Finished Logo Project Debugger

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Public Class Form1 Private Structure LayOutSettings Dim PictureFileName Dim MyCurrentSettingFileName As String End Structure Private MyLayOut As New LayOutSettings
Private Sub Form1_KeyDown(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs) Handles Me.KeyDown Select Case e.KeyCode Case Keys.Down If e.Control = True Then Label1.Top = (Label1.Top + 10) Else : Me.Opacity = Me.Opacity - 0.1 End If Case Keys.Up If e.Control = True Then Label1.Top = Label1.Top - 10 Else Me.Opacity = Me.Opacity + 0.1
End If Case Keys.Left If e.Control = True Then Label1.Left = Label1.Left - 10 End If Case Keys.Right If e.Control = True Then Label1.Left = Label1.Left + 10 End If End Select End Sub
Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
Label1.BorderStyle = BorderStyle.None Me.BackColor = Color.White Me.KeyPreview = True
End Sub
Private Sub FontToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles FontToolStripMenuItem.Click FontDialog1.ShowDialog() Label1.Font = FontDialog1.Font
End Sub
Private Sub FontColorToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles FontColorToolStripMenuItem.Click ColorDialog1.ShowDialog() Label1.ForeColor = ColorDialog1.Color End Sub
Private Sub Label1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Label1.Click Form2.show() End Sub
Private Sub SolidToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles SolidToolStripMenuItem.Click Label1.BorderStyle = BorderStyle.FixedSingle End Sub
Private Sub NoneToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles NoneToolStripMenuItem.Click Label1.BorderStyle = BorderStyle.None End Sub
Private Sub SolidToolStripMenuItem1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles SolidToolStripMenuItem1.Click Me.FormBorderStyle = Windows.Forms.FormBorderStyle.Sizable End Sub
Private Sub NoneToolStripMenuItem1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles NoneToolStripMenuItem1.Click Me.FormBorderStyle = Windows.Forms.FormBorderStyle.None End Sub
Private Sub TransparencyColorToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles TransparencyColorToolStripMenuItem.Click ColorDialog1.ShowDialog() Me.TransparencyKey = ColorDialog1.Color End Sub
Private Sub LoadPictureToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles LoadPictureToolStripMenuItem.Click OpenFileDialog1.ShowDialog() MyLayOut.PictureFileName = OpenFileDialog1.FileName Me.BackgroundImage = System.Drawing.Image.FromFile(MyLayOut.PictureFileName)
End Sub
Private Sub ExitToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles ExitToolStripMenuItem.Click Me.Close() End Sub
Private Sub NewToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles NewToolStripMenuItem.Click Dim oForm As New Form1 oForm.Show() End Sub
Private Sub SaveToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles SaVeToolStripMenuItem.Click SaveFileDialog1.ShowDialog() SaveMySettings(SaveFileDialog1.FileName) ' SaveFileDialog1.ShowDialog() ' MyLayOut.MyCurrentSettingFileName = SaveFileDialog1.FileName() ' If MyLayOut.MyCurrentSettingFileName <> "" Then ' 'Dim sContents As String
' ' IO.File.WriteAllText(MyLayOut.MyCurrentSettingFileName, sContents) ' IO.File.WriteAllText(MyLayOut.MyCurrentSettingFileName, MyLayOut.TextLeft & vbNewLine &amp; MyLayOut.TextTop & vbNewLine & MyLayOut.TextWidth & vbNewLine & MyLayOut.TextHeight & vbNewLine & MyLayOut.TextText & vbNewLine & MyLayOut.TextFont & vbNewLine & MyLayOut.TextBorder & vbNewLine & MyLayOut.FormLeft & vbNewLine & MyLayOut.FormTop & vbNewLine & MyLayOut.FormWidth & vbNewLine & MyLayOut.FormHeight & vbNewLine & MyLayOut.FormColor & vbNewLine & MyLayOut.FormBorder & vbNewLine & MyLayOut.OpacityLevel & vbNewLine & MyLayOut.TransparencyColor & vbNewLine &amp; MyLayOut.PictureFileName & vbNewLine & Label1.ForeColor.A & vbNewLine & Label1.ForeColor.R & vbNewLine & Label1.ForeColor.G & vbNewLine & Label1.ForeColor.B)
' End If
'End Sub
'Private Sub SaveAsToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles SaveAsToolStripMenuItem.Click
' SaveFileDialog1.ShowDialog()
' MyLayOut.MyCurrentSettingFileName = SaveFileDialog1.FileName()
' If MyLayOut.MyCurrentSettingFileName <> "" Then ' IO.File.WriteAllText(MyLayOut.MyCurrentSettingFileName, MyLayOut.TextLeft & vbNewLine &amp; MyLayOut.FormTop & vbNewLine & MyLayOut.TextHeight & vbNewLine & MyLayOut.TextWidth & vbNewLine & MyLayOut.FormLeft & vbNewLine & MyLayOut.FormTop & vbNewLine & MyLayOut.FormWidth & vbNewLine & MyLayOut.FormHeight & vbNewLine & MyLayOut.TextText & vbNewLine & MyLayOut.TextFont & vbNewLine & MyLayOut.TextColor & vbNewLine & MyLayOut.TextBorder & vbNewLine & MyLayOut.FormLeft & vbNewLine & MyLayOut.FormTop & vbNewLine & MyLayOut.FormWidth & vbNewLine & MyLayOut.FormHeight & vbNewLine & MyLayOut.FormColor & vbNewLine & MyLayOut.FormBorder & vbNewLine & MyLayOut.OpacityLevel & vbNewLine & MyLayOut.TransparencyColor & vbNewLine & MyLayOut.PictureFileName) ' End If End Sub
Private Sub BorderToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles BorderToolStripMenuItem.Click
End Sub
Private Sub MoveAmountToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MoveAmountToolStripMenuItem.Click
End Sub
Private Sub FileToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles FileToolStripMenuItem.Click 'MyLayOut.TextLeft = Label1.Left 'MyLayOut.TextTop = Label1.Top 'MyLayOut.TextWidth = Label1.Width 'MyLayOut.TextHeight = Label1.Height ''MyLayOut.TextMoveAmount = "" 'MyLayOut.TextText = Label1.Text 'MyLayOut.TextFont = Label1.Font.Name 'MyLayOut.TextColor = Label1.ForeColor.Name 'MyLayOut.TextBorder = Label1.BorderStyle
'MyLayOut.FormLeft = Me.Left 'MyLayOut.FormTop = Me.Top 'MyLayOut.FormWidth = Me.Width 'MyLayOut.FormHeight = Me.Height ''MyLayOut.FormMoveAmount = "" 'MyLayOut.FormColor = Me.BackColor.Name 'MyLayOut.FormBorder = Me.FormBorderStyle
'MyLayOut.OpacityLevel = Me.Opacity 'MyLayOut.TransparencyColor = Me.TransparencyKey.Name
End Sub
Private Sub OpenToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles OpenToolStripMenuItem.Click OpenFileDialog1.ShowDialog() ReadMySettings(OpenFileDialog1.FileName) ' Dim sFile As String ' Dim aFields ' Dim b As Byte ' Dim MyColor1 As New Color
' OpenFileDialog1.ShowDialog() ' sFile = System.IO.File.ReadAllText(OpenFileDialog1.FileName) ' aFields = Split(sFile, vbNewLine)
' Label1.Left = aFields(0) ' Label1.Top = aFields(1) ' Label1.Width = aFields(2) ' Label1.Height = aFields(3) ' 'lblText Movement ' Label1.Text = aFields(4) ' Label1.Font = New Font(CStr(aFields(5)), 55, FontStyle.Italic, GraphicsUnit.Point, b) ' Label1.BorderStyle = 0
' Me.Left = aFields(7) ' Me.Top = aFields(8) ' Me.Width = aFields(9) ' Me.Height = aFields(10) ' 'Me Movement ' 'Me.BackColor = aFields(11) ' Me.FormBorderStyle = aFields(12)
' Me.Opacity = aFields(13) ' 'Me.TransparencyKey = aFields(14) ' If aFields(15) <> "" Then ' ' Me.BackgroundImage = aFields(15) ' End If ' MyColor1.FromArgb(aFields(16), aFields(17), aFields(18), aFields(19)) ' Label1.ForeColor = MyColor1 End Sub Private Sub ReadMySettings(ByVal sPathFile As String)
'Dim sPathFile As String = Application.StartupPath & "MyData.txt" Dim aContents Dim sFileName As String aContents = IO.File.ReadAllText(sPathFile).Split(vbNewLine)
Me.Left = aContents(0) Me.Top = aContents(1) Me.Width = aContents(2) Me.Height = aContents(3)
Me.BackColor = Color.FromArgb(aContents(4), aContents(5), aContents(6), aContents(7)) Me.TransparencyKey = Color.FromArgb(aContents(8), aContents(9), aContents(10), aContents(11))
Label1.BackColor = Color.FromArgb(aContents(12), aContents(13), aContents(14), aContents(15)) Label1.ForeColor = Color.FromArgb(aContents(16), aContents(17), aContents(18), aContents(19)) Label1.Left = aContents(20) Label1.Top = aContents(21) Label1.Text = aContents(22) Label1.Font = New Font(CStr(aContents(23)), CSng(aContents(24)), CLng(aContents(25)), CLng(aContents(26)), CByte(aContents(27))) Label1.AutoSize = True 'Me.BackgroundImage = System.Drawing.Image.FromFile(aContents(28)) 'sFileName = CStr(aContents(28)) 'Dim aSplit 'Dim aSplit2 'aSplit = Split(sFileName, ":") 'aSplit2 = Split(aSplit(1), "S")
'sFileName = Replace(aContents(28), aSplit2(0), "\") 'MsgBox(sFileName) 'MsgBox("\") Dim aSplit aSplit = Split(aContents(28), "C") MsgBox(aSplit(0)) sFileName = "C" & aSplit(1) MsgBox("a" & aContents(28))
Me.BackgroundImage = System.Drawing.Image.FromFile(sFileName) MsgBox("Finished", MsgBoxStyle.Information) End Sub Private Sub SaveMySettings(ByVal sPathFileName As String)
'Dim sPathFile As String = Application.StartupPath & "MyData.txt" Dim sContents As String
sContents = Me.Left & vbNewLine sContents = sContents & Me.Top & vbNewLine sContents = sContents & Me.Width & vbNewLine sContents = sContents & Me.Height & vbNewLine
sContents = sContents & Me.BackColor.A & vbNewLine sContents = sContents & Me.BackColor.R & vbNewLine sContents = sContents & Me.BackColor.G & vbNewLine sContents = sContents & Me.BackColor.B & vbNewLine
sContents = sContents & Me.TransparencyKey.A & vbNewLine sContents = sContents & Me.TransparencyKey.R & vbNewLine sContents = sContents & Me.TransparencyKey.G & vbNewLine sContents = sContents & Me.TransparencyKey.B & vbNewLine
sContents = sContents & Label1.BackColor.A & vbNewLine sContents = sContents & Label1.BackColor.R & vbNewLine sContents = sContents & Label1.BackColor.G & vbNewLine sContents = sContents & Label1.BackColor.B & vbNewLine
sContents = sContents & Label1.ForeColor.A & vbNewLine sContents = sContents & Label1.ForeColor.R & vbNewLine sContents = sContents & Label1.ForeColor.G & vbNewLine sContents = sContents & Label1.ForeColor.B & vbNewLine
sContents = sContents & Label1.Left & vbNewLine sContents = sContents & Label1.Top & vbNewLine sContents = sContents & Label1.Text & vbNewLine
sContents = sContents & Label1.Font.Name & vbNewLine sContents = sContents & Label1.Font.Size & vbNewLine sContents = sContents & Label1.Font.Style & vbNewLine sContents = sContents & Label1.Font.Unit & vbNewLine sContents = sContents & Label1.Font.GdiCharSet & vbNewLine sContents = sContents & MyLayOut.PictureFileName
IO.File.WriteAllText(sPathFileName, sContents, System.Text.Encoding.Unicode)
MsgBox("Saved", MsgBoxStyle.Information) End SubEnd Class

