A specification for hardware or software that is either widely used and accepted (de facto) or is sanctioned by a standards organization (de jure). See standards.
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- Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers
- RHEL is the standard of Linux distro'sRHEL is the defacto standard for the Enterprise and small business.Secure, Reliable and Robust the ultimate server OS.And this transcends to virtualization how?MS IS the defacto standard. Yet Hyper-V has a long long way to go.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-05
- MediaDex Standard 2.0.1 (Windows)
- MediaDex Standard is a complete Digital Asset Management solution for professionals, as well as for amateur users, who need to find, create, and share digital assets such as images, layouts, multimedia, video, audio, and text. It offers a rich feature set, including multiple cataloging processes, powerful search capabilities, multiple-size thumbnail...
- Software downloads 2009-11-05
- AVADirect Nano Cube
- AVADirect's $2,266 Nano Cube tries to take on Shuttle's XPC H7 5800 at its own small form factor game. Both systems come with smaller-than-normal SFF cases, and each requires sacrifices, even more than with a standard SFF PC, in exchange for its tiny dimensions. Therein lies our problem with this...
- Product reviews 2009-11-04
- iGOG: Massive Drums for iPhone 1.0 (Mobile)
- iGOG: Massive Drums for iPhone up to 384 multisampled drum hits per pad. It combines dynamic, random, and positional samples to form a drum sound. iGOG: Massive Drums for iPhone also lets you play other objects, such as a table and turns those hits into real drum sounds while you...
- Software downloads 2009-11-04
- Sony Ericsson Equinox TM717 - carbon black (T-Mobile)
- Photo gallery:Sony Ericsson Equinox TM717The Sony Ericsson Equinox is the first phone from the manufacturer to land at T-Mobile since the TM506. In many ways the Equinox is a fitting successor; like the TM506 it has a thin flip phone design and it sports a similar feature set that includes...
- Product reviews 2009-11-03
- Addin Media Editor 1.5.2 (Windows)
- AddinMedia is an excellent tool for both photo editing and for creating rich graphical content. Arm with the abilities to automatically generate unlimited amount of vector shapes, patterns, and a wide varieties of design elements for spicing up your photo or simply, creating the background and graphic needed for putting...
- Software downloads 2009-11-03
- Cribbage Plus! 1.1.3 (Mac)
- Maybe you enjoy the classic game of cribbage, but you've often wondered what would happen if you, for instance, received 2 points for 14s instead of 15s. Or if you could peg to a number besides 31. In my new cribbage game, titled Cribbage Plus!, you an customize your game...
- Software downloads 2009-11-03
- Sony Vaio X (VPC-X115KX/N Signature Collection, gold)
- Sony has thus far taken a position just adjacent to Apple's when it comes to the question of Netbooks. Rather than embracing these low-cost, low-power systems that have become incredibly popular with bargain-hunting consumers, Sony stayed out of the market initially. Its subsequent entries have skirted the outer edges of...
- Product reviews 2009-11-02
- Toshiba Satellite L455-S5975
- We've said it before, and we'll say it again: especially in this economy, it's hard to hate a laptop that only costs $350. It's even harder to hate a Windows 7 laptop that costs that much. The Toshiba L455-S5975 is, by 50 dollars, the least expensive notebook computer in our...
- Product reviews 2009-11-02
- The perfect computer?
- Do we have the technology to build a perfect computer? Would it be perfect for a specific purpose or is it possible to build a perfect general purpose computer? Small Business Computing's Mark Beckley has some answers. Do we have the technology to build a perfect...
- News items 2009-11-02
- Holiday Gift Guide 2009: Laptop computers
- This year the laptop list was a tough assignment for several reasons. First, the emergence of a new class of ultra-thin laptops--spawned by lower-cost processors from Intel and AMD--has made things more complicated. Second, there's a fresh crop of Windows 7 laptops, and...
- Blog posts 2009-11-01
- Intel seeks new 'microserver' standard
- Why bother with a new standard?What Intel needs to do is use the pre-existing motherboard form factors like Micro-ATX and Mini-ITX. Why can't they just design a board in the Mini-ITX form factor for a single-socket Xeon 3400-series processor with ECC RAM and dual-GBe ports with the standard fare...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-30
- Intel seeks new 'microserver' standard
- In September, Intel introduced its idea of tiny 'microservers'. Now the company wants to make the design into a standard others can use, too. In September, Intel introduced its idea of tiny 'microservers'. Now the company wants to make the design into a standard others can use, too. ...
- News items 2009-10-30
- Android 2.0 (Eclair) FAQ
- Android 2.0 GPSWill the GPS be functional if I don't buy the expensive Verizon data plan or pay by the Mb.You would need access to the internetto download the maps as needed there would not be enough room on the phone to store the whole country locally. So unless you...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-30
- KLS Backup 2009 Standard 5.0.1 (Windows)
- KLS Backup 2008 Standard is a backup program that allows you to create backup archives of all your important files and settings. You can back up and restore files, folders, Outlook, Outlook Express indentities, Mozilla, FireFox, Thunderbird profiles, Windows Settings, Address Books, Favorites. Features include full and incremental backup, versioning,...
- Software downloads 2009-10-30
- WinImage 8.50 (Windows)
- WinImage is a powerful disk utility that enables users to create disk images from floppy disks, extract files from image files, create empty images, write the images back to floppy disks. WinImage also supports many different standard and non-standard image file formats, including the Microsoft DMF format.
- Software downloads 2009-10-30
- Kodak 5250
- The ESP 5250 is Kodak's latest upgrade to last year's ESP 5 all-in-one AIO, which should be obvious from the almost identical design. Aside from looks, the printer does make improvements to print quality and most notably, output speed, but the printer still isn't perfect--it's missing an auto-document feeder and...
- Product reviews 2009-10-29
- callas pdfaPilot Server 2.0.097 (Windows)
- As electronic documents have become the norm for information exchange and storage, a robust archiving strategy is now an essential requirement for any organization. Based on Adobe's Portable Document Format PDF, PDF/A is an international standard (ISO-19005-1) created precisely to answer this need. PDF/A ensures that documents archived today will...
- Software downloads 2009-10-29
- Motorola Droid vs. Apple iPhone 3GS vs. Palm Pre [spec shootout]
- Specs don't tell everythingis a 1996 chevy with 4 doors and v8 engine better than a 2008 2-door lexus with a v6?Its the whole experience of the device that matters. Can the DroidDont dock itself into 80% of the vehicles currently made? No, you can use an auxiliary input but...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-28
- Five interesting new details about Verizon's Moto Droid
- HTML5 a "nonstandard"?Isn't HTML5 a "nonstandard", in that it hasn't been approved yet?I can't wait for my new ....... after 2 deal to arrive! Sounds like this phone rocks. That combined with Verizon Wireless coverage this should be a big winner!So the big "savings" from using a "free"...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-28
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