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- Empirical evidence: Arctic ice sheets thinner and softer
- I see the counter-offensive ("Anglia" anyone?) is in full swing.And.. yeah sure Harry, we're going to 'believe' your scientists.Like in the Apple ad: "Trust me, this time is different".:)Indeed. It's just pre-Copenhagen PR.And Copenhagen is about:- blaming the west- wealth distribution from the west to lazy and corrupt countries.Fair questionsAs...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-28
- Lunar Lander for Android (Mobile)
- Lunar Lander for Android is a sample game, which was extracted from the Android's SDK. It showcases a simple 2D graphic implementation on this platform. Lunar Lander for Android is an arcade game, where the player must correctly land a lunar module exactly on the green landing pad, located on...
- Software downloads 2009-11-27
- Peak oil panic? Dubai or not Dubai?
- Harry, please ignore the deniersThey will try to quash any voice of reason. I believe they hope to maneuver themselves into a position where they can argue that they should not be affected by the consequences because they don't believe in man-made climate change. Pure selfishness.Keep it coming. We are...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-26
- British team chooses design for 1000 mph car
- With a design finalized, the British team that holds the current land speed record plans to smash it with a hybrid jet-rocket propelled car they aim to take beyond 1,000 mph. by Chris Jablonski
- Blog posts 2009-11-25
- CopanMobile for PocketPC 1.0.6 (Mobile)
- CopanMobile for Pocket PC is a very functional and easy-to-use geomatics engineering tool for computing and managing plane surveying and mapping coordinates. It does numerous coordinate geometry COGO calculations, processes and adjusts raw field survey data, computes and adjusts map traverse data, performs map or deed checks, calculates curves, areas...
- Software downloads 2009-11-25
- Is Google the Center of the Universe?
- It's not even a year since the triumphalism of Jeff Jarvis's Google 'reverse engineering' book 'What Would Google Do?' hit the book shelves, but it seems an age ago now. Jarvis's publisher Harper Collins claims this book is 'all about you' in their promo blurb - how you...
- Blog posts 2009-11-24
- What open source can teach medical practice
- Great article, Dana.You did in such a short piece what CNN, MSNBC, FOX and other media journalists failed to do: tell the story as it really is. You didn't take what was news worthy and sensationalized it, nor played up a negative reading of it to frighten those possibly affected,...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-24
- Second iPhone worm behaves like botnet
- That'll teach them what happens to jailbreakers!This only hits those who deliberately climbed the fence and ventured into the dangerous would outside Apples walled garden.Victims of this have nothing on Apple for this. The vulnerability was introduced by their own incompetent actions, but knowingly non-sanctioned by Apple.The learning: You better...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-23
- Spice up your power management
- InterestingChecking out the plug-in. Nice article. Harry should take notes.Power management messed up my laptop.Long, long ago in a land far, far away (Win 98) I had a laptop that I upgraded to Win XP. After upgrading the laptop and installing SP2, Laptop performance went in the...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-20
- ChromeOS says tear down this network regulation wall
- Costs"What is holding back network capacity is politics."What's holding back network capacity is huge costs.Yep, very important to push the ISPs to free up the bits. They would love to continue selling bandwidth through an eyedropper at very high prices. They need a push.Oh, and Microsoft will not like this...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-19
- AOL/Facebook in the Enterprise
- In 1994 America Online trailed Compuserve and Prodigy, a third subscription option in how you hooked your modem up to the internet to go cyber surfing. What propelled AOL to global dominance by the end of that decade was their proprietary 'rainman' platform, which enabled partners...
- Blog posts 2009-11-18
- Apple QuickTime 7.6.5 (Windows)
- Just launch QuickTime Player, and there's no telling where you're likely to land. The Player may whisk you to the Moon or perhaps to an exotic location on this planet. Take you on a virtual field trip to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Or treat you to...
- Software downloads 2009-11-18
- Planeto 1.01 (Windows)
- Planeto is a turn-based science-fiction strategy game. You land on an unknown planet and have to explore it, find resources and hold military ascendancy. You can chose out of more than 180 different units, 120 researches and 80 upgrades.
- Software downloads 2009-11-18
- Samsung upgrading its UbiCell CDMA base station to 3G next year
- Faxing/DVR with base station.My biggest issue is that I occassionally fax stuff and my DVR's use the POTS system to connect. I would love to get rid of my land line if I can [b]fax the same way[/b] but through broadband. Anyone have a solution?Fax? What's that?Actually;...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-17
- Samsung upgrading its UbiCell CDMA base station to 3G next year
- Samsung has announced that their UbiCell Personal CDMA Base Station will go 3G in 2010. But other than that, it's pretty hush hush. Basically, the station eliminates the need for any pesky land line services. The plug-and-play station provides in-home cellular service securely over...
- Blog posts 2009-11-17
- NeoDownloader 2.4 (Windows)
- The Web is a land of joys and wonders. Myriads of digital images, video clips and other downloadable files are waiting for you. In the past, you could use your browser to download them. But, these days, you need more powerful and more specialized tools to download files from the...
- Software downloads 2009-11-17
- Netbooks dead? Not when sales are up 264% percent
- My prediction:Intel and MS and the major brands are trying to drag the market upwards in size and cost to maintain their margins. They will shortly face a barrage of products based on ARM class processors and Linux (Chrome?), which will cost much less and have much better battery lives....
- Discussion threads 2009-11-16
- GOOG could lose more than Murdoch
- Thanks, this was insightfulWhat if Murdoch and minions stroke a deal with a more desperate Google competitor - and blocked Google. That would be a very real threat. If users suddenly finds that Google returns fewer quality results than competitors, Google could lose search share, fast. That would strike directly...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-16
- My new daughter is a lot like Linux
- OK...I promise, this will be my last post this week about my new little daughter. Really. No matter what cute things she does, I'll limit my oohing and ahhing to Twitter. However, as I was changing her diaper for the umpteenth time today, I got to thinking...
- Blog posts 2009-11-15
- Elastic Soccer 1.0 (Windows)
- Elastic Soccer is an awesome soccer game with new concept and nice graphics. Your aim is to score more goals than your opponent to win the match. To beat the game, you must avail all of your turns and try to score maximum goals. Remember. If you pass the ball...
- Software downloads 2009-11-15
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