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Virtual reality frog dissection software

Computer scientists at the University of Buffalo have developed V-Frog, the world's first virtual-reality-based frog dissection software designed for biology education. Contrary to previous virtual frog dissection kits, this software is a real simulation product. As says one researcher, 'other products out there are multi-media, not true virtual reality.' And...

Tags: Software, Biology, Student, Technology, V-Frog, Tools & Techniques, Virtual Reality, Management, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-02-11

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Apple founder Steve Wozniak interview, answers your Tweeted questions

At the San Francisco Social Networking Conference today, Steve Wozniak, Apple co founder and personal computer legend, shared some fascinating insights into the modern world of social networking and mobile phones. I was able to organize a one on one interview with Steve (thanks Marc Lesnick &...

Tags: Phone, Steve Wozniak, Mobile, Network, Cell Phone, Apple Inc., Steve, Social Networking, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Online Communications, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-07-10

Pine trees to frogs, global warming is killing 'em off

In the northern lattitudes the boreal forests of North America are losing their evergreens. Scientists say the mountain pine beetle is thriving due to the warmer winters. In turn beetles are killing large numbers of trees in Canadian forests. Previous beetle attacks have occurred in the Canadian...

Tags: Climate, Global Warming, Species, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-05-09

MSN Music to ex-customers: So you thought you bought that song for life, eh?

MSN Music to ex-customers: So you thought you bought that song for life, eh?Grammar policeyou’re content -> your content unless you are content.I think that's called a call for class actiondidn't I hear attorney laughing and evluating future fees ?Come on Adrian, I'm sure you really know why."To be honest,...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Digital music, Media players, MSN Music, MSN, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-04-23

SearchSOA.com names Nexaweb's Enterprise Web Suite 'Product of Year'

Nexaweb Technologies, the application platform provider, just keeps piling on the accolades. Its latest achievement is the Product of the Year award for its Enterprise Web Suite from SearchSOA.com. The gold-status award for the Burlington, Mass. Company, came in the RIA /Composite Application Assembly category, and was...

Tags: Web, Professional Services, Model-driven Architecture, Nexaweb Technologies, Model Driven Architecture, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Data Centers, Asset Management, Middleware, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-04-09

Adobe clarifies CEO's iPhone Flash comments

Adobe clarifies CEO's iPhone Flash commentsExpect to see many of these type of trial balloons..Doesn't it seem clear that part of what Adobe is doing is playing the court of public opinion to get Apple to play ball?On the Apple side, this is a great test of the control v....

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Apple iPhone, Adobe Systems Inc., Apple Inc., phone, Macromedia Flash Player

Discussion threads 2008-03-19

Sun waits out Microsoft, gets some interoperability bang after all

What a nut I was. Back when Sun Microsystems and Microsoft announced they would be joining forces on interoperability between Sun, nee Java, and .NET (remember Steve Ballmer [of "Ballmer and Butthead" fame) and Scott McNealy sitting side by side) I thought they meant it. I pushed...

Tags: Interoperability, Sun Microsystems Inc., Thin Client, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Thin Clients, Programming Languages, Java, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-03-10

Darwin The Monkey (exe)

After having his bananas stolen by a nasty tribe of jungle frogs, Darwin must venture deep into the jungle to kick some frog butt and reclaim his dinner. Game features: 30 handcrafted levels, six varied gameplay types, and lighthearted family friendly gameplay. This version is the first release on CNET...

Tags: Jungle, Rock Solid Games, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-03-06

Nexaweb Advance takes RIA value to the enterprise application modernization imperative

There are so many good reasons to modernize legacy and 3GL/4GL applications that enterprises are moving wholesale to modernization activities, changing entire classes of applications, and aligning them with SOA, SaaS, data center consolidation, ITIL, and energy-conservation/green initiatives. Oh, and modernization allows you to gracefully get out...

Tags: Client-server, Data Center, Goal, Rich Internet Application, Enterprise Application, Datacenter Transformation, Data Centers, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Model Driven Architecture, ITIL, Storage, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Data Management, Web Services, Software, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development, It Services, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-03-03

Motorola wins $335 million Saudi contract

Motorola wins $335 million Saudi contractThat will helpAt least we can recover some of our oil dollars. It should come as no surprise that the incredible wealth accumulated from the sale of oil should fund a leap frog to the latest technology.RE: Motorola wins $335 million Saudi contractAs always,...

