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Crazy Taxi (exe)

Crazy Taxi is a small flash game. Drive the taxi using the maximum possible speed. Press the arrow keys to dodge other cars, accelerate and decelerate, and press the spacebar to jump over them.

Tags: Taxi, Crazy Taxi, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2007-10-25

The future of net discrimination, brought to you by Comcast

Imagine a busy intersection at rush hour. All the cars are moving slowly, but making progress. Everyone will eventually get home but it might take a while. To relieve the problem the city could build more or bigger roads but that's expensive. Meanwhile, along comes an ambulance that needs to...

Tags: Comcast Corp., P2P, Taxi, Ambulance, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2007-10-24

Photos: Rethinking New York City's taxis

Taxi 07 Exhibit showed off a wide variety of possible features for the city's massive fleet of cabs.

Tags: taxi, fleet, New York City, photograph

Image galleries 2007-04-05

Images: The 21st-century taxicab

New York's taxis don't have to be retrofitted sedans from Detroit. They might even be designed for the passenger's benefit.

Tags: taxi, sedan, Detroit, New York, benefit

Image galleries 2006-01-11

Images: The 21st-century taxicab

New York's taxis don't have to be retrofitted sedans from Detroit. They might even be designed for the passenger's benefit.

Tags: taxi, sedan, Detroit, New York, benefit

Image galleries 2006-01-11

Images: The 21st-century taxicab

New York's taxis don't have to be retrofitted sedans from Detroit. They might even be designed for the passenger's benefit.

Tags: taxi, sedan, Detroit, New York, benefit

Image galleries 2006-01-11

Additional Resources

ASUS R700t

While best known for its computer components and motherboards, Asus is branching out to all sorts of consumer electronics, including GPS. The Asus R700t is one of its first portable navigation devices, and we must admit we're pleasantly surprised. The slim device is easy to use and features some great...

Tags: Keyboards, GPS, Media players, display, ASUS R700t, ASUS

Product reviews 2008-06-04

DomeDriver (zip)

Did you know that there is real life in snowdomes? If you concentrate yourself for a long time it could be that you see e.g. Max the DomeDriver. Max is a taxi driver like every other taxi driver with the difference that he lifes in a snowdome. His job is...

Tags: Life, Driver, DeepSpace, Cyberthreats, Games, Recruitment & Selection, Viruses And Worms, Security, Personal Technology, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Software downloads 2008-04-24

Fixing Windows Vista, one machine at a time

If the "Vista sucks" movement has a public face, it's the Sony Vaio. No one knows that better than my new friend Jeremy Toeman. In May 2007, this 15-year Windows veteran replaced his old, beloved, XP-powered Vaio with a newer Vaio that came with Windows Vista Business installed. Practically overnight,...

Tags: Sony Corp., Sony Vaio, Clean Install, Installation, Driver, Microsoft Windows Vista, Machine, Recovery Partition, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2008-04-21

PHATsoft Taxi Accounting Software (zip)

Easy-to-use financial record-keeping software for taxi drivers, executive car operators, chauffeur drivers, and private hire drivers. Keep a record of journeys and income.Easy to use, basic functionality: does most of your record-keeping in a non-complicated way. Version 1.4.1 includes unspecified updates.

Tags: Accounting, Driver, Phatsoft, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Financial Accounting, Tools & Techniques, Finance, Management

Software downloads 2008-04-11

(Photos: Flying car readies for takeoff in New York)

(Photos: Flying car readies for takeoff in New York)it looks more like a plain to meI don't know why they call it a car.Do the wings fold, or the is the traction on wheels?Yeah... great idea..... NOT!Our roadways are already crawling with morons who act like they are at their...

Tags: Flying Car, takeoff, wing, photograph

Discussion threads 2008-03-20

Photos: Ford's boxy, high-tech taxi

The automaker shows off the Transit Connect Taxi concept, which combines generous headroom with an in-dash computer and entertainment options galore. by CNET News.com

Tags: Photograph, Ford Motor Co., Entertainment, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-03-19

News to know: IE 8; Big storage; Gnome 2.2; Apple; Acer; Tech lobbying

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Will IE 8 break the Web? Microsoft buys virtualization vendor help with Vista migrations There's more than one way to make Microsoft software 'serviceable' Windows Home Server users want their Power Pack 1...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Web, Yahoo! Inc., Storage, GNOME, Apple Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Acer Inc., Channel Management, Virtualization, Internet, Open Source, Marketing, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-13

A robotic taxi named robuCAB

A robotic taxi named robuCAB"Hello. My Name is Johnny Cab""Please enter a destination"!Embedded Systems Are Just SystemsThe paradoxical goals of making embedded systems more precise are identical to the goals of all software. Software developers work at increasing levels of abstraction while achieving more and more concrete results (i.e., controlling...

Tags: robuCAB, robotic

Discussion threads 2008-03-12

A robotic taxi named robuCAB

According to ICT Results, a EU-funded project named Embounded 'has achieved the twin, and apparently contradictory goals, of making embedded systems both smarter and tougher.' One example is the robuCAB, a '4 seats automated people mover' developed by a French company and built from a 4 wheel-drive electric chassis with...

Tags: Adobe PDF, Embedded System, robuCAB, Robosoft, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-03-12

PHATsoft (zip)

PHATsoft is easy-to use accounting software for taxi drivers, private hire drivers, chauffeur drivers. Record journeys (when, who, from, to how much) and whether paid or not. If not paid (e.g. contract work), you can send statements from within the program. Record income as it comes in. Also record expenses...

Tags: Accounting, Phatsoft, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Finance

Software downloads 2008-02-08

Read my mIPS: no new faxes!

I have a wired and wireless-ed up blogger cave. But you won't find a fax machine here. Why am I writing a post about this? Yesterday I was talking to a friend who wanted to borrow my "fax machine." Seems she had to...

Tags: Phone, Fax, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-01-16

Striking writers and digital media

The members of the Writer's Guild of America WGA, a union that consists of most of the writers responsible for TV and movie content produced by the LA-based movie industry (a position defended by the fact that union contracts require most sets to use only union writers), continues unabated, thus putting...

Tags: Digital Media, Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-01-03

A Merry JibJab Christmas...

I always wanted to have Bill Gates as my taxi driver.  And whoda thunk it...Richard Stallman is my guardian angel. Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life" is one of the best Christmas movies (in my opinion, of course), and its status in American popular culture was created...

Tags: Bill Gates, Richard Stallman, Sales Force Management, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Sales, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, John Carroll

Blog posts 2007-12-21

Microsoft security update derails IE

Microsoft security update derails IEYou should all switch to OS XIt is better than Micro$ux's Pista. Did you know that Pista started as a non-networked, single-user, single process OS (called MS-DOS) with no concept of restricted rights? You can't add security afterwards, you have to have it right in the...

Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Microsoft Security Update, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Security, Microsoft Corp., Pista, Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Apple Mac OS X

Discussion threads 2007-12-17