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Sam Stokes on Research in your life and studies

Project Hawaii: Windows Phone 7 and Azure for academics

Posted 9 months ago

by Surf4Fun
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Uggh, Azure and academics, there is no MSDNAA freebie to help academics (Professors, researchers and students) experiment with Azure. This appears to be the case for Amazon and Google, definitely SalesForce. Sure you can get 90 day...
Sam Stokes on Research in your life and studies

Free Chemistry Add-In For MS Word

Posted 9 months ago

by Surf4Fun
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Like the Math Add-In for Word and OneNote, this is an awesome tool for Chemistry and Biology students. You can really drive your Chemistry Grader nuts with your great looking homework and save time. The downside is that you may need to memorize...
Sam Stokes on Research in your life and studies

Free Math add-in for Microsoft Word and OneNote

Posted 9 months ago

by Surf4Fun
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Let’s say you are taking a beginning physics class and you are killing the grading curve, and there is this extremely sexy person who is just not getting the material. This sexy person needs help, but you can’t do their homework and they are very...
Sam Stokes on Research in your life and studies

Free: Create a program on your Windows Phone

Posted 9 months ago

by Surf4Fun
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Think about it, can you develop a program on your Android? On your iPhone? Ummm? Not to be smug, but as far as I can tell there are copies of the excellent HP RPN calculators, current graphing calculators, but none of them allow you...
Sam Stokes on Research in your life and studies

Is SkimpyStash similar to SkimpyBikini? No, but it is way to Flash more.

Posted 9 months ago

by Surf4Fun
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Ok, SkimpyStash, SkimpyBikini and Flash, just beg for an HR violation here, but I won’t go there. Actually I am in a mood today, I went body surfing yesterday after work and I totally sanded by a big wave, so I am suffering from some muscle pain...
Sam Stokes on Research in your life and studies

The wonders of Real-Time Whiteboard capture and recording

Posted 9 months ago

by Surf4Fun
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I have all of these White board pictures in my Windows Phone 7 that I never look at except to delete. This is a paper that goes through the back story on how to build a system that would allow the streaming of a white board session in an online meeting...
Sam Stokes on Research in your life and studies

I fell asleep and missed part of the online meeting

Posted 9 months ago

by Surf4Fun
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Is it me or do Online Meetings sometimes seem like a “play date with coma patients”? Ok, that was mean, and a paraphrase from Scott Adams in the Wall Street Journal 8/6/2011, hopefully since I quoted someone else it will keep me out of trouble...
Sam Stokes on Research in your life and studies

3D Head tracking

Posted 9 months ago

by Surf4Fun
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Giving some thought to the Muscular Dystrophy issues faced by a patient with the failing of their muscles. In one of my other blogs I talked about the use of Kinect to implement an inexpensive Eye Gaze solution for late stage Muscular Dystrophy...
Sam Stokes on Research in your life and studies

Collaborative Software Development using Visual Studio

Posted 9 months ago

by Surf4Fun
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I have been thinking about the difficulty of developing with other people over the internet. Sure you could use Skype or Lync to set up a process, but it doesn’t quite cut it. With the cool stuff that Microsoft is doing with the Office Live and...
Sam Stokes on Research in your life and studies

What changed on that Web page since the last time you visited?

Posted 9 months ago

by Surf4Fun
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Check out this add on for IE 7,8,9 at: Diff-IE Add-on for Internet Explorer What is it? Diff-IE is a prototype Internet Explorer add-on that highlights the changes to a page since the last time you visited it and enables you to view and compare previously...
Sam Stokes on Research in your life and studies

Kinect is fine for some uses, but could it be use for this one? (Muscular Dystrophy)

Posted 9 months ago

by Surf4Fun
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What if you have a child that has Muscular Dystrophy which means that your child will eventually lose all muscle function, and if you guessed what happens when you lose all of your muscle functions, you guessed right. Over the years muscle tone is lost...
Sam Stokes on Research in your life and studies

Singularity, Free O/S from Microsoft: Singularity RDK, over 300,000 downloads can’t be wrong!

Posted 9 months ago

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Download the Bootable ISO from: http://singularity.codeplex.com/ For more information you can also visit: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/singularity/ Professor If you an instructor looking to add some sparkle to your Operating System class...
Sam Stokes on Research in your life and studies

Does the Stock Market obeys the Law Of Gravity? What is the law of gravity, Feynman explains

Posted 9 months ago

by Surf4Fun
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I don’t know about you, but today is 8/8/2011, and the markets are falling, just this early Monday morning the New York Exchange just dropped over 300 points between 6:30 AM and 7:30 AM. Quite a drop, fortunately the traffic kept flowing, but it...
Sam Stokes on Research in your life and studies

BarrelFish, free O/S from Microsoft: Sing#, Sing Sharp, Sing, Sing, Sing!

Posted 9 months ago

by Surf4Fun
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Sing#, Sing#, let’s all Sing#, oh-la-la, sing, sing, and then bing! Ok, that’s up there with the 100 BarrelFish title. A connection between the Singularity OS and BarrelFish is the messaging passing concept, but what language will support this easily...
Sam Stokes on Research in your life and studies

F#: No Install required, completely on the web, with graphics

Posted 9 months ago

by Surf4Fun
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This is really cool, if you want to learn a programming language, these tutorial are completely based on the web and work in any browser that has silverlight installed! Here is a RIA (Rich Interface Application): http://www.tryfsharp.org/Tutorials...
Sam Stokes on Research in your life and studies

BarrelFish Free O/S from Microsoft: My computer is distributed system, why not my O/S

Posted 10 months ago

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Do you ask yourself the following questions? (And if you do, why didn’t you participate in the Imagine Cup?) What are the appropriate algorithms, and how do they scale? What is up with all of this second-guessing the cache coherence protocol? The...