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Shutting down your PC: Frugal fact, or financial fiction?

Shutting down your PC: Frugal fact, or financial fiction?Dave's is closerHowever 10 minutes and 5 minutes are a bit of an exaggeration unless you are using 5+ year old equipment. Which most workers do not. The actual number of minutes is probably half that, maybe less. However that still puts...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Shutting Down, Frugal fact, financial fiction, Frugal, computer, PC, financial, Dave

Discussion threads 2009-04-13

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Spice up your power management

InterestingChecking out the plug-in. Nice article. Harry should take notes.Power management messed up my laptop.Long, long ago in a land far, far away (Win 98) I had a laptop that I upgraded to Win XP. After upgrading the laptop and installing SP2, Laptop performance went in the...

Tags: Notebooks, power management, laptop computer

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

Internet: A threat to government or the other way around?

The Kleptocrats that feel entitled to your money...worry that us mushrooms now have other uncontrollable sources for the "truth" and won't eat the horse compost fed to them by the monopolistic crony Main-stream Media.RE: Internet: A threat to government or the other way around?There are two things tyrants and bureaucrats...

Tags: Vertical industries, government, retraction, Internet

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

Dell's third quarter disappoints yet it sees IT demand improving

Dell is doing well.Dell is doing well, we are a Dell shop and they have the best ROI and ease of updating/upkeep...Is Dell now an "also ran"?It wasn't that long ago when Dell was king of the hill. Now they are shutting down their last US plant and continually...

Tags: ROI/TCO, information technology, Dell Computer Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Netbook/notebook reliability study shows that technology breaks ...

Cheaply made partsWell, look at the parts they all are stampedwith 'Made in CHINA'...Quantity over Quality.People are now geared towards a Wal_Mart mentality they do not want to pay for quality and they do NOT care where it is made.Therefore, you will see a lower standard of living because the...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Notebooks, Policies and procedures, notebook, netbook, accident, laptop computer

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

GigAlarm 1.34 (Windows)

GigAlarm is a multipurpose alarm / reminder program, capable of running files and playing multimedia files (including MP3s) to notify you of events. But GigAlarm is capable of many other alarm actions including changing the background wallpaper, syncing the system clock via the internet (using RFC-868 or RFC-2030), shutting down...

Tags: Alarm, ACAPsoft, GigAlarm, Microsoft Windows, Storage, Databases, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2009-11-17

Resistance to change: The real Enterprise 2.0 barrier

Vive Le Resistance!Michael - Resistance to Change, Immunity to Change - there is a lot of activity on the "real work" beyond tech and into enacting and leveraging change agents of Enterprise 2.0 lately... great that we're all surfacing these issues in increasingly large forums.For a bit more flavor on...

Tags: Enterprise 2.0, transparency, worker

Discussion threads 2009-11-16

Tickets.com services for Vancouver Winter 2010 Olympic Games crashes during first release of tickets

People looking to buy tickets for the Vancouver Winter 2010 Olympics wound up shutting down the system. by Doug Hanchard

Tags: Tickets.com, Doug Hanchard

Blog posts 2009-11-16

Apple nukes Psystar

Why is this legal?What I want to know is *why* is it legal for Apple to say "OSX can only run on hardware we provide"? Wouldn't that constitute a monopoly on OSX since they stifle competition and someone else can't provide OSX software systems? Isn't that the literal...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Operating systems, Apple Inc., Psystar, hardware, OSX, software

Discussion threads 2009-11-15

Fantastic Farm 1.01 (Windows)

Help Maggie run her magical farm. Use your magic powers to grow a small farm into a prosperous enterprise. Care for the animals, grow plants and make enchanted goods. Earn trophy achievements and keep the sinister business man from shutting your farm down. Make ice creams, sweaters, strawberry pies and...

