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ClickOnceMore 2.0 (Windows)

If you're building ClickOnce deployments, then you've probably noticed the lack of available tools to help you. Visual Studio and Mage only cater for basic requirements and provide little support for automating the build process. ClickOnceMore plugs that gap in your development process, allowing you to easily create and deploy...

Tags: Deployment, Microsoft Windows, Red Sky Software, ClickOnceMore 2.0, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Development Tools, Productivity, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2009-10-14

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Less than 24-hours on and a potential Windows 7 Achilles' heel surfaces

3 Words for you...Windows Live Essentials...Saves on bloat?It was nothing to do with that. Microsoft have said that they unbundled a lot of things from the OS build as it allowed for easier and more frequent updates.Good point.I use Hotmail but also use Live Mail on my own machines as...

Tags: Microsoft Outlook, Operating systems, Groupware, E-mail providers, e-mail, Microsoft Windows, Windows Mail, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 7

Discussion threads 2009-10-23

Pioneer AVIC-Z110BT

At the top of Pioneer's AVIC line of navigation receivers, and indeed its entire line of car audio receivers, sits the AVIC-Z110BT. This grandest of car stereos features just about every bell, whistle, and whizbang that Pioneer has to throw at mobile audio and video. From GPS navigation that can...

Tags: GPS, Digital music, Digital media, receiver, SD card

Product reviews 2009-10-13

Blowin' in the wind, and power under the sun

Why?Because any future energy system , even if coal-powered, will make great use of IT, software and digital technologies. As will any affort to convert energy systems to solar, wind, tidal, etc. Even the digital and nano-tech being used in cars now and in future will come from...

Tags: Low Tech, wind farm, blog

Discussion threads 2009-10-04

Time says Twitter will change our lives; I Tweeted that I puked

Twitter may be doomed. Time put Twitter on the cover and dished out thousands of words of fluff about it. This Twitter love-fest is getting out of hand. Can the Time jinx be worse than the Sports Illustrated one? Why am I getting flashbacks about that Transmeta...

Tags: Twitter, Time Story, Productivity, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Operational Accounting, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-04

The Obama lesson to Rupert Murdoch

The Obama lesson to Rupert Murdoch"I learn from criticism"There certainly is no shortage of that around here. I visit here often but it's not out of loyalty, more like a junkie getting his fix. I would really like to kick the habit and move on to looking and...

Tags: Government, Tools & Techniques, Games, OPEN SOURCE, Planetside, Obama, Rupert Murdoch, Dana

Discussion threads 2009-05-12

Texas Democrats push ODF standard

Texas Democrats push ODF standardMS view is anti-competitive when using an open standard Bet they would not say that if the bill supported their format.the bill is supported by smart TexansTexas gave us some of the best people in the nation.It is no surprise that astute people from there see...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), OpenDocument Format, open standard, Microsoft Corp., ISO, docx

Discussion threads 2009-03-19

What Cisco learned from open source

What Cisco learned from open sourceCutting marginsSure these companies can make it using linux, and taking the thinner margin, the Question is will they want to over the long term. It may mean a slight change in their business model, in that they make up there margin not in the...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Cisco Systems Inc., open source, Linux Now, Linux, Hewlett-Packard Co., TransGaming

Discussion threads 2009-03-16

Amid downturn, Microsoft should be thinking bigger

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on Tuesday held his annual powwow with investors and talked strategy, the company's outlook and the areas where it is placing its bets. Frankly, the bets look a bit timid. First the financial matters, Microsoft kept its outlook that it outlined last quarter,...

