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Holiday recap: Amazon bucks trend of worst retail season in decades

Holiday recap: Amazon bucks trend of worst retail season in decadesConvenience, availability, and price are what customers wantAmazon.com is convenient and the free shipping with $25 or more purchased gives a good shopping experience. I have bought things from them before, so my information does not have to be...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-12-29

Xmas 1.1 (Windows)

Xmas is a theme made up of original icons drawn by me, a snowy background, and Christmas-colors throughout.

Tags: Background, Theme, Icon, Matt Coxwell, Xmas, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2008-12-17

Motorola gPhone by Xmas '09: A big mistake?

Motorola gPhone by Xmas '09: A big mistake?I agreeYou hit the high points of this topic well. Motorola will be very very sorry if they delay a year in taking advantage of this new OS and the feature set it can support. This will be too bad, because they have...

Tags: motorola, Motorola Inc., GPhone, Xmas, big mistake

Discussion threads 2008-10-31

Solid State Drives: Samsung may accelerate adoption just in time for Xmas

Solid State Drives: Samsung may accelerate adoption just in time for XmasI am certain...The cost will drop and the reliablility will accelerate for this technology. Can't wait to buy one to replace my clickety old notebook platter.Sounds great, but what will it cost????RE: Solid State Drives: Samsung may accelerate adoption...

Tags: Quality, adoption just-in-time, solid state disk, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., JIT, Xmas

Discussion threads 2008-05-26

Sony announces development tools for PS3

Sony announces development tools for PS3Smart move butSony really took their time addressing dev concerns. The buy ups will surely help but I'd wait until the end of 06 or begining of 07 to buy one. Those first 150 titlesat release will pale to what comes later after dev units...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Development tools, Middleware, Sony Corp., Xmas, development tool, Sony PlayStation 3, tool

Discussion threads 2005-07-21

Additional Resources

Windows 7 OEM pricing: What could and should Microsoft do?

Windows 7 OEM pricing: What could and should Microsoft do?Bigger flaw in the analysis.We're talking about the per-copy price of Win7 as if it were a fixed amount, which it probably is - but the tacit assumption is that the price of the netbook it's running on is *also* a...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Pricing, Operating systems, UNIX, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), REAL QUESTION, Microsoft Windows 7, Linux, OEM, pricing strategy, Microsoft Do, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., netbook

Discussion threads 2009-06-16

Island Wars 2 Xmas 2.60 (Mac)

Ah, the South Pacific seas... warm sun, clear skies, crystal waters... too bad you won't get to see any of that because it's Christmas time! Nevertheless, those two little islands are still obsessed with destroying each other's Christmas trees and you seem to have been caught in the middle of...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Island, Productivity

Software downloads 2009-06-13

Chicken Invaders 3 Xmas 3.60 (Mac)

Chickens. For centuries we have oppressed them, grilling, roasting, stewing, and stuffing them in buns. We should have known the time would come for us to pay. And it did. Intergalactic chickens invaded Earth, seeking revenge for the oppression of their earthly brethren. They came out of nowhere, and everywhere....

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Chicken, Studio

Software downloads 2009-06-13

Piggly Xmas 1.11 (Mac)

Have you ever seen a pig climb up a tree? Juggle apples? Perform a somersault? Then you haven't met Mrs. Piggly yet. She's a pig on a mission, and her mission is to bake delicious homemade apple pies for her piglets. So she's gone out to the forest to gather...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-06-12

Loco Xmas 1.30 (Mac)

Save Christmas! A crisis is brewing in the North Pole! Santa's workshop is running at full capacity. Elves are working overtime, but alas, production is not enough for Christmas Eve! Thousands could be left without presents, and YOU might be one of them! Trains will be passing through every town,...

Tags: Train, Apple Macintosh, Santa, Elves, Games, Investment, Desktops, Personal Technology, Finance, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-06-12

Get involved: build me your perfect tech-filled house

Get involved: build me your perfect tech-filled houseBeer taps.http://craziestgadgets.com/2008/11/26/beer-tap-system-with-lcd-tv/RE: Get involved: build me your perfect tech-filled houseEvery day should start with kitty:http://www.amazon.com/Hello-Kitty-Clock-Pink%252f-%2528KT2053%2529/dp/B0015ESWHI/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=toys-and-games&qid=1240923927&sr=8-1RE: Get involved: build me your perfect tech-filled houseNeeds:PS3 - $399 plays Blu-rayLogitech Cordless mediaboard pro (for both PS3 and TV-connected PC) - $7032" Samsung LCD TV - $549Belkin...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Monitors & displays, tech-filled house, Get Involved

Discussion threads 2009-04-28

Microsoft's next-generation Zunes: The end of the line?

Microsoft's next-generation Zunes: The end of the line?I had a ZuneLove my my iPod better. Wasn't at all impressed with it. The Service in the music store was shoddy. If you buy music from their store, you have to immediately burn it to disc, and rip it back off, because...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Digital media, Digital music, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Zune, software

Discussion threads 2009-04-10

Beware of the TrixBox

For those of you thinking of cutting over to a packaged Asterisk solution, you'll want to read  this account from Dr. Adrian Steele, the Managing Director of Mercian Labels, a UK SME specialising in short run label printing and...

Tags: Phone, Softphone, Network, Telecom & Utilities, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Networking, Emerging Technologies, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2009-02-09

iPhone firmware 2.2.1 released, unlockers beware (updated 3x)

iPhone firmware 2.2.1 released, unlockers beware (updated 3x)Every Update breaks unlocking...Duh! That's why they do updates!It hasn't even been 24 hours. They will have a patch within the week.Losing customersApple is loved. The cellular system is not owned by Apple. We the people around the world love Iphone,...

Tags: Smart phones, Handhelds, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., firmware

Discussion threads 2009-01-28

Report: PC makers to provide free Vista-to Win-7 upgrades starting July 1

Report: PC makers to provide free Vista-to Win-7 upgrades starting July 1Seems like you're setting them up for failureevery time you say it's going to be released 3Q-2009 even though they insist it's 1Q-2010.RE: Report: PC makers to provide free Vista-to Win-7 upgrades starting July 1Well heres one to everyone...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Vista-to Win-7 upgrade, Vista-to Win-7, Microsoft Windows Vista, PC company, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-01-06

Windows 7 beta 1 performance - How does the OS compare to Vista and XP?

Windows 7 beta 1 performance - How does the OS compare to Vista and XP?Im guessingthat you did not post exact times so as to get around the no-benchmarks part of the EULA? Unfortunately how much better one is compared to the other matters. Is it insignificantly faster? a small...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP, Windows 7 beta 1 performance, Windows 7 Beta 1, WINDOWS 7 BETA, operating system, Microsoft Windows, performance

Discussion threads 2009-01-01

Blu-ray sinks the PS3

Blu-ray sinks the PS3unique?The iPhone is unique. As a console PS 3 is not, it's a wash with the xbox with xbox probably getting the nod because of Live and more and better games. Sure Xbox has no Blu ray but who says a game system should be tied to...

Tags: Games, Game players, Marketing research, Problem 2, Sony Corp., Sony PlayStation 3, game

Discussion threads 2008-12-30

Google's great Christmas mystery

Google's great Christmas mysteryRE: Google's great Christmas mysteryCold fusion? One of them looks vaguely like Einstein.Doll Factory?Looks like grand-pa here is working his magic to produce gifts for the kid. I wonder if grand-pa is Google. LOL!RE: Google's great Christmas mysteryby looking at gears, it seems that Google is...

Tags: Geppetto, Google Inc., Christmas, private information

Discussion threads 2008-12-25

Merry Christmass!

Merry Christmass!Jup.Same to U Murph :)=// JesperOne certainly expects ...... and increase in mass this X.Have a good one!RE: Merry Christmass!Thanks Murph,Merry Christmas to you and yours!Stay safe, stay warm, have a great holiday!Merry Christmas Murph. Peace.nt"... defense on the Oboe"?The oboe solo at the end of Night on Bare...

Tags: Ubantu, Murph, Anton

Discussion threads 2008-12-24

Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays!RE: Happy Holidays!Eggnog's not so bad, but with sherry??? Well to each his own I guess. Merry Christmas.Happy Holidays Adrian, Everyone!ntRE: Happy Holidays!eggnog - you really drink that stuff????lolMerry Christmas and Happy New Year. .HAN (XMAS, BOXING, NEW YEAR) DNTPlease do tell..How is that post-7000 build looking...

Tags: Eggnog, Anderson Valley, Happy Holidays, Adrian

Discussion threads 2008-12-23