Layout application: Simplify saving and retriving settings

These two function simplify saving and retriving settings for the Layout application.
You will need to add the code for the picture filename.


Private Sub ReadMySettings()

Dim sPathFile As String = Application.StartupPath & "MyData.txt"
Dim aContents

aContents = IO.File.ReadAllText(sPathFile).Split(vbNewLine)

Me.Left = aContents(0)
Me.Top = aContents(1)
Me.Width = aContents(2)
Me.Height = aContents(3)

Me.BackColor = Color.FromArgb(aContents(4), aContents(5), aContents(6), aContents(7))
Me.TransparencyKey = Color.FromArgb(aContents(8), aContents(9), aContents(10), aContents(11))

Label1.BackColor = Color.FromArgb(aContents(12), aContents(13), aContents(14), aContents(15))
Label1.ForeColor = Color.FromArgb(aContents(16), aContents(17), aContents(18), aContents(19))
Label1.Left = aContents(20)
Label1.Top = aContents(21)
Label1.Text = aContents(22)
Label1.Font = New Font(CStr(aContents(23)), CSng(aContents(24)), CLng(aContents(25)), CLng(aContents(26)), CByte(aContents(27)))
Label1.AutoSize = True

MsgBox("Finished", MsgBoxStyle.Information)

End Sub
Private Sub SaveMySettings()

Dim sPathFile As String = Application.StartupPath & "MyData.txt"
Dim sContents As String

sContents = Me.Left & vbNewLine
sContents = sContents & Me.Top & vbNewLine
sContents = sContents & Me.Width & vbNewLine
sContents = sContents & Me.Height & vbNewLine

sContents = sContents & Me.BackColor.A & vbNewLine
sContents = sContents & Me.BackColor.R & vbNewLine
sContents = sContents & Me.BackColor.G & vbNewLine
sContents = sContents & Me.BackColor.B & vbNewLine

sContents = sContents & Me.TransparencyKey.A & vbNewLine
sContents = sContents & Me.TransparencyKey.R & vbNewLine
sContents = sContents & Me.TransparencyKey.G & vbNewLine
sContents = sContents & Me.TransparencyKey.B & vbNewLine

sContents = sContents & Label1.BackColor.A & vbNewLine
sContents = sContents & Label1.BackColor.R & vbNewLine
sContents = sContents & Label1.BackColor.G & vbNewLine
sContents = sContents & Label1.BackColor.B & vbNewLine

sContents = sContents & Label1.ForeColor.A & vbNewLine
sContents = sContents & Label1.ForeColor.R & vbNewLine
sContents = sContents & Label1.ForeColor.G & vbNewLine
sContents = sContents & Label1.ForeColor.B & vbNewLine

sContents = sContents & Label1.Left & vbNewLine
sContents = sContents & Label1.Top & vbNewLine
sContents = sContents & Label1.Text & vbNewLine

sContents = sContents & Label1.Font.Name & vbNewLine
sContents = sContents & Label1.Font.Size & vbNewLine
sContents = sContents & Label1.Font.Style & vbNewLine
sContents = sContents & Label1.Font.Unit & vbNewLine
sContents = sContents & Label1.Font.GdiCharSet & vbNewLine

IO.File.WriteAllText(sPathFile, sContents)

MsgBox("Saved", MsgBoxStyle.Information)
End Sub

Window Application

Lily Baik

Public Class Form1
Private Structure Layoutsettings
Dim PictureFileName As String
Dim TextHeight As String
Dim TextWidth As String
Dim TextTop As String
Dim TextLeft As String
Dim TextMoveAmount As String
Dim TextText As String
Dim TextFont As String
Dim TextColor
Dim TextBorder As String
Dim FormLeft As String
Dim FormTop As String
Dim FormWidth As String
Dim FormHeight As String
Dim FormMoveAmount As String
Dim FormColor
Dim FormBorder As String
Dim OpacityLevel As String
Dim TransparencyColor
Dim PicturePathFile As String
Dim MyCurrentSettingFile As String
End Structure
Private mylayout As New Layoutsettings

