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Updated XNA Game Studio 3.0 starter kits

One of the coolest talks I heard at PDC2008 was XNA Game Studio 3.0 .  Watch the session on Channel 9 ( along with all the PDC2008 sessions ) to learn about XNA Game Studio and the XNA Framework and how they help you to quickly create games using Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 11, 2008 5:22 AM by KarinM | 1 Comments
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Cool game to understand the federal budget

Budget Hero is an engaging and journalistically sound game that encourages players to think through the complexities and challenges of the federal budget and the major policy issues of the 2008 election. It frames the policy debate as a set of federal Read More...
Posted Monday, October 13, 2008 4:59 PM by KarinM | 1 Comments
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Electric Car Batteries? Not a problem

Battery capacity might not matter for the future of electric cars if Shai Agassi's vision is realized.  Agassi is one of Time Magazine's Heroes of the Environment 2008 and he's proposed a mashup of the automotive and mobile phone industries known Read More...
Posted Monday, October 06, 2008 3:10 AM by KarinM | 1 Comments
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Driving the all-electric Tesla Roadster: WOW!

Picture being launched off an aircraft carrier in a high performance glider. That’s what went through my mind the first time I was mashed back into my seat as the Tesla Roadster zoomed from 0 to 60 in less than 4 seconds. There’s nothing new about going Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 02, 2008 4:12 PM by KarinM | 3 Comments
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Tesla Electric Roadster on Main Campus Friday 9/26

Tesla will be on the Microsoft main campus to showcase their new Roadster on Friday, September 26. There will be a formal presentation for Microsoft employees from 2:30-3:30pm at the Microsoft Conference Center, providing details of their approach and Read More...
Posted Monday, September 22, 2008 8:14 PM by KarinM | 1 Comments
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XAML Power Toys v2 Released

Karl Shifflett of the Cider team has released v2 of his XAML Power Toys, that enable developers to quickly layout and maintain Line of Business Application forms.  Five great videos get you up and running with this Visual Studio add-in. Check out Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 16, 2008 11:57 PM by KarinM | 1 Comments

Using vmcNetflix with Media Center to stream NetFlix movies

I’ll be spending some time this long weekend trying out the (beta) vmcNetflix to watch streaming movies on my TV using Media Center on my PC and my Xbox 360. Any Netflix subscription over $9 gets you unlimited (kind of grainy) streaming of something Read More...
Posted Friday, July 04, 2008 6:00 AM by KarinM | 1 Comments
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CSI Uses Photosynth to Solve TV Murder

  Talk about great product placement! Photosynth was used to solve a murder on “CSI: NY” last night.  If you’ve been in a cave somewhere, Photosynth was developed in Microsoft Research Live Labs and is the hot topic of many Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 01, 2008 11:53 PM by KarinM | 1 Comments
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Surface in AT&T stores this month

AT&T says it will start using Microsoft's Surface tabletop computers, like the one unveiled last year. Surface computers will be used in retail stores starting this month to help mobile phone customers learn more about features, accessories, and rate Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 03, 2008 10:30 PM by KarinM | 1 Comments
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How-to videos for the tech challenged

Next time your tech-hesitant parents or friends ask you for advice on RSS feeds, social networking or wikis, point them to this site. The folks at CommonCraft do a much better job explaining than you could. Their product is explanation. They use a simple Read More...
Posted Saturday, March 01, 2008 6:02 AM by KarinM | 2 Comments
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Cruel and unusual punishment for geeks

This incredibly evil alarm clock challenges you to prove you’re really awake by feeding you math problems until it’s satisfied that you’ve been harassed enough to avoid drifting back off to sleep. The design is powered by a PIC16 microcontroller, which Read More...
Posted Sunday, February 24, 2008 3:28 AM by KarinM | 2 Comments
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Blown away in 40 minutes

What fun! Thirty-one awesome demos in 39 minutes , presented in a wonderful interactive interface. Mouse over the top of the video screen to jump from demo to demo. Thank you for a great tour, Nigel Parker! Demo Links 1. Microsoft Research Group Shot Read More...
Posted Friday, January 25, 2008 6:56 AM by KarinM | 2 Comments

Add to database of Wi-fi/Internet at World Airports

I saw this tip in Steve Clayton’s blog post about atlarge.com , where users can read and write about internet access at the airports of the world. Users rate Internet access based on Wi-fi, Cellular, Fixed Line, Powerpoints, Comport and Cost. It’s in Read More...
Posted Friday, January 04, 2008 10:28 PM by KarinM | 1 Comments
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WOW Burning Crusade Expansion Pack: Code it

As 9 million users are no doubt aware, World of Warcraft just became a lot more fun with the Burning Crusade Expansion Pack . For coding fun, Warcraft exposes a LUA-based API and has a huge community of AddOn developers extending Warcraft. Microsoft’s Read More...
Posted Sunday, December 23, 2007 12:33 AM by KarinM | 2 Comments
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Go ElfYourself

Hey, I just made a total elf of myself. Check it out by clicking here http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1513032530 . If you haven’t tried this yet go on over to the very entertaining ElfYourself site brought to you by OfficeMax. Give it a try – I laughed Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 18, 2007 6:28 AM by KarinM | 2 Comments
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