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- With a name like Optimist Prime, it's gotta be good
- Recently, I gave a big thumbs up to the ShaggyMac screen protector as a highly effective way to prevent smudges, prints, and damage to the glossy LCD screens that are so commonplace on mainstream laptops. Often, if we're in the trenches, we spend our time just keeping things running...
- Tags: LCD, Laptop Computer, Screen Protector, Mist, Monitors & Displays, Keyboards, Notebooks, Hardware, Components, Peripherals, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-03-16
- GelaSkins for the 5th Generation iPod (Toxicity)
- There's no shortage of protective, stick-on skins for the iPod available on the market, but GelaSkin has taken that existing idea and put a fresh twist on it. The thick, textured stickers are decked out in cool art by well-knowns such as Van Gogh as well as up-and-comers (such as...
- Tags: GelaSkins, sticker, Apple iPod
- Product reviews 2006-08-25
- GelaSkins for the iPod Nano (Hex Appeal)
- There's no shortage of protective, stick-on skins for the iPod available on the market, but GelaSkin has taken that existing idea and put a fresh twist on it. The thick, textured stickers are decked out in cool art by well-knowns such as Van Gogh as well as up-and-comers (such as...
- Tags: Apple iPod Nano, GelaSkins, Apple iPod, sticker
- Product reviews 2006-08-25
- Apple iPod Nano Tubes
- Quick Take: Apple's first cases for the iPod Nano look strangely similar to EzGear EzSkins. The Tubes ($29) come in a pack of five neon-bright colors and are straightforward in their design and function. Slipping your Nano into the case protects it from dirt, rain kind of, and other...
- Tags: Digital music, Apple iPod, Tube, Nano, Apple iPod Nano, Apple Computer Inc.
- Product reviews 2006-02-24
Additional Resources
- A stick and personal care for those who can afford it
- Lorne Stitsky has a dream. It's the comfortable life internists enjoyed generations ago. A small number of patients, whom he can know intimately and who will depend on him as families did way back when. You can almost hear Randy Newman's Dayton Ohio 1903 playing in the...
- Tags: Patient, Dr., Lorne Stitsky, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- REST: Reducing Effort in Script-based Testing
- The narrow but very important problem: Test scripts used for version 1.0 of an application will probably break when applied to version 2.0 of that application. Testers try to edit old test scripts so that they won't need to create new ones from scratch, but the process is slow, tedious...
- Tags: GUI, Ed Gottsman
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Does Microsoft really need to diversify into consumer products?
- Watching Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates go through the paces during his last Microsoft CEO Summit keynote on May 14, I couldn't help but ponder again why Microsoft thinks it needs to be both a business and a consumer software vendor. From May 13 to 15, Microsoft officials...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Tech Innovation, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Content Protection madness on Vista
- [UPDATE: For more on this issue, check out this post.] I'm a firm believer in the idea that if you pay for hardware, you should be able to make full use of it. However, DRM and content protection mechanisms are increasingly making this difficult for people. ...
- Tags: Screen, Microsoft Windows Vista, Cintiq, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Digital Rights Management (DRM), Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Security, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Livescribe demos new smartpen
- Jim Marggraff, CEO of Livescribe, shows off the 2GB, Java-capable Pulse Smartpen at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco. The pen records audio as the user takes handwritten notes, then synchs up the sound with the writing. Audio can then be played back when someone taps the pen on paper....
- Tags: Audio, Smartpen, JavaOne, Livescribe, Pulse, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Videos 2008-05-13
- The key to Windows success? It's all about the drivers
- The greatest advantage of the Windows ecosystem is that there are so many choices. The biggest problem with the Windows ecosystem is that there are so many choices. Ironic, isn't it? The sheer number of choices means you can almost certainly...
- Tags: Problem, Driver, OEM, Graphics Subsystem, Vista/Server 2008/Win7 Ecosystem, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Notebooks, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Microsoft's plan to block Linux on laptops
- Details of Microsoft's recently announced plan to extend the life of Windows XP for ultra low-cost PCs are trickling out. IDG News got its hands on what it says are Microsoft documents outlining the program for PC manufacturers. Until now, the big question was: What exactly defines...