Private Sub Form1_KeyDown(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs) Handles Me.KeyDown
Select Case e.KeyCode
Case Keys.Down
If e.Control = True Then
Label1.Top = (Label1.Top + 10)
Else : Me.Opacity = Me.Opacity - 0.1
End If
Case Keys.Up
If e.Control = True Then
Label1.Top = Label1.Top - 10
Else
Me.Opacity = Me.Opacity + 0.1
End If
Case Keys.Left
If e.Control = True Then
Label1.Left = Label1.Left - 10
End If
Case Keys.Right
If e.Control = True Then
Label1.Left = Label1.Left + 10
End If
End Select
End Sub
Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
Label1.BorderStyle = BorderStyle.None
Me.BackColor = Color.White
Me.KeyPreview = True
End Sub
Private Sub FontToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles FontToolStripMenuItem.Click
FontDialog1.ShowDialog()
Label1.Font = FontDialog1.Font
End Sub
Private Sub FontColorToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles FontColorToolStripMenuItem.Click
ColorDialog1.ShowDialog()
Label1.ForeColor = ColorDialog1.Color
End Sub
Private Sub SolidToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles SolidToolStripMenuItem.Click
Label1.BorderStyle = BorderStyle.FixedSingle
End Sub
Private Sub NoneToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles NoneToolStripMenuItem.Click
Label1.BorderStyle = BorderStyle.None
End Sub
Private Sub SolidToolStripMenuItem1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles SolidToolStripMenuItem1.Click
Me.FormBorderStyle = Windows.Forms.FormBorderStyle.Sizable
End Sub
Private Sub NoneToolStripMenuItem1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles NoneToolStripMenuItem1.Click
Me.FormBorderStyle = Windows.Forms.FormBorderStyle.None
End Sub
Private Sub TransparencyColorToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles TransparencyColorToolStripMenuItem.Click
ColorDialog1.ShowDialog()
Me.TransparencyKey = ColorDialog1.Color
End Sub
Private Sub OpenFileDialog1_FileOk(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.ComponentModel.CancelEventArgs) Handles OpenFileDialog1.FileOk
End Sub
Private Sub LoadpictureToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles LoadpictureToolStripMenuItem.Click
OpenFileDialog1.ShowDialog()
mylayout.PictureFileName = OpenFileDialog1.FileName
Me.BackgroundImage = System.Drawing.Image.FromFile(mylayout.PictureFileName)
End Sub
Private Sub NewToolStripMenuItem1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles NewToolStripMenuItem1.Click
Dim oForm As New Form1
oForm.Show()
End Sub
'Private Sub SaveToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles SaveToolStripMenuItem.Click
' mylayout.TextLeft = Label1.Left
' mylayout.TextTop = Label1.Top
' mylayout.TextWidth = Label1.Width
' mylayout.TextHeight = Label1.Height
' SaveFileDialog1.ShowDialog()
' mylayout.MyCurrentSettingFile = SaveFileDialog1.FileName

'End Sub.
Private Sub SaveToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles SaveToolStripMenuItem.Click
SaveFileDialog1.ShowDialog()
mylayout.MyCurrentSettingFile = SaveFileDialog1.FileName()
mylayout.TextLeft = Label1.Left
mylayout.TextTop = Label1.Top
mylayout.TextWidth = Label1.Width
mylayout.TextHeight = Label1.Height
mylayout.TextMoveAmount = ""
mylayout.TextText = Label1.Text
mylayout.TextFont = Label1.Font.Name
mylayout.TextColor = Label1.ForeColor
mylayout.TextBorder = Label1.BorderStyle
mylayout.FormLeft = Me.Left
mylayout.FormTop = Me.Top
mylayout.FormWidth = Me.Width
mylayout.FormHeight = Me.Height
mylayout.FormMoveAmount = ""
mylayout.FormColor = Me.BackColor
mylayout.FormBorder = Me.FormBorderStyle
mylayout.OpacityLevel = Me.Opacity
mylayout.TransparencyColor = Me.TransparencyKey
mylayout.PicturePathFile=Me.BackgroundImage.
If mylayout.MyCurrentSettingFile <> "" Then
IO.File.WriteAllText(mylayout.MyCurrentSettingFile, Label1.Text & mylayout.TextWidth & mylayout.TextTop & mylayout.TextLeft & mylayout.TextHeight & mylayout.PictureFileName)
End If
End Sub
Private Sub MoveAmountToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MoveAmountToolStripMenuItem.Click
End Sub
End Class

setting and getting a color object

'setting a color object using Alpha, Red, Blue, Green arguments
Label1.BackColor = Color.FromArgb(255, 212, 11, 123)

'getting a color object Alpha, Red, Blue, Green arguments
Dim MyColor As Color = Color.FromArgb(255, 212, 11, 123)
Me.TransparencyKey = MyColor

DianaJung

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This conversion is written in Visual Basic .net.
Yoou wil need .Net2.0 to run this program^^

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Converter

Written using Visual Basic .net.

You will need .NET 2.0 to run the program.

"Converter" only works in a windows computer.

If you have .NET, download "Converter.zip" only

Converter:
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If the program doesn't work, try downloading .NET 2.0 from microsoft.NET Framework 2.0: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0856EACB-4362-4B0D-8EDD-AAB15C5E04F5&displaylang=en By John Cho

joanna lee

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made by
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"conversion"

this program will only work in a windows computer
if the program doesn't work,
then try downloading .net2 from microsoft

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Exchanging Machine

Written using Visual Basic .net.

You will need .NET 2.0 to run the program.

Exchange Machine.exe at: https://ssl.rapidshare.com/cgi-bin/collectorszone.cgi?savedfiles=1&forbiddenfiles=0

.Net 2.0 :http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0856EACB-4362-4B0D-8EDD-AAB15C5E04F5&displaylang=en

By Jacky Chen

Conversion Tool

Written using Visual Basic .net.
You will need .NET 2.0 to run the program.

Download Program
Download .NET Framework 2.0 from Microsoft


- by. Minsung

BlackBerry Inside Windows Mobile By Paul Lee

Until a couple of weeks ago, I was a BlackBerry user--then I switched to a Palm Treo 750 running Windows Mobile. Both devices have their advantages--and now it looks like we may get the best of both worlds.
BlackBerry manufacturer RIM announced yesterday that it's working on software that would essentially turn Windows Mobile 6-based devices into BlackBerries. In other words, folks who ran this software on a WM6 phone would get versions of the BlackBerry e-mail, calendar, and other applications, and could sync wirelessly with their companies' BlackBerry servers.
The details here are still sketchy, but if the BB-on-Windows apps do the job well, it could be a boon to anyone who works in a company that's standardized on BlackBerries but who wants a wider range of handsets to choose from. (There are already plenty of ways to get BlackBerry-style functionality on a Windows phone, including Microsoft's own mobile push server software for Exchange and Good Technology's server and client applications.)
All in all, I don't think this'll be that huge a deal--in part because RIM already released a software/service package called BlackBerry Connect that lets non-BlackBerries connect to the BlackBerry service, and it doesn't seem to have changed the world. (The Windows Mobile version isn't offered by any U.S. carrier that I know of; the Palm OS one is available for Palm-based Treos from Cingular.)
But maybe I'll be surprised--and I assume that RIM thinks it can sell more server software and service if its stuff works with any BlackBerry and any Windows Mobile phone.
And I might be interested in it myself, if it lets me get my PC World Lotus Notes e-mail and calendar with BlackBerry-like rock-solid reliability on my Treo 750. (At the moment, I'm using Cingular's XpressMail to do the job, and I'm never quite sure whether it's actually going to work or not.)

