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Fantastic Walk Screensaver 1.0 (Windows)

Parallel realities are penetrated by frantically dancing fireballs. Realities too are not stable: collapsing, colliding but miraculously rearranging in logic order. But you can control this reality by pressing special keys on your keyboard, moving your mouse and making different settings. Play with this illusion and get a lot of...

Tags: Screensaver, Reality, SaversPlanet, Keyboards, Mice, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-03-11

Those Gmail ads are a hoot

Does anyone seriously look at the ads in Google's Gmail? In theory, Google scans my email and serves up relevant advertising. The reality is a bit different. To wit: In a Mozilla email update (I'm subscribed to the Mozilla Google Group) I get the following: ...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Gmail, Advertisement, Mozilla Corp., Reality, E-mail, E-mail Providers, Online Communications, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-12-17

Drowning in an information sea

According to a recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, fantasy may be in the process of beating reality in the battle of ideas. In a survey of YouTube viewers of videos relating to information about immunization, videos with negative depiction of the practice (and which...

Tags: Food, Meat, Internet, Video, Survey, Reality, Dairy, Corporate Communications, Government, Food & Beverage, Marketing Research, Marketing, Manufacturing, John Carroll

Blog posts 2007-12-06

Applying the transparency taste test

Last week I was in Berlin as the guest of SAP and Transparency International. For those that are unfamiliar, TI is a pressure group that addresses issues around corruption. It operates in some of the most difficult parts of the world. It tends to focus on the governmental factors impacting...

Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Dennis Howlett, Finance, Financial Planning, Management, Reality, Software, Strategy, Tax, Taxes, Texas Instruments Inc., Tools & Techniques

Blog posts 2007-11-26

Obama outlines federal CTO position; Where's the power?

Barack Obama unveiled plans for a chief technology officer, support for Net neutrality, improving education, next-generation broadband networks and more research spending. Oh yeah, and there will be more open government and feds using wikis and blogs. This agenda, outlined in this PDF, makes for good fodder....

Tags: CIO, Agency, Information Technology, Chief Technology Officer, News, Reality, Barack Obama, Government, Vertical Industries, Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-11-14

Google: Does it have to be all FUD all the time?

Fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD--see Wikipedia) is how IBM tried to retain its dominance, what Microsoft used to cement its monopoly and, now, I suggest we review recent Google news and wonder: Industry Leaders Announce Open Platform for Mobile Devices: In which Google and "a broad alliance...

Tags: Google Inc., Google OpenSocial, Reality, Social Networking, Advertising & Promotion, Online Communications, Marketing, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2007-11-05

UPS debuts customs clearance and international returns solutions for small businesses

Read a full transcript of the discussion. Sponsor: UPS. As the world becomes "flatter" and globalization drives new opportunities for international commerce, how do small- and medium-size businesses SMBs jump on the bandwagon? The Internet allows any business to gather orders and process...

Tags: United Parcel Service Of America Inc., Shipment, Customer, Small Business, Small And Medium Business, Reality, Smb/Sme, Globalization, Podcasts, Strategy, Management, Internet, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2007-11-01

Java now shares limelight with other platforms

Will Java Platform survive? Should end-users be enabled to design their own apps? Paul Patrick, chief architect of BEA, has some interesting views on these topics. A few weeks back at BEA World, I had the opportunity to sit down and chat with Paul, who, in his...

Tags: BEA Systems Inc., Reality, Programming Languages, Java, J2Ee, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2007-10-16

What's coming with Windows? Even the insiders aren't sure...

Sometimes you find fascinating little tidbits of Microsoft news buried in obscure places, tossed in as throwaway remarks. Today’s case in point comes from a post at the Windows Installer team blog, which tries to explain why some references to Windows Installer 4.1 appeared on an MSDN and then were...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Explanation, News, Reality, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2007-10-01

Everything you've read about Vista DRM is wrong (Part 2)

Windows Vista includes a new set of features that allow playback software to work with protected media. This DRM infrastructure is bitterly controversial, and it's given rise to an enormous amount of misinformation. No one has been more active or successful in spreading FUD and misinformation about this technology than...

