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BBC strange media player selection
This is strange....on a WinXP box
And this is even before EU ruling against Microsoft. -
Google offers Adword API (Beta)
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Free resources for Architects
I have got my share of freebies...
Order these for free
[It may be possible that this offer is only for UK residents] -
Amazon Web Services Blog
A blog focusing on Amazon Web Services
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How nerdy are you?
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Featured on SmartClient Frontpage
Go check out http://msdn.microsoft.com/smartclient/
I can only say...Wow...never thought of this
For people looking for book, direct link to the virtual book is here. -
Google's Popularity in Microsoft
According to VisitorVille Intelligence [1], around 66 % of employees inside Microsoft are using Google search engine instead of their own MSN Search. Now that's interesting and does that prove that Microsoft employees are not biased to anyone other than technology? ;)
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Paul Thurrott covers Bill Gates keynote @ CES 2005
[During his Consumer Electronics Show (CES) keynote address Wednesday evening, Microsoft chairman and Chief Software Architect outlined the digital entertainment successes his company has logged since the October "Digital Entertainment Anywhere" launch event and highlighted some interesting initiatives that will drive momentum throughout 2005. Key among these initiatives are a number of partnerships, some of which are quite surprising.
CES 2005: Gates Promotes "Digital Entertainment Anywhere" Successes and New Initiatives ]
http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/ArticleID/45024/45024.html
You can see the streaming video of the keynote here
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Some more links on Smartphone
http://homepages.inspire.net.nz/~gambit/
http://homepages.inspire.net.nz/~gambit/Article/
[Got these from comments to this entry] -
Windows Mobile 2005??? Magento
Neowin does not have the story...as they removed it
but you can get a screen shot here and here -
Comparing Desktop Search Products
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LiveJournal acquired by SixApart
http://gigaom.com/2005/01/04/six-apart-to-buy-live-journal/
[via Om Malik]
The firstmergeracquisition of 2005 ??? -
Patents from Microsoft, Google and Yahoo
Interesting comparison
http://www.threadwatch.org/node/946
In other news,
Google passes the 200 mark
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=GOOG&t=5d
Answers.com free rich client download
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Referrers to my blog
With some time in my hands, I compiled a page showing the referrers coming through a search engine. Although the traffic is not as much but still you'll be able to see some of the trends clearly.
http://weblogs.asp.net/nleghari/articles/referrers.aspx
P.S: Not promised, but I'll try to update that page every week or so. -
Referrers to Nauman Leghari's Blog
External Citations:
Bloglines
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More gems from ITConversations.com
After listening to David Bornstein on http://www.itconversations.com , now I am spending most of my idle time over there. To share will all of you, here you can find content from industry gurus like Joel Spolsky, Jon Udell, Kent Beck, Paul Graham, Steve McConnell, Alistair Cockburn...
Short-listing of all the programs:
Kent Beck, pioneer of eXtreme Programming -- Developer Testing
Joel Spolsky, founder, Fog Creek Software -- Joel on Software
Dan Bricklin, Software Garden -- Memory Lane
Paul Graham -- Great Hackers
Alistair Cockburn, Humans and Technology -- Agile Software Development
Paul Graham -- Hackers and Painters
Mike Milinkovich, executive director, Eclipse Foundation -- Eclipse
Jon Udell, Lead Analyst, InfoWorld -- The Tech Horizon
Phil Zimmermann -- PGP
Philip Greenspun -- Software Engineering
Steve McConnell, CEO, Construx Software -- Software Engineering
Rasmus Lerdorf, Senior Technical Yahoo -- PHP
Visit the following page for all the lectures
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Samsung Thor - Concept Camera Phone
- 3 Gbyte HDD
- MS Smartphone Magneto
- Triband/GPRS Class 10
- Intenna
- Dimension: 1113 x 48 x 21mm (160 grams)
- Display: 262k TFT 240 x 320
- MMS/MIDP 2.0/CLDC 1.1/WAP 2.0
- Bluetooth 2.0
- USB 2.0
- 1 Megapixel Camera
- OTA/Online Music Service
- H.263/MPEG4/AMR/AAC+/MP3
- Jog Shuttle Navigation
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me.reminder("Webcast Series :: Building Windows Forms Applications")
Got to see all of these
Soap to Nuts
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David Bornstein on Social Entrepreneurs and New Solutions
I didn't think that it is going to be one of best lectures that I have ever heard but this talk by David (linked through Jon Udell) inspired me to do something big. He talked about social entrepreneurs and how they worked to implement something like this.
David Bornstein - from Pop!Tech 2004 - New Solutions
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Plans for 2005
Last year, the only major thing that I did was getting married ;) (j/k) With that, I also completed my MSc. in Mobile Computing from University of Bradford, released few pet projects, completed the update for the book ( which you can find here) . But, indeed, none of these are comparable to the first thing.
But, as 2004 passed, I have to concentrate on the new year. So here are few things that I planned for 2005 -
Soople simplified google searches
You love google calculator, right. But it seems impossible to remember all the different things that we can do with it. Now for all your calculator queries, visit Soople :: easy expert search for a much better interface.
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Color for Coders
If you are like me (a die-hard coder) and you are then given a task to challenge your artistic sense....Then worry not, here is an article that points you to some of the resources for selecting color and design schemes.
Read more - Color for Coders - Color and Design for the Non-Designer -
Just Released - Microsoft Windows Journal Reader Supplemental Component for the Windows XP Tablet PC Edition Development Kit 1.7
"The Microsoft Windows Journal Reader Supplemental Component provides programmatic read access to files in the Journal format. This simple component takes a stream containing a Journal file and returns a stream containing the file’s content in XML format. The XML returned by the component conforms to the Journal Reader schema. This schema is documented in Journal Reader Schema Reference."
More info
looks cool. Another thing to play with in the new year :)
