The Windows Vista™ (formerly code-named Longhorn) Beta 1 for developers and IT professionals has begun.
The Next Generation platform includes …
- WinFX. A managed-code programming model
- Windows Presentation Foundation (formerly Avalon). Microsoft’s unified presentation subsystem for Windows
- Windows Communication Foundation (formerly Indigo). Microsoft’s next-generation Web services technology
- Aero. The new Windows Vista design philosophy
Find out more at Microsoft
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/nextgen/default.mspx
A new electronic paper display is mentioned on Tom’s Hardware Guide
http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20050713_161241.html
This is a new product from Fujitsu, to be shown on July 14 at the Tokyo International Forum, and is a film substrate-based bendable color electronic paper.
Similar to Flash memory, the display integrates a non-volatile data memory function that is able to continuously display the same image without being connected to a power supply. Electricity is only needed when users want to change the displayed content.
According to Fujitsu, the material used enables high-resolution and “vivid color” images that are unaffected even when the screen is bent.
Been meaning to blog this location Developer Fusion for a while.
http://www.developerfusion.co.uk
All sorts of useful articles, for example c# articles at
http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/csharp/
What is MSH? …
… the next Windows Command Shell. Read more at Channel9
http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/Channel9.MSHWiki
From the IronCAD stable comes INNOVATE…
http://www.ironcad.com/product/inovate.html
which is a low cost, easy to use 3D desktop product for creating, modifying, interrogating and communicating 3D designs.
INOVATE allows casual users to design fast and effectively without concerning themselves with constraints, parametrics and feature trees mandated by today?s leading systems. Power users can use all of these advanced features, and more, to create highly intelligent models.
Categories: 3D, CAD Tags:
So you want to pack more transistors onto a piece of silicon … but how about thinking in terms of transistors composed of single molecules?
A Paper on The Quantum Interference Effect Transistor can be browsed here
http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/?0503540
but in simple terms (at least my interpretation 
)- applying a voltage to turn a molecule into a simple on/off switch will provide the necessary basic building blocks.
Acrylic is a utility from Microsoft available for Beta testing.
It is a professional illustration, painting, and graphic design product for creating vector graphics and is a revised version of a program, Expression, acquired in 2003 from a Hong Kong software company.
Read more and download a copy from Microsoft.
http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/
Windows Mobile 5.0 is available …
Providing “improved productivity and Integrated multimedia ..
New features include the ability to create charts (in Excel) and play back music and movies in Windows Media Player 10 Mobile.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/5/default.mspx
Also read about moblog(ing) creating your own Mobile Blog
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/articles/mobileblog.mspx
Recent Comments