Distant world has comforts of home

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-070424planet,1,6516694.story?coll=chi-news-hed

Lily Baik
By Jeremy ManierTribune staff reporterPublished April 24, 2007, 10:32 PM CDT European astronomers say they have found the first Earth-sized planet beyond this solar system with temperatures mild enough to allow liquid water—a crucial step toward answering whether our cradle of life is unique in the universe.
The planet circles the star Gliese 581 in the Libra constellation, and at 20 light years away is among the 100 stars closest to Earth. Dubbed Gliese 581c, the planet orbits very close to its star—closer than Mercury is to our sun. But astronomers with the European Southern Observatory say the star is dim enough that average temperatures on the planet would fall in the range of an ordinary Chicago spring day.
If the planet has water—a big unknown—its size and climate could make it habitable, experts said. The planet appears to be about 50 percent larger than Earth and has five times more mass, making it one of the smallest far-off planets ever detected.
The conditions look promising enough that officials with the California-based SETI Institute, which looks for signs of radio communication from alien civilizations, said they hope to give the planet a fresh look this summer. Previous radio observations of Gliese 581 in the 1990s turned up nothing unusual.
But the finding is a milestone in any case because it suggests that Earth-like planets may be common throughout the universe, astronomers said. Our galaxy alone could be home to 100 million habitable planets, if such worlds are as easy to spot as the new study indicates.
"This is a marvelous discovery," said astronomer Geoff Marcy, a principal investigator for the California and Carnegie Planet Search. Marcy's group had been racing the Europeans to find the first potentially Earth-like planet.
Next year NASA plans to launch the Kepler probe, designed to find even more Earth-sized planets outside our solar system. That probe will survey thousands of stars in hopes of catching sight of planets that cross in front of them.
As with nearly all such planetary discoveries, astronomers could not observe Gliese 581 directly because it is invisible in the glare of its sun. Instead, the European group led by Stephane Udry and Michael Mayor calculated the planet's presence from its tiny gravitational tug on the star.
The research group released its results Tuesday night and has submitted the work for publication in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics.
The hunt for far-flung planets has made dizzying progress since 1995, when Mayor and his Swiss colleagues discovered a large extrasolar planet circling a star called 51 Pegasi.
The method they use is straightforward but requires exquisitely precise measurements: Astronomers must scrutinize stars for wobbles caused by the gravity of their planets. Because most planets are tiny compared with the stars they orbit, the wobble can be extremely small.
At first, scientific critics wondered whether the wobbles were merely byproducts of the stars' natural oscillations or resulted from companion stars and not planets. But experts said the techniques have been accepted and are responsible for the discovery of 227 distant planets.
Until the last few years, the only planets found in this way were huge gas giants, similar to Jupiter or even larger. None approached Earth's relatively small size.
To find Gliese 581c, Mayor's group used a cutting-edge planet-seeking instrument at an observatory in La Silla, Chile. The telescope has a device called a spectrograph that can detect small shifts in a star's light as it moves in relation to Earth. When the star edges toward Earth, its light shifts to the blue end of the spectrum; when the star moves away, the light undergoes a red shift.
In the case of Gliese 581c, the planet's pull on the star produced minute shifts in light. The star's movement was as slow as 2 meters per second—about the speed of a person walking in a park.
"We're to the point where we can see if stars are strolling toward us or strolling away from us," said Steve Vogt, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California at Santa Cruz and a member of the California-Carnegie planet search team.
Vogt called the achievement "a landmark discovery."
If it is habitable, Gliese 581c would be a bizarre home for life. It orbits so close to the star that its year is about 13 days long, and it is probably locked with one face constantly facing its sun. On the light side of the planet the sun would dominate the sky, but because it is a relatively weak red dwarf star, average temperatures on the planet would range between 32 and 104 degrees Fahrenheit.
No one knows if the planet has water, or even if it has a solid surface. Some experts said the planet could be a smaller version of gaseous planets like Neptune, with a deep atmosphere and little chance for life to take hold. But models of planetary formation suggest that's unlikely, said Bruce Jakosky, a planetary scientist at the University of Colorado.
"We would lean pretty strongly toward the idea that this has to be a rocky object," said Jakosky, who specializes in astrobiology—the study of how life might arise on other planets.
The odds so far suggest the galaxy may be littered with such worlds. Planets have been detected near about 5 percent of the stars at which astronomers have looked, and the discovery of Gliese 581c suggests at least 1 percent of those stars have Earth-like planets. So amid the 200 billion stars of the Milky Way galaxy, some 100 million may have planets that meet the bare requirements for life.
Beyond listening for radio transmissions, learning more about those planets will be difficult. It may be decades or longer before astronomers learn how to cancel out the glare of stars and directly observe far-off planets. And although Gliese 581 is our close neighbor in galactic terms, it would take thousands of years for the fastest modern spacecraft to reach it.
The greatest value of planet hunting may lie beyond science and in the realm of philosophy, said Vogt of UC-Santa Cruz. Peering into the void of space so far away, we're really looking for reflections of our origins.
"This is how I connect with the reason for our being," Vogt said. "Are we really rare, a freak of nature, or are there lots of places like this? I think this helps us get purchase on what this life means, and what's our place in the universe."

iRiver’s tiny PMP

Brian Lee

iRiver’s super slim Clix 2 multimedia player has hit the UK thanks to specialist retailer advancedmp3players.co.uk. The tiny PMP is packed with feature such as video playback and an FM tuner, yet still manages to be ridiculously slim measuring just 13mm at its thickest point.

The tiny tot’s main claim to fame is that it can show videos on its 2.2inch OLED screen. And the videos it shows aren’t of the usual jerky variety you find on most flash-based PMPs. Oh no, this little fella will show MPEG4 and WMV movies at a smooth 30 frames per second. Naturally it can also pump out tunes in MP3, WMA and OGG formats.

Navigating the menus should be a breeze as the player retains the D-click system used on the previous model where the front of the screen acts as a four way rocker switch for moving through the menus. There’s also a built-in FM tuner and you can even setup timed recordings so it’ll automatically grab your favourite radio shows to memory.

Another neat feature is its support for Flash content downloaded from websites. It even comes with some Flash games as standard.

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Inventors turn creations into cash

Lily Baik
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/04/20/geneva.inventions.ap/index.html

GENEVA, Switzerland (AP) -- What do the automatic fish catcher, the easy sushi-maker, and the body-shaping petticoat all have in common? They're creations of some of the world's most innovative minds for the world's laziest bodies.
Hoping to turn their contraptions into capital, some 700 inventors from 42 countries have gathered at the International Exhibition of Inventions to show off gizmos ranging from a multifunction umbrella that contains an anti-mugger alarm to personal armor made of coconut-fiber.
The fair -- the world's largest of its kind -- features some 1,000 new inventions by industrial and commercial companies, independent researchers and even amateurs like one who offers a way to eat spare ribs without burning your fingers.
Solutions for those resistant to exertion seem to be a recurring theme at this year's 35th edition, which runs until Sunday.
One notable invention is the spring-loaded fish hook -- the equivalent of an underwater mouse trap. After attaching the float to the fishing pole, the "sportsman" lowers a lever into the set position. The fish has only to nibble on the bait to trigger the spring and find itself with a dart through the lips. (Caution: Do not bait the hook while the device is cocked, the pamphlet warns).
But isn't that considered cheating?
"Well, it could be," admitted inventor Michael Adcock, the only U.S. entry at the fair. "It's a lazy-man's way of fishing. That way you can drink more beer. That's what more fishermen are really out there for anyway. ... Normally, you've got to be watching the float. With this, you can look away, take a sip, do whatever."
He said the fish catcher is most effective for pan fish such as bream, crappie, bass and catfish.
Once they've nabbed their fresh fish, chefs who like to cut corners might be interested in Easy Sushi, a contraption that resembles a cigarette roller and allows any clumsy cook to whip up a masterful-looking maki in just minutes.
Couch potatoes who are disinclined to diet can turn to custom-made body-shaping underwear.
To parade her product, 47-year-old Taiwanese inventor and designer Pi-Yu Chuang donned one of the stylish body corsets, instantly reducing her waist from 29 to 23 inches (74 to 58 centimeters). The outfit, which costs around $800 (&euro590), encases the torso and legs, is also bust-enhancing and has a handy full bottom snap-on flap.
Mix indolence and the environment and you get the Standby Plug.
According to inventor Karl Dorn's brother Aaron, a television in standby mode still uses up to 85 percent of the power it does when switched on. Leaving a TV on standby 16 hours a day in Britain can cost users an extra £17 ($34) a year, he added. But he claimed the Standby Plug shuts down appliances completely after they go into standby mode, preventing the needless consumption of electricity.
The environment is a hot topic at this year's exhibit and not all entries are aimed at the lazy.
The portable MacStrap, a lightweight emergency power pack for handheld portable appliances such as cell phones, digital cameras, MP3 players and iPods, seems like a must for hikers and campers. Worn outdoors for 35-40 minutes, the MacStrap can power a three-minute cell phone call. About 20 hours are needed to fully charge a phone, says creator Roark McMaster.
A crematable funeral ornamentation called Memopack is another eco-friendly gem.
Made from paper but resembling a standard marble or wood plate, Memopack can be personalized with pictures, drawings, a lock of hair or letters before being placed on the coffin, and can be burned or fully biodegraded.
Inventions can only be entered only once at the Geneva show and must be patented. However, entries are not necessarily tested or screened by national authorities and cover a range from wonderful to wacky.
Some far-out ideas included scented socks; an automatic food distributor for animals that includes a medical check up; and the Q-Grip, a utensil designed to hold hot pieces of meat by the bone.
The PAP Ion Magnetic Inductor -- also known as the Papimi -- claims to increase the efficiency of the body on a cellular level through rapid electromagnetic pulses to help relieve pain. Austrian promoter Gernot Augustin also says he cured his mother of breast cancer with the apparatus.
A 75-member jury will select the best invention and award prizes in 45 other categories on Sunday. The "Oscar of Inventions" is also awarded on the basis of a popular vote from visitors.

