Aug 14, 2008 | News |
Microsoft today launched a blog for the windows 7 engineering news. Normally this may be interesting but upon arrival to the site you find out about the blog itself, upcoming events and the rules on commenting. They do intend to post regularly but for now there is nothing new.
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For Those of you who are not aware, but have been watching the olympics online. This has all been made possible by Silverlight. Silverlight is an application from Microsoft which is basically a competitor to Adobe’s Flash. The main debut for Silverlight is the Olympics. At NBCOlympics.com the site and video is all done using Silverlight. So far it seems to be a solid platform with a seamless interface. I have used it on ie7, safari and Mozilla Firefox with no hiccups whatsoever.
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Although not tech related I regard this to be of importance in the history of our world. One of the first four men to liberate Buchenwald concentration camp, James Hoyt had his funeral Thursday at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Oxford, with about 100 people in attendance. James Hoyt was one of the first to observe the horrors of the German concentration camps. He experienced this at the young age of 19 as part of the Army’s 6th armored division. Never should we forget what he and his colleagues did.
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If you head on over to circuitcity.com now, you can get a relatively inexpensive (console, extra controller and one game) Wii bundle while supplies last… one that will allow you to take your listing to "trade your first-born for a Nintendo Wii" off of craigslist. [Bundle Here]
Read MoreAug 12, 2008 | News |
As the usual Apple press event time draws near, speculation about what new Apple has to offer heats up. Much is being said about possible macbook refreshes and ipods. Nothing has been said about OSX Snow Leopard. Apple has a...
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