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- Snippets on Steroids (SOS) (zip)
- SOS is a small Windows-based utility that allows users to maximize their efficiency with text manipulation by wrapping a friendly and powerful user experience around a series of customizable, extensible, lightweight, and direct plug-in applications. The current version supports compiled snippets, dynamic C# and VB.NET snippets, Web snippets, and snippet...
- Tags: Snippet, Plug-in, Snippets On Steroids, C#, .Net, Programming Languages, Microsoft Windows, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2008-02-14
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- Great educational websites (and an intro to Diigo)
- As promised, I've compiled your suggested educational websites and posted them on Diigo, as well. Diigo, by the way, is a bit like delicious on steroids. It has a really straight-forward interface and allows you to highlight and annotate sections of a website (perfect for building web quests...
- Tags: Web, Web Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- OLPC is dead...What Kindlenomics taught us
- Fellow ZDNet blogger, Jason Perlow, wrote a neat piece suggesting that, if electronic versions of most college textbooks existed, it wouldn't take many semesters for the average undergraduate to pay for the Kindle on which to read them. In fact, with a fair amount of arm-waving, it wasn't too...
- Tags: Student, Hardware, Textbook, One Laptop Per Child Project, Kindle, Kindroid, XO 2.0, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-11-16
- Also on Nov. 4, FCC passes White Spaces
- Little reported amid the torrent of news and analysis on easily the most significant election since Ronald Reagan in 1980 (and given the economic crisis, perhaps the most significant since FDR in 1932), the FCC Tuesday voted in favor of White Spaces, delighting the tech industry and those in favor...
- Tags: FCC, Microphone, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
- FCC opens up wireless 'white spaces;' Assessing winners, losers and wild-cards
- FCC opens up wireless 'white spaces;' Assessing winners, losers and wild-cardsCo-optingIf the new frequencies are open to any company and if some companies are threatened by competition using the new frequencies, then why shouldn't the threatened companies jam the new frequencies?That seems one of the points of this quoted quote:The...
- Tags: Federal government, Wi-Fi, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Amateur Radio, white space, spectrum, FCC, wireless
- Discussion threads 2008-11-05
- FCC agrees to free white-space spectrum
- America wins. Large broadcasting companies and makers of devices like wireless microphones are squirming today after the FCC announced that it has voted in favor of Google -- freeing the frequencies between television channels to create a wireless broadband service. What does that really...
- Tags: FCC, Spectrum, Wireless Broadband, Wireless LANs, Wireless, Wi-Fi, Federal Government, Broadband Internet, Telecommunications, Government, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
- FCC opens up wireless 'white spaces;' Assessing winners, losers and wild-cards
- The Federal Communications Commission has opened up so-called wireless white spaces--unused spectrum between broadcast channels--in a move the agency hopes paves the way for 'Wi-Fi on Steroids'. In a statement following the FCC's 5-0 approval Techmeme, Chairman Kevin Martin said: Opening the white spaces will allow...
- Tags: FCC, Google Inc., WiMAX, Broadband, Spectrum, Federal Government, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Telecommunications, Government, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
- Viacom perks up at Google Books settlement
- Google's settlement with authors could be good news for Viacom, the New York Times' Miguel Helft says. That's because the authors at least think Google has conceded that it needs prior permission in order to scan books. Under the agreement authors must give permission for works to...
- Tags: Google Inc., Permission, Settlement, Books, Agreement, Viacom Inc., Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-30
- Google settles book scan suit for $125 million
- Google and The Authors Guild, the Association of American Publishers said Tuesday that they have settled a book scanning lawsuit for $125 million. The agreement ends a two-year class action suit over Google's scanning of in-copyright books and other written property for its Google Book Search. The...
- Tags: Google Inc., Settlement, Agreement, Litigation, Operational Accounting, Business Operations, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-28
- Will Windows 7 get a new name for its release?
- I'm reading more and more about Windows 7 lately as PDC approaches and Microsoft begins revealing more snippets of information about its most secretive product ever. In most of that coverage, I've noticed an assumption that Windows 7 is going to be the final name of the product. I've been...
