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How Many Monitors Should You Have?
2008-05-26 22:31:00 PCMech – I have been using more than one monitor on my computer for years. Once I read that Windows could indeed handle more than one video card, the light bulbs went off. I can have more than one screen? I shortly went out and purchased a second screen. When I switched to the Mac Pro back in ... read more More About: Monitors
Samsung 256GB SSD Coming Soon, What To Expect From Future PCs
2008-05-26 15:46:00 PCMech – PCMech readers and PCMech Live viewers have heard me wax on about how SSD is going to be the next big thing with computers. Why? One reason: Speed. And lots of it. Solid State Drives are where computers are going. If you wanted any indicator as to when to upgrade, SSD is it – no ... read more More About: Samsung , Future , Expect
Vista selling well?
2008-05-25 21:01:00 Cyber Cynic – Whatever drugs Steve Ballmer is on they must be very, very good. Thats the only explanation I can come up with for Ballmer telling the Australian press that hes amazing pleased with Vista sales. ... read more More About: Selling
YouTomb – Tracking YouTube Removed Videos When, Why & By Whom
2008-05-25 21:00:00 Tech Guide – Ever wondered who is behind removal of videos you just wanted to see, but was presented by message saying the video was removed due to some kind of TOS violation, YouTomb – a research project by MIT Free Culture can provide you with some valuable stats, YouTomb continually monitors more then 225051 videos on YouTube for copyright-related takedowns. Any information read more More About: Videos , Youtube , Tracking
Wii Fit calls British teenager fat, Nintendo issues statement
2008-05-25 04:13:00 Gamertell – S?You are fat,? the Wii Fit game stated matter-of-factly, as the world crumbled around a 10-year-old British girl, who had been excitedly standing on the game?s Balance Board peripheral until the heart-breaking pronouncement. However, her father hasn?t come to terms with the game?s assessment of her stepdaughter?s body weight and refused to accept it. ?She is a perfectly healthy, 4ft 9in tall 10-year-old who swims, dances and weighs only six stone,? the miffed father told the Daily Mail. Although he agreed to his stepdaughter being sturdily built, he didn?t ... read more More About: Nintendo , Issues , Calls , Teenager
Copyright Police may seize iPods, Macs under G8 trade deal
2008-05-24 16:55:00 9 to 5 Mac – iPods, iPhones, laptops, and other digital devices could be seized by customs officials worldwide under a new top-secret copyright policing deal being worked out between the G8 nations, reports claim. Nations including Canada, the US and various European states (including the UK, which sits on the G8) are secretly agreeing a new pan-global state police deal in which information held on iPods and other ... read more More About: Police , Trade , Deal , Macs , Copyright
Are you entitled to resell software on eBay?
2008-05-24 16:55:00 Geeks are Sexy Technology News – By Mark O?Neill A remarkable legal battle is brewing over whether someone is entitled or not to resell used software. The case could bring about a whole new interpretation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. This case involves an eBay seller called Timothy Vernor and his repeated run-ins with a company called Autodesk who produces ... read more More About: Software , Ebay
MyScreen: Get Paid to View Mobile Advertising in the USA
2008-05-24 16:54:00 GoMo News – The VP Christine Barisheff of this new Mobile Advertising company – MyScreen Mobile just got in contact with me. I couldn?t believe my eyes when I watched the video she sent and went to the site: http://www.myscreenmobile.com. Why? Well it seems as thought the pay to view model has hit the US. Welcome to MyScreen. MyScreen is a different kind of ... read more More About: Paid , Get Paid To , View
Adobe Creative Suite 4 for October release?
2008-05-24 16:54:00 9 to 5 Mac – The future of Photoshop includes GPU and physics acceleration, with Adobe CS4 set to ship this October , a report claims. The company is currently developing its creative applications for release with Adobe Creative Suite 4, and while not a great deal?s known about these yet, some features are emerging, with Adobe preparing for more public revelations soon, we think. The new GPU and physics acceleration ... read more More About: Release
3G iPhone landing in US?
