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- Adobe Open Screen Project
- Adobe is making a couple of big announcements today that relate to our openness and the openness of the Flash Player. Starting today, there will be no restrictions on the use of the SWF specification or the FLV and F4V specifications that make up video in Flash. Previously, in order...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Macromedia Flash Player, Specification, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- Uncle Hextor
- Uncle Hextor is a hex editor which allows files larger than available RAM to be edited. It also has features which support reverse engineering binary files. Unknown files are annotated with a markup editor, and the description is saved to an XML specification. Other programs that can read the XML...
- Tags: Specification, File, Wave Orbital, Uncle Hextor, XML, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- Software downloads 2008-04-10
- Timesaver:Global Time
- Global Time is a product developed and supported for the purpose of an independent free standing system which can deliver exact chronological time in multiple places geographically; for display on marquees and/or personal systems (i.e. Travel industry advertising/marketing). Attachments and/or modifications can be easily added, as bolt-ons, for industry/client specifications....
- Tags: Specification, Global Time
- Software downloads 2008-03-04
- McGrath Information Solution (zip)
- We created a standard for the multimedia content, and even went one step further, the standard will contain information on any type of object (Audio, Video, DVD, Word processor, Comic book.) on any media and on any operating system. What we offer is the external text based metadata file called...
- Tags: Standard, Specification, McGrath Info Solution
- Software downloads 2008-02-19
- Modeling Demystified, Part 1: Creating a System specification From the User's Point of View
- Nobody deliberately builds a product that's hard to use. Yet too often one encounter tools, equipment, and IT solutions that are confusing, annoying, and unusable. Why is that? In many cases, IT solutions are hard to use because the designer has built the solution based on what the technology or...
- Tags: Solution, Information Technology, Specification, Modeling, IBM Corp., Research & Development, Strategy, Business Operations, Management
- White papers 2008-02-19
- HP ProLiant Server Blade specification for Microsoft Web Server
- HP offers a full range of hardware - server, networking, and storage - components designed to meet the performance, scalability, availability, and reliability requirements of the Microsoft application infrastructure. HP offers a full suite of ProLiant server blade management tools, which enables to take control of and manage Microsoft application...
- Tags: Web Server, Blade Server, HP Compaq ProLiant Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., Blade, Specification, Microsoft Corp., HP Compaq ProLiant, HP ProLiant Server Blade Technology, Blade Servers, Servers, Utility Computing, Hardware
- White papers 2008-02-01
- System Spec (exe)
- With System Spec you can see, save, and print a complete spec of your PC with this no-install, system information utility and perform various windows functions. Additional advanced info includes CPU, display, memory, drives, and apps. System Spec is a self contained standalone EXE which can be run without installing....
- Tags: Control Panel, Specification, System Spec, Control Panel Menu
- Software downloads 2008-01-10
- CES: Big thinkers and disruptive technologies
- The Consumer Electronics Show about the size of 36 football fields and exhausting, and so are the names of some of the conference sessions. I attended "Big Thinkers and Disruptive Technologies: Today's Thought Leaders and Tomorrow's Technologies," with panelists Dave Habiger, CEO of Sonic Solutions; Levy Gerzberg, CEO of Zoran;...
- Tags: Facebook, Specification, Photograph, Sonic Solutions, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Open Source, Security, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2008-01-09
- CablePro (exe)
- CablePro is an interactive software application designed to aid voice and data cabling professionals in documenting or writing detailed cabling specifications. CablePro is the ideal tool to transcribe mechanical/electrical or architectural/engineering drawings, blueprints, and graphical representation of cable requirements. In addition, CablePro can aid in producing a written 'cabling specification'...
- Tags: Specification, CablePro, Cable, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking
- Software downloads 2008-01-09
- VP of Technology Avis Budget Group: John Turato - Transcript
- Dan Farber: John, thanks for joining me. John Turato: Thank you. Dan Farber: You are the Chairman of the Open Travel Alliance, and perhaps you could start by giving us some color on exactly what it is. John...
- Tags: Avis Rent A Car System Inc., Specification, SOA, Service, Open Travel Alliance, Notification Service, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Data Centers, Internet, Hardware Upgrade, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Administrator
- Blog posts 2008-01-08
- OpenID 2.0 specification released
- The OpenID 2.0 specification was finalized at IIW this week. OpenID 2.0 comprises two separate specifications: OpenID Authentication 2.0 and OpenID Attribute Exchange 1.0. Getting 2.0 out the door has been a long process, but the additions will be a real boost to OpenID's usefulness. ...
