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Pear Note 1.3.3 (Mac)

Pear Note integrates audio, video, and slides with traditional text notes. By recording all activity, Pear Note keeps track of what's going on while taking notes as well as what the user has to say about it. This makes Pear Note incredibly useful for important meetings, class settings, or speeches....

Tags: Audio, Apple Macintosh, Note, Useful Fruit Software, Pear Note, Corporate Communications, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-10-18

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How to kick iTunes' lock-in media formats squarely in the fruit

ZDNet Editor-In-Chief Larry Dignan came to the frustrating realization today that his iTunes media collection was rendered unusable on his new media device, a SanDisk Sansa Clip. When he tried to copy his files over, he quickly found out many of them were useless and wouldn't play. ...

Tags: Apple iPod, Media, Apple iTunes, YamiPod, CDex, Mediacoder, Songbird, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-03-16

Google grabs for billions in pharma gold...

Google has asked all hacks to assemble at the Googleplex Monday 19th to hear about the state of search and also Google Health. That sounds like hearing about the health of Google and also its new service Google Health. Health is a tricky area for Google. I remember chatting...

Tags: Google Inc., Pharmaceutical Company, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-05-13

Microsoft looks to make product planning more science than art

Microsoft has been quietly building a platform to help its own product teams -- and ultimately, those from other companies -- turn product planning more of a science and less of a black art. Microsoft calls the test bed the Microsoft Experimentation Platform ExP. Here is how...

Tags: Software, Team, Experiment, Platform, Experimentation, Microsoft Corp., ExP, EXP Team, MJF, Human Intuition, Team Management, Tools & Techniques, Management, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-04-16

Just in time for Macworld: A rouge application dubbed MacSweeper

Just in time for Macworld: A rouge application dubbed MacSweeperHehe, suddenly marketshare is a factor?![i]These bogus programs aren't anything new, but the fact that one has surfaced on the Mac indicates that Apple's market share has been on a tear.[/i]Malware authors don't care about marketshare, they target the worst OS...

Tags: Desktops, Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, Drive-By Installs, Apple Macintosh, MacSweeper, malware, JIT, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-01-15

Will Windows 'XO' bear fruit for OLPC?

Will Windows 'XO' bear fruit for OLPC?You are again trashing Christopher Dawson's blog. Get you own bloginstead of trashing somebody else's.No.All this talk about training, etc, the Sugar OS on XO requires no training. Security is also baked in, and it has mesh capabilities, ultra low power, etc...Now, all...

Tags: Blogging, blog, One Laptop Per Child project, laptop computer, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2007-12-06

EU ruling deals setback to Microsoft

EU ruling deals setback to MicrosoftQueue the WinZealots...]:)Queue the PatriotsThis article is incorrect on the ruling having nothing to do with the USA - which has "settled". The USA is very much trying to reform Microsoft which is viewed now as a transnational big business rather than an American company...

Tags: Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Corp., EU ruling deals setback, deals setback, EU Ruling, American company, big business

Discussion threads 2007-09-17

A checkpoint on Web 2.0 in the enterprise, Part 2

A new survey of the personal use of Web 2.0 applications by CIOs emerged late last week and provided another interesting, if high-level, datapoint about the future of Web 2.0 in the enterprise. Carried out by CIO Insight, the survey reported the usual trends like high rates of use...

Tags: Web, Web 2.0, AJAX, Network, Ruby On Rails, Idea, Product, Business, Amazon.com Inc., Semantic Web, Office 2.0, Jury, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2007-08-27

Microsoft cuts Windows virtualization features

Microsoft cuts Windows virtualization features>>> "Shipping is a feature too," Neil saidMike Neil is right about that, but [b]shipping[/b] is a feature that must follow the [b]selling[/b] feature. If it doesn't sell, who cares if it ships?MS seems to be coming apart at the seams. They punted on vista features....

Tags: Utility computing, Storage management, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., virtualization, Windows Virtualization, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2007-05-10

Apple guru combats month of bugs

Apple guru combats month of bugsGoodvolunteering quite commendable, and stepping up to the challenge, beyond what most commercial entities would do. To play devil's advocate, Cisco for example, might just deny and threaten against the flaw announcers.Why does Landon hate Apple so much?Just curious. It is obvious that there...