Ancient Rainforest Revealed in Coal Mine

Scientists exploring a mine have uncovered a natural Sistine chapel showing not religious paintings, but incredibly well preserved images of sprawling tree trunks and fallen leaves that once breathed life into an ancient rainforest. Replete with a diverse mix of extinct plants, the 300-million-year-old fossilized forest is revealing clues about the ecology of Earth’s first rainforests . The discovery and details of the forest are published in the May issue of the journal Geology. “We’re looking at one instance in time over a large area. It’s literally a snapshot in time of a multiple square mile area,” said study team member Scott Elrick of the Illinois State Geological Survey (ISGS). Forest findOver millions of years as sediments and plant material pile up, layer upon layer, the resulting bands become time indicators with the newest, youngest layer on the top and the oldest layer at the bottom. Typically geologists peel away a vertical slice of rocky material to look at material, including fossils, over a period of time. A coal mine offers a unique view of the past. Instead of a time sequence, illuminated in the layer upon layer of sediments, the roof of an underground mine reveals a large area within one of those sediment layers, or time periods. Miners in Illinois are used to seeing a few plant fossils strewn along a mine’s ceiling, but as they burrowed farther into this one, the sheer density and area covered by such fossils struck them as phenomenal, Elrick said. That’s when they called paleobotanist Howard Falcon-Lang from the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom and William DiMichele, a curator of fossil plants at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. "It was an amazing experience. We drove down the mine in an armored vehicle, until we were a hundred meters below the surface,” Falcon-Lang said. “The fossil forest was rooted on top of the coal seam, so where the coal had been mined away the fossilized forest was visible in the ceiling of the mine.”Forest snapshotHere’s what the miners and other scientists saw underground: Relatively narrow passageways wind through the “cave,” marked off with stout 100-foot-wide pillars to ensure the roof doesn’t collapse. “It’s like in some bizarre Roman temple with tons of Corinthian pillars that are 100 feet across and only six feet tall,” Elrick told LiveScience. “As you’re walking down these passageways you see these pillars of coal on either side of you and above you—imagine an artist’s canvas painted a flat grey and that is sort of what the grey shale above the coal looks like.”The largest ever found, the fossil forest covers an area of about 40 square miles, or nearly the size of San Francisco. This ancient assemblage of flora is thought to be one of the first rainforests on Earth, emerging during the Upper Carboniferous, or Pennsylvanian, time period that extended from about 310 million to 290 million years ago. A reconstruction of the ancient forest showed that like today’s rainforests, it had a layered structure with a mix of plants now extinct: Abundant club mosses stood more than 130-feet high, towering over a sub-canopy of tree ferns and an assortment of shrubs and tree-sized horsetails that looked like giant asparagus.Flash freezeThe scientists think a major earthquake about 300 million years ago caused the region to drop below sea level where it was buried in mud. They estimate that within a period of months the forest was buried, preserving it “forever.” “Some of these tree stumps have been covered geologically speaking in a flash,” Elrick said.Because the spatial layout of the forest has been maintained, the scientists can learn about entire plant communities, not just individual plants. "This spectacular discovery allows us to track how the species make-up of the forest changed across the landscape, and how that species make-up is affected by subtle differences in the local environment," Falcon-Lang said.

David Hyun
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Study: Violent Video Games Don't Make Kids Violent

Lily Baik
http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,266811,00.html
Wednesday, April 18, 2007

LONDON —
Players of violent video games believe they are just "exhilarating" escapism which does not desensitize them to real-life mayhem, according to a new survey of one of the entertainment industry's fastest growing sectors.
However, gamers do concede that people "who are already unhinged in some way" may be pushed over the edge if they play violent games obsessively.
Responding to public and political concern about video games, the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) commissioned the survey, interviewing gamers, parents and industry figures about their effect.
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The Board, which classifies up to 300 games a year, concluded that for gamers, "the violence helps make the play exhilaratingly out of reach of ordinary life."
But it added, "gamers seem not to lose awareness that they are playing a game and do not mistake the game for real life."
Video games tend to polarize opinions, with some games demonized for their graphic portrayals of violence.
But one survey participant insisted they were not all living in a fantasy world that tempted them to turn violent: "I no more feel that I have actually scored a goal than I do that I have actually killed someone. I know it's not real."
Another gamer said "Sometimes when I get really angry, I go upstairs and play some games and it calms me down."
But some young gamers under the age of 15 said they found some of the violence upsetting. Uncomfortable about the level of gore portrayed in the graphics, they admitted to having nightmares.
That prompted BBFC Director David Cooke to urge parents to be vigilant. He said it was vital to ensure children were protected from games with adult content.
The survey canvassed reaction to a wide range of popular games from "Manhunt" and "Grand Theft Auto" to "World of Warcraft."
One "Manhunt" fan admitted, "I was quite addicted to it. You really were sticking an axe in someone and taking a couple of chops to their neck until their head fell off."
As for the attractions of "Grand Theft Auto" games, the survey concluded, "The sex makes a contribution to the exhilarating sense of trashing the tedious constraints of everyday life."
But with fast developing technology, today's "cool" game soon becomes outdated.
"It's like when you have a puppy, everyone wanted to know you. When it grows a year older, they don't want to know," one gamer concluded.

Ruby Tuesday - Your own MIRACLE

Your Own MIRACLE - Ruby Tuesday [DJMAX PORTABLE 2 Opening Theme]
Lyrics & Vocal by Christine Jones

Close your eyes.. Take some time just to center your soul and be at one..
With the sky.. You can fly if you unfurl your wings to face the sun..
In your mind, You will find all the power you need to get things done..
And your dreams.. They can seem like mere shadows of brighter days to come...

Shoot for the moon!!
If you miss you will still be among the stars..
Don't ever stop!!
If you never give up you are guaranteed to go far..

Be your very own miracle..
You can win a race standing still.. Go on! (Go on!)
Pick those beautiful feel up from off the floor rise and soar..
Be your very own miracle..
Just believe you can, and you will.. Have faith! (Have faith!)
Every goal that you make is a chain you break to set your spirit free!

Every page you have turned in this book of your life has led you here..
Every step that you take you grow closer to conquering your fear..