2008-05-24 16:53:00 9 to 5 Mac – Apple has taken delivery of 188 ocean containers carrying a mysterious new class of product, ?electric computers?, a product description never seen on an Apple or Quanta shipment before. These huge deliveries have given rise to speculation the boxes may contain next-gen iPhones, new breeds of MacBook or even the much speculated upon and never yet ... read more More About: Iphone , Landing
Mashups: A New Industry is Born
2008-05-24 03:58:00 FASTforward Blog – In his latest analysis, Dion Hinchcliffe reports fest-breaking progress in the area of user-created applications, or mashups. For example, he noted that there were at least nine different announcements around Web-based mashups coming out of the recent Web 2.0 conference. Dion said that many business end users ? still accustomed to forwarding their requirements over to ... read more More About: Industry , Mashups
Considering the Robot Romance
2008-05-24 03:57:00 Geeks are Sexy Technology News – I?m thinking about trading in my girlfriend for a few really advanced robots. Hang on a sec ? I know it sounds bad. But hear me out. Scientists are making leaps and bounds with these things right now. I mean, they?ve come up with artificial life that can conduct psychotherapy, perform ... read more More About: Robot , Romance
Is Municipal WiFi On The Way Out?
2008-05-24 02:10:00 T1 Rex’s Business Telecom Explainer – If WiFi hotspots are the greatest for users on the go in airports, hotels and restaurants, then municipal WiFi has to be even better for anyone downtown. Well, it seemed that way for awhile. But with the recent announcement that Earthlink is pulling the plug on its Metro WiFi in Philadelphia, one has to wonder if municipal WiFi is heading the same direction as broadband over power line service. ... read more More About: Wifi , Municipal
Security is futile
2008-05-23 23:43:00 Cyber Cynic – Surrender now All your base are belong to us. Exterminate Exterminate Well, that’s probably not what Cisco’s chief security officer John Stewart meant when he told attendees at an Australian security conference that malware is growing so fast that, “If patching and antivirus is where I spend my money, and I’m still getting infected and I still have to clean up computers and I still need to reload them and still have to recover the user’s data and I still have to reinstall it, the entire cost equation of that is a waste. It’s completely wasted money.” ... read more More About: Security
Diesel Price Hikes an Issue for Generators
2008-05-23 23:36:00 Data Center Knowledge – The cost of diesel fuel is soaring, vexing US truckers and motorists overseas, where diesel passenger cars are more popular. But the spike in diesel fuel prices also will make it more expensive for data center operators to support the banks of diesel generators that provide emergency backup power… read more More About: Diesel , Price , Generators , Issue
South Africa Appeals OOXML Adoption
2008-05-23 23:35:00 Standards Blog – SABS, the National Body member of ISO/IEC JTC1 for South Africa , has filed a formal appeal with both ISO and IEC, challenging the Fast Track adoption of OOXML. The cited basis for its appeal is found in the following text of Clause 11.1.2 of the applicable Directives:A P Member of JTC1 or an SC may appeal against any action or inaction, on the part of JTC 1 or an SC when the P member considers read more More About: South Africa , Adoption
Vista?s adoption rate is faster than Windows XP?s
2008-05-23 14:29:00 4sysops – For Windows Administrators – During research for my series on Vista vs. XP, I stumbled across an article at ChanelWeb that claimed that according to Gartner, the adoption of Vista by businesses is in line with that of XP at a comparable juncture after its release. As I will also publish an article at Computerwoche on this topic, I wanted to be sure if this surprising data really is correct. So I contacted Gartner and they were kind enough to mail me their ... read more More About: Adoption , Windows Xp , Rate
Tracking and Managing Data Center Energy
2008-05-23 14:28:00 Data Center Links – I ran across two new tools tonight to help manage and track energy in the data center. On Monday IBM announced Energy Management software that is backed by nine big players. IBM is combining the new energy management software with partner solutions to provide customers with a comprehensive view of energy consumption across the enterprise — not just in data centers but also in non-IT assets ... read more More About: Data , Tracking
Apple iCal fix MIA: youre SOL
2008-05-23 14:28:00 IT Blogwatch – Did you miss me? Its IT Blogwatch: in which Apple s iCal calendar app still has vulnerabilities after four months. Not to mention more Errord ... read more
The Design of Knowledge Work ? The Industrial Era vs. The Networked Age
2008-05-23 03:32:00 The AppGap – It?s not news that there is resistance and confusion about why and how to implement Enterprise 2.0 technology and capabilities in today?s organizations, notwithstanding the continuous flows of information and the growing prevalence of interconnected customers and knowledge workers. There?s a lot of chatter about bottom-up versus top-down, the collective wisdom of the organizational crowd, and ... read more More About: Design , Work , Industrial , Knowledge
The Solar-Powered Blackbox
2008-05-23 03:31:00 Data Center Knowledge – The Sun Modular Data Center blog provides some details today about Suns demonstration of a solar powered Sun MD unit at the recent CeBIT trade show in Germany. Sun engineer Ingo Frobenius hooked the portable Blackbox shipping container to a solar array of photovoltaic panels that was about 65… read more More About: Solar
Is Microsoft Office in trouble?
