Vintage Technologies We No Longer Use (Part 2)

19. Walkman The Walkman was invented for the co-chairman of Sony, Akio Morita, who wanted to be able to listen to his favorite operas on plane trips. It was initially marketed as the Soundabout in North America, but the “Walkman” name was used for the product up until the present day. 20. Discman Two years after the mass production of the Compact Disc, Sony released its portable player for it....

Vintage Technologies We No Longer Use (Part 1)

Most of the technologies that we have used in the past have been eclipsed by the remarkable technology that we use today. Advances in their design have occurred in tandem with the advances in technology in this digital era, with many large products being redesigned and miniaturized into amazingly small sizes. While we may laugh at the fact that anyone ever found this technology to be cutting-edge,...

iWeb – 6.5” Notebook – Transformer

iWeb – 6.5” Notebook – Transformer What would be advanced, lightweight, compact and beautiful were not laptops and netbooks, one they will always lag behind the desktop, and it is – a full keyboard. I think few would argue with the fact that the printed text of 10-15 pages on a laptop is not so easy, then as a netbook, this procedure becomes suschuyu torture. The concept, proposed...

NASA’s Hyperwall – world’s highest-resolution display system

Hyperwall-2 is spread across 128 monitors and is used for a multitude of purposes such as displaying images from Nasa’s Spitzer Space Telescope (as shown above) You may think you’ve got a pretty good widescreen set-up at home, but nothing comes close to Nasa’s hyperwall-2. Used for a multitude of purposes, from weather and national disaster observations to displaying images...

Internet Explorer 9 Preview Release

Features of Internet Explorer 9 Preview Release Today, Microsoft launched Internet Explorer 9 Preview. There are many features added in it. Following are the list of features added in IE 9 On HTML 5: Microsoft was coy about whether it would support all of the HTML 5 standards, the next generation of HTML. The company doesn’t seem willing to commit to the standard until it is set in stone, but “wants...

Follow Microsoft on Twitter and Stay Connected

Follow Microsoft on Twitter and Stay Connected with Microsoft and Microsoft Technologies If you want to be always updated with Microsoft and Microsoft Technologies, then twitter is good way. Following are some ‘List of Official Microsoft Twitter Accounts’, so start following those account and be connected to ‘World of Microsoft’ !. @Bill Gates – Official twitter account of Bill Gates @Microsoft...

Moving the pointer without a mouse

Moving the pointer without a mouse Ever thought that you could move your mouse pointer without your mouse..? No, not really, isn’t it..? But, it’s possible..! Here is how: 1.Press Left Alt + Left Shift + Num Lock Button and click OK in the dialogue box that appears. 2.In your Taskbar, a mouse-like icon will appear. Double click it and under “Mouse” tab, make sure that the “Use...

Take and Skip Partition Operator in LINQ

Many times we have requirement, to fetch partial result set from collection like Arrays, DataTable. To achieve the same we can use Take and Skip Partition Operator of LINQ. Skip Partition Operator Reference: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb358985.aspx Take Partition Operator Reference: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb503062.aspx For this we will consider following example of Array...