Hasta La Gadget!

This article was written on February 28, 2008 by CyberNet.

After all of the speculation regarding what extraordinary thing was coming from Microsoft, we now know that the WorldWide Telescope is “it.” Robert Scoble confirmed this yesterday and reiterated that people who have not seen the demo will think that a telescope is lame. He says, “like I said, it isn’t the product that’s impressive. You’ve gotta see this thing to really understand.” His demo will be available on Monday.

At the TED (Technology, Entertainment, and Design) conference which is currently going on, Microsoft made a presentation (embedded below) on the WWT and while the video doesn’t actually show a great demo of it, we do get an idea of what it’s all about from the presenters. Before we get into some of the comments the presenter made, first we’ll explain further what it is. According to the official website:

The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a rich visualization environment that functions as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery from the best ground and space telescopes in the world for a seamless, guided exploration of the universe.

WorldWide Telescope, created with Microsoft’s high-performance Visual Experience Engine™, enables seamless panning and zooming across the night sky blending terabytes of images, data, and stories from multiple sources over the Internet into a media-rich, immersive experience.

The presenter made these points about the telescope:

• It will change the way we teach astronomy
• It will change the way we see ourselves in the universe
• Will enable users to experience the universe – “it’s like a magic carpet” he says
• Allows users to tour the universe with astronomers as your guide — and it’s not just experts who are telling you what you’re seeing but people who are truly passionate about what they do
• Users can create their own tours to share with friends and family
• While viewing tours (already created tours of self-made) users can zoom-in or pull back out
• Tours are interactive and can be paused along the way

Curtis Wong from Microsoft eventually made it to the microphone and said that they hope this telescope will inspire kids of all ages to explore the universe. It’ll be available this Spring as a free download and will be found at www.worldwidetelescope.org. Now I can’t wait to see a great demo of it in action…

Source: I Started Something

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This article was written on June 17, 2011 by CyberNet.

Once you’ve had the pleasure of using dual monitors it can be tough trying to go back to a single screen. There are, however, some things that Windows doesn’t handle so gracefully. A good example of this can be seen in one of our most popular articles where we walk you through how to change your primary monitor (the one where the Taskbar appears). There has got to be an easier way to do things like this, right?

There is, and it is with a free utility called Dual Monitor Tools. This is a collection of five standalone utilities that you can run whenever you want without going through a setup routine:

• Swap Screen uses hotkeys to simplify the process of handling windows in a multiple monitor setup. This includes features such as moving the current window to the next screen and minimising all windows on a single screen only. It also includes mouse/cursor control allowing you to lock the mouse onto a single screen or providing resistance to moving between screens.
• Dual Launcher allows you to launch your favourite applications with a few key strokes and to position them at pre-configured positions on any of your monitors.
• Dual Wallpaper simplifies the process of using images as wallpaper on multiple monitor setups. You can have a single image which is spread across all of your monitors, or you can have different images on each monitor, or if you have enough monitors, you could say have an image spread across 2 of your monitors with another image displayed on the third monitor.
• DisMon gives you some control over which monitors are disabled and which is the primary monitor when running another application.
• Dual Snap allows you to capture the image on the primary monitor and display it on the secondary monitor by the use of a user defined hotkey. This works with both normal window applications and most full screen applications like most games.

The DisMon utility is the program I want to highlight since it will let you easily select which monitor should be treated as the primary and which one as the secondary… that is the problem I mentioned above. This is the easiest way I’ve come across for addressing that.

Dual Monitor Tools Homepage (Windows only; Freeware)

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This week the game Bound by Flame has been introduced to the public by its developers at Spiders Studio. This game is set to inflict a bit of classic RPG … Continue reading

This article was written on January 18, 2006 by CyberNet.

Yes, that is right, the Windows that is in the far far future could be named Vienna now. The previous name was Blackcomb until Robert Scoble, a ‘reporter’ for Microsoft, stated that the name is being changed to Vienna. If this is true then I think Microsoft has lost their mind. Names like Whistler, Longhorn, and Blackcomb were all cool, but Vienna? Who are we, Oscar Meyer?

News Source: Bink.nu

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This article was written on April 25, 2008 by CyberNet.

One thing that I’m always careful about backing up is my browser’s profile. There is a lot of information stored in there, and it would be a real shame if I lost it all. If you’re running Opera then you’re in for a real treat with this backup utility. OperaFly is a nifty little free program that runs on Windows. You can get a version that does or doesn’t require installation, and the beauty is that it takes what could be a daunting task and turns it into something that is very user friendly.

When you startup the program it will automatically find the files and folders that it needs to access. Then you can select what parts of your profile you would like to back as seen in the screenshot above, and this is where the true customization comes into play. If you were wanting to start with a clean profile this would be a quite handy tool to have. You can selectively backup the areas of your profile that would be difficult to replace (bookmarks, mail, etc…), wipe out the Opera profile (which OperaFly can also do), and then restore only the portions of the profile that you just backed up. It pretty much does it all from a single interface.

Yeah yeah, I know… the problem is remembering to backup your profile. OperaFly has got you covered there as well. It includes a tool called OperaFly Watch that will sit in your System Tray. From there you can create a backup on-demand, or you can have it automatically create a backup each time you close the browser. Just tell it the location on your PC where you want the backups stored, and it will make sure it gets done. This is automation at its finest!

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Thanks for the tip Mark!

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