First commercially available surface computer from Microsoft breaks down barriers and provides effortless interaction with information using touch, natural gestures and physical objects.

CARLSBAD, Calif. — May 29, 2007 — Picture a surface that can recognize physical objects from a paintbrush to a cell phone and allows hands-on, direct control of content such as photos, music and maps. Today at the Wall Street Journal’s D: All Things Digital conference, Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer will unveil Microsoft Surface™, the first in a new category of surface computing products from Microsoft that breaks down traditional barriers between people and technology. Surface turns an ordinary tabletop into a vibrant, dynamic surface that provides effortless interaction with all forms of digital content through natural gestures, touch and physical objects. Beginning at the end of this year, consumers will be able to interact with Surface in hotels, retail establishments, restaurants and public entertainment venues.

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The jacket has a built-in pair of lungs on the front. As the wearer smokes, the lungs fill up with the exhaled cigarette smoke and begin to gradually darken over time.
This project was a result of exploring reflective design as it relates to the body, behavioral choices, and information displays.
Source: FIONA CARSWELL

Anyone thinking of attending the European leg of the Capesoft World tour should book now. Richard will be finalizing numbers on Friday, June 1 and a few places are still available.

SetupBuilder 6.5 Build 1876, a maintenance release, is now available. for download. If you have a current SetupBuilder Maintenance and Support Subscription Plan the update is free of charge. You can get the latest version by selecting “Check for Updates” from within the SetupBuilder 6.5 IDE.

Vista’s Aero Glass adds eye candy to Vista applications. But how do you add this to Clarion applications? Randy Rogers shows how your apps can sport the Aero Glass effect.
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I’ve decided to split posts about the Conference in half .. but not chronologically, or by content.
The split will go thusly. The Content, and then The People.
“The People” will look at .. well more than just the people. I’ll talk about my observations of the Aussie Community, issues that were addressed, what people were talking about, etc etc.
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Wednesday through Friday we attended “The Capesoft World Tour 2007″, the Aussie Leg.
There were too many choices to make for these three days! Bruce, Jono and Geoff all had very interesting seminars throughout the three days.
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Now a days Internet has become a home to spam. Millions of spam bots crawl the web daily to find email addresses and then bombard them with spam emails thus destroying their efficiency and creating problems for users. The best solution to this is to get a temporary or disposable email inbox which automatically expires after a certain time period.
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Cell phones and iPods are so ubiquitous today, many users can’t quite remember how they got along without them. Naturally, they rank among the top 25 inventions of the past quarter-century. However, not all the greatest innovations of the last two and a half decades have been electronic — try hand sanitizer, Air Jordan shoes and salad mix.
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The 2007 Aussie DevCon has wrapped up, and there have been a number of newsgroup posts and blog entries that shed further light on SoftVelocity’s presentations and the reaction of attendees. Bob’s presentations, which covered the new IDE, Clarion 7, and Clarion.NET (in its WinForms, WebForms/ASP.NET and Compact Framework incarnations, by all accounts left his audience both impressed and optimistic. Folks got to see the new data dictionary and visual data designer, both of which are (apparently) essentially complete and expected in the next Alpha release. The AppGen is still undergoing significant work and is not quite ready for alpha testing yet. Word out of the conference (which aligns with what I’ve heard from other sources) is that the bottleneck is getting the AppGen to talk nice with the rest IDE, with the additional info via Geoff Bomford that the .NET threading model is problematic: …changes to the threading model by MS are still causing…
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New: Support for “View” Form button change and “View” Browse button setup, on C6’s “Legacy” chain.
Fix: Some Minor fixes.
Improvement: The “Read from the .ini file” code template was improved to read from the Styles file first. If the Style entry is not found, then the style is read from the .ini file.

What is FinalStep: FinalStep allows you to change completely the look of your program in a
few minutes.
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New: Auto-restore size feature for printing forms.
New: Option for not printing “Tab” title information on Forms.
Change: Better vertical positioning of “entry” field contents, for more accurately printing of pre-filled forms.

What is PrintWindow? Send your window contents to your report previewer.

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Come One, Come .. All, or Three, Visitors!
I’ve posted up the beginnings of my blabber about the 2007 Aussie DevCon.
Cheers, Stu Andrews

When you hand your credit card to the waiter at an unfamiliar bistro, there’s a possibility he’ll copy the number and go on a spree with your card.
Most of us, therefore, don’t worry too much about letting a card out of our sight for a short time.
But when you give your credit-card number or any sort of personal information to a Web site, you’re taking a much more serious chance on identity theft.
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NASA returns him to the Navy, which will look into his role in the Nowak case.
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