According to an article at PC Magazine, just yesterday Adobe announced the release date of Director 11. It seems like a lifetime since the last upgrade, which was back about 3 years ago. This new release seems to be targeting game developers more than ever. Ageia PhysX for game physics and support for DirectX 3D [...]

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There is a rumor circulating that we could see two Android-based phones sometime during 2008. According to speculation, Samsung may be releasing one phone as early as September and the other just in time for Christmas. Oddly enough the phone to be released in September will be “higher-end” and more expensive than the phone to [...]

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Just two days ago I wrote about penetration testing using Firefox extensions. Well it turns out there’s another interesting security auditing tool that has just been released called Goolag Scanner, which essentially uses the Google search engine to attempt to “Google Hack” into your site. The results of the scan do not harm your site, [...]

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I just came across an interesting post on boingboing that makes note of a physics application created by a Swedish graduate student named Emil Ernerfeldt. The application can be downloaded and used for free in a non-commercial environment. Below is a video on YouTube demonstrating it: Sphere: Related Content

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Just in case your curious, engadget has posted a “casualty report” from the war between HD DVD and Blu-ray. It appears that there are something like 1.3 million customers with the now useless HD DVD hardware, whether it’s a computer drive, an Xbox 360, or a recorder. Either way I’m sure there’s a lot of [...]

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Bill Gates will be announcing a new program called DreamSpark in which Microsoft is planning to give students free access to most of their developer tools. Visual Studio Pro, SQL Server, and Windows Server are among some of the well known tools that will be free to students. Although there are only 10 countries currently [...]

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