Archive for July, 2005

Windows Vista

Wednesday, July 27th, 2005

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

Electronic Paper

Monday, July 18th, 2005

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.

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.

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Developer Fusion

Monday, July 18th, 2005

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/

Windows Command Shell

Monday, July 18th, 2005

What is MSH? …
… the next Windows Command Shell. Read more at Channel9

http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/Channel9.MSHWiki

Inovate

Monday, July 18th, 2005

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.

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