2008-05-23 02:04:00 Cyber Cynic – At first, when I learned that Microsoft was not quickly supporting its own Open XML, but ODF and PDF instead, I thought it was a great joke. Microsoft went to all that trouble to make Open XML an ISO standard, but then ... read more More About: Office , Microsoft Office
Mashups in Action: Fusing Enterprise Mashups to Enterprise Widgets
2008-05-23 02:04:00 JackBe – Do you know widgets? You?ve probably used these shrink-wrapped micro-applications on one website or other. Google has made widgets a staple of their information-from-any-source iGoogle interface. Amazon has their ?Pay Now? widget. Yahoo has a nice collection of them. NVidia has ... read more More About: Action , Widgets , Enterprise , Mashups
Goodbye Frame Relay, Hello MPLS
2008-05-23 02:03:00 T1 Rex’s Business Telecom Explainer – When you have multiple business locations and they all need to communicate, what do you do? You can set up private lines to make the connections, but that gets expensive as the number of locations increases. A private network solution called Frame Relay has been popular for its reliability, security and cost savings. But now MPLS networks are the new technology you should consider for higher ... read more More About: Goodbye
My standards aren’t your standards
2008-05-22 22:58:00 Andy ITGuy – Something that I hear all the time that gets my goat is What is the industry standard for that?. What I want to say is What does it matter?. Very few of the companies in my industry have a network or environment anywhere close to what we have. Most of them run much smaller companies, networks and less complex environments. So what is standard for them is not standard for us. I understand what the intent of the question is but intent doesnt help us in this. What will help us is for us to quit ... read more More About: Standards
Windows XP vs. Windows Vista – Future proofing
2008-05-22 22:58:00 4sysops – For Windows Administrators – In his last post, Kennedy discusses an interesting point that no other Vista bashing article has addressed so far. He voices a fear that is probably shared by most IT Pros who have decided against Vista. They ... read more More About: Windows Vista , Future , Windows Xp
Apple Jobs page reveals GPS Antenna in upcoming iPhones
2008-05-22 22:57:00 9 to 5 Mac – Apple ?s searching for a Product Design Engineer for the iPhone – and the ad suggests GPS support?s just around the corner for the device. That?s logical, as we already know the latest iPhone Software 2.0 pre-release build offers location-aware ... read more More About: Jobs , Page , Antenna , Upcoming
Apple moving to all LED backlights in their notebooks by 2009
2008-05-22 19:59:00 Appletell – Backlight producer Kenmos Technology, the company that makes the LED backlit displays for Apple?s MacBooks, will now have their technology in every MacBook by 2009. ... read more More About: Apple , Moving , Notebooks
Twitter: We’re Not Sure What’s Wrong
2008-05-22 18:35:00 Data Center Knowledge – Downtime happens. When outages occur, service providers usually move quickly to investigate and fix the problem, and then communicate with customers about what happened. The central thrust of the customer message is almost always focused on restoring confidence and trust: your service was ... read more More About: Twitter , Wrong
Slipstream SP3 Into A Windows XP Install CD
More articles from this author:2008-05-22 14:34:00 PCMech – If you find yourself performing clean installations of Windows XP often, you may want to take the time to build your own installation CD which includes the recently released SP3. This process is called ?slipstreaming? and basically creates an install CD which includes SP3 as part of the installation process. This process is very easy to ... read more More About: Windows Xp 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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