Articles by Dice Staff

• 7 Tips for Making the Most of LibreOffice Impress

  LibreOffice, a successor to the OpenOffice.org project, is a full-featured set of productivity applications, much like Microsoft Office. I use LibreOffice Impress, which is similar to PowerPoint,…
• GoPro Unveils Dive Camera Housing

  Dive photographers face a dilemma when weighing the cost-benefit of protecting expensive cameras. Do you pony up more than the price of your DSLR for a housing that will let you take better photo…
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  Game Players Increasingly Seek Niche Titles

  The next generation of online games may not be about strategies or farming, unless you're thinking of strategies or farming that apply to narrow audiences. Organic farming, maybe. Citing publishe…
• Microsoft Opens So.cl, Its Version of a Social Network

  Microsoft's officially opened So.cl, which it calls a social network for everybody. But it's done so quietly: I tried to find an official statement and ended up with nothing. Announced last year…
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  Mobile Agile Development: Nine Winning Rules

  Developers often complain that their project development environments aren’t “agile” enough. Sadly, they fell more under the “waterfall” methodology, which meant projects simply were taking too l…
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  MaKey MaKey: Replace Your Touch Screen With Bananas

  Computers and bananas, bananas and computers. If your dream is to use bananas to control your computer, you're in luck. Jay Silver and Eric Rosenbaum, both final-year Ph.D. students at the MIT Me…
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  Talent42: The Tech Talent Shortage is Real

  Yes, the technology talent shortage is real. Why is it happening and what can you do? At Talent42: Tech Recruiting Excellence Conference, spend June 13-14 in Seattle with colleagues, experts and…
• How to Fix Resource Issues on a Project Team

  During my entire project management career, it's always been an interesting challenge to create the right path for escalating a resource issue. I've read all kinds of books and have had the right…
• Major Smartphone Vulnerability In Baseband

  Smartphone security is headed for an “apocalypse,” since a major vulnerability with smartphone baseband processors has gone unheeded, warns Dan Auerbach, a staff technologist at the Electronics F…
• Jacksonville, Columbus are Promising Tech Job Markets

  Jacksonville, Fla., and Columbus, Ohio, are two of America’s hidden hotbeds of technology. Forbes measured employment growth in the sectors most identified with the high tech economy (including s…