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Microsoft provides free developer tools to students worldwide
If you’re a student of an university around the world Microsoft today is giving you a late Christmas present.
From today on Microsoft allows students worldwide to download developer tools including VS Professional 2008 and 2005, a copy of MS Server 2003, VirtualPC, SQL Server 2005 Dev. Edition, Expression Studio plus additional development tools free of charge.
All you have to do is to use your MS Live account (or a newly created one) to log into the site and provide the country and name of your university. The verification of your student status will then be done within about a minute via a web service ( we learned this from someone who has done it with an UK university, might take longer with others). The license key allows you to use the software for student projects and research. Teaching staff and commercial use is excluded…
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Games: Real World Racer
There are no red traffic lights stopping you on your race through cities around the world with “Real World Racer”
Nice little online game that allows you to race your small little red car against a group of opponents on Google Maps / Satellite images…
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Humor: Hasta la vista Vista!
A sign put up by a computer repair shop in a small town in New Hampshire, USA.
“Todd Bishop’s Microsoft Blog at SeattlePI” put it up as an “add-on” to a Vista one-year-story published in the newspaper on that day…
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Lunchtimers: Multi player time waster games
If you’re looking for a new set of “time waster games” here’s another suggestion:
Try out the “Lunchtimers” multi-player online games. Great fun - we played a bit of jigsaw with 7 others. To kill some time its just perfect…
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Humor: Old software never dies
So that’s how Web 2.0 companies are created. I wonder if the VCs are calculating a full system rewrite into any of them…
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Tools: oScope Visual Search
If you spend a lot of time trying to find images or videos on the Internet this tools might help.
“oScope” - a visual search tool - allows you to search Flickr, eBay, YouTube and Amazon. The creators have promised to add more sites in the future. The photos, books, videos, or eBay items found are displayed with small images (can be zoomed) plus additional information. You can also watch found videos directly inside the search interface or open the original site.
The interface can be customized to your preferences from background color to…
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Web: Operation Firefox
Firefox is looking for people doing guerrilla marketing for them.
The task is to install giant 3.5-foot Firefox stickers. More info and apply (until 09-Nov-2007) at “Operation Firefox”
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Virtual Worlds: 3D Berlin in Google Earth
Since this week Germany’s capital Berlin is available as a 3D model within Google Earth. In difference to other 3D worlds already available in Google Earth the buildings within the virtual Berlin have detailed architectural representations including their photorealistic facades. Some buildings can even be visited or entered virtually. So far the present model covers about 10% of the area of Berlin - only a small sample of the official three-dimensional city model of Berlin. The model consists of some 44,000 buildings in the centre of Berlin shown in…
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Virtual Reality: Sony PlayStation 3 - Home™
Those who believe that over-hyped gaming platforms like SecondLife are the future for virtual communities or gaming should have a look at “Sony’s PS3 Home™ trailer”. “…Home™ is a real-time 3D, networked community that serves as a meeting place for PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3™) users from around the world, where they can interact, communicate, join online games, shop, share content and even build their own personal spaces. Home™ will be available as a free download from the PLAYSTATION®Store and will launch directly from the PS3™ system’s Home Menu…”
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VoIP encryption in a surveillance society
Those of you that have time to get over to the Stanford campus this Wednesday afternoon (March 7th) should do and listen to “Phil Zimmerman’s” talk on VoIP encryption in a surveillance society. For all of you who can’t make it Stanford will put a video online at their “Computer Systems Colloquium (EE380)” site. Phil is the creator of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), the most widely used email encryption software in the world. He is also known for his work in VoIP encryption protocols…
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