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Hi. I can't wait for Windows Phone 8, literally, i can't, so i will be buying an Android phone. 
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Office and SharePoint 2013 feature a new Cloud App Model that embraces web standards, and allows you to build a new class of apps that combine web technologies and cloud services, right within Office and SharePoint. “Napa” is the easiest way to start building apps for the new Cloud App Model. What kind of app do you want to build?
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Pixel Art is really popular in games these days, and for some great reasons: Pixel art looks awesome! Pixel art brings back a great nostalgic feeling for gamers who grew up playing Nintendo, Super Nintendo, or Genesis. And pixel art is one of the easiest types of digital art to learn, especially if you are a more of a programmer type than an artist. So wanna try your hand at some pixel art? 8-bit art class.
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According to NASA scientists, the unexpected slowing of the Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft – the so-called ‘Pioneer Anomaly’ – turns out to be due to the effect of heat pushing back on the spacecraft. They have found that the heat emanates from electrical current flowing through instruments and the thermoelectric power supply. Captain, I canna change the laws of physics!
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We thought it would be fun to give a sense of all the systems that power Instagram, at a high-level. This is how our system has evolved in the just-over-1-year that we’ve been live, and while there are parts we’re always re-working, this is a glimpse of how a startup with a small engineering team can scale to our 14 million+ users in a little over a year. Scale it like a Polaroid picture.
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Interesting to know about the architecture of such a large and popular service.
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“Where are my keys?” “Did I lock my door before leaving?” “There’s someone at my door. Was I expecting someone?”
“What was this key for?” These are common questions that I asked myself several times a day. That’s why I decided to reinvent keys. Based on the beautifully designed Nest Thermostat and the ridiculous fact that we are relying on a 19th century technology, I came up with a simple concept that will make your iPhone the smartest keyholder ever. Oh man, I locked my phone in the car!
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A whole bunch of problems with this, like when your phone is out of power. Just the other day my car battery was discharged, and that meant could not open the trunk. What may be the best option is have something you wear like a piece of jewelry that you do not have to take off that will open everthing. Necklace or a ring.
modified 18-Jul-12 20:49pm.
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A necklace or ring can still be lost/stolen or just break.
The mind can also be lost, but then you're in more trouble than not being able to enter your house/car, so why not store they the key there?
modified 19-Jul-12 10:31am.
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Agree, but my most significant problem is loosing keys, not having them stolen. I find them, but not after going crazy for a while. One time I lost keys for a month or so and they were in plain sight. Use to keep a few keys for my car around, but I bought a new car and the keys are over $200. Not only do I need to get the key cut, but the electronic part has to be "keyed" to the car. Give me one or the other, not both. Would not mind having the design for the Prius which you just keep the key fob in your pocket. One of the main reasons I am not happy with my new car.
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I love this bit from a previous blog post on his site
Nico Garcia: That list was called “The obvious list”, ideas that were so obvious that even an accountant could come up with.
He could just use the NFC in his phone instead of this elaborate way to unlock his house. The "obvious" way, but alas...
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Today Dell announced its official re-entry into the Linux laptop market. Project Sputnik, first announced in May, is graduating from Dell’s internal incubator program into a real product. According to project lead Barton Geroge, Dell will sell a special “developer edition” of its XPS13 Ultrabook starting this fall. The laptop will come pre-loaded with Ubuntu. Dude, I got an Ubuntu!
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No one outside the font world will recognize Steve Matteson. No one on the street will ever stop him and ask for an autograph, despite the fact that his designs are seen by millions of people around the world. If you ever used Windows Vista, read off a Barnes & Noble Nook, or played a game on an Xbox, Matteson's work has already reached your eyes. Open a Word document in your computer and pull down the font menu. He is there -- nestled in Andale Mono, Cambria, and Curlz. Consolas makes up a great deal for Comic Sans.
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From the earliest text-based adventures to the latest modern shooters, Reverse Enginears has created a stunning musical composition featuring only sounds and music from PC games. From Zork to Portal in 2 and a half minutes.
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In the past, NASA has used everything from websites and mobile apps to coverage on its own TV network to get the public excited about its space exploration efforts. But the run-up to the planned August 5 landing of the Mars rover "Curiosity" includes the organization's first foray into the world of console game development. That's one small step for Xbox, one giant leap for science-mad kids.
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Microsoft have just announced that the next version of Windows, Windows 8 is coming on October 26th 2012. Countdown to Metro-geddon.
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Microsoft really do seem to be committed to the Windows Phone platform with Office 2013 being optimised for WP8 usage. Details[^].
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do you work for ms behind the scenes? 
All the best,
Dan
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Annual IT costs for managing smartphones will soar by 48% next year compared to 2011, a new survey by Osterman Research shows.
More heterogenous environments, more things to solve, but thinking positively, perhaps also more compatibility in the future.
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Android version 4.1, aka Jelly Bean, is the first version of the Google-developed OS to properly implement a protection known as address space layout randomization. ASLR randomizes the memory locations for the library, stack, heap, and most other OS data structures. As a result, hackers who exploit memory corruption bugs that inevitably crop up in complex pieces of code are unable to know in advance where their malicious payloads will be loaded. When combined with a separate defense known as data execution prevention, ASLR can effectively neutralize such attacks. Too bad this is available for... almost nobody.
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One of the more cool things Microsoft recently announced is the ability to deploy your applications directly from your git repository (using git push) and straight to your Azure hosted website. It loads your master branch, compiles everything and upload the whole thing automatically. Pretty sick! Now you may think "Cool story bro, but I host my own IIS!" - Well, no problem! David Fowler and David Ebbo are the creators of Project Kudu - the engine behind automated deployment via Git on Azure. These guys did an awesome job by not limiting this project to Azure, making us able to use it on IIS. Now time to grok it! Kodu + git + IIS = awesome!
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Useful.
(And on page #3!)
Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.
Dave Barry
Read more at BrainyQuote[ ^]
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Believe it or not, there are a lot of people who strongly dislike JavaScript. For one reason or another, they simply can't stand the perceived lack of security and structure within the language. One of those perceived weaknesses is lack of the private designations for variables within structures. They have a point; if you stick a property on an object, or create d global variables, it's fair game for anyone. There is, however, a few very simple patterns you can use within JavaScript to keep access to a given object or variable private! A gentleman doesn't code and tell.
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I think JavaScript is an abomination. It just happen to be the winner for Web development. To indicate the weaknesses, just think about why there is a book called JavaScript, the Good Parts (.http://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Good-Parts-Douglas-Crockford/dp/0596517742/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1342561408&sr=8-1&keywords=JavaScript%2C+the+Good+Parts[^]). It is primarily used with C type languages, but, although it looks a lot like C (or C# or Java), it is quite different. WOuld have been much better to have it act more like a C language. In addition it does not play nice with HTML. If you have a language that is to be used in web pages, doesn't it make sense to make if pretty much HTML friendly. It should be possible to just paste the code into HTML and have it work, not require changing a whole bunch of characters to make it work within HTML, and then if you pull the code out, you have to change those characters back.
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