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AudioTest (dmg)

AudioTest generates audio test signals and can save audio test signals as AIFF files. Wave types: sine wave, triangle wave, sawtooth wave, square wave, pulse wave, anti-aliased sawtooth wave, anti-aliased square wave, anti-aliased pulse wave. Uniform distribution white noise, pink noise, brown noise, and Gaussian distribution white noise Frequency: fixed,...

Tags: Audio, Sweep, Noise, AudioTest, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Security

Software downloads 2006-07-25

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Should political postings stay or go? A survey.

I've been blogging for ZD Net for several years, writing for ZD publications for almost 20 years. I've always found readers to be intelligent and thoughtful, which is why I continue to do this while doing other things as "work." My posting, A virus in your genes, think about that,...

Tags: U.S., R&D, Discovery, Blog, Politics, Survey, Creationism, Rational Rants, Research & Development, Blogging, Business Operations, Internet, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Nanospheres moving faster than light?

Nanospheres moving faster than light?English?Seriously, zdnet is not a science journal. It all sounds interesting, but understand the article requires prior understanding of other concepts.From what i gather they are saying the "faster than light limit" does not apply to these objects because they are not light?I also have...

Tags: laser, Nanospheres, beam

Discussion threads 2008-08-20

Why there's a software support and maintenance revolution underway

Why there's a software support and maintenance revolution underwayGood article, Larry.Software companies are running out of ways to make you buy their latest version. There just isn't anything in newer versions that increase productivity. So they have to raise their revenue somewhere.I think it is better for companies to hire...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Internal IT, database manager, software, maintenance revolution

Discussion threads 2008-08-19

Is copy and paste really needed on the iPhone?

Is copy and paste really needed on the iPhone?Stop making excusesI can't even count the number of times I send someone a URL or get a URL in an email.The iPhone is showing it's lineage as an iPOD and not a serious computer, and I at least give Apple credit...

Tags: E-mail, Desktops, iphone, Apple iPhone, Apple Macintosh, Wordpress

Discussion threads 2008-08-05

Toshiba Satellite L305-S5875

Editors' note: This review is part of our Back-to-School 2008 roundup, covering specific configurations of popular laptops that can be found in retail stores.The Toshiba Satellite L305-S5875 is a thoroughly average, entry-level laptop. It wasn't too long ago that an average, entry-level laptop meant one that was underpowered and shabbily...

Tags: Notebooks, Toshiba Corp., Toshiba Satellite, Toshiba Satellite L305-S5875, laptop computer

Product reviews 2008-07-23

Q'n'A: Your correspondence to date

Over the last week or two, I've been inundated with an email. On a serious note, there have been a few questions asked; not that they need clarification as I've already covered these things, I'll answer these anyway. Q. [Email] Open Source ERP5 is now used to...

Tags: Mobile, E-mail, Public Relations, Online Communications, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-07-21

Sony VAIO NR430E/L

Note: This review is part of our Back-to-School 2008 roundup, covering specific configurations of popular laptops that can be found in retail stores.When we made our sweep of back-to-school laptops this summer, we were surprised to see a Sony VAIO among the entry-level models. (Perhaps Sony's declining laptop market share...

Tags: Desktops, Sony Vaio, laptop computer, Sony Corp.

Product reviews 2008-07-14

VMWare: Time to Pay the Open Source Piper

It would not be an exaggeration to say that yesterday was a very bad day for VMWare. My friend and fellow tech blogger colleague at ComputerWorld, Steven J Vaughn-Nichols, thinks the company will be down for the count when they take their next hit, that essentially, the...

Tags: Software, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Virtualization, Tools & Techniques, Open Source, Hardware, Management, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-07-09

Spectro Sound Card Signal Generator (exe)

Generate a variety of static and sweep signals using your PC sound card. The signals that can be generated includes: sine, triangle, square, sawtooth and white noise. A linear, exponential and logarithmic sweep signal can be specified within a specific frequency range and time duration. The sweep frequency can be...

Tags: Frequency

Software downloads 2008-07-02

Thinking -- Or Feeling -- Like A Computer

So an unknown billionaire named Jeffrey E. Epstein has spent millions trying to develop a thinking and feeling computer. But winds up in jail instead. This sounds eerily like a wish to build a HAL 9000 computer that was the central character of Arthur C. Clarke's science...

