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wisdom of the Ages (exe): Wisdom of the Ages is an electronic book of quotes, sayings and ideas. It gives easy access to timeless knowledge from over 1,000 of history's greatest American, European and Asian minds. Improve your letters, reports, proposals and speeches with 6,561 carefully chosen thoughts. The intuitive organization lets you find excellent...; Tags: Wisdom, MCR Agency, Quote-A-Day Feature, E-books, Leadership, Construction, Personal Technology, Management; Software downloads 2008-05-07
The Ultimate wisdom of Crowds Platform: The wisdom of crowds - the collective opinion of people about something - is obviously quite valuable, and arguably, often more valuable than the opinion of a single expert, even though admittedly, it is not always the case. If properly harnessed, the wisdom of crowds has the potential of becoming...; Tags: Wisdom, Crowd, Clupedia; White papers 2008-04-01
Mac users - Secure or smug?: The accepted wisdom is that Mac users are immune to most of the security afflictions which plague those mere mortals that are still using Windows. But is all this set to change? Is a wave of Mac-homing malware getting ready to flood the Internet? I ask because...; Tags: Apple Macintosh, Kaspersky Lab, Security Company, Wisdom, Malware, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Security, Desktops, Viruses And Worms, Hardware, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes; Blog posts 2008-03-06
Build a Mac Pro equivalent workstation for 1/3 the cost: Conventional wisdom tells us that a digital content creation and CAD professional had to fork out $6000 to $10,000 dollars for a high-end 8-core dual-processor workstation, but this is Real World IT where I say screw conventional wisdom. I've put on my mad scientist hat again and brewed something up...; Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Apple Macintosh, Memory, Wisdom, Dual Processor, Intel Corp., Mac Pro, FBDIMM, Series Motherboard, Chipsets, Serial ATA, Workstations, Mice, Semiconductors, Processors, Hardware, Components, Storage, Peripherals, George Ou; Blog posts 2008-01-03
Better living through chemistry: There may be a chemical answer to one of the biggest worries among those working on climate change. The problem: an abundance of CO2 go into the atmosphere and the oceans. Now there's a wise guy who thinks he has the solution and it's actually a chemical solution....; Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Wisdom, Ocean, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2007-12-03

Robert Scoble's applecart: 'Google doesn't understand social behavior' is the premise upon which Robert Scoble developed his ideas about how Mahalo, Facebook and Techmeme will trounce Google over time. I'm no more convinced than most of those who are cited on Techmeme except in one area I regard as a green field...; Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Wisdom, Robert Scoble, Techmeme, rnrnBusiness, Hakia, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2007-08-28
The Threat Within: The dangers of unrestricted employee use of Corporate IT Systems: Conventional wisdom has led us to believe that external security threats - such as spam, viruses, phishing, trojan horses - cause the majority of security incidents. While this may be true, too few companies are paying sufficient attention to the very significant issue of internal threats from...; Tags: Clearswift Corp., Information Technology, Wisdom, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Security, Spyware, Strategy, Viruses And Worms, Spam And Phishing, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Management; White papers 2007-05-01
Notable Quotables (exe): Because one head cannot hold all of the wisdom in the world we bring to you Notable Quotables. A simple yet rich database containing folk wisdom from around of the world. Here you will find inspirational thoughts, humorous musings, and cynical barbs from thousands of the greatest minds and sharpest...; Tags: Shareware, Wisdom; Software downloads 2007-02-01
Temple Of Tangram (exe): Do you seek wisdom, inner peace, and truth. Take yourself out of this cold, harsh world and embark on a transcendental adventure. Choose your own path on your quest for the legendary hidden Temple of Tanagram. Enrich yourself with wisdom and experience as you puzzle your way through amazing landscapes....; Tags: Wisdom, Sales Tools, Sales; Software downloads 2006-12-20
PopUp wisdom (exe): PopUp Wisdom displays famous and not-so-famous quotes and humor at a timed scheduled. Easily add your own messages and reminders. Easily enable and disable multiple books to be used simultaneously.; Tags: Humor, Wisdom; Software downloads 2005-10-14
Wit and wisdom (exe): Wit and Wisdom is a clever Windows screensaver, designed to keep you amused and enlightened when your computer is idle. Every 15 seconds or so, your screen will be refreshed and updated with a clever thought, a famous quotation, or witticism. It contains more than 2,900 quotes and words of...; Tags: Shareware, PC, Wisdom; Software downloads 2005-05-24
Microsoft Webcast: The wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective wisdom Shapes Business: While the culture generally trusts experts and distrusts the wisdom of the masses, The New Yorker business columnist, the presenter, argues that "Under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably intelligent, and are often smarter than the smartest people in them." Groups have the potential to be better at solving problems,...; Tags: Webcast, Wisdom, Microsoft Corp., Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology; Webcasts

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HP to Acquire EDS ?: HP to Acquire EDS ?The fake Steve Jobs quote wasn't needed.He was wrong for all the usual good reasons. Best of all, the urge to bloviate loudly ideas from the conventional wisdom within his set.But you're right.The Compaq merger might be considered a success by those who consider layoffs...; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Government, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., merger, Compaq Computer Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-05-13
Fixing Windows Vista, Part 3: Top Troubleshooting Tools: Do you think Windows Vista is slow, crash-prone, or unreliable? Join the crowd. Over the past year, reviews of Windows Vista by mainstream media outlets, the technical press, bloggers, and ordinary users have been, for the most part, scathing. And many of those bad reviews were absolutely accurate. My...; Tags: Performance, PC, Driver, Microsoft Windows Vista, CPU, Tool, Dialog Box, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Performance Management, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Ed Bott; Blog posts 2008-05-06
Expensive certification requirements hurt recruiting: Not everyone is cut out to be a teacher. It's a demanding job, summers off or not, and it helps to like kids. However, there are many instances when students can really benefit from teachers who have worked in private industry. This isn't the old adage, those...; Tags: Education, Recruiting, Teacher, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-05-06
Art of War (zip): There is a war going on between humans and strange, mutated, and purple aliens. The aliens grow over the fields, eat our grass and kill our sheep. Art of War is based on the ancient game of GO: simple but very complex. You'll need all your strategy, insight, wisdom, and...; Tags: Art, Alien, PalmWars, Games, Strategy, Personal Technology, Management; Software downloads 2008-05-05
10 reasons for IT failure: Readers of this blog know IT initiatives generally fail for business, organizational, or cultural reasons. Sure, technology screw-ups occur all the time, but that's one of the realities to be managed. Success or failure ultimately depends on how project leadership manages the full range of technical-...; Tags: Project, Information Technology, IT Leadership, Complex Project, Strategy, Leadership, Management, Michael Krigsman; Blog posts 2008-05-02
Apple and AT: Apple and ATHey, it's no worse than MAC filtering :)Hey, it's no worse than MAC filtering which is universally used at for-fee hotspots :). The right sniffer and the right script can quickly change your MAC address to one that's already logged in. Just find a user on...; Tags: Domain names, Web browsers, user agent, MAC address, DNS, MAC, Mac Filtering, Apple Inc.; Discussion threads 2008-05-02
Spigit mashes up social software to reveal innovation: Take the idea of community, sprinkle liberally with process, add a dash of prediction market thinking and a soupcon of reputation analysis, stir gently without too much mashing and you have InnovationSpigit. I really like this idea because it solves one of the...; Tags: Innovation, Idea, Spigit, InnovationSpigit, Research & Development, LDAP, Leadership, Games, Strategy, Business Operations, Directory Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Personal Technology, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-05-01
Canada caught on its own tar baby. Tar sand investments now a dead duck?: Canada caught on its own tar baby. Tar sand investments now a dead duck?Editing.There are many spelling errors and a missing link at the bottom of this article.Oil is messyThis is story is why China will become an even bigger superpower.Everything with them is a business transaction. They don't...; Tags: own tar baby, tar baby, investment, duck, dead duck, oil; Discussion threads 2008-05-01