Dreams can come true!!
but they depend on you and how strong you are..
Don't ever stop!!
If you never give up you are guaranteed to go far..

Be your very own miracle..
You can win a race standing still.. Go on! (Go on!)
Pick those beautiful feel up from off the floor rise and soar..
Be your very own miracle..
Just believe you can, and you will.. Have faith! (Have faith!)
Every goal that you make is a chain you break to set your spirit free!

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New Robot Eyes People With Human-Like Eyes By Paul Lee

A new breed of robots could soon break free of assembly-line duties to assist human living in myriad ways.
MIT researchers recently demonstrated the capabilities of such a robot, named Domo, which, like the robot in a recent General Motors ad, can transcend mass-production's repetition.
It is designed to interact with humans and adapt to its environment in ways previously only imagined in science fiction.
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Presently, Domo can identify objects, reach for them and place them on shelves. Unlike an assembly-line robot, Domo can sense its surroundings using a pair of video cameras for eyes; they are connected to 12 computers.
The cameras are built into remarkably human-looking "eyeballs" for a reason, said Domo's developer, Aaron Edsinger.
"I found that, by making them immediately understandable as eyes, it was very easy to read [Domo's] eye-gaze direction, which is important when working with it," Edsinger said. "They also greatly increase people's comfort level with the robot."

Study: Teens protecting their

profileshttp://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/internet/04/19/internet.youths.ap/index.htmlLily Baik
NEW YORK (AP) -- Teens generally don't think twice about including their first names and photos on their personal online profiles, but most refrain from using full names or making their profiles fully public, a new survey finds.
The Pew Internet and American Life Project reported Wednesday that two-thirds of teens with profiles on blogs or social-networking sites have restricted access to their profiles in some fashion, such as by requiring passwords or making them available only to friends on an approved list.
The study comes amid growing concerns about online predators and other dangers on popular online hangouts like News Corp.'s MySpace and Facebook, which encourage their youth-oriented visitors to expand their circles of friends through messaging tools and personal profile pages.
Social-networking sites have responded by offering users more controls over how much they make public and warning them about revealing too much.
According to Pew, fewer than a third of teens with profiles use their last names, and a similar number include their e-mail addresses. Only 2 percent list their cell phone numbers.
But 79 percent have included photos of themselves, with girls more likely to do so. Eighty-two percent use their first names, and half identify their schools.
"Teens are manifesting the tension between wanting to keep themselves safe online and wanting to share themselves with their friends and potentially make new ones," said Amanda Lenhart, a senior research specialist at Pew. "Teens, particularly girls and younger teens, have gotten the message about protecting themselves on social networks, but the fun of these networks is the ability to share yourself with others on them."
Dashiell Feiler, a 16-year-old high school junior, said he keeps his profiles open, but uses at most his first name and last initial. He said people who find him tend to be friends anyway, but he left off his full name as a precaution.
"I just thought I didn't want anybody to figure out where I live," he said.
According to Pew, 45 percent of online teens do not have profiles at all, a figure that contradicts widespread perceptions that the nation's youths are continually on MySpace. Lenhart said younger teens, in particular, tend to stay away, some because they fail to meet a site's minimum age requirements.
Most of the teens with profiles say they use the sites to stay in touch with existing friends. Only half of teens with social-networking profiles say they use the sites to make new friends.
A third of teens online say they have been contacted by strangers, not necessarily through social-networking sites. Of those, 21 percent say they responded to learn more about that person, and 23 percent say they felt scared or uncomfortable by the encounter.
The telephone study of 935 American youths, ages 12 to 17, and their parents was conducted October 23 to November 19 and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.

U.S. billionaire returns from space trip

David Hyun

KOROLYOV, Russia - An American billionaire who won a junior cosmonaut contest as a child returned Saturday from a dream voyage to the international space station, riding a Russian capsule to a soft landing on the Kazakh steppe
Charles Simonyi, a 58-year-old native of Hungary who helped design Microsoft Word and Excel, smiled and chatted with rescuers who helped him gingerly out of the Soyuz capsule and appeared energized by his $25 million, two-week trip.
The capsule carrying the space tourist, a Russian cosmonaut and a U.S. astronaut touched down after a more than three-hour return trip from the orbital station.
Simonyi looked delighted after rescuers helped him from the rounded capsule, which lay askew on the bleak grassland, and into a chair covered with fur for warmth. He smiled, grinned broadly and spoke animatedly with members of a support crew who greeted him with hugs and handshakes.
He then bit enthusiastically into a green apple — a traditional offering for space crews touching down in Kazakhstan, which is famous for the tasty fruit.
Asked about his first impressions back on Earth, a smiling Simonyi said in Russian, "The sun is shining, the weather is good," in footage broadcast on state television. Simonyi had studied Russian in school in his native Hungary and took another language course in preparation for the flight.
Cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin looked pale and tired, but soon managed a smile in a video link with Mission Control. "The first thing I felt on Earth was the smell," he told the television network.
Spanish-born U.S. astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria, the last out of the capsule, sighed with relief, smiled and talked to the support crew as doctors monitored the men's vital signs.
The astronaut set the U.S. record for continuous space flight by spending 215 days in orbit, and set another U.S. record — 10 space walks over his career.
The capsule raced down to Earth after separating from the two other sections of the Soyuz TMA-9 craft following its departure from the station, where one of the final tasks the travelers performed was to move containers with biological experiments from refrigerators on the station into the Soyuz.
Russian space agency chief Anatoly Perminov said all the cosmonauts "feel wonderful."
"But of course, Charles Simonyi feels the best, which is understandable," he said. "He is already giving interviews left and right."
Simonyi arrived at the station on April 9 — also courtesy of a Soyuz, which flew into space atop a Russian rocket from the Russian-leased launch facility in Baikonur, Kazakhstan — along with two other cosmonauts, who will remain on the station for about six months.
Also staying in orbit was Sunita Williams, an American astronaut who arrived in December.
Simonyi amassed the fortune that made his costly voyage possible through his work with computer software, including helping to develop Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel.
Another household name, his friend
Martha Stewart' watched his launch from Baikonur and was at Russian Mission Control outside Moscow when the Soyuz docked. She also spoke to him during a video linkup after he boarded the station.
Simonyi followed in the footsteps of Dennis Tito, Mark Shuttleworth, Gregory Olsen and Anousheh Ansari — all "space flight participants" who have traveled to the international space station aboard Russian rockets in trips brokered by U.S.-based Space Adventures Ltd.
Alexei Krasnov, head of the manned missions at the Russian space agency, praised Simonyi's determination, recounting that he won a trip to Moscow to meet with a Soviet cosmonaut as a prize in a space contest at age 13.
"So many years have passed and the dream he had has been fulfilled," Krasnov said. "It costs dearly to realize your life's dream."

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Free PlayStation 3 .net Announces Industry First Guide That Shows You How to Get PlayStation 3 for Free

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Brian Lee

LOS GATOS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Free PlayStation 3 .net released the industry's first free guide today that shows you how to get your own PlayStation 3 for free. The free PlayStation 3 guide details what industry websites provide the PlayStation 3 for free and how anyone in the world can acquire one without spending a cent.

Most free PlayStation 3 websites require you to participate in two or more "sponsor offers" before you can receive your free PlayStation 3, resulting in you having to spend up to $200 before you can receive your PlayStation 3. However, Free PlayStation 3.net's new guide shows you how to get the PlayStation 3 for free, without having to participate in any of these sponsor offers.

Free PlayStation 3 .net has researched and reviewed over fifty free PlayStation 3 web sites and have discovered that a few of them ask you to participate in their sponsor offers, but if you simply ignore their requests and proceed to the end of their sponsor offer pages, you will still get your free PlayStation 3.

Most visitors to these free PlayStation 3, free Wii, free XBOX 360 and free PSP websites, that decide not to participate in the sponsor offers, never proceed past the sponsor offer pages to the final page where they are asked to confirm their email address one last time and told that their game console will be mailed to them shortly.

Little do they know that on a few such web sites, that Free PlayStation 3 .net identifies, that simply proceeding to the last page will still result in them receiving their PlayStation 3 for free.

