Everyone knows that the company computer is for work and not for surfing the web or playing games.
But hey, we’re not machines. We can’t type things into this electronic box all day long without taking little breaks here and there, maybe even play a couple of levels of a game. The trick? Make it look like you’re working so your boss doesn’t catch on. To do that you’ll need games that you can play at your desk quietly and casually. If a game takes too much concentration then you might not notice your boss walk up behind you.
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San Francisco-based Friendster has won a patent for online social networks. The patent was filed in 2003, and was awarded on June 27th. Friendster’s founder Jonathan Abrams is listed as the inventor, and the patent covers a “system, method, and apparatus for connecting users in an online computer system based on their relationships within social networks.” The main claim is the “degrees of separation” idea that has been implemented by business networks like LinkedIn.
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| ArcSoft, Inc. |
PhotoStudio |
5.5.78 |
| Arti Informatiche S.r.l. |
Ideale 2005 Enterprise Workstation |
7.0.426 |
| ASDIS Software AG |
ASDIS Agent 5.1.1 |
5.1.1.10 |
| Attachmate Corporation |
Attachmate EXTRA! X-treme 9 |
9.0.1126 |
| AWS Convergence Technologies, Inc. |
WeatherBug |
6.8.0 |
| bpCentral, Inc. |
DownRound 2006 Desktop Companion |
1.0.110 |
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Looks like the Apple TV took a little longer to put the spit and polish on than Apple initially thought. According to Apple PR Director of Mac products Lynn Fox, “Wrapping up Apple TV is taking a few weeks longer than we projected, and we now expect to begin shipments mid-March.”
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Everyone running Vista Ultimate saw the same thing I did this morning: the limited preview of Vista’s DreamScene which we saw demonstrated at CES. This is essentially an active desktop background that can be animated. I called this a “limited” preview because there’s currently only one scene to view, but I did a little digging and found a free extension to it from …
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