Tags: Thinking Machines, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Computer, Astronaut, Productivity, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-07-01

Firefox 3.0 downloads surpass 7 million

Firefox 3.0 downloads surpass 7 millionFound a FLAW in Firefox 3.0these protocol-handler security settings are ignored although they're set to 'true' and so you don't receive warningsnetwork.protocol-handler.warn-external.mailtonetwork.protocol-handler.warn-external.newsnetwork.protocol-handler.warn-external.nntpnetwork.protocol-handler.warn-external.snews(about:config)I've done my partI even downloaded it twice, once for my laptop and once for my desktop. :)Three cheers for the Mozilla Teamand a...

Tags: Web browsers, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, FF3

Discussion threads 2008-06-18

Market disaster on Wall Street plays positive in Silicon Valley

You may think the U.S. is divided along political lines, perhaps you sense a rift in cultural values. But let me tell you that's peanuts compared to the coming brutal high-stakes rift over the core of the US economy. Will it be Pentagon contracts, oil and gasoline? ...

Tags: Clean Technology, Wall, Construction, Mortgages, Investment, Finance, Capital Structures, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-06-07

Tropico Jong (exe)

Grab your camera and go on a vivid butterfly expedition. With the map of Tropico Island in your hand, you journey across the sandy white beaches and lush jungles by solving mahjong puzzles that have been spread throughout the island. Tropico Jong features 101 exciting levels of solitaire mahjong, exotic...

Tags: Arcade Lab

Software downloads 2008-06-03

Poll: Post-Yahoo, what should Microsoft do?

Now that the Microsoft-Yahoo deal is tabled, what is Microsoft's next move? Many are assuming Microsoft is waiting for Yahoo's stock to tank in order to sweep in and make another pass at Yahoo. Others are counting on Microsoft buying another Web 2.0 powerhouse in Yahoo's stead...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Web 2.0, Internet, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-05-05

Ping Tester Pro (exe)

PingTester is a visual network test tools, it can store a list of IP addresses, URL, and network test commands to increase the working efficiency, perform ping test by one click, 'ping sweep' subnets or interval ping all the hosts on a list continuously, save the individual ping records to...

Tags: AutoBAUP, Interval, Network, IP, PingTester, Networking, Network Technology

Software downloads 2008-04-28

User experience begins with the software installer

Writer John Welch on his Bynkii blog ranted up a storm this week over his experience installing Adobe Systems' Creative Suite 3. He wonders how it could happen that a software powerhouse could offer such a terrible installer. Or maybe it's because Adobe is so big — Welch isn't the...

Tags: Software, Adobe Systems Inc., User Experience, John Welch, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Strategy, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Management, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2008-04-08

Datagate: The Next Inevitable Corporate Disaster?

Is data leakage the next wave of impending disaster that could sweep the global enterprise landscape? In a 2007 study conducted by Datamonitor, more than 60 percent of enterprises surveyed have experienced data leakage within the last year, and 33 percent believe it could put them out of business....

Tags: mcafee inc., data protection, disaster recovery, backups, data management

White papers 2008-04-01

OOXML vs. ODF: Lessons learned

OOXML vs. ODF: Lessons learnedIt taught Microsoft that its days are numberedas an all powerful monopoly, and that it cannot just run roughshod wherever it likes without an equal and opposite reaction.It's taught us, the community, that maybe it's time to start lots of lobbying of our own. Perhaps lots...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), OOXML, OpenDocument Format, Lessons Learned, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-03-31

Electrochemist.com (zip)

Software Electrochemist.com is virtual electrochemist who can analyze and simulate electrochemical experiments. It simulates analytically and digitally voltammetry and chronoamperometry on virtually any mechanism in 4 models (finite and semi-infinite diffusions, convection and adsorption) at over 10 electrode geometries (planar, spherical, semi-spherical, cylindrical, semi-cylindrical, microdisc, thin film, and their rotating...

Tags: Electrode, Pulse, DrHuang, Software Electrochemist.com, Telecom & Utilities

Software downloads 2008-03-24