- Tags: Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Dropping the iPhone NDA is good for security
- Last week Apple lifted their NDA on iPhone developers, freeing them to discuss amongst themselves how to properly build applications. This decision is a "good thing" for not just applications but also application security on the iPhone. The iPhone NDA was antithetical to how developers work....
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Developer, Flaw, Programming, Development Tools, Security, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Adam O\'Donnell
- Blog posts 2008-10-05
- HiTechy SnipClip (exe)
- HiTechy SnipClip is a code snippet manager. This means that it allows you to store and remember chunks of code or text. You may ask why you would want the software rather than just using text files or the clipboard. Well SnipClip can manage and organise your code snippets and...
- Tags: Code Snippet, HiTechy, HiTechy SnipClip
- Software downloads 2008-10-02
- PIMShell (msi)
- PIMShell is a personal information manager PIM add-on for IE6/IE7/IE8. You can collect, organize, search, presentation, share content as easily as browsing web pages. All the content are stored in a data file(.pim) to facilitate the preservation and carrying. Collect: You can collect all kinds of data, such as RSS...
- Tags: Data, PIMShell Studio, Microsoft Windows, RSS, E-mail, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Online Communications
- Software downloads 2008-10-02
- Microsoft christens next tool suite release 'Visual Studio 2010'
- Microsoft christens next tool suite release 'Visual Studio 2010'I dont think that's true.VS brings together many well understood tools into a convenient IDE. I mean, if you know unit testing on VS, then running JUnit on Eclipse is a small learning step, right?In many way, Visual Studio does the same...
- Tags: Microsoft development tools, .NET, tool, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft .NET, PHP
- Discussion threads 2008-09-29
- Zoho bitterness at the credit crunch...and a solution
- I have a lot of sympathy for Sridhar Vembu. CEO of AdventNet, the parent company behind Zoho. His last two posts reflect much of the fear and frustration behind what I am hearing in the startup world. But amid the gloom, Sridhar offers a glimmer of hope. A few snippets....
- Tags: Capitalism, Financial, Alchemy, Wall Street, Zoho, Alchemy Analogy, Financial Accounting, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- News to know: Windows 7; Oracle OpenWorld; Adobe CS4; Search 2.0
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Windows Live team confirms Win7 to replace subsystems with services Ed Bott: How to set up a new PC in one easy session ...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Larry Dignan, Oracle Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, BEA Beehive, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Oracle Open World, Help Desk, Java Development Tools, E-books, Enterprise Software, It Operations, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Personal Technology, Software
- Blog posts 2008-09-23
- Logitech Cordless Keyboard (Wii)
- Nintendo Wii owners will be intimately familiar with that system's on-screen keyboard, which lets you hunt and peck with the Wiimote controller. It's perfectly good for entering quick-text snippets, like player names or Wi-Fi passwords, but it can become tedious for longer text-entry duties. It's for the latter scenario that...
- Tags: Keyboards, QWERTY layout, Nintendo Wii, keyboard, Logitech
- Product reviews 2008-09-22
- Silverlight snippets from reMIX UK
- Silverlight snippets from reMIX UKAnother stupid cash cow?Well I hope it's not another milking of the MS cash cow i.e. delaying the release of SL2 until the PDC sells up because seriously .NET devs have been losing out to Flash over the last two years (good news for you, Ryan,...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, PDC, reMIX UK, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-22
- Silverlight snippets from reMIX UK
- Microsoft held reMIX UK last week in Brighton which as others have noted was an addendum to the MIX conference in Las Vegas which unfortunately came in the shadow of PDC where we should probably see a Silverlight 2 release as well as a bunch of other goodies from Microsoft....
- Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, PDC, Web Browsers, Internet, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-09-22
- A first look at the BlackBerry Javelin appears and is dubbed a Curve on steroids
- My T-Mobile SIM is living in my BlackBerry Curve and it is tough to get away from the excellent QWERTY keyboard and support for 3rd party applications (TwitterBerry, Facebook, Windows Live Messenger, Gmail) and email that I find quite valuable. We have seen rumors, news, and photos of the BlackBerry...
- Tags: RIM BlackBerry, BlackBerry Bold, BlackBerry Javelin, 3G, Handhelds, Keyboards, Wireless, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Peripherals, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-09-22
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