April 2010
Download SQL Server 2008 R2 Express (Database Size... →
Yesterday i was researching about SQL Server 2008. i found New release of MS SQL Server 2008 R2, which have many new BI features and enhancements. There is a tiny cute feature that I am sure all of…
April 30th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, Visual... →
Here is the latest in my link-listing series. [In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu] ASP.NET Data Web Control Enhancements in ASP.NET 4.0
Microsoft Tips the Scale in Favor of HTML 5 and... →
Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager for Internet Explorer at Microsoft, has announced that IE9 will use only the H.264 standard to play HTML 5 video. Microsoft seems to have become very committed to…
Messenger Connect: A New API Strategy for... →
The new Windows Live Messenger Steve Ballmer previewed in Brazil today represents again how a loosely joined ecosystem is developing in the cloud computing world. They are growing through a…
Adobe Gives Up On Flash For Apple [Adobe] →
After Steve Jobs announced that he thinks Flash sucks, Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch replied with a blog post that we’re interpreting as “Yeah? Well, we’re taking our ball and going home!”…
Microsoft Cancels Innovative Courier Tablet... →
According to sources familiar with the matter, Microsoft has cancelled Courier, the folding, two-screen prototype tablet that was first uncovered by Gizmodo. More »
HP Slate Is Dead On Arrival, Says TechCrunch... →
HP is killing its Windows 7 “slate” tablet project, says TechCrunch, citing a source “briefed on the matter.” More »
Facebook's High Pressure Tactics: Opt-in or Else →
Facebook users who choose not to link their user accounts to Facebook’s public Pages are ending up with blank profiles containing no information at all. If you haven’t experienced this problem,…
Wave 4: What’s New in Messenger? →
Some of us caught a glimpse of the new WindowsLivePreview.com website which accidentally went live this morning for a short while. We were fortunate enough to capture some of the newly released…
Second Life Economy At Record High →
The world economy may still be firmly in the toilet but the economy inside the virtual world of Second Life is doing fine. Better than fine, in fact. Q1 of 2010 was a record-breaker. In a…
Ice Discovered on Asteroid, Suggests Earth’s... →
Water ice and organic molecules have been discovered on an asteroid’s surface for the first time. Researchers glimpsed the ice on 24 Themis, a frosty rock that could be the key to…
Microsoft’s “Merry Go Round” of Windows 7 PCs →
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It’s easy to lose track of some of the amazing new Windows 7 PCs that seems to come out every other week, which is what makes this Microsoft “Merry Go…
Softpedia: Windows 7 “thriving” against... →
Softpedia published an interesting article yesterday regarding Windows 7 and how it’s doing – with some interesting conclusions. Check out the article here. For more on the awesome momentum…
A Fascinating View on the Apollo 11 Launch [Image... →
This is something that not many people have seen: A close up of the fiery engines of the Saturn V rocket starting up July 16, 1969. The eight apocalyptical minutes in HD are…
Air Force's Falcon Hypersonic Glider Disappears... →
The Air Force’s Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2—designed to attack global targets at Mach 20—has disappeared nine minutes into its first test flight, just after separating…
Halo 2 Superfans Refuse to Let the Dream Die... →
Two weeks ago, Microsoft killed Xbox Live support for the original Xbox, making it impossible to play old games like Halo 2 online. But 13 people are still playing by keeping…
Poseidon 37: A Floating Power Plant For the... →
This is Poseidon 37, a floating power plant with the durability of an oil rig and the efficiency to generate up to 50 gigawatts of hydro and wind power a year. I’m assuming the…
Is it Time for Facebook to Make Opt-In the... →
Facebook’s Open Graph API is getting some negative attention in Washington today. Four democratic U.S. senators, Charles Schumer, Michael Bennet, Mark Begich and Al Franken, sent a letter…
Microsoft, Opera and Mozilla create WOFF →
Microsoft, Opera, and Mozilla have all teamed up in support of the Web Open Font Format or WOFF. According to the IEBlog they submitted the WOFF File Format 1.0 specification to W3C on April 8th…
Beyond IaaS: VMforce to Prime Enterprise Java for... →
Today, VMforce was officially unveiled by its parent organizations VMware and SalesForce. The companies came together to produce this love-child and are now proudly sharing it with the world….
