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- Best use for touch hardware yet? FarmVille
- Even with interactive screensavers, mapping applications and games all designed for touch applications, I may have found the best use of touch technology yet. by Zack Whittaker
- Tags: Use, Hardware, Games, Personal Technology, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2009-11-04
- SysEx Librarian 1.2.2 (Mac)
- SysEx Librarian is a utility for Mac OS X which lets you communicate with MIDI devices using System Exclusive messages, also known as SysEx. The most common use is to backup patch data from synthesizers, although there are other uses such as sending firmware updates. SysEx Librarian makes it easy...
- Tags: Use, Apple Macintosh, Snoize, SysEx Librarian, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
- Software downloads 2009-09-29
- PC Lock Station 2009.0001 (Windows)
- PC Lock Station is a monitoring software to manage the working process of your staff. Their use in the work environment increases the productivity performance of workers to reduce the periods of activity in non-productive tasks outside the strict labor. PC Lock Station contains a variety of features and tools...
- Tags: Use, PC, Monitoring, Microsoft Windows, LPS Software & IT Solutions, PC Lock Station, Desktops, Hardware
- Software downloads 2009-06-15
- EduVNC 2.2 (Windows)
- Remotely view and control a windows desktop using only a web browser. No client software, Java applet, or Active-X controls to install. Support for view only, no password, hashed passwords, balloon notifications, logging, auto start. Can launch multiple servers each with independent configuration. Easy to deploy to 1,00s of stations....
- Tags: Use, Password, Monitoring, Microsoft Windows, EduVNC, Settings, Productivity, Wiki, Online Communications
- Software downloads 2009-06-05
- Microsoft's Bing playing fast and loose with fair use?
- Microsoft's new Bing Search engine displays full length thumbnail videos -- with sound, stripped of ads. This appears to be the broadest "universal video search" yet, and may exceed the recognized bounds of fair use. by Denise Howell
- Tags: Use, Video, Microsoft Corp., Corporate Communications, Search, Marketing, Denise Howell
- Blog posts 2009-06-02
- REX2MPC 1.3 (Mac)
- REX2MPC allows you to easily convert Propellerheads Recycle files (rcy, rex & rx2) for use with the MPC 1000 and MPC 2500. Now you can do away with 'Chop Shop' and use Recycle to cut up your breakbeats!
- Tags: Use, Apple Macintosh, REX2MPC, Desktops, Hardware
- Software downloads 2009-04-24
- TurnItIn's archiving of student papers is fair use, court says
- Check out my Fair Use Blog at fairuselaw.wordpress.com iParadigms' TurnItIn.com is a service marketed to high schools and colleges in which student papers are entered into a database and then pattern-checked for signs of plagiarism. Several students in Northern Virginia came up with a clever attack on...
- Tags: Use, Factor, Archiving, Work, TurnItIn, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-04-20
- Unattended Answer File Using SIM
- In this webcast, the presenter will demonstrate the use of the Windows System Image Manager to be able to create an unattended answer file - used to be able to deploy with Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008. He also explains the use of the answer file to service images...
- Tags: SIM Card, Use, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Operating Systems, Flash Memory, Software
- Webcasts 2009-01-01
- OpenEdge DBKey Calculator 0.1 (Mobile)
- A calculator for use in conjunction with OpenEdge/Progress Software RDBMS. Allows simple calculation of DBKey based on entered recid or rowid (Accepts 64bit rowid's). This is on no use to users that are not using the Progress Software database product.
- Tags: Use, Mobile, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2008-11-19
- AulaControl 2008 1.0 (Windows)
- AulaControl 2008 has been developed to offer a specific solution to the administration and control computer classrooms. Each day more in the educational environment and other areas of the information society, these systems are, however, a challenge from the standpoint of the administrator because of the intense use and complexity...
- Tags: Use, Microsoft Windows, Classroom, Computer, AulaControl 2008, Productivity
- Software downloads 2008-10-15
- Suit over baby vid with Prince song goes forward
- Everybody agrees. Stephanie Lenz' video of her young son with Prince's "Let's Go Crazy" playing in the background was a fair use of a copyrighted work. But Universal submitted a DMCA takedown notice on the video and YouTube took it down for a month until Lenz was able to get...
- Tags: Use, DMCA, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- Gigabit Ethernet Over Standard Step-Index Polymer Optical Fiber
- The use of standard 1-mm core-diameter step-index plastic optical fibre (SI-POF) has so far been mainly limited to distances of up to 100 meters and low bit-rates in the order of 125 Mbit/s. By use of digital signal processing, transmission performance of such optical links can be improved. A promising...
- Tags: Use, Gigabit Ethernet, Technische Universitat Munchen, Ethernet, Network Technology, Networking
- White papers 2008-08-17
- Moodle your way out of the education muddle
- What's the biggest bottleneck in both open source and education? Time. Time to write code, time to learn the tools and get value from them. It is a muddle. So why not Moodle? Moodle is an open source course management system....
- Tags: Education, Use, Online Learning, Moodle, E-learning, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-14
- Whispers will not kill fair use
- Boingboing reports, via Google lawyer William Patry, that some large entertainment companies have launched a "whisper campaign" aimed at killing fair use. Governments are being told, in effect, that the U.S. Copyright law is incompatible with the Berne Convention, an international treaty on which copyright laws worldwide...
- Tags: Use, Government, Vertical Industries, Servers, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-10
- Lexicon - Define Your Terms 2.01 (Windows)
- Lexicon is an add-in for Microsoft Word that helps manage and navigate Defined Terms in complex documents such as legal agreements, annual reports, and formal proposals. Lexicon quickly identifies all Defined Terms and their uses and highlights possible errors, such as terms that are defined but never used, terms that...
- Tags: Lexicon, Use, Microsoft Windows, Lexicon Tools, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Financial Statements, Office Suites, Software, Financial Accounting, Finance
- Software downloads 2008-04-01
- What does fair-use really mean?
- Prior to passage of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (or just DMCA, for short), the fair-use rules were pretty clear. Quoting from the U.S. Code (TITLE 17, CHAPTER 1, SECTION 107, "Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair Use"): Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of...
- Tags: Educator, Use, Copyright Law, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marc Wagner
- Blog posts 2007-11-16
- Politicians just don't get it
- Once again, Congress is trying to throw technology at a problem that could be fixed as simply as telling our students Thou shalt not steal! and holding them accountable when they do! Now eSchool News reports House bill reopens campus file-sharing battle. Last time, it was the Senate but...
- Tags: Use, P2P, Kazaa, Music, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, Marc Wagner
- Blog posts 2007-10-23
- Google Beware: Web delivery of applications can be fraught with peril
- It may not be obvious to everyone that web delivery of applications is the next big thing, but after using web based applications to run my newly launched company I am convinced it is a revolution. Bill Gates caught on to this less than six months ago, demonstrating once...
- Tags: Use, Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-06-05
- School's in
- My kids started school today. Over the coming weeks, so will millions of others. As an IT professional, I've struggled with reconciling my core belief that IT, properly applied, can make most things work better and the evidence that it's had precious little effect on public education....
- Tags: education, Use
- Blog posts 2005-08-23
- Mech Warrior 4: Vengeance - Battle Line map (Windows)
- The Battle Line map is a place where the Ares Conventions have been forgotten. This is for use with Point Release 2 or higher only.
- Tags: Use, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2003-10-23
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