Tags: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Mary Jo, Microsoft Windows, Games, Financial Accounting, Microsoft Office, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Finance, Office Suites, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-02-24

AKVIS Coloriage 6.0 (Mac)

AKVIS Coloriage manipulates colors of an image: from colorizing old black and white photos from your family archive to replacing colors in your color photos. Make a present for your grandmother by adding color to her school photo, replace the colors of your car to see how it would look...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Color, Photograph, AKVIS, AKVIS Coloriage

Software downloads 2008-09-24

Toshiba Qosmio X305-Q701

Editors' note: This review is part of our Back-to-School 2008 roundup, covering specific configurations of popular laptops that can be found in retail stores.The Toshiba Qosmio X305-Q701 marks a new look for the Qosmio brand. Gone are the subdued blacks and silvers of years past; in their place come stylized...

Tags: Notebooks, Toshiba Corp., Toshiba Qosmio, Qosmio X305-Q701

Product reviews 2008-08-21

Ten things to know about Microsoft's Live Mesh

Microsoft took the wraps off Live Mesh at 9 p.m. PDT on April 22, just ahead of the service's official debut at the Web 2.0 Expo this week. (Here's a bunch of screen shots of what testers can expect to see when Microsoft kicks off its...

Tags: Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-04-22

Red Dog: Yet another unannounced Microsoft cloud service

In the Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie regime of "announce no service before it's done," there have been precious few cloud-computing announcements from Microsoft. That doesn't mean Microsoft is sitting on its software laurels, just waiting for the clouds to pass, however. There are a bunch of...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Tools & Techniques, Team Management, Web Services, Application Servers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Management, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-04-09

Mio Moov 310

In January 2008, Mio Technology and Navman formally merged under the Mio name, and we're now seeing the first products of that marriage: the Mio Moov line. The series includes four models--the Mio Moov 200, the Moov 210, the Moov 300, and the Moov 310--and combines Navman's software with Mio's...

Tags: Keyboards, Tools & Techniques, display, user documentation, Mio, Mio Moov, Mio Moov 310

Product reviews 2008-03-24

Red Hat takes the open source security challenge

Red Hat takes the open source security challengeSilly MeAnd here I always assume that if it's closed it's insecure.Open Source = the possibility for peer review.Security: Obscurity or Design?This has been discussed [i]ad nauseam[/i] with the "security through obscurity" versus the "security by design" model. This all goes back to...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Red Hat Inc., security, open source, OpenBSD

Discussion threads 2008-03-21

Choke points in open source

Choke points in open sourceThis is definitely a strong point...for adoption of Open Source. It's also what is irking MS the most. I fear some of there recent collaboration with open source is nothing more than a ploy to try to control it. Use their code in any of your...

Tags: Operating systems, Red Hat Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, open source

Discussion threads 2008-03-19

Could Windows 7 be the best Windows yet?

Could Windows 7 be the best Windows yet?Of course it COULDBut that's not an interesting question. Because MS will do what they want to do, and speculating about what they will or will not do is a futile effort.The real question is whether it WILL be the best Windows yet....

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows 7, operating system, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-01-22

Can an airline exec run Red Hat? You'd be surprised

Can an airline exec run Red Hat? You'd be surprisedGoodbye customer service...If there's one thing we know, it's that the airline industry falls behind only one other...the cellphone industry...as being the worst in customer service. Way to go Red Hat.Running Linux like an airlineWhat happens when an airline exec...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, MANAGEMENT SKILLS, Red Hat Inc., customer service, Delta

Discussion threads 2007-12-21

Study: 'Huge jump' in Microsoft flaws since last year

Study: 'Huge jump' in Microsoft flaws since last yearNot exactlyThe exploits have always been there. What we've seen is a jump in the number of reported exploits. MSFT just isn't good keeping them out of the media now days. Either that or they're playing up the Office...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Patches, PeterWeter, Microsoft Flaws, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., patch management

Discussion threads 2007-11-29

Three trend analysis techniques

There are three types of trend analysis that I have used in the past to predict the future: geographic, temporal, and intuitive. I describe these three in the introduction to my Seven Trends in Networking and Security pitch. (coming to your neighborhood soon!) They caught the ear of a...

Tags: Technique, Gartner Inc., Analysis, Richard Stiennon

Blog posts 2007-11-19