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- Hacker scores by posting East Anglia global warming emails
- Control over eating a hamburgerGood grief please stop the madness of all of these un-truths about global warming trash.I want a burger I will eat a burger, if I want to drive to town to ride around so be it, if I want to raise cattle and have them pass...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-20
- How to add value, not just more tech, with Web 2.0
- Great PresentationI don't know how you find the time to do all the stuff you do and have small new children.We have the Live product here for student e-mailIt's hard to keep up.If building your house on the sand is a bad idea. What about a cloud? Thank goodness the...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-19
- AT&T loses bid to stop Verizon ads, responds with its own
- AT&T could use Apple's patentApple has patented a technique where a user is forced to watch an ad and then answer a quiz about that ad before they are allowed to use their Apple device. AT&T could use this to force all iPhone users to watch AT&T ads.AT&T has no...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-19
- What a decade taught Larry Augustin
- I remember when...I remember when Larry and crew were just getting started and struggling. I remember when Sam I release a press release for everything I do Ockman decided he could do it better.I remember when I lost a bundle because I believed in Larry and VA Research and...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-17
- HP Pavilion Elite owner resorts to lawsuit over 'inherently defective' PC
- My HP Pavilion Elite... / HP quality controlMy HP Pavilion Elite came with an obviously defective, and defectively designed, video card. After about eight months, the video card model was finally recalled.My previous HP desktop computer went for about five years without a problem.HP's quality control is clearly going down...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-17
- Guess who else is married to paper?
- Another paper perilThankfully, knock on wood, I don't get sick very often.Since I hadn't been there for years, my Clinic threw away my entire medical history.Paper is a fact of life.You have to a have a paper trail, the entire concept of goingpaperless is just silliness.I am sure with the...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-12
- A greener way to shovel snow
- To shovel snow...Only a shovel and a pair of arms are required... I should know... I live in Quebec, we have lots of snow during winter.Couldn't you just one-up him with a bigger snowblower?I happen to think this would be trifle excessive. It would still be cool to have though.I...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-12
- Forms To Go 4.2.5 (Mac)
- With Forms To Go web designers can easily create scripts to process HTML forms in PHP, ASP and Perl for unlimited domains. Forms To Go's innovative design removes the development headaches usually associated with script creation and customization, providing an ideal solution for web designers with no programming knowledge to...
- Software downloads 2009-11-12
- Adobe cuts 680 jobs
- If cutting jobs is the only way a company can report a problem, it's not difficult to think ahead and think what happens if nothing changes.kaboomEven the rich lose out because the global economy becomes nothingoops, "report a profit"...but it's not difficult to fathom what the problem is. Real...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-10
- Twitter, LinkedIn announce tie-up
- Uhh No Thanks,I have a LinkedIn account that I will dump if I have to be subject to any of my contacts twitter updates. Is it me or is social networking becoming too entangled with Business? I am too afraid to post anything to either Twitter or Facebook these days...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-10
- ExcelAPI 2009.10.29 (Windows)
- Based on JExcelAPI by Andrew Khan, ExcelAPI is a Java application that allows user to read, write, create, or modify Excel file. ExcelAPI keeps all the JExcelAPI functions and add Script, XMLXLS, SrcDump functions to enable user can modify/create Excel file by a script file, output xml format as xls...
- Software downloads 2009-11-09
- ZEROlab to measure carbon footprints
- RE: ZEROlab to measure carbon footprintsJust a company that is more then willing to take away your rights and freedoms. Last time I looked CO2 is a needed ingredient in the process of life, for without it we have no life no plants, no food. CO2 is a much needed...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-08
- U.S. unemployment rate highest in 26 years, at 10.2%
- Misinterpreted numbers..."In October, the number of unemployed persons increased by 558,000 to 15.7 million."That's not 190,000. The 190,000 is non-farm payroll decrease, which doesn't include farm workers or self-employed persons who have hung it up.Maybe we need a NEW "New Deal?"Remember the 3 R's of Franklin Roosevelt's "New Deal?"...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-06
- Revisiting the Motorola Droid on Verizon [Q&A]
- Why the hate for drag and drop?Almost every review I have read faults the Droid because you can't auto-sync music:"(You can dump your music on a microSD card and pop it in, but it?s a copy-paste files affair, not a ?load my music? integrated experience.)"The Droid ships with a 16...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-05
- Acer adds Core i7 to its desktop replacement
- humm"Desktop replacement"s are interesting.I suppose for gamers and real power users they are good, although I do worry about overheating by placing so much power into the notebook form factor. Even in a tower unit, you have to be careful and make sure it's cool if you're gonna dump that...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-03
- New Marvell e-book reader platform promises faster product, lower price tag
- Vaguely disappointed.When I read the headline, I thought Batman was coming to an e-book near me.Of course, Batman is DC not Marvel... [nt][nt]Touch?. NTLike the look of that enTourage unitThe dual screen folding idea has a lot of appeal, BUT...I won't buy an ereader until I can use any book...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-03
- Sigcheck 1.62 (Windows)
- Verify that images are digitally signed and dump version information with this simple command-line utility. One way to use the tool is to check for unsigned files in your WindowsSystem32 directories. You should investigate the purpose of any files that are not signed.
- Software downloads 2009-11-03
- Make room for another e-reader as Creative shows off prototype
- Market is ripeFor Chinese factories to crank out more hardware and suck more dollars out of the middle class.Clue in America.Transition product I do believe that e-book readers are largely a transition product which will eventually be made more or less obsolete by advances in netbook/smartbook etc. technologies. Multiple devices...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-02
- Apple TV update looks good but doesn't offer much more
- I second your thoughts, Sam.The updates were nice, but hardly worth it from the functional standpoint. Yes, Netflix would be nice, although iTunes provides most, if not all, of what Netflix would, doesn't it?One thing Tim Cook mentioned during the most recent earnings call was that Apple was going to...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-30
- ReadTXT 1.6 (Windows)
- ReadTXT can speech a paragraph of text or a text filetts. It can be play, stop momentarily. It can recognise interpunctions in Chinese, English sentences. It can recognise almost all the words of Chinese, English. It can dump speech to a specified .wav file. If you need to support more...
- Software downloads 2009-10-29
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