- Tags: Linux, PC, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Still ranting about interfaces
- My argument, yesterday, that how an application is to be used is more determinative of the right toolset for building it than what the application does, embeds the assumption that the people we sell our software or development ideas to, either are end users or make decisions on the basis...
- Tags: Corel WordPerfect, Standards, Word Processors, Quality, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Office, Software, Business Operations, Office Suites, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- HFSoft iPod Video Converter (exe)
- HFSoft iPod Video Converter is an easy-to-use video converter software for Apple iPod. It can convert most video and audio format, e.g. DivX, XviD, WMV, AVI, FLV, MOV, MPEG-2DVD, MPEG-4, MP3, AAC, M4A, APE to iPod Video format. It is also a powerful video converter with fast conversion speed. And...
- Tags: Apple iPod, Video, HFSoft Studio, HFSoft iPod Video Converter, Corporate Communications, Digital Music, Digital Media, Marketing, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics
- Software downloads 2008-05-13
- Bouncing Balls (exe)
- In this game there is a grid of balls that are slowly moving down. You need to shoot balls to destroy them by forming groups of 3 or more balls of the same colour. After you have destroyed some balls, the balls that are attached to the rest of the...
- Tags: Colour, Novel Games, Construction, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-05-13
- Mobile software Monday: HanDBase 4.0 and Nokia Podcasting
- My plan was to post software reviews here every Monday, but at times my schedule and life doesn't allow me to give a full test of a software package and write up my thoughts so I missed last week. Thus, I am posting a double review this week on Mobile...
- Tags: Application, Device, Nokia Corp., Mobile, Podcasting, S60, Nokia Podcasting Application, Submissions, Podcasts, Storage, Databases, Internet, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- Major career web sites hit by spammers attack
- What is the future of spamming next to managed spamming appliances, like the ones already offered for use on demand? It's targeted spamming going beyond the segmentation of the already harvested emails on per country basis, and including other variables such as city of residence, employment history, education, spoken languages,...
- Tags: Job, CAPTCHA, Web, Career, Spammer, Malware, Web Site, Spamming, Tool, Attack, E-mail, Spam, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Online Communications, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- Creating an XP SP3 slipstreamed ISO file
- If you are not a TechNet or MSDN subscriber then getting your hands on a copy of Windows XP with SP3 means having to do some legwork yourself (or shell out for a new license ... but I'm assuming that you have better things to spend your money on!). ...
- Tags: CD, ISO, nLite, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Microsoft Windows XP, Quality, Business Operations, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- RIM officially announces the BlackBerry Bold and a $150 million development fund
- RIM officially announces the BlackBerry Bold and a $150 million development fundI guess in one fashion or another the iPhone hasmade an impact on the entire industry. Still kind of a small screen.Pagan jimRE: RIM officially announces the BlackBerry Bold and a $150 million developThe only thing missing on...
- Tags: Handhelds, Cellular phones, blackberry, RIM BlackBerry, Research In Motion Ltd., BlackBerry Bold, development fund, Pagan Jim, phone
- Discussion threads 2008-05-12
- The application interface problem
- I believe that almost any programming language can be used to build almost any kind of user interface, but that the closer the user interface is to the assumptions built into the language, the simpler and more efficient this component of the overall application will be. More importantly, I believe...
- Tags: Application, User Interface, Tool, Productivity, Enterprise Software, Software, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- Tiger Woods Caddie 08 (zip)
- TW Caddie 08 is a utility to install, add, delete, remove uninstall custom courses and libraries for Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08. Without it you will not be able to install custom courses or user created courses and libraries for the Course Architect. Mod such things as the Course Logo,...
- Tags: Stock, Library, Course, CourseDownloads.com, TW Caddie 08, Investment, Finance
- Software downloads 2008-05-12
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