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IT Stocking Stuffers Lots of stores offer tattoos for computers, but theyre just glue-on stickers and skins compared with Adafruit Industries laser etching services. This was taken from an EPS file and run through the machine. It looks great (as it shou IT Stocking Stuffers – Beam Me Up, Scotty This is the Star Trek […]

eWEEK Digital Product Showcase: Communication (PEPCOM 2006) eWEEK Digital Product Showcase: Communication (PEPCOM 2006) – Jittterbug Dial and One-Touch The Jitterbug Dial and One-Touch phones feature large buttons, screens with large text and ear cushions. The One-Touch has dedicated buttons to contact the Jitterbug operator, contact home or dial 911; the Dial features a conventional […]

Pegasystems SmartBPM Suite 5.1 Pegasystems SmartBPM Process Designer has an intuitive interface. Pegasystems SmartBPM Suite 5.1 – Pegasystems SmartBPM Process Designer developer workflow. SmartBPM Suite 5.1 can be confusing, but the application design interface has some visual clues to keep developers on track. Pegasystems SmartBPM Suite 5.1 – SmartBPM Visio Integration SmartBPM Suite uses Visio […]

12 Tips for Getting IT Done Right in China You will be offered a seat at the big round table (its always a big round table) opposite to the door. Refuse politely. Insist that your host sit in that position. If possible, claim the seat nearest the door. This will show that you are sincere. […]

eWEEK Labs Does DemoFall Adaptive Blue’s Blue Organizer is a Firefox extension for social bookmarking. eWEEK Labs Does DemoFall – iBlok iBlok allows users to mix and remix digital content and then share it on blogs, Web sites and devices. The product takes full advantage of the Windows Presentation Foundation in Microsoft’s upcoming Vista operating […]

Blade Servers A blade server is a slimmed-down computer server designed to slide into a larger chassis that provides common networking, power and cooling functions to all the computers within the case. Blade Servers – Advantage: Saving Space This example from Dell shows how 60 blade servers can fit in the same amount of data […]

eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Google Docs & Spreadsheets Users can now access their documents and spreadsheets from a single control panel. The landing page shows a combined list of documents, along with the owners and contributors for each docume eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Google Docs & Spreadsheets – Uploading Users can upload either a word processing document […]

Vista Build 5506 From the Start Menu in Build 5506, users can select Windows Live Messenger, Microsofts MSN Messenger instant-messaging service replacement. Vista Build 5506 – First Boot On the Welcome Screen in Build 5506 (Ultimate edition), Microsoft is including direct download links for a number of its Windows Live services. Vista Build 5506 – […]

Morning Coffee: Sept. 18, 2006 The key metric of portable computing has become the capacity and ruggedness of mass storage. Seagate Technology’s Momentus 5400.3 (photo at right courtesy of Seagate) was the first 2.5-inch drive to use perpendicular recording, achieving 160 GB capacity; Morning Coffee: Sept. 18, 2006 – Slide 2 In the same week, […]

eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Elluminate Live 7 Elluminate Live 7 puts its whiteboard, participant list and messaging application front and center. eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Elluminate Live 7 – Elluminate Closed Captioning Elluminate Live has some Section 508 compliance features, such as closed captioning. eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Elluminate Live 7 – Elluminate Quiz Support Quizzes are easy […]