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- Darkest of Days 1.05 instant action patch (Windows)
- The Darkest of Days Instant Action patch unlocks the ability to travel back to your favorite missions after completing the story campaign. Wield weapons from any era and experience different gameplay styles by trying out various weapon upgrade modes.
- Software downloads 2009-11-04
- The taxman goes mainstream on YouTube
- In an era of 200 TV stations offering a variety of specialty channels were "news" is ignored how to reach the masses and offer an ability to go when you please to view important information. The government in the U.K. has started to post on YouTube. by Doug Hanchard
- Blog posts 2009-11-03
- Internet performance management makes data center consolidation possible
- There are many more advantages to consolidation... Virtual switch technology... Virtual switch technology, is far faster than anything Ciscoor other hardware router vendors can push through your INTRAnet.... In the era of mashups... and multi database applications, you want internet connections that are at memory transfer speeds, not...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-02
- Making money off global warming
- Carbon Credit: The "global warming" SCAMGuess who is the biggest seller of carbon credits?? You know, the program where you buy an imaginary credit as payment for putting something in the air that you were already doing for free.Hint: An inconvenient truth based on a very convenient set...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-01
- The Clockwork Man 1.0 (Mac)
- Join Miranda Calomy on a journey through a world of wondrous science in the Victorian era. At the turn of the century, in an alternate timeline where steam-powered technology has become dominant in almost all walks of life, the Clockwork Man, a fantastic Hidden Object Adventure game, will take you...
- Software downloads 2009-10-29
- Sho Online 20080729 (Windows)
- 'Sho Online' is an online game that is based on one of the four Chinese tales called the 'Fengshen Yanyi'. 'Fengshen Yanyi', is a story that is created based on the real historical events. It merges the conflicts between the Yin and Zhou era to the imaginary world of Taoism....
- Software downloads 2009-10-29
- 3D Flying Messerschmitt Bf109 Screensaver 1.02 (Windows)
- The Messerschmitt Bf 109 was a German World War II fighter aircraft designed by Willy Messerschmitt in the early 1930s. It was one of the first true modern fighters of the era, including such features as an all-metal monocoque construction, a closed canopy, and retractable landing gear. The Bf 109...
- Software downloads 2009-10-28
- Net pioneer GeoCities finally laid to rest
- Rest in peace GeoCities.... NTBefore they were bought, they were ahead of their time.Before they were bought, they were way ahead of their time, trying to add a social aspect to web hosting.After they were bought, they turned pretty crappy quickly. This closing only proves that being bought by Yahoo...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-27
- Net pioneer GeoCities finally laid to rest
- Yahoo shut down GeoCities the site that offered a free platform for users to create their own Web sites during the dot-com boom. Yahoo paid $4.5 billion for it. The closure of GeoCities marks the end of an era, as the Internet community says goodbye to the pioneering Web...
- News items 2009-10-27
- Times exec hints at Apple tablet
- When are people going to learn that off the record is off the recordNot open mouth insert foot.Yes, some people are excited about some new tech, but to go to some of the lengths these guys keep going to, makes me wonder.I think engadge is just in it for the...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-26
- Students find Win 7 upgrade a tough assignment
- Well DUH!Students, retired folks, IT pros, dabblers, 'nix heads, etc. would ALL find trying to UPGRADE from a 32 bit to a 64 bit OS hard. Three words - "can't be done."There, was that hard? Why is this even news?This is newsbecause some people like to keep spreading...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-26
- Jigsaw Pieces Can Be More Agile Than Platforms
- Box.net, the little company that likes to tweak Goliath Microsoft's nose with digs at Sharepoint - the billboard above is near Microsoft's silicon valley digs -Â announced an alignment with Salesforce.com CRM earlier today. Nothing earth shattering here at first glance: it makes perfect sense for...
- Blog posts 2009-10-22
- Immelt seeks to unite healthcare with Silicon Valley mainstream
- A lot was written about GE chairman Jeff Immelt's appearance yesterday at the Web 2.0 Summit, but one key point can't be emphasized enough. Jeff Immelt was at the Web 2.0 Summit. He wasn't at a health care show. He was pitching tech people. ...
- Blog posts 2009-10-22
- A word of warning on hard disk recovery by swapping logic boards
- Freezing it?"Popping it into a sealed plastic bag and freezing it for a few hours."Pardon my ignorance - what does this do to help?Except in this case, the problem is almostcertainly fried electronics because of the method in which the drive failed.Strange. Hu?I can't say how it works, but I...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-21
- Firefox's crossroads: Cutting-edge or mainstream?
- Mozilla has built the Firefox browser from a largely unsuccessful remnant of the Netscape era of the 1990s into the browser that nearly a quarter of people on the Web use. Now the challenges are different. MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--John Lilly wants it both ways. Working at...
- News items 2009-10-21
- Photos: A half-century of ICBMs
- In October 1959, an Atlas missile with a nuclear warhead went on alert, formally launching the ICBM era for the United States. by CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2009-10-21
- Antitrust: Time to break apart the phone companies -- again?
- Actually,those 'guaranteed revenue' companiesAre not so rare. Food companies, oil and gas companies, phone companies, electric companies, water utilities.... the list goes on and on if I had enough time to think of them all.That is why we need to break up any company that gets more than a 10%...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-21
- With Apple, there's a fine line between paying a premium and being a sucker
- Interesting view...I am not an Apple user, and I do think most of Apple's products are too expensive for me, but I didn't think $70 was that outlandish. Don't top end mice from Logitech or MS run around $50-100?Anyway, I guess I'd have to try it before saying it was...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-20
- Web powerhouses to FCC: We support open Internet
- The Internet's big guns have signed their names to a letter of support for a continued open Internet, sending it to the FCC this morning, just days before the agency is slated to vote on network neutrality rules. The letter is actually from the Open Internet Coalition,...
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- Massachusetts becomes Canada as reform debate nears climax
- Obamacare ship is sinkingPeople saw the light with the failed socialist experiment in mASSachusetts, so liberal politicians like Barnie Frank can stuck their health care reform where the sun doesn't shine.Yeah, the ship is sinking, but it is Obama who's rearanging the chairs to give Pelosi and Reid front row...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-19
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