Tags: Saudi contract, Motorola Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-03-02

What happens to WiMax with Sprint on the ropes?

Sprint Nextel had a net loss of $29.5 billion, suspended its dividend and drew down its credit line for "financial flexibility." Meanwhile, Sprint has jumped into the wireless price war fray with its own $99.99 a month all-you-can-eat wireless plan. Sprint's woes wouldn't be a big deal if the company...

Tags: Sprint Communications, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-02-28

Radar Networks raises additional $13 million in Series B round

A rumoured additional investment in San Francisco-based Semantic Web startup, Radar Networks, has become clearer over the weekend. Late last week, Dan Primack broke the story on PE Hub, reporting on a lunch he'd had with Ross Levinsohn and Roland Van der Meer of Velocity. VentureBeat's Chris...

Tags: Network, Investment, Radar, Radar Networks, VentureBeat, Spivack, Twine, Nova, Aerospace & Defense, Semantic Web, Manufacturing, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-02-24

Christmas Super Frog for Windows (exe)

Santa's sleigh has broken down, scattering his gifts all around the town. Now it is up to you to recover all the missing presents before Christmas arrives. We offer this highly addictive kids game as a free download. Recapture memories of playing arcade games as a child, enjoy a rainy...

Tags: Koingo Software, Santa, Games, Microsoft Windows, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2008-02-20

Is Alzheimer's on the ropes?

Is Alzheimer's on the ropes?That would be wonderfulI agree that Alzheimer's is just a terrible disease and also hopeful a cure/prevention can be found. While this does not run in my family, I've seen and heard of the toll it takes on families.Soon we will get a new president that...

Tags: Alzheimer's disease, Pope, God, rope

Discussion threads 2008-02-18

Free RAR Extract Frog (exe)

Free RAR Extract Frog is a new skinable extraction tool for RAR-archives that supports spanned archives as well as the decompression of password protected files. It comes with short instructions in 45 languages. Start the extraction of a RAR file by drag 'n' drop, double click or shell integrated context...

Tags: Password, Instruction, Image, Philipp Winterberg, Free RAR Extract Frog

Software downloads 2008-02-18

Smartphone+makers%2C+mobile+operators+still+baffled+by+iPhone

Smartphone+makers%2C+mobile+operators+still+baffled+by+iPhoneThe best prediction from an analystthat I read was the one that said 2008 would be the year of crappy touch screen phones as competing companies once again fall into the trap of believing their hardware and software engineers when they insist they can do interface and product design.It's what...

Tags: Sales strategy, Keyboards, Sales force management, Apple iPhone, E.E., sales

Discussion threads 2008-02-15

News to know: Vista SP1 hacks and 551 bugs; Apple patch; RIM outage

Notable headlines: Ed Bott: Vista SP1 rolls up 551 bug fixes. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: More information on the Vista SP1 activation hack. Gallery right. George Ou: Vista SP1 still vulnerable to speech recognition 'analog' hole RIM notifies of 'critical' BlackBerry outage. Russell...

Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Larry Dignan, Yahoo! Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Outage, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Manufacturing, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software

Blog posts 2008-02-12

Virtual reality frog dissection software

Virtual reality frog dissection softwareThe Frog Farmers of America!!!What about the Frog Farmers of America? What will happen to all of them? Some people making a living selling their farmed frogs to schools and universities around the US. This piece of software threatens the livelihood of these individuals! Taking away...

Tags: dissection software, FARMERS, Frog, virtual reality

Discussion threads 2008-02-11

Similar Words (Java) (zip)

SimilarWords is a graphical Java 1.4 Swing GUI application to help find unique words or identifiers, by avoiding words that are similar to each other. Two words are considered similar by this program if you can convert one word into the other by: Changing one letter: bat/cat; Adding one letter:...

Tags: Word, SimilarWords, Programming Languages, Java, Microsoft Word, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software

Software downloads 2008-02-06

Frog Hunt (exe)

Frog Hunt is not the best game there is. As a matter of fact it's probably the worst, but that's OK since that's the whole point. See it as an experiment in game design or as an example of what happens if you mess with the fundamental laws of gameplay....

Tags: Frog Hunt, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-01-31