- Tags: America Online Inc., Use Case, Blog, Specification, Wordpress, User, News, OpenID 2.0, OpenID 1.0, Relying Party, Blogging, Internet, Phil Windley
- Blog posts 2007-12-06
- Ray Ozzie's Simple Sharing Extensions get a new lease on life
- In late 2005, Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie was championing a new technology called RSS Simple Sharing Extensions SSE. Since then, there have been almost no public updates from Ozzie or anyone else at Microsoft on what was happening with SSE. Until this week, that is....
- Tags: Ray Ozzie, Specification, Microsoft Corp., RSS, Microsoft Windows, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-12-05
- SAT - specification Analysis Tool (exe)
- The need for good specifications has been apparent for over 2 decades. Until now the process of writing good specification text has been manually intensive with reviews lasting days or weeks. SAT is a revolutionary tool to help you develop clean useful specifications with clear, complete, consistent, and testable requirements....
- Tags: Specification, Analysis
- Software downloads 2007-11-21
- A programming proposition
- A programming propositionThe problems with prototyping(1) Validation and verification, especially of non-trivial functionality (beyond CRUD + basic aggregation), can be as or more costly than implementation activities. All changes to a production system require regression testing first.(2) Validation and verification are short-changed, leading to applications that yield incorrect and...
- Tags: approval process, specification, programming proposition, programming
- Discussion threads 2007-11-05
- Coming in 2008: USB 3.0 specifications
- Intel, along with other technology heavyweights, have formed a group to promote USB 3.0 with plans to deliver a specification in the first half of 2008. The group, which was announced at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, includes HP, Microsoft, NEC, NXP Semiconductors and Texas Instruments....
- Tags: Specification, USB, Intel Corp., USB 3.0, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-09-19
- Fighting SOA complexity with lots of committees
- As you may have heard, the OASIS group has responded to demands to simplify SOA by announcing the formation of six new committees intended to advance the Service Component Architecture family of specifications. It's tempting to launch in with with some lame committee jokes, such as "a...
- Tags: SOA, Committee, OASIS, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2007-09-08
- ZDNet reader: Don't let OOXML vs. ODF shenanigans tarnish other standards setters
- I've been a watcher of the great many standards setting processes for a great many years and there's a lot that goes on behind the scenes that most people don't know about. In 2003, I even won an award for my coverage of standards from the American National Standards Institute:...
- Tags: JEDEC, Specification, ISO, Microsoft Corp., Computerworld, OpenDocument Format, Session, Standards, OOXML, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Quality, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Emerging Technologies, Business Operations, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-06
- Word 2003: Rich Text Format (RTF) specification, version 1.8 (exe)
- The Rich Text Format RTF Specification provides a format for text and graphics interchange that can be used with different output devices, operating environments, and operating systems. Version 1.8 of the specification contains the latest updates introduced by Microsoft Office Word 2003. RTF uses the American National Standards Institute ANSI,...
- Tags: Operating System, Specification, Microsoft Word 2003, Microsoft Corp., Rich Text Format, Rich Text Format Specification, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Operating Systems, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2007-08-28
- To simplify software's access to multicore parallelism, AMD proposes new x86 spec. Will Intel accept?
- To simplify software's access to multicore parallelism, AMD proposes new x86 spec. Will Intel accept?Chip performance vs software"If you think chips have outpaced the performance needs of software so far"Anybody who is under such an illusion needs their head checked. I receive more complaints than ever from people about newer...
- Tags: Network technology, Semiconductors, Tools & Techniques, multi-core, specification, Intel x86, chip, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., 64-bit, software
- Discussion threads 2007-08-14
- Photos: Apple unveils new iMacs, apps
- CEO Steve Jobs shows off new iMacs and updates to Apple's multimedia and productivity software Tuesday.Three new iMacs were unveiled at an event held Tuesday at Apple''s Cupertino, Calif., headquarters. There will be two 20-inch iMacs with different specifications, and a more expensive 24-inch model. The 20-inch systems will cost...
- Tags: Desktops, photograph, Apple iMac, new iMac, Apple Inc., Steve Jobs, Apple iLife, GarageBand, Apple iPhoto, Apple iWeb, Apple iDVD, movie, display, specification, soundtrack, rock, jack, home video, aluminum, video clip, FireWire, Intel Core 2 Duo, chief operating officer, batte
- Image galleries 2007-08-07
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