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Nintendo Wii Still On Top In Console Sales

url: http://www.slipperybrick.com/2007/04/nintendo-wii-sales-march/
Hyeon Chung

According to a report Thursday by NPD, the Nintendo Wii led the sales of current generation game consoles by once again beating out the Microsoft Xbox 360 and Sony Playstation 3. Nintendo sold 259,000 of the Wii game consoles with their new fangled controller last month, followed up by the Xbox 360 with 199,000 units sold and the PS3 selling 130,000 units. The Nintendo Wii has led unit sales in January and February, as well.
This certainly doesn’t mean that Sony and Microsoft aren’t trying, however. Microsoft has been flaunting a new Xbox Elite with a larger 120GB internal hard drive to entice more customers by holding more media, and Sony has abandoned their 20GB PS3 in the US and may be coming out with larger capacity console as well with rumors of an 80GB PS3 in the near future.
You might have noticed that we had to specify that Nintendo led sales in the CURRENT generation of game consoles. That’s because a little game console from a previous generation called the Sony PS2 selling at around $130 continues to leave all the others in its wake. The Playstation 2 sold 280,000 units in March, making a total of over 38 million units sold since the console was original launched back in Q4 of 2000.According to a report Thursday by NPD, the Nintendo Wii led the sales of current generation game consoles by once again beating out the Microsoft Xbox 360 and Sony Playstation 3. Nintendo sold 259,000 of the Wii game consoles with their new fangled controller last month, followed up by the Xbox 360 with 199,000 units sold and the PS3 selling 130,000 units. The Nintendo Wii has led unit sales in January and February, as well.
This certainly doesn’t mean that Sony and Microsoft aren’t trying, however. Microsoft has been flaunting a new Xbox Elite with a larger 120GB internal hard drive to entice more customers by holding more media, and Sony has abandoned their 20GB PS3 in the US and may be coming out with larger capacity console as well with rumors of an 80GB PS3 in the near future.
You might have noticed that we had to specify that Nintendo led sales in the CURRENT generation of game consoles. That’s because a little game console from a previous generation called the Sony PS2 selling at around $130 continues to leave all the others in its wake. The Playstation 2 sold 280,000 units in March, making a total of over 38 million units sold since the console was original launched back in Q4 of 2000.According to a report Thursday by NPD, the Nintendo Wii led the sales of current generation game consoles by once again beating out the Microsoft Xbox 360 and Sony Playstation 3. Nintendo sold 259,000 of the Wii game consoles with their new fangled controller last month, followed up by the Xbox 360 with 199,000 units sold and the PS3 selling 130,000 units. The Nintendo Wii has led unit sales in January and February, as well.
This certainly doesn’t mean that Sony and Microsoft aren’t trying, however. Microsoft has been flaunting a new Xbox Elite with a larger 120GB internal hard drive to entice more customers by holding more media, and Sony has abandoned their 20GB PS3 in the US and may be coming out with larger capacity console as well with rumors of an 80GB PS3 in the near future.
You might have noticed that we had to specify that Nintendo led sales in the CURRENT generation of game consoles. That’s because a little game console from a previous generation called the Sony PS2 selling at around $130 continues to leave all the others in its wake. The Playstation 2 sold 280,000 units in March, making a total of over 38 million units sold since the console was original launched back in Q4 of 2000.According to a report Thursday by NPD, the Nintendo Wii led the sales of current generation game consoles by once again beating out the Microsoft Xbox 360 and Sony Playstation 3. Nintendo sold 259,000 of the Wii game consoles with their new fangled controller last month, followed up by the Xbox 360 with 199,000 units sold and the PS3 selling 130,000 units. The Nintendo Wii has led unit sales in January and February, as well.



This certainly doesn’t mean that Sony and Microsoft aren’t trying, however. Microsoft has been flaunting a new Xbox Elite with a larger 120GB internal hard drive to entice more customers by holding more media, and Sony has abandoned their 20GB PS3 in the US and may be coming out with larger capacity console as well with rumors of an 80GB PS3 in the near future.



You might have noticed that we had to specify that Nintendo led sales in the CURRENT generation of game consoles. That’s because a little game console from a previous generation called the Sony PS2 selling at around $130 continues to leave all the others in its wake. The Playstation 2 sold 280,000 units in March, making a total of over 38 million units sold since the console was original launched back in Q4 of 2000.

Bill Gates says China to remain largest broadband market

url: http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=172269

Hyeon Chung

China is set to remain the world's largest broadband market after recently overtaking the US, Bill Gates, chairman and co-founder of Microsoft Corp, told a forum in Beijing.

"China has surpassed the US in the number of broadband users. And once this is the largest market, it will stay the largest market. There's an advantage to having 1.3 billion people," Gates said.
He noted that price constraints for fast, reliable Internet access were falling by the wayside.

"The price of broadband has been a limiting factor, but competition is bringing the price down," he said.

According to the state-controlled China Internet Network Information Center, China had 104 million broadband users at the end of last year.

China, currently a global leader in hardware, would soon become a leader in software, he added.
"Innovation here is really growing at a rapid pace. I give a lot of credit here to the universities. China will be a leader ... it's already true for hardware, but it will also be true for software," Gates said.

He added that Microsoft had China's affection for mobile communications in mind when it recently signed a joint research deal with China's leading computer maker Lenovo.

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Apple TV connects your computer to your TV

url : http://news3.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-03/22/content_5881199.htm

Hyeon Chung

Apple TV is a box that can connect computers and TVs without wires. After many delays, Apple TV finally went on sale Wednesday for 300 U.S. dollars.
Apple does have competition in Microsoft's Xbox 360 (400 dollars), which also acts as a bridge between PC and TV, and Netgear's week-old EVA8000 (350 dollars). Xbox 360 also has its own online movie store, and Netgear features an Internet connection for viewing YouTube videos and listening to Internet radio.
A good feature of Apple TV is it's small and quiet compared to the Xbox, but a drawback is it requires a widescreen TV -- preferably an HDTV. It doesn't work with the traditional TVs many people still have.
Apple defends its audience-limiting decision by saying the future is HDTV; Apple is just "skating to where the puck is going to be," as a product manager put it.
Apple TV doesn't come with any cables. You're supposed to supply the one your TV requires (HDMI, component video or HDMI-to-DVI adapter).
Basically, Apple TV is an iPod for your TV. It copies the iTunes library (music, podcasts, TV shows, movies) from one Mac or Windows PC on your wired or wireless home network to its 40-gigabyte hard drive and keeps the copy updated.
The drive holds about 50 hours of video or 9,000 songs; if your iTunes library is bigger than that, you can specify what subset you want copied -- only unwatched TV episodes, for example.
You can play back videos, music and photos even if the original computer is turned off or (if it's a laptop) carried away. (Photo playback requires iPhoto on the Mac, or Photoshop Album or Photoshop Elements on Windows.)
A tiny white remote control operates Apple TV's stunning high-definition white-on-black menus, which are enlivened by high-resolution album covers and photos. You can see the effect at apple.com/appletv.
The integration of iPod, iTunes and Apple TV offers frequent payoffs. For example, if you paused your iPod partway through a movie, TV show or song, Apple TV remembers your place when you resume playing it on your TV.
Although only one computer's files are actually copied to Apple TV, you can still play back the iTunes libraries of five other computers by streaming -- playing them through Apple TV without copying them. Starting playback, rewinding and fast-forwarding isn't as smooth this way, and photo playback isn't available. But it's a handy option when, say, you want to watch a movie on your TV from a visitor’s laptop.
All of this works elegantly and effortlessly. But there are lots of unanswered questions that make onlookers wonder if Apple has bigger plans for the humble Apple TV.
For example, it has an Internet connection and a hard drive; so why can't it record TV shows like a TiVo?
Furthermore, it's a little weird that menus and photos appear in spectacular high-definition, but not TV shows and movies. All iTunes videos are in standard definition, and don't look so hot on an HDTV.
And then there's the mysterious unused U.S.B. port.
Still, if you stay within the Apple ecosystem -- use its online store, its jukebox software and so on -- you get a seamless, trouble-free experience, with a greater selection of TV shows and movies than you can find from any other online store.

