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Postscript Viewer 1.1 (Windows)

View postscript (.ps) files in Adobe Reader as if they were PDF files. Postscript Viewer converts postscript files to PDFs automatically whenever you double-click on a postscript file. No other downloads are required besides a PDF viewer. Version 1.1 has fonts are now packaged so that conversion will work on...

Tags: Adobe PDF, Microsoft Windows, PostScript, Rampant Logic, Postscript Viewer

Software downloads 2008-08-07

HotPad Mini-Organizer 1 (Windows)

HotPad is a skinnable tree-based electronic todo list that lets you schedule email or cell phone text message reminders (see the video tutorial on rampantlogic.com). Tasks are stored categorically in the main list and can be toggled to show up in a separate "Active" list where they are prioritized. Due...

Tags: Cell Phone, Video, Rampant Logic, HotPad, Tasks, Corporate Communications, Cellular Phones, Microsoft Windows, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2008-05-05

Additional Resources

Time to ditch Windows for online banking and shopping

Instead of a live CDWould I be able to install Linux in Windows and do the same?Amen! Happened today to a gov't computerhttp://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2009/10/computer_hacker_steals_479000.htmlYet another infected computer stealing OUR money.Absolutely ridiculous and irresponsible article!Show me an instance where a flaw in Vista/7 has led to a user being compromised? ...

Tags: Operating systems, Cyberthreats, Web browsers, Viruses and worms, Spyware, adware & malware, Microsoft Windows, exploit, phishing, Linux, operating system, Adrian, online banking

Discussion threads 2009-10-13

Microsoft study debunks profitability of the underground economy

Cybercrime, what cybercrime and millions of dollars in profits?! A newly released paper presented by Cormac Herley and Dinei Florencio at this year's  Workshop on the Economics of Information Security 2009 entitled "Nobody Sells Gold for the Price of Silver: Dishonesty, Uncertainty and the Underground Economy" debunks...

Tags: Web, Credit Card, Seller, Malware, Microsoft Corp., Cybercriminal, Economy, Cybercrime-as-a-Service, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Sales Channel, Viruses And Worms, Financial Services, Security, Sales, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-06-05

Bangladesh to be poster child of rising ocean levels

Bangladesh to be poster child of rising ocean levelsI love the apocalyptic predictions ofhorrible weather resulting from global warming when not a single climate model takes precipitation into account because we don't know how to model it.Maybe global warming will cause long, gentle rains and huge increases in snowfall in...

Tags: global warming

Discussion threads 2009-02-06

Mobile industry calls for RFID payment push

Mobile industry calls for RFID payment pushyet another way to hack into your wallet!Invisibly with no pain at all, your bank account can now be drained even more efficiently, and the phone and credit card companies will only charge you yet another fee for the "convenience". To them, that is...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, RFID, RFID payment, Mobile Industry, mobile, payment, phone

Discussion threads 2008-11-18

Europe's new 'monopoly' tariff on Microsoft bypasses WTO

The European Commission has just levied a new $689,900,000 "fine" (read: tariff) on American software company Microsoft under the pretense of anti-trust which conveniently bypasses WTO agreements.  The Brussels based think tank Globalization Institute has published a paper PDF where it recommends a ban on OS Operating System bundling for...

Tags: World Trade Organization, European Commission, Operating System, Market Share, Tariff, Microsoft Corp., Computer, Globalization Institute, EC, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Free Trade, Productivity, Software, Finance, George Ou

Blog posts 2007-09-26

Bank of India site hijacked, launching exploits

Bank of India site hijacked, launching exploitsIs it patched/fixed yet?You seem to have left that information out. I'm guessing that Bank of India has been informed.Ryan, why no informationLook, this is a tech web site and readers want to know what TECH the bank is using. IE. What...

Tags: Financial services, BOI, bank, Bank of India

Discussion threads 2007-08-30

Congress: P2P networks harm national security

Congress: P2P networks harm national securityOK...I'll ask the question......Why are government employees within secure facilities or any workplace running Limewire clients? I must have missed something there.And wow....Congress is a fearful place these days. Evildoers?H-1B quota and War on TerrorismLets get real. The greater threat is H-1B contractors...

Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), Pentagon, network, P2P, Henry Waxman, U.S. Congress, national security

Discussion threads 2007-07-24

(Photos: Nigerian students power up their laptops)

(Photos: Nigerian students power up their laptops)What an excellent programWhen you consider the committment these people make to education, it kind of saddens me because of educational complacency in the US. All of those dedicated to this program deserve kudos.great stuffhopefully just the startWonder how long it will takefor them...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Notebooks, Food & Beverage, laptop computer, computer, Nigerian student, food, photograph

Discussion threads 2007-04-11

I guess it's up to me to debunk this tv on cellphone fad

Theres a type of strange, counterintuitive faddishness at this years Consumer Electronics Show that to me, defies all manner of logic.Since few if any other bloggers will speak out about it, I view it as my role to do so.I am referring to rampant, contagious "platformitis-" the mad rush to...

Tags: Cellular phones, cell phone, telephone, video

Blog posts 2007-01-08

How did Atheros get pulled in to Mac wireless-gate?

How did Atheros get pulled in to Mac wireless-gate?About as much difference between Linux distrosThis would be like trying to correct someone when they say something is Linux based and you say no it's SuSE based and not Linux based.MACH is irrelevant to the discussion* I misused the word "kernel"...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Linux, OPEN SOURCE, Mach 3.0 kernel, Mach, Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X, Atheros Communications, FreeBSD, Apple MacBook, kernel, Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2006-08-26

Digg contributors speak out on click fraud

The click fraud problem is spurring debate almost as impassioned as the net neutrality debate!Following my story yesterday, "Google CEO on click fraud: 'let it happen' is perfect economic solution", I posted a sample of the click fraud debate sparked in the blogosphere at "Google 'search shrinkage': click fraud...

Tags: Google Inc., click fraud

Blog posts 2006-07-10

Tech VIPs say future belongs to open source

Tech VIPs say future belongs to open sourceWow!Is this story a direct response to ITAnalyst's post here http://news.zdnet.com/5208-9593-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=12021&messageID=239421&start=-5 ?Rock on, analyst!Tech VIPs say future belongs to open sourceYou are going to see more open source being used in the future. But that does not mean closed source is going...

Tags: Operating systems, open source, Tech VIP, Linux, rep

Discussion threads 2005-07-21

Tax break boosts Microsoft earnings

Tax break boosts Microsoft earningsRep and I are going out to celebrate...My rep called and personally thanked me for putting him over the top again this quarter. He called me a few weeks ago and said he was a bit behind on his numbers. Due to some creative accounting, I...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Financial accounting, Operational accounting, Microsoft Windows, tax, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., earnings, Tax Break

Discussion threads 2005-07-21

Research: Spyware industry worth billions

Research: Spyware industry worth billionsInfection rate on Window: 87%, Linux 0%Why do people put up with such crap.Thank You Bill Gates!!!Love your plan for education by the way. ;)Thank you Steve Jobsfor being wonderful.MepisLINUXuser: Windohs garbage removal worth billionsThere are going to be alot of people out of work when...

Tags: Linux, ppl, spyware

Discussion threads 2005-05-03

Defense Department signs Red Hat deal

Defense Department signs Red Hat dealPoor defense with poor softwareI am glad to see the Defense Department chooses the poor software written by hobbists. And this demonstrates that 911 diaster is not a surprise. Counterpart in my country has deployed the Trusted Windows Server 2004 (do not forget we got...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, Tools & Techniques, Trusted Windows Server 2004, Linux, U.S. Department of Defense, source code, software, Red Hat Inc.

Discussion threads 2005-04-29

Microsoft settlement upheld

Microsoft settlement upheldJustice Served.Now we just need to slap the EU into shape.A glorious day...MY rep just sent me a pre-release of the MS statement. Because of various NDA's I sign on a daily basis, I cannot share what it says. However, it does hint that now Microsoft can move...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2004-06-30

In Oracle suit, DOJ overlooks an old foe: Microsoft

In Oracle suit, DOJ overlooks an old foe: MicrosoftIt is amazing......the free pass Microsoft has from the DOJ. They are in a much more monopolistic position and abuse their monopoly terribly and they get no punishment. Oracle is looking to expand and they get smacked down as though they're the...

Tags: SAP AG, ex-Microsoft employee, Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp., U.S. Department of Justice

Discussion threads 2004-03-02