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Icon Restore 1.0 (Windows)

Icon Restore gives you the ability to save the placement of your desktop icons and restore them to their saved placement any time they get moved. Simply place your icons wherever you want them on your desktop, right click My Computer or any system icon and left click on 'save...

Tags: Left Click, Microsoft Windows, Computer, Tim Taylor, Productivity

Software downloads 2002-11-06

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News to know: IE vs Chrome; Microsoft's TV pack; Oracle; Pandora CEO

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Should Microsoft do an IE 8 'Lite'? Larry Dignan: Google: Chrome likely to land on Mac before Linux Ed Bott: TV...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Oracle Corp., Microsoft TV, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., TV, E-mail, Open Source, Tv & Home Theater, Online Communications, Personal Technology

Blog posts 2008-09-19

FCC set to slap Comcast's wrist

It's almost official. In the latest step forward, a majority of FCC commissioners voted Friday to "affirm" a complaint against Comcast for blocking BitTorrent traffic, the Washington Post reports, although the punishment is likely to be a "slap on the wrist," according to one analyst. The final...

Tags: FCC, Comcast Corp., Republican, Wrist, Federal Government, Government, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-07-30

News to know: Windows Server 2008 launch; Hotmail outage; Berners-Lee on semantic Web; Apple

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft courts open-source vendors to support Win Server 2008. Jason Perlow: Server 2008: The Windows Workstation we always wanted Outage hits Windows Live Hotmail, Messenger users Microsoft: Windows Live outage affected those not signed with...

Tags: Google Inc., MSN Hotmail, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows Server, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Photograph, Outage, Apple MacBook Pro, Microsoft Windows, Semantic Web, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Internet

Blog posts 2008-02-27

"Back that truck up"

The quotation is from Tim Taylor, star of TV's long defunct sitcom: Glimpses of Heidi, but suits my purpose here, which is to discuss our tendency to remember things in terms of what's important to us rather in terms of what really happened. A big...

Tags: Wintel, Idea, Microprocessor, IBM Corp., Quotation, Revisionism, Semiconductors, Processors, Hardware, Components, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2007-12-21

Lloyd Taylor: LinkedIn's 'scaling guru' tackles the social graph

Earlier this month I spoke with Lloyd Taylor, vice president of technical operations at LinkedIn and formerly Google's director of global operations and Keynote Systems' vice president of technology and operations. He discusses his past experience building and scaling data centers at Google and how it differs from his new...

Tags: Google Inc., CIO, Data Center, Network, LinkedIn, Data Centers, Social Networking, Storage, Networking, Hardware, Data Management, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-12-19

Morfik defends its IP rights against Google

A couple of weeks ago Google released its Google Web Toolkit GWT and almost immediately there were rumors of an alliance between Google and Morfik, the Web OS vendor which has a Javascript converter as one of its main products. The reason? GWT bore more than a casual resemblance to...

Tags: JST, Morfik Technology Pty Ltd.

Blog posts 2006-05-30

Sun turns Javascript into Java. Google turns Java into Javascript.

Yesterday, in my treatise about why Sun's emphasis on R&D and developer communities is too easily dismissed, I slipped in a bit of news about a skunkworks project at Sun called Phobos that the company unveiled this week at JavaOne. In the bigger scheme of things, Phobos is...

Tags: Java, JavaScript

Blog posts 2006-05-19

Star Trek: Star Fleet Command Demo (Windows)

The Starfleet Command demo includes a limited number of Federation and Klingon ships, just a few single player and multiplayer scenarios, and a starter set of Federation tutorials - just enough to give you a taste of what the game's got in store for you! NEW MISSIONSTo install the missions...

Tags: Version, Mission, Shield, Microsoft Windows, Star Trek, Speed, Missile, Ship, MacPlay, SFC MISSION APIThese, Multiplayer Game, Savegames, Medium Missile, Scatterpacks, AI, ECM, Gorn DN, Hydran Fighter, Hydran DWH, Games, Patches, Security, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2000-05-06