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Upcoming Events 4.2 (Mobile)

Upcoming Events retrieves birthdays and anniversaries from iPhone and iPod Contacts application, ability to add, edit, and delete birthdays and anniversaries independent of contacts application, Photo support for contacts created in Upcoming Events independent database, partial date format for birthdays created in Upcoming Events, slick and intuitive user interface for...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple iPod, Mobile, Birthday, Tangent Software, Digital Music, Digital Media, E-mail, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Online Communications

Software downloads 2009-06-17

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$299 Kindle: Great, now make it read PDF!

$299 Kindle: Great, now make it read PDF!Great writeup, but... Much thanks, Jason, your usual great blogpost... but I really do not see the point of these readers... Like you, I have tons of books on pdf and chm(and thanks for the heads-up reminder on the IBM Redbooks, that had...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, netbook, Adobe PDF, Amazon.com Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-07-08

Geometry 2.8.2 (Windows)

Calculates Surface Area and Volume of common Geometric Figures. These include cones, cylinders, spheres, prisms, and pyramids. It also will perform some standard/metric conversions.The software will perform calculations involving the pythagorean theorem, sine, cosine, tangent, special triangles, regular polygons, circles, arcs, triangles, squares, rectangles, distance, slope, midpoint, Trigonometry, and coordinate...

Tags: Geometry, Calculation, Travis East, Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Operating Systems, Software, Management

Software downloads 2009-07-07

Sony admits to PSP Go early adopter premium, are you really surprised?

Sony admits to PSP Go early adopter premium, are you really surprised?Not worth itThere's not much reason from my perspective to own a PSP Go. I have the 3000 and with WiFi I can run off to the Sony store and buy games... which is the only way you'll be...

Tags: Games, Wireless and Mobility, Sony Corp., Sony PlayStation Portable, PSP Go

Discussion threads 2009-06-26

Visual Calculus 3.7 (Windows)

Visual Calculus is an easy-to-use software for Graphing limit, derivative function, integral, 3D vector, series, ode etc. Which can create 2D, 2.5D and 3D function graphs, animations and table graphs. 2D Features: explicit, implicit, parametric, and in equation; Cartesian and polar coordinate systems; curve and animation; graph of inverse function...

Tags: 3D, Animation, Microsoft Windows

Software downloads 2009-03-30

Analyst: Apple could crush competitors with a $99 iPhone

Analyst: Apple could crush competitors with a $99 iPhoneIt's not the cost of the phone but the cost of the data packageIt's not the cost of the phone but the cost of the data package that is keeping me from buying an i phone. I love my ipod Touch...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, phone

Discussion threads 2008-10-27

Scientific Graphical Calculator - Full source code 1.0 (Mobile)

The program works on mobile phones from series 60 with Symbian OS and looks like a real calculator and its service is very easy and intuitive.Available functions and mathematical expressions. sine, cosine, tangent, inverse trigonometric functions: arc sine, arc cosine, arc tangenthyperbolic sine, hyperbolic cosine, hyperbolic tangent, arc hyperbolic sine,...

Tags: Function, Tangent, Mobile, K-Software, Symbian OS, Mobile Operating Systems, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, E-mail, Operating Systems, Investment, Mobile Applications, Handhelds, Software, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Finance, Hardware

Software downloads 2008-09-15

Psystar countersues Apple, alleges anticompetitive business practices

Psystar countersues Apple, alleges anticompetitive business practicesCan Apple mention the original IBM PC/Compaq cloning incident?Whoops, I mean Psystar. Apple would be hanging a noose around its own neck if they brought up that ye olde lawsuit into court...Never mind "Apple hardware" is off-the-shelf PC hardware too, even their OS...

Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Operating systems, Desktops, Psystar, Apple Inc., Compaq Computer Corp., Phoenix Technologies, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-08-26

On deck from MS: Four 'important' patches but nothing for IE

On deck from MS: Four 'important' patches but nothing for IEAm I correct that uninstalling Safari mitigates the problem?I realize it isn't a fix but am I correct in believing that for the time being, removing Safari effectively closes off the only known attack vector that can utilize this vulnerability?...

Tags: Web browsers, SECURITY, patch management, flaw, Apple Safari, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Internet Explorer

Discussion threads 2008-07-03

A minority opinion ....

A minority opinion ....Who said Windows can't ....... run on a 64 way multi-core system without a hitch. I didn't. I merely pointed out the flaws in the author's methods. I was the one arguing that each OS has it's place. You ran off on a...

