It’s a Leap day: 2/29/2008

Happy leap day

 

3D Virtual Desktop

Check it out

This brings back memories about when Central Point, the company behind PC Tools, released Central Point Desktop for Windows and introduced the idea of Virtual Desktops. At that time I got really used to it especially Windows 3.1 at that time did not have a useful desktop (it was called Program Manager)

Anyway, so far I am loving this tool, and will be evaluating for a possible purchase.

 

MbUnit: Comprehensive .Net Unit Test Framework

MbUnit

—— Test started: Assembly: MbUnitTestSamples.dll ——
Info: Test Execution
Info: Exploring Test.Example, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null
Info: MbUnit 1.0.2445.37068 Addin
Info: Found 1 tests
Info: [success] ConfigTest.GetValueFromAppSettings
Info: [reports] generating HTML report
TestResults: ….\Test.Example.Tests.html
1 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 skipped, took 4.07 seconds.

 

More on Microsoft Surface From Channel 10

Watch this 18 minutes video:-
http://on10.net/Blogs/larry/first-look-microsoft-surfacing-computing/

 

Two problems with the Apple iPhone

Even though the iPhone is revolutionary I think Steve Jobs is making a huge mistake by not opening up application development for 3rd party. This can be done by providing Apple certification program which ensure the quality of these 3rd party applications. Then its up to the consumer to buy apple certified program or take the risk in running into problems. But to make this a closed system is a huge mistake.

Another limitation that Apple put itself by going through Cingular is not opening the opportunity for Voice Over IP (VOIP) solutions such as the popular service of Skype.

Other than that, I think this is going to be a phenomenal product. Check out this video:

 

I know which phone to get

This is a perfect phone. Has everything I want:

• Built in GPS
• 5 Megapixel Camera
• 3.5 G support, which is 10 times faster than GPRS
• Big screen
• Light weight
• MP3 player
• Gaming device
• and more …

Can you guess what phone it is? It is NOT any of the ones I mentioned in my previous post.

Its the Nokia N95.

Check it out: Watch this video

 

Closer look at Vista new shell – Part I

The new shell has a totally improved list view with new capabilities to help organize the files. For example, you can click on any of the column header and either sort or group by that column. Also, you can do sorting on multiple columns.

 

Wiki + Google Map = Wikimapia

Wikimapia allows you to add places on the map in the same way you add contents to Wikipedia

 

Get ready for a new dimension in search…November 7th

Major update to the Virtual Earth Platform is coming November 7th.
www.live.com