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Touchless
07 October 08 04:35 PM | eScience | 1 Comments   

Touchless is a fun and very cool release available from Office Labs – all you need is a webcam and some objects to use as pointers/markers… check it out. Touchless Touchless enables touch without touching by using a webcam to track color based markers. Read More...

Filed under: Software, Cool Software, Viz, Beta

Data Mining Services in the Cloud – Mine your Data, Any Place, Any Time
04 September 08 12:24 PM | eScience | 1 Comments   

This is great news - Software-plus-Services that any scientist/researcher could use.  The SQL Server Data Mining folks have a Data Mining Service in the cloud they are testing out…I posted previously [ OLAP and Scientific Data & Data Mining Addins Read More...

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F# – Sept CTP available and units of measure checking/inference
30 August 08 10:07 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   

The September 2008 CTP of F# is now available for download.  F# is a functional programming language for the .NET Framework and really should be looked at by scientists/researchers.  Also check out the F# Developer Center on MSDN for more info Read More...

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New drop of .NetMap available
28 August 08 07:58 AM | eScience | 1 Comments   

There’s a new release (1.0.1.52) of .NetMap available – which includes both the Excel Template and the class libraries.  The big feature in this drop is the ability to do Directed or Undirected graphs.  This determines whether arrows are drawn Read More...

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Live Mesh Video
13 August 08 12:37 PM | eScience | 1 Comments   

I really like the functionality provided by Live Mesh…and the video below helps gets the vision across.  Beyond file syncing – I just tested out distributing a .NET 3rd party app using Live Mesh and the app runs flawlessly.  So I could install Read More...

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NY Times Reader Beta for the Mac OS Now Available
27 May 08 10:33 AM | eScience | 1 Comments   

Just saw this post that the NY Times Reader for the Mac is available - I'm interested in seeing how the Silverlight version works.  I've been using the WPF version for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and really like the ease of reading articles.  Read More...

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Windows HPC Server 2008 Beta 2 is Here
23 May 08 08:32 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   

Windows HPC Server 2008 Beta 2 is available on Microsoft Connect and Ryan Waite goes into detail on much of the new stuff.  I'm really excited to start seeing scientists utilize and evaluate the new version - I think many of the new pieces especially Read More...

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