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Canabalt for iPhone 1.0 (Mobile)

Canabalt for iPhone is a fun diversion and sports slick, black, and white pixel graphics. You play a frantic man fleeing the destruction of his city by giant robots. You control him as he hurdles across buildings, leaps over gaps and obstacles, and tries to stay one step ahead of...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Semi Secret Software, Robots, Smart Phones, Emerging Technologies, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-10-09

Wurdle 2.0 (Mobile)

Wurdle is a fast-paced word game. Find and trace as many words as possible before time runs out. If you can't find any more words, shake the board to mix up the tiles. Customize Wurdle the way YOU like it, and see how you measure up against your friends and...

Tags: Mobile, Word, Semi Secret Software, Wurdle, Corporate Governance, Games, Advertising & Promotion, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Personal Technology, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-06-01

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Windows 7 Release Candidate now available for unsanctioned download

Windows 7 Release Candidate now available for unsanctioned downloadMy 2 PCs...I have been running the beta on 2 of my PCs at home. One PC is a low end HW wise, and the other one pretty high end. I have thrown anything that one would be able to do so,...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Widows 7, Microsoft Windows 7, Windows 7 Release Candidate, release candidate, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-04-24

Open source patent law panhandling

Open source patent law panhandlingthen someone should help thenIBM should step up and provide aid just the step up to MS ..you Wanna war punk ill give you one and push it until the case is done prove it one and for all .... prepare the way...

Tags: Operating systems, Tom-Tom, Microsoft Corp., TomTom, Linux, SCO Group Inc., patent, Octoshaft, open source

Discussion threads 2009-03-05

What TomTom suit may really be about

What TomTom suit may really be aboutCan't wait for my TomTom 730 GPS to arrive!I compared Garmin to TomTom and purchased the TomTom 730 (instead of the Garmin nuvi 760). They are 95% comparable with the following key exceptions:Map updates are free with TomTom, Garmin you must pay more Microsoft...

Tags: Investment, OPEN SOURCE, Construction, TomTom, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-03-03

Help Steve Jobs (Or GM) Design The iCar

Help Steve Jobs Or GM Design The iCarPLEASE............And I suppose when it needs a new battery...I have to spend USD$5,000.00 to ship the car back to Stevie Boy to get it replaced?And is he going to limit what type of fuel it runs on, and how often I can fill...

Tags: iCAR, Steve Jobs, car, UAW, General Motors Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-11-13

Wordcamp 2008

In the quiet flats of University of California San Francisco Mission Bay campus, bloggers, thinkers, journalists, developers, and inventors melt together for a full day of lectures and learning. The goal of Wordcamp 2008 is to figure out the future of publishing on the web. ...

Tags: Open Source, Blog, Wordpress, Plug-in, Automattic, Wordcamp, Mullenweg 3:00, BuddyPress, Discovery Channel, Al Upton, ChickSpeak, ScholarPress, Netconcepts, Post Title, Akismet, Virality, Diso, Compliment Spam, Monotone, Prologue, GigaOm Daily, Gigalogue, Comments Screen, Blogging, Internet, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-08-16

Why open source fails application security tests

Why open source fails application security testsMakes SenseMost FOSS is built by people with a passion to make something important to them. Implementing comprehensive security is not a fun task to do when developing software.RE: Why open source fails application security testsYou could have summed it up by saying that...

Tags: application security test, application security, open source, security

Discussion threads 2008-08-01

Is Apple going back to the PowerPC?

Hardware independence as a strategic weapon The Forbes magazine scoop that Apple is buying P. A. Semiconductor, a Silicon Valley company that designs high-performance, power-sipping PowerPC chips - the very chips Apple just migrated away from - raises a host of questions. But the people who need to worry...

Tags: Apple Inc., IBM PowerPC, Intel Corp., Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-04-23

View of Apple from an insider heading out

Longtime Apple programmer Jens Alfke just went freelance. His online debriefing offers an candid perspective on how Apple treats its internal developers as well as the company's interest on social networking applications (or more to the point, the lack of the same). Alfke worked on the ill-fated...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., RSS, Social Networking, Desktops, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Hardware, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2008-01-23

Ever Wonder Why Upgrades Are So Damn Hard?

Ever Wonder Why Upgrades Are So Damn Hard?or...you could take an entirely different approach...Looking in the wrong place for the problemIt is interesting how easy it is to produce these statistics from a relational database. It is interesting to note that no statistics are stated for what is actually going...

Tags: Databases, database, Josh

Discussion threads 2007-08-17

Windows vs. Mac vs. Linux - Which is more secure?

Windows vs. Mac vs. Linux - Which is more secure?Reality distortion field in actionThe field is strong today when the best you come up with is ad hominem arguments. Well, I dismiss your reality and replace it with my own.ZDNet disgusts me more and more everydayEvery time I get...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Desktops, Databases, Microsoft Visual Studio, Linux, tool, Calvin, Windows V, Microsoft Windows, MySQL, Apple Macintosh, Eclipse

Discussion threads 2007-06-22

Why DRM won't ever work

Why DRM won't ever workAccording To No_Axe It Will WorkIf I could find every post with his idiot rants about how it will change the industry...Someone help me out here.Why DRM won't ever work[i]I always thought Scotty should have said "no" to the captain more often, especially when Kirk would...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, digital-rights management

Discussion threads 2007-06-06

The Somerset Maugham Collection (Mobile)

Untitled DocumentHe wrote about impoverished Cockneys living in London's slums, and about the lush lives of England's colonials living in Southeast Asia, and now, you can read four of Somerset Maugham's greatest works in The Somerset Maugham Collection. It includes "Liza of Lambeth," a tragic tale of working-class adultery, "The...

Tags: Mobile, England, Uncle, E-books, Telecom & Utilities, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2006-12-26

Ruling won't slow file-swapping, experts say

Ruling won't slow file-swapping, experts sayWar-> resistance-> losses-> defeat the war-makers.Why bother to start? NTNTWho are your "experts" your headline speaks of?All I see is comments from the folks that got spanked by the courts. Sorry, you fail horribly...ZDNet, do you have JJJ from Spiderman making up headlines for...

Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), P2P, music, RIAA, income, file-swapping

Discussion threads 2005-06-27

Customers squeezed as ISPs pull trigger on viruses

Customers squeezed as ISPs pull trigger on virusesIts about time!I dont think ISP should be scanning everyones machine looking for viruses or fixing anyones machine that is infected...BUT if any machine on the network is infected with a virus that is causeing extra network traffic like pinging for othere machines...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Cyberthreats, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, Cable, Internet Service Provider, virus

Discussion threads 2004-03-17

Open-source databases gaining favor

Open-source databases gaining favorPostgreSQLWhy did PostgreSQL not make similar gains? Innocent question.Not sure why this is made an ABM issueMicrosoft is far from the biggest player in databases, and does not have as much at stake in it as, say, Oracle.This CIO questions these results...I cannot believe anyone would...

Tags: Databases, Storage, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft SQL Server, open source, PostgreSQL, database, MySQL, Linux

Discussion threads 2004-01-05