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Difference Engine No. 2

Considered one of the most startling achievements of the 19th century, Charles Babbage's Difference Engine No. 2 has come to life 150 years later. CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi visits the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., to see the machine in action and meet the men who turned Babbage's...

Tags: News, charles babbage engine no. 2, kara tsuboi, jared kohler, computer history museum, victorian, invention, mathematics, Productivity

Videos 2008-05-02

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Halma (exe)

This is a Victorian board game. Halma is the Greek word for 'leap'. Moves are by stepping a square at a time or by 'leaping' over neighboring pieces of any color and in any direction. Your score is the number of moves your opponents must make to finish their trek...

Tags: Board, Julian Bury, Halma, Moves, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law

Software downloads 2008-07-03

An anthropological view of SOA rituals

An anthropological view of SOA ritualsSOA is not a distinct level of architecture“SOA is technology, of course, "No, it is not. It's not even necessarily *about* technology. One may apply SO principles to technology. One may apply SO principles to architecture. One may define an architecture for a technology project....

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, Service Orientation, SOA

Discussion threads 2008-06-04

An anthropological view of SOA rituals

Remember reading "The Body Ritual Among the Nacirema" in your college sociology class? That's the paper that stepped back and coldly analyzed the bizarre cultural rituals among a strange tribe residing somewhere in North America. Of course, the tribe being analyzed was modern-day American Nacerima backwards. So,...

Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-06-04

Photos: The Victorian engine that could

Charles Babbage's Difference Engine No. 2, one of the great achievements of the 19th century, comes to life 150 years later at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. by CNET News.com

Tags: Photograph, Productivity, CNET News.com, Machine, Babbage, Document Management, Government, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting

Image galleries 2008-05-04

A Semantic view of the Wikipedia for Data idea

Last week CNet's Dan Farber picked up on a post by ex-Googler Bret Taylor, entitled 'We need a Wikipedia for data.' Sarah Perez followed up on ReadWriteWeb with a useful roundup in 'Where to find Open Data on the Web,' and the usual flurry of interested individuals commented on each....

Tags: Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-04-14

Movie tech comes home with Healthphone SaaS

The Lord of the Rings imaging technology we profiled in August is coming to market through a Software As A Service SaaS offering for visiting nurses called Healthphone. The Victorian Order of Nurses in Canada has piloted the system, which includes a tablet PC from Motion Computing, and it's...

Tags: Patient, Movie, Wound, Worker, Error, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-03-12

This old (green) house

I have a confession to make: I am a preservationist. I'm nuts about old houses with stories to tell and atmosphere to spare, a passion that may seem at odds with my green leanings. Give me Newport, Rhode Island, with its Anglo-estate-envy or Cape May, with her...

Tags: Fact, Green, Channel Management, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-01-13

Building from the ground up? These books on constructing green homes are for you

Two dear friends just moved down to Florida, much to the chagrin of my husband, who has been a Jersey boy all his life. For now, they're in a condo, but eventually they plan to build. So this blog's for them. There are two different builders out...

Tags: Green Technology, Site, Florida, Home, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-01-05

Button Up! Screensaver (exe)

This kaleidoscope uses a more realistic physics-based method for moving the buttons as if they're in an oil-filled object cell. Button Up uses photographs of real Victorian glass kaleidoscope buttons. Each button itself is a work of art, and they make wonderful source material for the kaleidoscope. This kaleidoscope uses...

Tags: Screensaver, Button, Cell

Software downloads 2007-11-28

Powercor Has a Platform for Growth With SAP Upgrade

There's an old saying that if something's not broken, don't fix it. At Victorian electricity distributor Powercor Australia, it's a saying they've chosen to ignore. The company, which is responsible for delivering electricity to more than 600,000 premises across much of the state, has been a SAP user for more...

Tags: SAP AG, Powercor, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2007-09-01

Amy Lee Evanescence Screensaver (zip)

Amazing free screensaver of Amy Lee from the band Evanescence. Amy's musical influences include artists such as Mozart, Bjork, Tori Amos and christian singer Plumb. Her dress style is described as neo-goth, with emphasis on goth makeup and Victorian-era dress. Contains 15 full size images.

Tags: Makeup, Amy

Software downloads 2007-08-16

Victorian SurfCAM (widget)

Victorian SurfCAM displays several cams from a list of popular surf beaches that includes Gunnamatta, Sorrento, Flinders, Torquay, Suicide, 2nd Reef, Crunchy Point, Woolamai, and Frankston. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Release, Version

Software downloads 2007-07-24

Chinese boy kills mother over Net cafe money

Chinese boy kills mother over Net cafe money"It seems"?If you're going to claim that as much as 80% of juvenile crime might be perpetrated by 'internet addicts', you'd better back it up with more than just "it seems"...parental murderApparently, China doesn't understand that the epidemic they are now seeing has...

Tags: INTERNET, media, heaven, addiction, devil

Discussion threads 2007-06-14

Swap (exe)

This is an ancient puzzle game which dates back to Victorian Times. In this game you should swap the two colours as using as few steps as possible. A peg can move into its adjacent blank space or jump over another peg into the empty space.

Tags: Peg, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2007-03-28

Australian state bans YouTube after attack on girl is posted

The Victorian State government in Australia has banned YouTube in all schools after an assault on a 17-year-old girl was posted on the popular site, reports the Associated Press The effort to thwart cyber-bullying has resulted in banning the site from all schools in Victoria, Australias most populous state,...

Tags: Education Technology, Cybersecurity, Social networking

Blog posts 2007-03-02

Does the planet need only five computers?

Does the planet need only five computers?take a holiday....these people need to get more time off. They're living in dreamland already. I wouldn't trust IBM with my projects and data now, never mind anyone ''larger''.Refactoring...Before anyone goes crazy about the lack of IT jobs this could mean...I've worked at a...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, INTERNET, Desktops, computer, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-12-08

Scratches (exe)

Scratches is a terrifying story where a tale from the past emerges to haunt the present. You control famed horror writer Michael Arthate as he explores Blackwood Manor, a Victorian house near an English market town. It's a quiet and pleasant existence, until odd noises in the basement keep him...

Tags: Scratches, Construction

Software downloads 2006-11-22

Moviemakers win legal battle with DVD sanitizers

Moviemakers win legal battle with DVD sanitizersGee this is an easy one...if you find it offensive, don't watch it! That is why the rating system was created in the first place. If you want your own version of entertainment, then create it from scratch. Very simple really!I don't know about...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Media players, sex scene, MP3, MP3 player, DVD

Discussion threads 2006-07-10

A (nano)jacket for riding your bicycle

If you want to try a luminescent jacket to improve your safety when you ride your bicycle at night, you'll have to be next week in Melbourne, Australia. This prototype jacket, embedded with nano polymers, will be on display at the Melbourne Design Festival's Fabric of the Future exhibit, as...

Tags: NanoVic

Blog posts 2006-07-08