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Microsoft woos hobbyist developers
News Microsoft is trying to foster more interest in embedded software, encouraging amateur developers to experiment with programmable components in devices from toasters to televisions. The "Spark Your Imagination" developer programme for hobbyists and...
[April 16, 2008, 16:20]
Palm pours cold water on fan-site row
News Palm Computing on Friday issued a formal statement attempting to defuse the controversy around the way it deals with hobbyist Web sites that use the Palm trademark, but the statement is likely to disappoint Webmasters who had hoped that Palm would...
[September 28, 2001, 17:12]
What kills software creativity?
Blog Comment A wariness of being swallowed by the corporate behemoths is what keeps much of the hobbyist community so vibrant after all - and pushes so much OSS development too. But will we fall for the last card up Microsoft's (or insert corporate beast of...
[June 18, 2008, 9:20]
FTP Suite for REALbasic
Downloads Hobbyist License $39.99 Hobbyist License Version Upgrade $19.99 FTP Suite is a collection of classes and code modules that allows REALbasic applications to implement the FTP protocol. Now REALbasic developers can add complete FTP capability to...
[July 2, 2008, 8:00]
Robots and embedded software for personalised crumpet toasties
Blog I used to talk to a couple of the Microsoft guys here in the UK about some of their home-based hobbyist embedded software projects and, typically, they don’t spend too much time trying to build remote-controlled vacuum cleaners or re-engineer...
[April 16, 2008, 19:23]
Palm backs off fan sites
News The company has offered to relax its rules for Palm fan sites, allowing them to use the Palm name in their Web addresses, following legal requests that had alienated many Palm supporters, according the Webmaster of one Palm hobbyist site.
[September 26, 2001, 14:51]
Nvidia seeks to stem GeForce leaks
News Later on, several hobbyist Web sites published specs and box-photographs of Prolink's Pixelview series of GeForce4 graphics cards. Several hobbyist sites are devoted specifically to Nvidia news. Graphics chipmaker Nvidia and its licensees, perhaps...
[January 30, 2002, 16:58]
Adobe sharpens focus on Photoshop Elements
News Elements strips out professional tools such as Web publishing applications and presents streamlined versions of the Photoshop features that are likely to be most useful to hobbyist photographers, said Adobe Product manager Mark Dahm.
[July 15, 2002, 14:48]
Net radio fees push some broadcasters underground
News According to a note posted on the AOL Time Warner-owned Shoutcast site, this would average out to about $7 per month, per listener for a hobbyist station. Many of the hobbyist broadcasters who use these services are vowing to continue streaming in...
[July 3, 2002, 14:36]
myCellar
Downloads My Cellar with windows companion is the vintners and wine hobbyist dream. Create it to keep track of you wine in your personal cellar, as a companion for your wine tasting trips around the word, and give you extra information about wine types...
[October 16, 2006, 8:00]
Researchers fight Red Hat's Fedora trademark
News A team of university researchers says it will oppose Red Hat's attempt to trademark "Fedora", the company's moniker for its new hobbyist Linux line, based on their prior use of the name. Researchers were nevertheless concerned when Red Hat...
[November 24, 2003, 10:15]
Windows sidelined by Fedora bug
News Red Hat's newest hobbyist and developer version of Linux, Fedora Core 2, caused trouble for some who found they couldn't start Windows after installing the Linux upgrade side by side with it. The bug had cropped up in testing, but after Red Hat...
[June 9, 2004, 8:50]
ACTION WYSIWYG
Downloads Whether you are a professional who is losing time scrolling through hundreds of fonts or a hobbyist who is tired of trying to remember what the font "Stiletto" looks like, ACTION WYSIWYG is for you. ACTION WYSIWYG gives you total control of your...
[February 13, 2001, 7:00]
Lego Mindstorms robot solves Sudoku puzzles
Blog Swedish hobbyist Hans Andersson has build a robot that can complete a Sudoko grid all by itself, a report in The Escapist has noted. On his Tilted Twister website, Andersson said that the robot, put together using a Lego Mindstorms kit, first uses...
[August 28, 2009, 17:22]
Orbitron
Downloads It's also used by weather professionals, satellite communication users, astronomers, UFO hobbyist and even astrologers. Orbitron is a satellite tracking system for radio amateur and observing purposes.
[September 8, 2005, 7:00]
PhotoCalc
Downloads PhotoCalc offers handy calculations for professional or hobbyist photographers working in the studio or in the field. PhotoCalc is a utility for iPhone and iPod for photographers to calculate exposure reciprocation, depth of field, and flash exposure.
[January 1, 2009, 8:59]
The downturn - good for open source, not so good for coders
Blog Comment One would like to think that out of work open source coders and not quite in work yet hobbyist developers alike might want to work on modules that might find some place in the business-facing side of the software spectrum.but perhaps it is too...
[April 15, 2009, 8:38]
A Demonstration of Pervasive Device Integration With SEAP-Based Middleware
White Papers SEAP, or Sensor Enablement for the Average Programmer, is an architectural pattern specifically targeted at junior and hobbyist level programmers. This paper describes a demonstration of the SEAP middleware architecture applied to pervasive...
[January 16, 2009, 0:00]
UTC Clock
Downloads Designed with the hobbyist in mind, it displays the time, date, and provides links to relevant radio and astronomy web sites. UTC Clock is a simple clock designed to display UTC (GMT, zulu, etc.time under the menu bar clock.
[January 7, 2008, 7:00]
Technology Marketing Consulktant
Talkback Still waiting for that zero maintenance $200 network connected and maintained closed system consumer computer for the rest of us.come on Apple, the PC is 4 years or more down an evolutionary dead end, an overweight hobbyist dinosaur made up of...
[January 4, 2007, 13:23]