Tags: Operating systems, .NET, OPEN SOURCE, Named Pipes, Microsoft Windows, Sun Solaris, Linux, flaw, Unix

Discussion threads 2008-04-02

This is why I'll always remain a Microsoft skeptic

This is why I'll always remain a Microsoft skepticAnd cue NMB'ers ....Personally, I see straight through their horsesh*t.Because they've lied so many times in the past, there is a remote possibility that at some time, once, they said something and I was wrongly over-skeptical, but I doubt it.RE: This is...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Office, Groupware, Microsoft Corp., skeptic

Discussion threads 2008-03-10

Yahoo's Jerry Yang is no Bill Gates

Yahoo's Jerry Yang is no Bill GatesI wouldn't disagree with anything that was saidBusiness is war and in war, life is harsh.Many of us would like to think that companies are in business for altruistic reasons and indeed many founders might have such thinking... but once a company becomes public,...

Tags: Operational accounting, Operating systems, TV network, Yahoo! Inc., Jerry Yang, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-02-16

Hyperic and managing by exception

A short while ago, I had the opportunity to speak with the good folks of Hyperic once again. The conversation originally centered on the topic of their new release, Hyperic HQ 3.2, but then went off on a very important tangent, managing resource by exception. Let's start with a quick...

Tags: Team, Information Technology, MySQL, Scalability, Hyperic 3.2, Management Environment, Team Management, Open Source, Databases, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-02-05

ODF and differences of opinion

ODF and differences of opinionNot really[i]It sounds like the OpenDocument Foundation thinks another XML document standard would better achieve their goals.[/i]Actually, it's much more of a political issue. They're after a file format that meets classical standards objectives such as testable conformance and round-trip integrity between conforming applications.According to...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), OOXML, OpenDocument Format, OASIS, OpenDocument Foundation

Discussion threads 2007-11-02

Bring on naked PCs, says think tank

Bring on naked PCs, says think tankIs he implying that taking the obviously rightapproach of not having to purchase a single vendor's OS along with the PC h/w will benefit consumers? I thought that common sense was frowned upon :)[i]Singleton suggested most people are unable to easily purchase a computer...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Linux, operating system, Microsoft Corp., naked PC, Apple Inc., PC

Discussion threads 2007-09-26

Everything you've read about Vista DRM is wrong (Part 3)

This is the final installment in my series debunking Peter Gutmann's widely read and undeservedly cited paper on Vista content protection. (If you missed Part 1 and Part 2, go read them before you dive into this conclusion.) Today, I want to deal head-on with one of the most...

Tags: Paper, HDMI, PC, Digital-rights Management, Output, NVidia Corp., Codec, Microsoft Windows Vista, Video, Microsoft Corp., Hardware, 1080p, Peter Gutmann, HD, Laptop Magazine, DVI, D-CINEMA, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2007-09-20

Sorry about your broken RAID 5

Sorry about your broken RAID 5Still trying to understand your argumentGranting that a URE rate of 10^-15 [1] means that the incidence of two UREs per array approaches unity once the storage system exceeds 10^30 sectors (10^39 bytes, which is a rather large array), what isn't clear is why this...

Tags: Storage, RAID 5, URE, RAID, disk

Discussion threads 2007-07-24

Trackplan Tools 13.0 Universal Binary (Mac)

Trackplan Tools is a plug-in filter for Adobe Illustrator to quickly draw model railroad trackplans. Use the dockable Trackplan palette to select your turnout size, the scale of your drawing, your curve radius, whether you're using easements, and your track centers (e.g., 2" for HO scale). Trackwork is automatically joined...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Plug-in, Graffix, Trackplan Tools, Trackwork

Software downloads 2007-07-21

Has Dell kicked the crapware habit?

Has Dell kicked the crapware habit?5 versus 10The extra five minutes is not a big deal to me, but thanks for the pointer. I especially like the fact that Avast Free has a 64-bit edition.Avast is very nice.Good, free, and auto-updateable. The Best.Are you kidding me?NO software package should take...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Dell Software, Dell Computer Corp., computer, AVG, software, Avast

Discussion threads 2007-06-21

Vista Hands On

Vista Hands OnDrive sizesOn a large drive 15% is actually a lot of wasted space in my opinion. Say I'm buying a 320 GB harddrive, which I am as my current hard drive is too full to allow Vista to install. That means that 15% is 48 GBs of space...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, system restore, Linux, disk, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-04-25