Tags: Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-01-03

Make XP look like Vista!

Make XP look like Vista!Considering the fact it's a shameless rip off...of Macintosh OS X, how could they have gone wrong? I'm just amazed it took them this long to put the OS X GUI on top of XP. Can you imagine how crappy Windows would look, if not for...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP, Make XP, 9x

Discussion threads 2006-11-24

Security pros provide interim IE patch

Security pros provide interim IE patchFiguresMS needs to have others provide a temporary fix to an issue that they won't be fixing until next month.I'm NUMBER 1! =-pIsn't it embarassing that others provide a fix way before MS could do it?They are getting more and more insensitive to the needs...

Tags: Web browsers, Patches, Network administration, programmer, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Internet Explorer, security, interim IE patch, SECURITY PROS, patch

Discussion threads 2006-09-22

Turning Wine into Windows on a Mac

Turning Wine into Windows on a MacWine is a dead endAnyone remember OS/2? Part of its supposed appeal was that it was "a better Windows than Windows". IBM tried hard to put a Windows compatibility layer into OS/2, but it never really achieved its goal. Besides, Windows...

Tags: Operating systems, wine, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2006-06-30

Thou Shalt Not Ignore Security Risks When Choosing Platforms

Thou Shalt Not Ignore Security Risks When Choosing PlatformsSecurity isn't about platformsIt is a fact that Linux systems get hacked more than Windows by confirmed defacements. www.zone-h.org.Most hacks come through via bad application coding in things like bad Perl or bad ASP. Second on the list is bad...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, SECURITY, Spyware, adware & malware, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows, Linux

Discussion threads 2006-04-03

>Captain Cyborg and the Problem of Evil

>Captain Cyborg and the Problem of Evila thought..Can't we plug ourselves into a mainframe and be done with our lives as in the MatrixHad something, but lost the pointCyborgs? Come on Murph. It's not the weekend quite yet.However, discussing the major buckets (you're "enabling" vs "replacing" at the...

Tags: Strategy, Operational accounting, worker, Captain Cyborg, APU

Discussion threads 2005-12-16

New IE plug-in aims to speed Web searches

New IE plug-in aims to speed Web searchesPrior use?I've been using BetterSearch on Firefox which does this for a while now...I hope they're not serious about the "patented" part =(New IE plug-in aims to speed Web searchesIsn't this the same thing that Google tried doing a few months back? ...

Tags: Web browsers, Mozilla Firefox, plug-in, Browster, Web browser, patent, New IE plug-in, speed Web search, NEw IE, Microsoft Internet Explorer

Discussion threads 2005-07-13

Google loses trademark case in France

Google loses trademark case in FranceRight on!i agree with the French Court's ruling. This raises the bar and standards on keywords for legit search-results, in order to stop the abuse of the process.The FrenchAnything the Frence can do to anything North American...the will. Lame ducks they are. The French...

Tags: Real estate, Branding, Google Inc., French Court, Microsoft Corp., advertisement, agent, search result, Louis Vuitton

Discussion threads 2005-02-04

IBM offers 500 patents for open-source use

IBM offers 500 patents for open-source useOSS has taken over this planet, earthlings, REJOICE!!!Every MS junkie, bow to your new overlords. From hippies, commies to "we rule this place now ;)" at the speed of light.And no matter what IBM's motive (use OSS developers, make money, wadda, wadda..) this is...

Tags: patent, OSS, IBM Corp., open source, Microsoft Corp., software, Linux

Discussion threads 2005-01-11

Microsoft dresses up mice

Microsoft dresses up miceWhy?I don't get it...flame decals make them go fasteror havne't you heard?PrioritiesM$ should concentrate less on this crap and more on their garbage operating system. But hey, the mouse looks great, but the lastest IE vulurablity just ate all my files.Since when should a mouse cost...

Tags: Mice, mouse, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2004-07-08