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- Comcast takes broadband cap plunge; Other carriers likely to follow
- Comcast takes broadband cap plunge; Other carriers likely to followHmm, I wonder how long it will take the torrent abusers...... to reach that cap and get kicked? Not talking about the ones who get movies and software and games all illegally but the ones who serve this stuff up?...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- Windows 7 pricing thoughts - Is Windows too expensive?
- Windows 7 pricing thoughts - Is Windows too expensive?It is an apt comparison>Your Ubunutu/Vista comparison doesn't pass the common sense test. Think about what you can get with Ubuntu-- Compiz Fusion for eye candy, drive encryption, MythTV DVR app, OpenOffice.org, ect. You have to get Ultimate Windows to get all...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- Dell's second quarter: Another milepost in the turnaround tale
- Dell reports its fiscal second quarter results on Thursday after market close and analysts are turning optimistic about the company's turnaround prospect amid better consumer notebook designs, emerging market revenue and solid server sales growth. Dell is expected to report fiscal second quarter earnings of 36 cents...
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Sangeetpedia-Encyclopedia of Indian Music (rar)
- Sangeetpedia features: Fully searchable, easy to use layout. 60+ Ragas & 23 Talas, defined and demonstrated. Install on hard drive or run from DVD-ROM. Packed with 8 gigabytes of video/audio/images. 1,250 fundamental terms of Indian Music. 685 rare and often unseen images. 220 high quality audio files. 425 high resolution...
- Software downloads 2008-08-28
- Free KPMSS Timers (exe)
- Three Time Functions. Count up, count down, and an alarm that you set to a specific day and time. You will find this program coming in handy and it's free. I use this for cooking and reminding myself when to quit coding and spend some time with my other half....
- Software downloads 2008-08-28
- Internet Explorer 8 gets a massive makeover
- Internet Explorer 8 gets a massive makeoverStandardsWhat I want to know, does the "standards" mode remove previous IE hacks? For example, using the underscore in CSS statements would be ignored by every browser except IE. If IE8 now supports standards but STILL reads the underscore hack, this could be a...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- Cisco buys PostPath: WebEx to compete with Exchange, Outlook, Office?
- Cisco on Wednesday bought email and calendar software maker PostPath for $215 million in a move that may signal bigger plans for WebEx. Simply put, Cisco and Microsoft are increasingly on a software collision course. Cisco said its latest acquisition will be used to "enhance the existing...
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Mp3 Tagger (exe)
- With Coding Art's Mp3 Tagger, you'll experience an easier way to tag your mp3's than you have seen before. Mp3 Tagger lets you control the important tags easy and with the power to control which tags, and which songs to be edited, you'll tag more songs than before and in...
- Software downloads 2008-08-27
- Need4 DVD Ripper (exe)
- Need4 DVD Ripper is a powerful DVD converter and DVD ripper to rip your favorite DVD movies to AVI, DivX, MPEG, WMV, AVI, and MP3. Select subtitles and extract audio to MP3, WAV, and WMV. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Software downloads 2008-08-27
- StockWizard (exe)
- Easy to use system with comfortable font size and color coding with features for manufacturers and engineering companies. All parts can be copied or dragged and dropped from category to category while you can keep your parts in an easily-understandable tree structure of categories and also search parts by a...
- Software downloads 2008-08-27
- Dell XPS M1330-126B
- Note: This review is part of our Back to School 2008 roundup, covering specific configurations of popular laptops that can be found in retail stores.While 13-inch laptops make up only a small part of the market, Apple's popular MacBook has made this form factor, which we call thin-and-light, a staple...
- Product reviews 2008-08-26
- Does Psystar have a legit argument in Apple countersuit?
- Does Psystar have a legit argument in Apple countersuit?AppleIf Apple wants to grow they need to open up their OS. After using Apple computer for few weeks I realize why people choose Windows over Apple inspite of the issues like system-hang, slower wakeup/sleep, etc. Opening up would resolve such issues...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-26
- Does TraceMonkey kick Firefox into turbo mode?
- Over the past few days I've been hearing a lot about Mozilla's new and improved JavaScript engine codenamed TraceMonkey. This new scripting engine hopes to bring JavaScript up to speed with natively-compiled code rather than be stuck in the slow lane like other interpreted coding languages. But does it work?...
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- ThumbCal (CAB)
- With simple gestures you can slide through days, weeks, months and years. ThumbCal lets you organize your appointments and tasks very quick and simple.Some Features: fingerfriendly interface; skinnable/customizable- works on QVGA & VGA screens in portrait, landscape and square screen modes- supports language files for translation in nearly every language...
- Software downloads 2008-08-26
- Dell UltraSharp 3008WFP
- The $2,000 Dell UltraSharp 3008WFP is a beautiful-looking display with a ton of features. Because of its 117 percent NTSC color gamut, however, we encountered many more color problems than we expected during DVD and Blu-ray playback. Be prepared to do a lot of color tweaking if you plan to...
- Product reviews 2008-08-25
- IDF and the new Mac notebooks
- IDF and the new Mac notebooksI hope the optical drive rumor isn't true...I hope the optical drive rumor isn't true, I want mine integrated.RE: IDF and the new Mac notebooksHmm...Virtually every PC maker has a quad core laptop.Virtually every PC maker has ram support of at least 8GB in their...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-25
- Hundreds of Dutch web sites hacked by Islamic hackers
- In what appears to be a mass defacement, where several hundred domains take advantage of a shared hosting provider, starting as of this Friday, an Islamic hacker known as nEt^DeViL -- this is not the NetDevilz team that hijacked the DNS records of the ICANN and Photobucket in June --...
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- Olympics set the stage for Web tech fight
- The summer Olympic games provided the first battleground for a war between Microsoft and Adobe over the Internet's next big competition. SEATTLE--As the world's best athletes competed in Beijing, the summer Olympic games set the stage for a battle between Microsoft and Adobe over the Internet's next big competition....
- News items 2008-08-25
- M-Audio Studiophile AV20
- We recently auditioned the M-Audio's Studiophile AV 40 stereo speakers, and found a lot to like. Those big, beefy monitors were great for audio from a PC or any other stereo audio source. However, with 4-inch woofers and speakers weighing 14 pounds each, the AV 40s required a design and...
- Product reviews 2008-08-22
- China cuts off iTunes, likely over 'Songs of Tibet'
- China cuts off iTunes, likely over 'Songs of Tibet'Learn from M$, Google and YahooThey cooperated with the local bully, they were allowed to run business over there. Don't p*ss of their government, that's the key in China. Yahoo went so far they handed in evidence to China government to help...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-22
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