The dinosaurs that burrowed to safety

David Hyun
URL:http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21420880-30417,00.html

A NEW kind of dinosaur that burrowed into the ground to build a protective den has been discovered in the US.
The fossil remains of an adult and two young have provided the first evidence of burrowing behaviour among dinosaurs. The discovery in Montana raises the prospect that some dinosaurs may have initially survived the catastrophic event - widely thought to have been an asteroid impact - that led to the group’s extinction 65 million years ago. Small mammals are thought to have sheltered from the “nuclear winter” that would have come after an asteroid impact by burrowing underground. The burrowing dinosaurs have been dated to 95 million years ago, in the Cretaceous period, not long before the catastrophe in evolutionary terms. Though no examples have been found that date from nearer the time of the impact, it is conceivable that some may have survived it in their dens. “Burrowing behaviour allows vertebrates to escape harsh environmental conditions,” David Varricchio, of Montana State University, who led the research, said.
“Small dinosaurs could potentially have withstood severe conditions, such as drought or daily or seasonal temperature extremes. Such behaviour would have allowed dinosaurs to occupy high mountains, desert environments and polar regions. “Survival of terrestrial vertebrates at the end-Cretaceous event has been attributed to sheltering behaviour, with the extinction of nonavian dinosaurs resulting from their inability to find an appropriate cover. Burrowing dinosaurs would challenge this argument, but these are yet to be found in the latest Cretaceous formations.” The new species, which is described in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, has been named Oryctodromeus cubicularis, which means “digging runner of the lair”. The adult found by Dr Varricchio’s team measured 2.1m and weighed 22-32kg. It and the two juveniles were at the end of a sloping tunnel more than 2m long and 70cm wide, which would have ended in a larger chamber. Several pieces of evidence indicate that the structure was a burrow built by the creatures. Its dimensions are a good fit for Oryctodromeus’s body, and the close proximity of an adult and young hints at parental care. The tunnel is similar to those made by modern burrowing animals, and there are no bite marks on the remains, making it unlikely that they were carried into the den by predators. Oryctodromeus also shows several anatomical adaptations for digging. “For a digging animal to apply a force to the ground effectively, it must counteract the equal opposing force generated,” Dr Varricchio said. “For example, mammals that dig with their forelimbs brace themselves with their hindlimbs and tail. Oryctodromeus exhibits skeletal features that among extant vertebrates are associated with such behaviour.”

Google quashes mobile phone talk

url: http://www.smh.com.au/news/mobiles--handhelds/google-quashes-mobile-phone-talk/2007/03/21/1174153139660.html

Hyeon Chung

Google has poured cold water on claims it is developing a mobile phone.
The search giant said it was more logical to form partnerships with existing handset makers instead.
Google's South-East Asia managing director of sales and operations, Richard Kimber, yesterday echoed statements made by Google's chief internet evangelist, Vinton Cerf, that building hardware would be a dramatic shift in the company's business model.
"At this point in time, we are very focused on the software, not the phone," The Australian Financial Review today quoted Kimber as saying during his speech at the Search Engine Room conference in Sydney.
Kimber said Google was keen on porting its search and other technologies to mobile devices, but it was not interested in entering the crowded handset market, as Apple has recently done with its iPhone.
This is highlighted by recent deals Google has made with manufacturers such as Samsung, resulting in its search software coming preloaded on certain handsets.
Extending Google's search technology to mobile phones would allow it to serve advertising to a far wider audience - particularly those in developing countries who do not have access to a computer.
Kimber said mobile ads posed unique challenges but described them as being "extremely effective".
In a telephone interview earlier this month, Dr Cerf, who is credited with being one of the founders of the internet, said "becoming an equipment manufacturer is pretty far from our business model".
"On the other hand, we're very interested in the platforms that other people are building. We are quite eager to be part of the mobile revolution."
A Google Australia spokesman said the company was focused on developing partnerships with existing industry players but did not confirm or deny that Google was developing a handset.
"Mobile is an important area for Google and we remain focused on creating applications and establishing and growing partnerships with industry leaders to develop innovative services for users worldwide," he said.
Google's latest comments are at odds with the slew of recent reports that suggested it was shopping a phone design to potential mobile phone manufacturing partners in Asia.
In a note to clients, sighted by Reuters, London-based phone analyst Richard Windsor wrote: "Google has come out of the closet at the CeBIT trade fair admitting that it is working on a mobile phone of its own.
"This is not going to be a high-end device but a mass-market device aimed at bringing Google to users who don't have a PC."
A US venture capitalist, Simeon Simeonov, wrote in a blog post earlier this month that there was "a team of about 100 people at Google working on the Google Phone".
Simeonov said his "inside source close to the company" described the device as being a "BlackBerry-like, slick device". He added a number of recent mobile-related acquisitions made by Google backed up the rumours.
Samsung was widely rumoured to be Google's manufacturing partner; a photo published on the Engadget blog, which purported to be a prototype, showed a sparse touchscreen design similar to the iPhone.
But all of these rumours now appear to be quashed, bringing back memories from a year ago when Google was said to be building its own line of computers. Those reports were soon proved false, and the product Google was working on turned out to be a free software pack.

Problem Solved: Century-Old Math Mystery Deciphered

David Hyun
URL:http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=abM.SNM8uq3c&refer=us
March 21 (Bloomberg) -- Researchers using supercomputers unraveled a 120-year-old mathematics mystery, a solution they said promises advances in their field much like the mapping of the humane genome is aiding developments in medicine.
The solution of the math structure E8, unveiled this week at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, would cover an area the size of Manhattan if written on paper. E8, discovered in 1887, is a mathematical problem related to equations used to explain symmetry.
``It's a big step,'' said Jeffrey Adams, 50, a mathematics professor at the University of Maryland in College Park who led the project by 18 mathematicians and computer scientists from the U.S. and Europe. ``You never know where it's going to lead.''
The project will help math researchers find solutions to problems related to symmetry, string theory and geometry, Adams said. Understanding how E8 works also might help physicists develop a unified theory that takes in gravity and other fundamental forces, said Hermann Nicolai, a director at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam, Germany, in a report on the discovery.
The E8 solution might be the math field's equivalent to the basic knowledge produced by human-genome mapping in the 1990s and early 2000s, Adams said. That work spurred a wave of methods for analyzing genetic causes of disease and led to the discovery of genes that may predict a person's risk of disease or other biological clues that may help doctors in treatment decisions.
``I like to say that the human genome itself doesn't give you drugs and cures for cancer,'' Adams said.
Other Researchers
Besides researchers from MIT and Maryland, the project drew collaborators from France and from U.S. universities including Cornell, Harvard, Stanford, Michigan and Utah.
E8, discovered in 1887, is a mathematical problem from the Lie groups, which were developed by Norwegian Sophus Lie during his study of symmetry. Mathematicians explore symmetries in theoretical dimensions greater than the familiar three- dimensional objects such as balls and cylinders. E8 has 248 dimensions. The E8 calculation is part of a larger project on all the Lie groups.
It took researchers two years of ``pencil and paper'' work and one more for software writing before the solution could be tackled by computer, Adams said in a telephone interview. The single calculation required computer power and memory that wasn't available until recently, said the National Science Foundation, which provided funding along with the American Institute of Mathematics.
Underlying Math
``The literature on this subject is very dense and very difficult to understand,'' said team member David Vogan from MIT in the report on the project. ``Even after we understood the underlying mathematics, it still took more than two years to implement it on a computer.''
Researchers broke the puzzle into smaller parts, producing partial answers that were later assembled to find the eventual solution. The final calculation took about 77 hours on the Sage supercomputer, built by San Diego-based Western Scientific.
The calculation created a file 60 gigabytes in size, enough to store music that could play for 45 days in the MP3 format. Data on the human genome, which contains all of the genetic information of a cell, can be stored on less than a gigabyte.