Category Archives: General

General.

You don’t have to be a hero!

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“you don’t have to be a hero to make a difference in the world” – Shawn

New Features in Wolfram|Alpha: Year-End Update

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The guys at Wolfram|Alpha have been working hard to bring you the best computational knowledge engine available out there, and for free. Even though Wolfram|Alpha is already a most powerful tool, developers have been working to improve it even further and have brought a full pack of entirely new and improved features before the year-end.

This new features cover all available categories, from mathematics and computation to science and culture. Comparing house prices in your area, reading available crime statistics from FBI, exploring a vast information about music, and check on military information, are just a few of the new planned features before the year-end.

You can read all about the new features at Wolfram|Alpha official blog and don’t forget to check the engine itself at WolframAlpha.com. A must see, if you haven’t already.

Take care.

A simple way to change Windows 7 logon background.

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Throughout the net there are plenty of different alternatives on how to change Windows 7 logon background.
Well, Julien Manici, using WPF, created a very simple application that allows you to change Windows 7 logon background with only a few mouse clicks.

Windows 7 Logon Background Changer allows any user to change the logon background of Windows 7 by just selecting a folder, picking an image, and it’s done. It doesn’t even requires an installation.

Julien also made available the application source code, written in C#.NET using VS2008.

You can find out more about Julien application at his own website.

Wolfram|Alpha Homework Day

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Excitement is building as we count down to our first-ever
Wolfram|Alpha Homework Day, a live interactive web event starting
at noon CDT on Wednesday, October 21, 2009.

This event is dedicated to showing how Wolfram|Alpha, a
groundbreaking free website, is a powerful new discovery and
learning tool for students, parents, and educators.

We are proud to announce today some of the highlights we have
planned for Homework Day, including:
* Several interactive segments where Stephen Wolfram and the
Wolfram|Alpha Team help you tackle tough homework problems
* Step-by-step tutorials for educators by educators demonstrating
how to integrate Wolfram|Alpha into the classroom
* Vibrant panel discussions about Wolfram|Alpha and the future of
education
* And lots more

More details about Homework Day and how you can participate are
available on the Wolfram|Alpha Homework Day home page:

http://homeworkday.com

We hope you will check out the site and save the date for
Wolfram|Alpha Homework Day on Wednesday, October 21, 2009.

Best regards,

The Wolfram|Alpha Team

Wolfram|Alpha

Wolfram|Alpha?

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Ever heard of Wolfram|Alpha?
Released on May 15, 2009, Wolfram|Alpha is a recent answer engine developed by the Wolfram Research. It is an online service that aims to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone by computing the answer from structured data.

We aim to (…) make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything.
(…)
our goal is to create something that will stand as a major milestone of 21st century intellectual achievement.

At a first glance, Wolfram Alpha seems a very useful and an extraordinary project. For example, if you type “Ohm Law”, it immediately shows you the equation and it’s meaning, as well as a converter/calculator. If you type the name of a city, it shows you a map and a bunch of statistic and values (population, weather…) related to that same city.
It really is something to keep an eye on and take a look at. Try typing a domain name, a celebrity name, a date, a song,…anything.
It seems a fantastic project and I’m hoping that Wolfram Research goals will be successfully accomplished, since that means everyone wins…well almost everyone.

Watch a screencast.

The Avett Brothers – I and Love and You

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The official music video for I and Love and You, from the album with the same name out on 29/09/09, was released today on MySpace.

TextFindIT 2.0

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Hi all,

TextFindIT version 2.0 is now available for download.

Read More »

Google Chrome OS

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It’s already in 2010, that Google will be releasing it’s new OS: Google Chrome. The announce was made yesterday (07/07/09) at the Official Google Blog.

So today, we’re announcing a new project that’s a natural extension of Google Chrome — the Google Chrome Operating System. It’s our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be.

Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010.

(…)

Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS. We’re designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds. The user interface is minimal to stay out of your way, and most of the user experience takes place on the web. And as we did for the Google Chrome browser, we are going back to the basics and completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS so that users don’t have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates.

(…)

The software architecture is simple — Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel.

Visit the Official Google Blog for more details.

TextFindIT Reviews

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Just to say thanks to the ones that reviewed TextFindIT.
Check them out at the TextFindIT official post.

FreewareFiles.com
DownloadTube.com
BeyondSearch.com

TextFindIT 1.5

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TextFindIT 1.5 is now available for download.
Official post at LINK

Log:
1.5
-> Now working for PDF files (using colorpilot.com/pdflibrary.html);
-> You can now use the ‘Del’ key to remove an extension from the list;
-> No more case sensitive/non-case sensitive problems with the extensions;
-> Keywords are now separated by commas instead of spaces;
-> New icon made freely available by Artua.com;
-> Some graphical improvements;
-> Installation is now required.