Tags: Farm, Microsoft Windows, Kristanix Studios, Time Management, Productivity

Software downloads 2009-11-10

Fantastic Farm 1.01 (Mac)

Help Maggie run her magical farm. Use your magic powers to grow a small farm into a prosperous enterprise! Care for the animals, grow plants and make enchanted goods! Earn trophy achievements and keep the sinister business man from shutting your farm down. Make ice creams, sweaters, strawberry pies and...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Farm, Kristanix Studios, Time Management, Productivity

Software downloads 2009-11-04

10-Strike LANState 4.71 (Windows)

LANState is designed for Microsoft Windows network administrators and regular users. LANState is a visual network monitor which allows you to see your network's state at any time. It displays network map and monitors device state (active/inactive) in real-time. LANState monitors shared resources, shows traffic speeds, and notifies you on...

Tags: Monitor, Network, Microsoft Windows, Computer, 10-Strike Software, LANState, Productivity, Monitors & Displays, Networking, Hardware, Components

Software downloads 2009-11-01

MobileTechRoundup show #188; DROID does, we don't

The biggest news in mobile technology this week was the Motorola DROID announcement from Verizon Wireless and we spent a large junk of MobileTechRoundup show #188 talking about the device and Google Android. James, Kevin, and I haven't yet held the DROID so we are reserving final judgement on it,...

Tags: MobileTechRoundup, Google Inc., Google Maps Navigation Beta, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2009-10-30

Software that automatically fixes itself, without shutting down

Invariant DetectionThis is supposing that the software is simple enough to determine invariants and not block valid code paths that are infrequently used. It sounds a lot like applying design by contract after the fact.Software That Fixes Itself?The headline implies an application that fixes itself. The article describes and...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, invariant, software, Clearview, erroneous execution

Discussion threads 2009-10-29

Advanced Task Scheduler 2.0 build 0501 (Windows)

Advanced Task Scheduler is a multifunctional task scheduler, which allows launching programs and batch files, opening documents and Internet pages, displaying pop-up reminders, playing sounds, shutting down and restarting computer, stopping running processes, establishing and closing Internet connections, sending e-mail messages--automatically at a specified time, repeatedly at a time interval...

Tags: Computer, Southsoftware, Advanced Task Scheduler, Internet, Productivity, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-10-29

Software that automatically fixes itself, without shutting down

A team of researchers have presented new software, called ClearView, that automatically patches errors in deployed software in a matter of minutes. by Chris Jablonski

Tags: Software, Patch Management, Patches, Tools & Techniques, Management, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-10-28

Digital Sentry 1.1.2 (Mac)

Digital Sentry monitors your system for specific events, and then can perform a vast array of unique actions in response. Use it to automate certain redundant computer tasks, perform covert surveillance, or even protect your sensitive data during unauthorized access or theft! Watch for such system events as waking from...

Tags: Shell Script, Web, Apple Macintosh, Password, Computer, Koingo Software, Productivity, Channel Management, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-10-21

First Look: Ubuntu 9.10 beta "Karmic Koala"

wow... seriously?NOTE: This was supposed to be in response to the "good for poor people" comment, but I screwed up:Do you have any basis for your claims? Have you even used Linux, let alone this version of Ubuntu which is still just a Beta? Why does cost/money...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Microsoft Office, Ubuntu

Discussion threads 2009-10-02

Game Booster 1.22 (Windows)

Designed to help optimize your PC for smoother, more responsive game play in the latest PC games with the touch of a button, Game Booster helps achieve the performance edge previously only available to highly technical enthusiasts. It works by temporarily shutting down background processes, cleaning RAM, and intensifying processor...

Tags: Performance, Microsoft Windows, IObit, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-09-27

Game Turbo Booster 1.0.4 (Windows)

Game Turbo Booste is designed to help optimize your PC for smoother, more responsive game play in the PC games. It helps achieve the performance edge previously only available to highly technical enthusiasts. It works by temporarily shutting down background processes & services, cleaning RAM, and intensifying CPU performance. Game...

Tags: Performance, PC, Microsoft Windows, PC Power Soft, Game Turbo Booste, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-09-16