV

Product reviews 2008-07-01

2008 Volvo S80 T6 AWD

Photo gallery:2008 Volvo S80When we took delivery of the 2008 Volvo S80, we immediately opened the boxes, pulled the various panels out, and tried to match up the bag of fasteners with the pictures in the assembly directions. Actually, new Volvos look nothing like flat-pack Ikea furniture, trading in their...

Tags: Volvo, Volvo S80, driver-alert system, lane-departure

Product reviews 2008-07-01

Pssst! ... wanna save up to 40 percent on a robotic massage chair?

Okay, I know I'm going to get flamed for furthering ethnic stereotypes, but I have to admit, us Jews love a good bargain. So I'm going to risk getting my butt chewed because I feel compelled to play yiddische consumer advocate. As some of you may know,...

Tags: Chair, Sharper Image Corp., Robots, Productivity, Emerging Technologies, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-07-01

Thinking -- Or Feeling -- Like A Computer

So an unknown billionaire named Jeffrey E. Epstein has spent millions trying to develop a thinking and feeling computer. But winds up in jail instead. This sounds eerily like a wish to build a HAL 9000 computer that was the central character of Arthur C. Clarke's science...

Tags: Thinking Machines, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Computer, Astronaut, Productivity, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-07-01

Latest iPhone details from AT

Latest iPhone details from ATSick of America...Thats right, I said it. I'm over this BS country and all its red tape. When did we become so concerned with corporations an forget about the little guy? The iPhone is being sold unlocked everywhere but the US-lame. Then, on top of being...

Tags: Vertical industries, Business services, Telecom & Utilities, Apple iPhone, iPhone Details, government

Discussion threads 2008-07-01

About that cellular interference...

So... maybe it is a real problem.  Pedram Amini top picture on the right, noted researcher and reverse engineer, posted an article to the Tipping Point DVLabs blog on some interesting observations he made on cellular interference.  From the article, Pedram comments on the discovery: "I had...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Researcher, Laptop Computer, Pedram Amini, Keyboards, Notebooks, Hardware, Peripherals, Notebooks & Tablets, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-01

Hyper-V: The no-brainer virtualization stack for Windows

Last Thursday, Microsoft released the final version of Hyper-V, the much anticipated built-in hypervisor for Windows Server 2008. Back in February, we had a look at a late beta release, and we were quite impressed with the performance of the system and how easy it was to manage virtual machines....

Tags: Performance, Microsoft Windows Server, Server, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Hyper-V, Paravirtualization Method, Microsoft VMM 2008, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Operating Systems, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Software, Hardware, Storage, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-07-01

Do Not Call List Registry Check (exe)

Search for telephone numbers on federal, state, and company Do Not Call lists quickly and easily. Features include a quick search and a scrub feature, which can remove or denote Do-Not-Call contacts from CSV files, Excel spreadsheets, and Access databases. Do Not Call violations can be very costly. Do Not...

Tags: Registry, Do-Not-Call, Double-Time Software, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-07-01