This week, Microsoft announced that the Express editions of it’s popular Visual Stuido line of development tools would be made avalable free of charge and free of royalties from now on. This is great news for starting developers, hobbyists and enthusiasts who up until this point had to pay for the privilege of developing in [...]
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Microsoft joins the Free Software Revolution
April 21st, 2006 · 3 Comments
Tags: Development · Downloads · Programming · Tech News
Google Scraper
April 21st, 2006 · No Comments
A new search technology is available for those of you who feel that Google is getting just a little too creepy…. SCROOGLE!
This search engine does a proxy-protected scrape of Google, and returns the search terms to you. Nice I suppose if you feel you need to hide your searches from the (ahem) fine folks [...]
PC Anywhere? Try TV Anywhere!
April 20th, 2006 · No Comments
SlingBox is a device which hooks up to your TV and your Internet connection and allows you to watch TV — or interface with your PVR – from the Internet! Now you can catch the local news from your home in Vancouver on your EvDO-enabled cell phone while you’re on your way to a meeting in Boston.
The only [...]
Tags: Gadgets
Total Solar Eclipse
April 5th, 2006 · No Comments
Last week astronomers all over the world captured pictures of the Total Solar Eclipse. The link points to the APOD for April 4th, which shows an image compiled of the view of the eclipse over Turkey.
The next chance to see a total Solar Eclipse will be August, 2008.
Tags: Astronomy