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I’m Back!

So I’ve been out and busy the last few weeks, and I never got a good chance to write a blog post, until now. I have been still searching the web and doing other various things with my computer. So this blog post is dedicated to what I have found.

First, is a new product from Microsoft called Silverlight. It is a web browser plug-in similar to Flash. It isn’t much of a “breakthrough technology” but it is still pretty cool. One main difference between this and Flash is that this vector based. So you can resize the image without distorting it. Website: http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/default01.aspx

Microsoft Website “Vista-like” navigation: http://www.silverlight.net/mscom/


A Silverlight video player (Note: That is Bill Gates in the video)
http://silverlight.net/samples/1.0/Video-Library/default.html

The next thing is that Google unveiled a new name for its personalized homepage service. It is now called iGoogle (I wonder what Steve Jobs thinks about this). I always wondered why it was google.com followed by “ig”, now I now: it stands of iGoogle. Everything else hasn’t changed much other than that.

My iGoogle Homepage at http://google.com/ig

The next thing is a open-source, multiplatform game called Flight Gear. Some of you might know about Microsoft’s Flight Simulator X, well this is similar except that it is free. Note that this does’t have all the bells and whistles of Microsoft but hey you get what you pay for. I do prefer this over Microsoft’s mainly because I think it easier to fly. Plus, it doesn’t take up too much space like Flight Simulator X.http://www.flightgear.org/

FlightGear aircraft can have fully 3d, fully animated, fully clickable/interactive cockpits

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By Eric Ouyang
— May 1, 2007 at 9:36 pm
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  1. FlightGear doesn’t have enough detailed objects…

    Samuel Chan — May 3, 2007 @ 9:44 am —

  2. I don’t really mind. I like how Flightgear is easier to fly, and more understandable than Flight Simulator X. Plus, it’s free and open source!

    Kevin Johnson — May 4, 2007 @ 12:09 am —



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