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Blue Microphones Snowflake USB

To truly take advantage of computer-based communications such as VoIP and Skype, you'll eventually want to invest in a decent USB microphone. Unlike those cheap microphones that plug into your desktop computer's mic input, or the noisy microphone built into your laptop, a quality USB microphone like the Snowflake ($79)...

Tags: USB, Snowflake, microphone

Product reviews 2008-07-09

Snowflakes or 3-D snowfakes?

Snowflakes or 3-D snowfakes?Mathematical models get you into troubleA Japanese mathematician recently claimed to have discovered a crystal structure for diamond unknown to science. Turns out chemists had predicted and played with this material since the late 1970s.http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/missing-crystal-found.htmlI wonder whether these mathematicians have spoken to their colleagues in Chemistry or...

Tags: Snowflake, 3D

Discussion threads 2008-01-23

Additional Resources

SQL Server 2005 Tuning, Optimization, and Troubleshooting

Instantly save $400 off the standard course price when you register on TechRepublic or ZDNet! Offer ends August 22, 2008.View Available Dates and LocationsIn this intensive instructor-led workshop, database developers who work in enterprise environments and use Microsoft SQL Server 2005 will gain the knowledge and skills to...

Tags: Performance, Optimization, Microsoft SQL Server, Knowledge, Operating System, Monitoring, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Storage, Databases, Performance Management, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Training 2008-08-01

I'm done with the MacBook Air (for now)

I've come to the conclusion that the MacBook Air isn't the best Mac for me. Everything that I've previously written about the MBA still remains true: I love its tiny form factor, light weight and ability to be able to be tucked into almost any bag, but at...

Tags: Apple MacBook, Apple MacBook Pro, Hardware, jason D. O'Grady, Notebooks, Notebooks & Tablets, MBA

Blog posts 2008-06-24

Xilisoft DVD Ripper Platinum (exe)

Xilisoft DVD Ripper Platinum can rip DVD to almost all popular video and audio formats. You can easily rip your DVD movie to video formats such as AVI, MPEG, WMV, DivX, RM, MOV, MP4, 3GP, 3G2, Xvid, and ASF and convert DVD to audio formats MP3, WAV, WMA, AAC, AC3,...

Tags: Video, Xilisoft, Audio Format, Corporate Communications, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Marketing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment

Software downloads 2008-06-02

Snowflakes or 3-D snowfakes?

Snowflakes have been puzzling mathematicians for about four centuries. Still, scientists have never been able to fully explain snowflake shapes. For example, is this true that their six-pointed structure reflect an underlying crystal structure? Now, two U.S. mathematicians have developed software that simulates 3-D snowflakes. And they discovered that even...

Tags: 3D, Researcher, Image, Computer, Molecule, Productivity, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-01-21

3D Mild Winter Screensaver (exe)

Take a trip to a quiet winter night in a forest. The small wood house placed at the midst of the snowy meadow surrounded with fuzzy firs. Snow falls silently and smoothly on the ground, covering it with light lambent blanket. It appears that Christmas time is soon to come....

Tags: 3D, Screensaver, Digital Minds Software

Software downloads 2007-11-29

Amazing Seattle Fractals 2007 (exe)

This screensaver has the following user configurable options. It has 40+ transition effects, Screen Saver Control tray icon, Microsoft Plus, Style screensaver features, Desktop Quick start icon, image display timing, resembling of images for different monitor resolutions and of course great fractal art. Fractals, in art and nature, can range...

Tags: Screensaver, Fractal

Software downloads 2007-11-28

Snow Flash Effect (zip)

Add snowfall, rain, bubbles or space flight effect to your flash animations with free Snow Flash Effect component. No need to exercise your programming skills. Snow Flash Effect is readily available, highly customizable, and completely free to use. Adding a snowfall to your Flash clip is as easy as...

Tags: Programming, Snow Flash Effect, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2007-11-14

3D Snow Screensaver (exe)

Christmas screensaver. Celebratory dance 3d snowflakes on your desktop. The snow falling gradually creates a snowy covering on your desktop for landscape wallpaper. Everyone the snowflake is individual, forms of snowflakes in accuracy never repeat. Animated falling snowflakes on your desktop does not prevent job. It is possible to make...

