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Digby: Mobile Commerce for the BlackBerry
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Smartphones, Handhelds, Software,
Gear Live reader “Slezak” wrote in to tell us about Digby:
Digby is a really cool app that lets you shop for all sorts of stuff from your BlackBerry without having to use the browser. It has a local catalog with flowers, chocolates, books, cds, dvd, etc,.. including search capabilities for stuff not already in the catalog. It links up with the address book and the calendar so you can buy and ship stuff to yourself or anyone in my address book without having to rekey info that is already on my BlackBerry. Digby is a free download and the products are at the same price as they are on the vendors normal website.
So there you have it, for all you BlackBerry owning shopoholics out there, Digby might be just the thing you needed to push your credit card bill over the edge.
[Thanks Slezak!]
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Will Daylight Savings Time Mean Computer Glitches?
Posted by Lolita Beckwith Categories: Microsoft, PC / Laptop, Software,
Remember 1999? Remember how everyone was so panicked about Y2K and how their computers would think it was the year 1900 instead of 2000…and all hell would break loose? Well, this coming March 11—Daylight Savings Time—brings “Baby Y2K”, which will likely cause problems in some Microsoft programs. This is due to a 2005 law that, starting this year, moves Daylight Savings Time up three weeks (and ends it one week later), in an attempt to improve energy savings. But this creates a problem in software programmed before 2005; for example, calendar appointments and transaction dates could now be thrown off. Fortunately, Microsoft has released a patch, available to Windows XP users via it’s “automatic update” feature, or it can be downloaded straight from Microsoft. If you’re running Windows 2000 or an older version of XP, manually go into the Control Panel and change the setting for Daylight Savings Time (Vista users are completely unaffected). By the way, pre-2005 devices such as digital watches and DVD players are vulnerable too, so be prepared!
Read More | Wired
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Vista Gamers Experience Game Compatibility Issues
Posted by Lolita Beckwith Categories: Microsoft, PC / Laptop, Software, Video Games,
Sometimes it’s tough being an early adopter, just ask a Vista user. Last week, Microsoft’s new operating system made news for it’s incompatibility issues with Apple’s iTunes. Now comes word that hardcore gamers are experiencing slowness and even crashes when playing certain XP-friendly games such as Counterstrike, Half-Life 2 and Doom 3 on their Vista-upgraded PC’s. This despite Microsoft’s promise that Vista would be backwards-compatible with DirectX9, XP’s graphic engine. Problematic software drivers and a lack of video cards supporting Vista’s DirectX 10 engine are being blamed. Fortunately top graphics chip makers Nvidia, Intel and ATI are offering drivers to assuage the situation.
Read More | ComputerWorld
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You CAN Teach an Old Computer New Tricks
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Internet, Movies, Music, Software,
Some of us just can’t go out and invest in all the wonderful technology now available. Using a rather ancient HP Computer that crawls along on Pentium II and only contains a 12 GB hard drive, we decided it was time to at least gain the capacity to play DVDs. After a bit of research, we found that our technologically crippled members of Gear Live had access to download the free VLC Media Player with decoder from VideoLan. Around for a couple of years now, its Version 0.8.6 was released December 10, 2006 and works just fine. Take that, overpriced WIN DVD.
Read More | Videolan
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The Bleeding Edge 119: Microsoft Vanishing Point Finale Party
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Features, Internet, Microsoft, Software, Videocasts, Videos,
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Sony Releases VIAO G-11 Series With Vista Business
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Microsoft, PC / Laptop, Software,
Sony has released its new VIAO G-11 series of laptops hot on the heels of yesterday’s release of MS Windows Vista and Office 2007. Designed primarily for traveling business-folk, each comes with 1 or 2GB RAM, a 100GB hard drive, an Intel 945 GMS chipset, a 12.1-inch XGA screen, 2 USG ports, supports SD and MS cards and Ethernet, and of course Windows Vista Business. Check with Sony for price and availability if you just can’t wait to see what’s up with the Vista.
Read More | Sony
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Tellme Beta Review: Voice-Driven Local Search
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Smartphones, Features, Product Reviews, Software,
We have been trying out Tellme for a few weeks now, and thought it would be appropriate at this point to let you guys know about the service and what we think of it. If you haven’t heard of Tellme, it’s an application that you install on your mobile phone that aims to allow natural voice-riven mobile search. How does it work? Hit the jump for our full review.
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Parallels Coherence With WindowBlinds Is Near Perfect
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Design, Mods / Hacks, PC / Laptop, Software,
If you are using Parallels on OS X and want the smoothest looking interface possible, you may want to consider installing WindowBlinds in your Windows installation. As you can see in the image above, using a WindowBlinds skin on Windows, you can make the applications look almost exactly like standard OS X apps. That means that when you enable coherence mode, you are going to feel like all of your running applications are a native part of OS X. Not bad at all. Hit the link for a higher resolution image.
Read More | Flickr
Gallery: Parallels Coherence With WindowBlinds Is Near Perfect
Microsoft Releases Vista to The Public
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Corporate News, Internet, Microsoft, Software,
We know we don’t need to tell you that Microsoft Vista and Office 2007 were unleashed upon the masses today. This is a headline for not only every ezine on the planet, but newspaper and TV news as well. You can even catch the webcast yourself if you weren’t able to attend the gala. What we admire is the glitz and glamour that only a Bill Gates could provide. In a press conference given at the Nokia Theatre in Times Square, Gates actually commented, “Everything is becoming digital. Vista is key to the era.”
Software analysts claim that Windows and Office are Microsoft’s most profitable products and account for about half of its $12.5 billion in 2nd-quarter revenue. So the Olympic-like festivities were used to convince Windows and Office devotees to shift to the new versions. Microsoft expects to sell 200 million copies globally in the next two years. That’s a hell of a cash cow.
Read More | Microsoft
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Worth1000 Allows Photoshop Artists iCreativity
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Design, Home Entertainment, Internet, Software,
With so much media over-saturation on the Internet, Worth1000 has come up with a unique idea to keep your inspirational juices flowing. Recently they devised a contest that you could enter with your own iGadget. Ranging in products from the iGod to the iCar, the contestants illustrate how any budding net artist can utilize Photoshop to create art.
Claiming 5 million+ hits on their site, Worth1000 also allows its members to design their own contests. Visit Worth1000 to view more of the 100+ entrants in this contest or to find out how you can join their ranks and enter your own art in one of their 7,649 galleries.
Read More | Worth1000