Tags: Protection, Dell Computer Corp., Media Center PC, PC, Digital-rights Management, Driver, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Requirement, Reality, Aero, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Media Center PCs, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2007-09-18

Sam & Max Episode 5: Reality 2 1 (Windows)

With an Internet crisis looming and an online video game holding its players hostage, Sam & Max will need to slip into a new reality to set things right. Can the Freelance Police crack this virtual case in time to avoid worldwide system failure.

Tags: Reality, Telltale, Internet, Microsoft Windows, Games, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2007-04-30

Twisted Reality Mod (Halo PC) 7.3 (Windows)

This is a custom halo combat evolved MOD. From the makers of Game-Emeralds, this mod will Twist your halo's gulch reality. Including lots of null, white players. Switched ammo for the weapons and vehicles. Switched CTF flags, looks like bolders so you can hide under em. This is the Best...

Tags: Reality, ChosenGamer.com, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2007-01-09

First Group CIO: Darin Brumby - Transcript

With revenues of over £3bn a year First Group is the UK's largest transport company, carrying almost three million bus passengers a day as well as operating many rail franchises. silicon.com chief reporter Andy McCue recently caught up with First Group CIO Darin Brumby who explained how he turned around...

Tags: Innovation, Information Technology, Reality, DB, Strategy, Leadership, Management, Administrator

Blog posts 2006-12-12

Alien Magic Matrix 3D Screensaver 1.1 (Windows)

Experience the fascinating feeling of flight through the matrix of reality. Take the ride through never ending tunnels and let voices of the Matrix heroes guide your journey. Open a door into different realities right in your room. Let it catch your eye and brings up thoughts about real fabric...

Tags: 3D, Matrix, Reality, Microsoft Windows, Telecommunications, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2005-10-14

Consolidated Service Desk: The Reality

There is much hype around the term 'Consolidated Service Desk', but is a CSD myth or reality? Moving on from theory, this paper will focus on the reality of CSD, stripping away the hype and exploring how this proposed holistic approach to IT Service Management can be achieved - using...

Tags: Service Desk, Axios Systems, Reality, It Services, Service Level Management, It Operations, It service Management

White papers 2005-07-04

Tech investor Roger McNamee unplugged

Roger McNamee and I have known each other since the mid-1980s when he was the lone tech investor at T. Rowe Price and I was an editor at Macworld magazine. He went on to be one of most highly regarded tech investors and a Silicon Valley rock star (check out...

Tags: Barrier, Digital-rights Management, Investor, Reality, Tech Investor, Roger McNamee, Consumer Technology, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2005-04-19

IT myths dispelled

InfoWorld dispels six great myths of IT from the tech trenches…IT Myth 1: Server upgrades matter Reality: Don't pay extra for upgradability; you'll never need it IT Myth 2: Eighty percent of corporate data resides on mainframes Reality: Try 50 percent, or even less IT Myth 3: All big shops...

Tags: information technology, Reality

Blog posts 2004-08-19

Mud-Haven 2.0.0b1 (Mac)

Mud-Haven is a powerful bridge between this reality and those varying, enchanting, adventurous realities that are Muds (Multi User Dungeons/Dimensions). Mud-Haven is a comprehensive telenet based client designed specifically for mudding. It has many features that make mudding much easier and much more fun. The features of automation give players...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Reality, Darkside Productions, Mud-Haven, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2001-02-21

Additional Resources

Flipping Fantastic

Getting the most out of Flip video cameras The picture above a still from a Flip video is of my venerable old three chip Sony VX1000 video camera, Frezzi light and associated 10 pound battery belt. In the foreground is a Flip video...

Tags: Microphone, Video Camera, Video, Camera, Flip, Flip Camera, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-21

Hacker scores by posting East Anglia global warming emails

Control over eating a hamburgerGood grief please stop the madness of all of these un-truths about global warming trash.I want a burger I will eat a burger, if I want to drive to town to ride around so be it, if I want to raise cattle and have them pass...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, burger, PCB, global warming

Discussion threads 2009-11-20