Tags: 3D, Screensaver, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2007-10-10

Local politicians struggle to 'get' blogs

While the presidential candidates are rushing around cyberspace, blogging, social-linking and making Second Life appearances, local candidates seem to just be dipping their toes in the bloggy waters - if Fairfax County, Va., is representative of the whole nation (it's not in so many ways but this might be one...

Tags: Elections

Blog posts 2007-05-18

3D Christmas Cookies (exe)

Delightful 3D Christmas Cookies float against a snowy sky as We Wish You A Merry Christmas plays in the background. It contains realistically modeled 3D animated images and MP3 music file. Select cookie shapes including snowman, bell, star, snowflake, gingerbread woman, angel, and rocking horse, Christmas tree. Change tint to...

Tags: 3D, MP3 Music, MP3, Cookie

Software downloads 2006-12-08

Best Practices IBM DB2 Multi-Dimensional Clustering in SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence (BI)

Multi-Dimensional Clustering MDC is a unique feature of IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows (DB2 LUW) that allows physically clustering the data in a table along multiple dimensions. This feature is especially beneficial for query performance in business intelligence applications that use star and snowflake schemas and process large...

Tags: SAP NetWeaver, Clustering, SAP AG, IBM DB2, IBM Corp., MDC, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Databases, Middleware, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management

White papers 2006-11-14

Ex-Brocade CEO free on $2 million bail

Ex-Brocade CEO free on $2 million bailMove over Bernie: you're going to have companyThis is but a snowflake on the tip of the iceberg. The lack of ethics, the missing morals, the bloated salaries and bonuses of those in a senior management position, the pure lack of talent: people would...

Tags: Bill Gates, bail, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-08-03

Snowflake Free (exe)

Both large and small snowflakes are drawn in 3D, which creates a beautiful image you will have to see to believe. Options include changing the background image, the number of snowflakes active, and the speed at which they fall. Resolution switching, passwords, and mouse filtering are fully supported.

Tags: Isotope 244 Computer Games, Mice, Hardware, Peripherals

Software downloads 2006-07-05

Wanderlust

One of the FAQs I get is, "Don't youever get tired of the travel?" To which the answer is, mostly,no. In fact, I worry sometimes that I have the opposite emotion --that travelling is just a core part of my DNA. To...

Tags: Helsinki

Blog posts 2006-03-14

Mild Winter 3D Screensaver (exe)

Fly away to the moment of peace and relaxation. It is a travel to quiet winter scenery, where small house of forester can be found. This screensaver brings the warm feelings of joy right to your computer desktop. Imagine that you are a snowflake that is falling, moved by slight...

Tags: 3D, Productivity

Software downloads 2006-01-18

Animated Snowflake Jigsaw Puzzle (exe)

This is a 48-piece stand-alone version of an animated Snowflake Jigsaw Puzzle. This puzzle is fairly easy to solve. The animation gives you an extra layer of fun. There is also a 100-piece version available on the website as well. You may freely share this puzzle with your friends, or...

Tags: Puzzle, Web Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet

Software downloads 2005-09-10

Thin Clients Bring Computing to Classrooms

Snowflake Unified School District #5 didn't have enough staff to maintain 700 computers. They couldn't expand to achieve a 2:1 student-to-computer ratio in their district. Given the rural location, they couldn't hire people. Snowflake Unified School District #5 switched to thin-client computing. This reduced their IT budget by 20 percent...

Tags: Thin Client, Computing, Wyse Technology Inc., Thin Clients, Hardware

Case studies

Component-Driven Engineering of Database Applications

Though it is commonly agreed that the design of large database schemata requires group effort, database design from component subschemata has not been investigated thoroughly. This paper investigates snowflake-like subschemata of database schemata expressed in the Higher-order Entity-Relationship Model HERM. These subschemata are almost hierarchical in the sense that they...

Tags: Australian Computer Society, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers