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- Seesmic snags Washington Post
- Just after tonight's McCain/Obama debate ended I received a Tweet message from Cathy Brooks, head of business development at Seesmic telling me the company has snagged the Washington Post as a customer. Seesmic has developed a 'white label' version of its service for the Washington Post's political...
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Mio Knight Rider GPS
- If you ever dreamed as a child or as an adult of owning a car like KITT of Knight Rider fame, you're dream is about to come true...sort of. Unless you're rolling in money, you can't have the actual Trans Am or David Hasselhoff, but you can have the next...
- Product reviews 2008-09-26
- Computers can now guess our age
- Computers can now guess our ageHollywood MakeupNow when you can ID the age of a Hollywood actor in professional aging makeup, I'll be VERY impressed.That's so sad......the downward slope for Hillary. Looked best by far as a baby. Or maybe its just that her philosophies are so repugnant?!...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-24
- Movie Library (zip)
- Movie Library is an economical movie collection database application designed for movie collectors and fans. The program lets you catalog any video formats such as DVD, VHS, VCD, Laser VideoDisc or home videos with detailed information. Movie library is not just a movie/video collection manager, it's also a movie and...
- Software downloads 2008-09-16
- First Microsoft make-over ad airs: $300 million well spent?
- First Microsoft make-over ad airs: $300 million well spent?Hmmm ....Could be worse ....Homer: [narrating a TV commercial] Are you tired of having your hands cut off by snowblowers? And the inevitable heart attacks that come with shoveling snow?Maybe......they should hire the company that does the Mac commercials....
- Discussion threads 2008-09-04
- iClone EX Edition (exe)
- iClone3 EX is the free trial edition of iClone3 PRO, which includes the full PRO features for 30 days and unlimited features of iClone Standard with no expiration. iClone3 EX contains everything necessary to learn the rich features of the PRO edition, but output is watermarked with the iClone logo...
- Software downloads 2008-09-02
- Actors paid to line up for iPhone launch in Poland
- Actors paid to line up for iPhone launch in PolandNice spin on the headlineimplying that Apple is the one paying people to stand in line.RE: Actors paid to line up for iPhone launch in PolandThat is just pathetic that they have to pay people to pretend to want an iPhone....
- Discussion threads 2008-08-22
- Get your young virgins vaccinated against HPV and cancer
- Get your young virgins vaccinated against HPV and cancerStick To Technology and Leave The Virgins AloneDAna, you could not be more off base than with your misinformed call to vaccinate. How much research have you done regarding Gardasil? I would venture that the answer is NONE. You base your recommendation...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-21
- Rogue network admin still in jail on $5m bail
- This is crazy. Perhaps literally. Terry Childs, computer network administrator for the city of San Francisco, got mad, apparently because his supervisors were trying to fire him, and created a secret root password for himself, locking out the rest of the city. Reported the SF Chronicle: ...
- Blog posts 2008-07-17
- Brad Pitt Celebrity Screensaver (exe)
- Do you collect screensavers featuring celebrities. Then this awesome Brad Pitt Celebrity Screensaver should be on your screen. Take the pleasure of watching the great collection of Brad Pitt's photos featuring the popular Hollywood actor in variety of surroundings. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Software downloads 2008-07-09
- Multiple Facebook vulnerabilities reported on Full-Disclosure
- Jouko Pynnonen posted a message to the Full-Disclosure mailing list today, citing multiple "script injection" vulnerabilities within Facebook. I'm not sure if this is a surprise to anybody out there, it's certainly not to me, as numerous web applications have major problems with Cross-site Scripting vulnerabilities, but I think this...
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- Video: Bill Gates' last day
- At CES 2008, Microsoft Chairman and CEO Bill Gates and some of his closest friends debuted a comical look at what life would be like as Bill's last day approaches. Many of entertainment's biggest heavyweights, such as Bono from U2, actor George Clooney, and director Steven Spielberg, got some laughs...
- Videos 2008-06-24
- Oddball thinking about OOP
- Oddball thinking about OOPVery interesting Murph ...... but a tad tricky to know if I followed your drift or not.OOP in my mind is a programmers management tool/way/approach/methodology. I'd find it hard not to write OO now. In the background Erlang is proving an interesting curve, but it's a hobby...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-03
- Oddball thinking about OOP
- Here's a variant thought about object oriented programming: it's a failure most directly because no one's developed a programming environment that fully implements the core messaging ideas - and the reason no one's been able to do it is that the OO ideas apply mainly to analog,...
- Blog posts 2008-06-03
- A C3PO sighting in Pittsburgh
- While touring Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center, CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi literally bumped into Anthony Daniels, the actor behind Star Wars' lovable android C3PO. You might not recognize his face, but you surely know his voice. Take a walk down memory lane with Daniels, who talks...
- Videos 2008-05-09
- What One Laptop Per Child lacks
- An entrepreneur. (Read to the end for the story of this picture.) Nicholas Negroponte is a brilliant man, a futurist of high rank, an idealist, and an all-around nice guy. He is not an entrepreneur. Neither, for that matter, is Walter...
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- MovieManager (exe)
- MovieManager is a fully featured Home Theater PC application that scans your drives, locates movies, identifies and catalogues your movies, gets information from the web, stores your movie information and plays your movies using the media players you choose. Features include: Store movie information on your PC including Cast members;...
- Software downloads 2008-04-17
- ScriptVOX Studio (exe)
- ScriptVOX Studio is easy to use text-to-speech software for writers that can open up a new window on your creativity. Writers can import a screenplay, movie script, documentary or even a childrens story. ScriptVOX will allow you to quickly add voices and images to your text. You can even save...
- Software downloads 2008-04-11
- Do brain-boosting drugs count as Ed Tech?
- Do brain-boosting drugs count as Ed Tech?Do brain-boosting drugs count as Ed Tech?Why not use something natural that doesn't have the side effects like ginko or DHMA (sp?)Athletes on steroids...no difference. I guess we should all be able to take our drug of choice. It seems like more and more...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-10
- 3-D collaborative body art in Scotland
- A collaborative technology developed several years ago at ETH Zurich in Switzerland is now being used in a theater in Scotland. The Living Canvas technology allows performers on stage to interact with recorded visuals projected on them. As said the lead developer, who teamed with a theater director for this...
- Blog posts 2008-04-08
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