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Eveleen Er

2D Barcodes and Mobile Tagging | Microsoft Tag - 1 views

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    An alternative to QR code. You can be more creative with the code as compared with QR. MDs take a look.
raifanacel

5 Big Tech Companies That Are Killing It On Facebook - 3 views

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    Useful look at some Facebook strategies of a few tech companies. Microsoft Xbox's strategy sounds more like ours.
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    Useful resource on leveraging on FB! Here is what I learnt from these companies use of FB: From Amazon: Converse with your audience From Dell: Provide useful how-tos From Samsung: Show specific uses of edtech From MS XBox: Provide teasers, trailers, previews, updates From YouTube: Share viral videos
yeuann

ZoomIt - 0 views

  • ZoomIt is screen zoom and annotation tool for technical presentations that include application demonstrations. ZoomIt runs unobtrusively in the tray and activates with customizable hotkeys to zoom in on an area of the screen, move around while zoomed, and draw on the zoomed image. I wrote ZoomIt to fit my specific needs and use it in all my presentations.ZoomIt works on all versions of Windows and you can use pen input for ZoomIt drawing on tablet PCs
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    Reccommended by Sally to me. Freeware, and only 267KB in size.
bernard tan

What are Metro style apps? - 0 views

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    mobile experiences from Window development POV.
Eveleen Er

Microsoft launches So.cl social network - 0 views

  • Microsoft’s research-oriented FUSE Labs launched a new, student-oriented social network last weekend
  • So.cl has been designed for students studying social media to extend their educational experience and rethink how they learn and communicate. They can build posts with many elements—photos, video, text, and more—and share them with colleagues. They also can find students with similar interests and build communities around specific educational goals. So.cl might even give students the ability to create their own social tool, customized for their own community.”
mazlanhasan

Docs for Facebook - 1 views

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    Docs for FB from Msoft
Ashley Tan

MIT Media Lab makes your coffee table a computer | Cutting Edge - CNET News - 2 views

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      I attended a talk at the ADM building about a year ago where something like the LuminAR was mentioned. It looks like they have moved from concept to prototype! The coffee table computer is not new. Microsoft already has Surface.
rahim azhar

Teens Find New Ways To Manage Facebook - 0 views

  • Microsoft Research New England researcher danah boyd (boyd uses an all lowercase name) calls two of the techniques "super-logoff" and "whitewalling".  She outlined what she calls "risk reduction strategies"
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    Teens find ways to privatised their Facebook.
Sally Loan

Marc My Words: The Greatest Mobile Learning App Ever (until the next one comes along) b... - 0 views

  • For mLearning, tags have huge possibilities. They add depth and vitality to content in ways that significantly enhance just-in-time access to information, and improve understanding and performance.
  • Two major tag formats are getting the most attention right now, and you can use both for mLearning: the QR tag format, and the Microsoft tag format.
bernard tan

Coding JavaScript for Mobile Browsers (part 6) - Microsoft Certification Examples, exer... - 0 views

  • In mobile browsers, you need to be especially careful about using timers because of the battery consumption. If you need to use many high-frequency timers at the same time, try to manage them using only one timer that will launch different behaviors from the same process.
  • The first question we need to ask ourselves is, what happens when our web page goes to the background because the user switches focus to another application (in multitasking operating systems) or opens or browses to another tab or window? Another problem is what happens when the phone goes to sleep (because of the user’s inactivity while the script is executing). The behavior of timers can be a little tricky in these situations.Yet another problem is that timers execute on the same thread as the main script. If our script is taking too much processor time (a normal situation with large scripts on low- and mid-end devices), our timers will be delayed until some spare execution time is found.If we use a low frequency for the timer (for example, 10 milliseconds), the timer will generally have problems meeting the timetable.Remember that the JavaScript execution time depends a lot on the device hardware and the browser’s engine. Even if they’re running the same operating system, like Android, execution times can differ: for example, an HTC G1 will be much slower than a Nexus One with a 1-Ghz processor.
  • As shown in Figure 4, the real times are very different on different devices. On low- and mid-end devices, if they work at all, the result is far from our 200 ms intention—some low-end devices don’t even accept timers with a frequency of less than 1 second.
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  • Table 11. Timers support compatibility tableBrowser/platformTimers availableTimers in backgroundSafariYesStopped. From iOS 4.0: continue working while in other browser's window.Android browserYesStopped.Symbian/S60YesStopped. From 2.2: continue working while in other browser's window.Nokia Series 40No webOSYesContinue working.BlackBerryNo NetFrontYesNo multitasking.Internet ExplorerYesStopped.Motorola Internet BrowserNo Opera MobileYesContinue working.Opera MiniNo Note:The Gmail for Mobile team discovered some issues with timer behavior on mobile Safari and Android devices, and made the results public in the team blog at http://www.mobilexweb.com/go/timers. The conclusions are: for low-frequency timers (1 second or more), there are no performance issues, and you can add as many as you want; for high-frequency timers (for example, 100 ms), though, every new timer created makes the UI more sluggish. The preferred solution is to use only one high-frequency timer.
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    Creating real time app might pose to be an issue on web app.
yeuann

Kinect Hackers Are Changing the Future of Robotics | Magazine - 0 views

  • On November 4, a solution was discovered—in a videogame. That’s the day Microsoft released the Kinect for Xbox 360, a $150 add-on that allows players to direct the action in a game simply by moving their bodies. Most of the world focused on the controller-free interface, but roboticists saw something else entirely: an affordable, lightweight camera that could capture 3-D images in real time.
  • When DIYers combine those cheap, powerful tools with the collaborative potential of the Internet, they can come up with the kinds of innovations that once sprang only from big-budget R&D labs. In 2009, a PhD student named Daniel Reetz turned two Canon PowerShot A590s into an improvised high-speed book scanner. He detailed the project on a website, DIYbookscanner.org, where readers have since posted hundreds of tweaks, suggestions, upgrades, and entirely new designs. The open source MPGuino project, which uses an Arduino microcontroller to track gas consumption as you drive, has inspired a small community of fans who help refine and customize the gizmo.
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    An article on how the Kinect could help in education.
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