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C-Jump: A board game for geeks?
A board game made specifically for computer geeks? Aimed at kids 11+ c-jump - as the game is called - tries to familiarize the players with fundamentals of computer programming languages like C, C++ and Java. Players move around the board by calculating the number of steps in programming syntax. Yeah, sure - and “…Skiing and snowboarding is a perfect programming analogy…”
Guys get real - our suggestion…
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Turn your web site into a graph
This great applet will turn your web site into a graph. You just need to enter an URL and the screens shows how the graph is dynamically build step by step.
The tool was created with…
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Microsoft Health Future Vision
A video providing some insights into Microsoft’s vision on the future of health care. The video has recently been used by Bill Gates on conferences and is also shown to visitors of the “MS Executive Briefing Center”.
Outstanding pictures like always from that shop and some rather good ideas. But there’s still a long way to go - particular with the IS/IT features.
More information at the…
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Top 5 Tech Easter Eggs
Hidden little or not so little techfeatures in applications, videos or games aka Tech Easter Eggs are in season this week. So here’s a “link” to CNet’s Top 5 of tech Easter eggs…
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Research: Autodesk Design on Perceptive Pixel Multi-Touch
You might have seen Jeff Han’s Perceptive Pixel Multi-Touch screens in action on CNN when following the 2008 primaries and caucuses. And he demonstrated the device with Google Earth and some drawing programs.
The video below shows you the potential of Multi-Touch screens with…
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Melodyne - Direct Note Access
The German company “Celemony” has announced that the new version of their popular audio editing software Melodyne will allow access to individual notes and chords within audio files. This is almost incredible - but if it works as shown in their video they really have made the impossible possible.
We are talking polyphonic audio (wave) recording here and not MIDI input. The abilities of the technology called…
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The 7 dirtiest IT jobs
There are glamorous jobs in every profession and then there are the other ones. But no organization could survive if the dirty jobs would not be done as well. Think of the guy who puts the trolleys together at your supermarket and you know what we are talking about. So which are those kind of jobs when it comes down to IT…
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Video: Twitter in Plain English
You might have seen some of Commoncraft’s paperwork in the past like for example “RSS in Plain English”, “Wikis” or “Blogs” in Plain English or “Social Bookmarking” explained in the same way.
Now they have added another animation to their series of basic explanatory videos called…
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Cartoon: Tales from the outsourcing industry
Another great Geek & Poke cartoon this one is about outsourcing based on an article from Forbes magazine last week that predicts an end to India’s cost advantage by 2015…
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Data visualization: Social networks around the world
With new data on Facebook making the headlines yesterday telling us that their user numbers are leveling out in the US and the UK, we remembered that we recently have seen a great info-graphic showing the use of social networks with the most popular providers per country around the world in the French Newspaper “Le Monde”
The data used in the graphic is from August 2007 but it’s interesting to see the popularity of providers in different countries. There are a few white spots on the map, some…
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