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- Accessorizer 1.6 (Mac)
- Accessorizer began as a Cocoa application and suite of Services to generate ObjC accessor declaration and implementation methods from variable declarations. But Accessorizer now offers more. Much, much more, including support for generating @property and @synthesize statements. In addition to offering a broad range of memory management schemes, Accessorizer...
- Software downloads 2009-11-16
- UK envisions zero waste: What about computers?
- Recycling is part of our daily lives. We do it everyday with plastics, newspapers and other general household things. Cars are now recycled throughout North America and Europe at high efficiency rates. Everything seems to be covered, right? Computers and batteries face recycling problems. We already know that...
- Blog posts 2009-10-18
- USB 'SuperSpeed' 3.0 logos to appear on certified devices
- In 3 Years, Apple Will Take Credit For ItOne of my FanBoy friends, who died a couple years ago, swore that Apple invented the USB. Not really any different than Apple's commercial advertising now.Oh well, give me more speed, no matter what !Sweet...been waiting for USB 3.0 to hit the...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-02
- DARWIN: An Approach for Debugging Evolving Programs
- Debugging refers to the laborious process of finding causes of program failures. Often, such failures are introduced when a program undergoes changes and evolves from a stable version to a new, modified version. This paper proposes an automated approach for debugging evolving programs. Given two programs (a reference, stable program...
- White papers 2009-08-28
- Sayvoice text-to-speech reader(female voice) (Mobile)
- Sayvoice Text to Speech for Pocket PC can convert your text documents to Wave and MP3 audio files on Windows Mobile,Pocket PC or Windows smartphone, The software utilizes text-to-speech voices of exceptional quality with a female and a male voice. Click here to view Online Demo.Ten Key Features1) Choice Female...
- Software downloads 2009-08-21
- Password-reset flaw haunts WordPress admins
- Open source and PHP at its worstI cannot fathom the design decisions that went into PHP. Maybe that's because there weren't any. That "language" I use that term in the broadest sense here is accident upon accident, quirk upon quirk, patch upon patch. PHP is a complete mess without a...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-11
- While I'm away..."Good riddance, Encarta!"
- Here's a repost for your consideration while I'm on vacation this week: The other day, my 13-year old was writing an essay for school and told me that “we really need an encyclopedia on our computer.†I chuckled and then did a double-take. He was, in fact,...
- Blog posts 2009-07-13
- 'EvoGrid' to model life's origins, and maybe answer the big questions
- EvoGrid is a grid-computing concept that'll attempt to digitally simulate the primordial soup from which life arose and it may shed light on the origins of life on Earth and in the universe. It may also provide new tools for evolutionary biology, biochemistry, and complexity studies. Studying...
- Blog posts 2009-07-04
- HP unveils financial planning and analysis solutions designed to both optimize and modernize IT operations
- LAS VEGAS -- Hewlett-Packard HP today unveiled its new HP Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) solutions, aimed at recession-beleaguered IT executives who need to cut costs, prepare for a service-based future, and run their departments like a business -- all at the same time. FP&A is part...
- Blog posts 2009-06-16
- Sayvoice TTS for PPC-female voice 1.59 (Mobile)
- Sayvoice Text to Speech for Pocket PC can convert your text documents to Wave audio files on Windows Mobile,Pocket PC or Windows smartphone, The software utilizes text-to-speech voices of exceptional quality with a female and a male voice. Click here to view Online Demo. Ten Key Features (1)...
- Software downloads 2009-06-06
- "The students don't think of it as learning"
- I'm trying to figure out if that's a good thing. I'm referring to a line in the Indianapolis Star's recent article about a local initiative to use Sony PSPs in the classroom. Here it is in context: PSP content is monitored closely and controlled by the...
- Blog posts 2009-05-19
- Microsoft Office Outlook 12.0.6504.5000 (Windows)
- Microsoft Outlook provides a single, integrated solution for organizing and managing your digital communication tools such as e-mail and instant messaging, along with all your day-to-day information--from calendars and contacts to task lists and notes. Outlook controls the deluge of e-mail, appointments, and contacts, helping you manage your time and...
- Software downloads 2009-04-28
- Just stop plagiarizing!
- Turnitin.com, an antiplagiarism web service frequently used by college professors, won a major battle last Thursday when the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in its favor, as reported by Ars Technica. Although I'm usually one to come out in favor of students' rights, this one seems like a...
- Blog posts 2009-04-20
- Good riddance, Encarta!
- The other day, my 13-year old was writing an essay for school and told me that "we really need an encyclopedia on our computer." I chuckled and then did a double-take. He was, in fact, serious. I took his temperature, asked if he'd received any head injuries...
- Blog posts 2009-03-31
- Wolfram Alpha...Brilliant tool, Google killer, or lots of hype?
- Wolfram Alpha has been covered recently by everyone from ZDNet's own Larry Dignan, to Techmeme, to Ars Technica, with varying degrees of enthusiasm and skepticism. Most of us in Ed Tech will recognize the name Wolfram from Mathematica fame and Wolfram's Math World. The former is...
- Blog posts 2009-03-09
- Improving Preselection in Unit Selection Synthesis
- Unit selection synthesis is a method of selecting and concatenating speech segments from a large single-speaker audio database to synthesize utterances. Selection is based on assigning target and concatenation costs to units and then finding a lowest cost sequence of units that will synthesize a given utterance. In order to...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Pathfinder Designs and Builds Rich Internet Application for Arabic Language Data Collection
- In an Arabic Gulf State, Pathfinder and its client, a large Research and Data Analysis firm, are helping transform the educational system. The mission of the Research Firm is to gather and synthesize information needed to make changes to the educational system. Their client needed a technology application to make...
- Case studies 2009-01-01
- nCircle Focus: Improving Security Operations With Active Data Analysis
- Enterprise security teams are stretched to their limit every day and are forced to make difficult decisions about where to spend their time. What they need is comprehensive network and risk information at their fingertips that they can analyze and synthesize instantly as the threat environment changes. The attendee will...
- Webcasts 2009-01-01
- ACCF Clinical Trials Database 11.11.0 (Mobile)
- The ACCF ClinTrials medical guide contains the best of peer-reviewed publications at your fingertips. This clinical practice support tool from the American College of Cardiology Foundation is designed to synthesize current cardiovascular research findings for busy physicians and healthcare professionals. Study results are gathered by a prominent editorial team from...
- Software downloads 2008-12-04
- Legal Document Analysis 1.2 (Windows)
- LDA helps legal staff, researchers, and students to analyze legal text records. Its mining techniques uses predefined and users rules that can be saved as templates to support any future analysis. From 1 to 1000 pages LDA will help you view and understand your documents and transcripts. The beauty of...
- Software downloads 2008-12-04
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