AMD's $300 6-Core CPU: Too Good To Be True? [Amd] →
AMD’s new Thuban hexa-core CPUs come out swinging with prices that belie their size. And if we’ve learned anything from years of watching action movies: You never, ever count out the…
Delightful New Russian Missiles Can Be Hidden in... →
Oh…great. A Russian company is now marketing a new cruise missile system that can be hidden in a shipping container, turning any merchant ship into a warship able to take out an…
Firefox Steps Up to Challenge Facebook's Claim to... →
The team behind Mozilla’s Firefox browser announced today the availability of experimental code that website owners can add to their pages to allow site visitors to create an account, log-in or…
The Numbers Game: Instant Messaging →
Everyone loves numbers, and we run across lots of them in looking for stories here at LiveSide, but getting good numbers, ones that show real information that isn’t slanted toward one viewpoint or…
Cartoon: Captive Audiences →
Here it is 2010, and I’m still sitting through godawful, text-heavy PowerPoint presentations with cheesy transitions, pointless clip-art and (pause, Rob, and try to stop hyperventilating)… Comic Sans
Scientists ID Gene That Allows the Growth of a New... →
British scientists have identified the “smed-prop” genes that allow Planarian flatworms to regenerate any part of their body, including heads and brains, after an injury. Next step:…
McAfee Will Reimburse Repairs For All Those PCs... →
After shutting down countless PCs around the world last Wednesday with a botched update, McAfee has stepped up to offer reimbursement of “reasonable expenses” associated with…
Thanko breaks full-scale USB keyboard into four... →
Portable notebooks or tablets may let you access the internet on the go, but working on their smaller, cramped keyboards is not as easy as on a standard keyboard. Providing a solution, Japanese…
12 Wearable Cellphone concepts that add fashion to... →
Evolution is the basic law of nature. This aptly applies to almost every field of work or innovation coming to existence, but communication is one of the most affected fields, which gained…
Comic for April 25, 2010 →
1.5M Facebook accounts up for sale →
Computerworld reports that 1.5 million facebook accounts are up for sale by a hacker going by the moniker Kirllos. To be clear, that’s .3% of the estimated 400 million total registered Facebook…
o3 personal oxygen unit lets you breathe afresh in... →
With dramatic changes in environment due to global warming, coupled with increasing pollution worldwide, the day is not too far when we will have to carry personal survival gadgets to breathe…
Father Invents System to Help Autistic Son... →
As a result of severe autism and learning disabilities, eleven-year-old Callum Lodge is unable to talk. In order to allow his son to communicate with the world around him, his…
Email tip: When asking for help with a problem,... →
When you ask a question,
you should also mention what steps you’ve already taken when
attempting to solve it on your own.
First of all, it saves the people who decide to help you
with your…
Microsoft reports strong third-quarter revenue... →
Microsoft announced on Thursday, a record third-quarter revenue of $14.50 billion for the quarter ended March 31, 2010.
The financial figures are a 6% increase from the same period of the prior year….
How to "Like" Anything on the Web (Safely) →
Worried about Facebook “like” fraud? You should be. Thanks to Facebook’s overly simple implementation of the new Facebook Like Button, anyone can post a “Like This” button on their website…
Credit Card Numbers Now on Google Thanks to Blippy... →
Blippy, the controversial site where the over-sharing, Web-connected generation can link their credit cards and share their purchases has just come under fire from numerous tech blogs as it has…
R.I.P. Nate "nnenn" Nielson, LEGO... →
Nate “nnenn” Nielson was a father, husband, artist, and teacher. He also popularized the “Vic Viper” LEGO spaceships that took the AFOL community by storm. He died in an accident early this month. A few of my favorite nnenn designs:
Who Wants A Watch Containing Volcanic Ash From... →
From the same chap who brought us the watch with actual moon dust and parts from Apollo 11, comes the timely (sorry) Icelandic Eyjafjallajökull watch. With—you guessed it—…
How to Trick Users into Liking Facebook Pages... →
Yesterday, Facebook launched a new widget called the “Facebook Like Button,” which, simply put, brings the Facebook like button to the entire Internet. Website owners can implement the new button…
Hitler parody videos being removed from YouTube →
One of the famous meme’s around the Internet is the parody videos of Hitler in a bunker, during the last moments in WWII, featured in the film “Downfall” (Der Untergang). The comedy behind the videos…
Adobe Gives up on Apple, Welcomes Android →
Adobe is officially giving up on Apple. Or rather, Apple gave up on Adobe and Adobe is just now admitting it. In any event, the news is that Adobe’s “Packager for iPhone,” the bundled tool in…
The Deadliest Place In the Solar System Is... →
This is the deadliest place in the solar system, photographed as never before by NASA’s new Solar Dynamics Observatory. It’s one of the first humbling, terrifying, and beautiful…
TwitterClaims: Be First In The Twitter Username... →
Last week after Twitter’s Chirp conference, Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Land asked Twitter Co-founder Evan Williams when we would begin to see the release of inactive and deleted Twitter…
Dell's Next Android Phones: Flash, Thunder, and... →
First Engadget showed us a Windows Phone 7 beauty, the Dell Lightning, and now they’re showing off Dell’s Android offerings: Flash, Thunder, and Smoke. They’re all lookers in…
Quill vehicle moves on both snow and land with... →
Developed with flowing bodylines for an aesthetic look and aerodynamic structure, the “Quill” by British designer Halil Buzcuoglu is a vehicle concept that moves on both snow and land with…
April 21, 2010 →
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