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- Five reasons Chrome will take over the world
- Five reasons Chrome will take over the worldFive reasons Chrome will take over the worldYou know what ZDNet needs? More articles about Chrome! 12 over the last 24 hours just isn't enough so why not add to that number.Chrome isn't taking over anything because its terribly broken. It doesn't render...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-03
- Video: Picking a Linux distribution
- Video: Picking a Linux distributionSuSE 11 not ready for prime time.Check the forums. Lots of problems with multi-boot, hard drives, especially raid, others - check their forum.I tried it on brand new machine. Had trouble with Seagate Cheetah drive and adaptec raid. Tried 10.3, went smooth as silk.If you have...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-05
- AOL gussies up for potential sale, but who's buying?
- AOL gussies up for potential sale, but who's buying?AOL's glory days are far behind.Yes AOL had it's day, but poor service and restrictive behavior relegated it to the dust-bin of history. No-one I know has been on that service for well over a decade, perhaps even longer. Yes...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-25
- Mossberg: MobileMe Is Far Too Flawed To Be Reliable
- Mossberg: MobileMe Is Far Too Flawed To Be ReliableWow, you know it is bad when...You know it is bad when one of your most fervent fanboys tells you to stay away from an Apple service![i]The planned iDisk File Sharing featured was delayed[/i]More vaporware from Apple. Sounds like once again, they've...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- The App Store's buggy update process
- The App Store's buggy update processI got mine to updateBasically when it gave me that "find all the updates" screen, I would just look for version numbers that had changed (this is easy to do now that everything is 1.0 generally, it will only get harder as time goes on,...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-22
- Tradewinds Caravans (exe)
- Guide six brave heroes in this sequel as they navigate treacherous terrain swarming with bandits. Travel along the bustling and dangerous Silk Road - an ancient trade route stretching from China to the Mediterranean Sea, trading exotic goods and engaging in real-time battles. Hire fiercely loyal warriors for protection and...
- Software downloads 2008-07-03
- FiberNet (zip)
- FiberNet is designed for MRP, warehouse, logistic and distribution operation of cotton traders & spinning mill . For cotton, wool or silk fiber whatever spun or filament.In view of the keep inflation of textile fiber around the world, material resources planning become an important issue for all spinner to keep...
- Software downloads 2008-06-27
- Giving Windows Vista another chance ...
- Giving Windows Vista another chance ...tips? yeahWell first of all i don't suggest using ie for safe browsing, firefox or opera can be much better.Be sure to install an appropriate anti-virus and anti-spyware before anything, for me avira antivir personal and spybot search and destroy worked great.If you do have...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-24
- Bugs harmed by nuclear radiation?
- Many studies have been conducted about the Chernobyl nuclear power plant meltdown of 1986. A large majority of them were focused on the environmental consequences of the radiation release. But, as the San Diego Union-Tribune asks, what happened to bugs? Cornelia Hesse-Honegger, a scientific illustrator from Zurich, Switzerland, has collected...
- Blog posts 2008-05-25
- Who's giving Vista a miss and waiting for Windows 7?
- Who's giving Vista a miss and waiting for Windows 7?Windows 7I have let Vista take over for XP and I dont regret it and I dont see what the drivel is about the constant griping about it. Yes there are driver issues but MS isnt to blame -- its your...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-08
- Firefox 3.0 Beta 5 - Fastest browser yet!
- Firefox 3.0 Beta 5 - Fastest browser yet!Amazing what you get with competition!!!Keep going guys!!News ticker java script bug not fixed yetOne thing is not fixed yet: a news ticker based on java script sends CPU usage skyhigh, like on this newspapers portal:http://www.kranten.comNasty little bug. I have reported it on...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-02
- M-Audio Studiophile AV 40
- Not to sound condescending, but M-Audio's Studiophile AV 40 Desktop Speaker System makes most PC and multimedia speakers seem rather puny by comparison. It's not just their size (the M-Audio speakers resemble desktop studio monitors); if you listen to a lot of CDs, watch DVDs, or play games on your...
- Product reviews 2008-03-27
- Want Vista SP1? Here's what to expect
- Want Vista SP1? Here's what to expectSP1I just installed the big SP1 and so far, no problems in the last 45 minutes.Instalation time appeared shorter than some of the Beta versions, but I could just be getting used to it.Vista SP1 InstallDownloaded and installe dSP1 this AM. Everything went smooth...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-18
- Nanotechnology-based self-cleaning fabrics
- A recent American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac briefly describes how Australian researchers have used nanotechnology to develop 'self-cleaning' wool and silk fabrics (scroll to article #4 in the PressPac). The researchers 'prepared wool fabrics with and without a nanoparticle coating composed of anatase titanium dioxide, a substance that is known...
- Blog posts 2008-02-12
- MWC08: Sony Ericsson announces two new UIQ smartphones
- Sony Ericsson was busy making announcements at Mobile World Congress yesterday and two new smartphones that were announced almost didn't catch my attention because their model numbers are almost the same as a couple of Cybershot phones they announced.. The upcoming SE C700 and C900 Cybershot phones are actually full...
- Blog posts 2008-02-10
- CoolNotf (exe)
- CoolNotf is a program that let you manage your important events, dates and tasks, and alarms you on-the-second with the message you wrote. This program was built in Borlands Delphi 2007, using FamFamFams Silk icon pack, you can get the source if you Contact Me. This version is the first...
- Software downloads 2008-02-08
- When art meets medicine
- Medical students will soon benefit from a new training tool. Surgical gowns for students have been designed by UK researchers at Durham University with the help of artists at the University of Ulster. 'The gowns, which would be worn by medical students in the classroom, will supplement the traditional plastic...
- Blog posts 2008-01-30
- Six screenshots here of new: iPhone 1.13 features, and why I'm mostly unimpressed
- Six screenshots here of new: iPhone 1.13 features, and why I'm mostly unimpressedbb vs pearldont even try to compare the pearl to the iphone. your screen is a 4th of the iPhone. Having both cellphones im way happier with the iPhone and let's not forget that its Apples first cell?...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-15
- Voyage Century Online (exe)
- Voyage Century is the first 3D nautical online game in MMORPG history, gives priority to scene of sea, with scene of land as supplement. The story in Voyage Century Online begins on Mediterranean Sea from 16th Century a pivotal episode in history which big powers played the despot and great...
- Software downloads 2007-12-29
- Plastic is good for our environment (and computers)
- The computer industry should increase its use of plastics and reconsider its use of some recyclable materials. This is not a contrarian position but a reasonable one, imho. Consider this: Plastic is made from oil: --You can either burn oil and...
- Blog posts 2007-11-30
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