Three days before Google launched its Google Developer Day conference in Sydney, Australia, Microsoft revealed its latest bid to attract more developers to its .NET platform: Gadget vs. Gadget contest. In this latest battle for the computing platform of the future Microsoft has launched a contest to design and develop the coolest gadget for its new operating system Windows Vista. The contest is similar to Google's Summer of Code tournament, in which hundreds of university and college students compete for a top spot in this competition. Both software giants a looking at ways to attract new developers onto their own platform. However, Microsoft's bid involves the development of features for Vista platform only, while Google, with its Gears line up, is keen on grabbing the market share among all of the popular OSes out there. [...]
Today, Google kicked off its first Google Developer Day, a celebration of free food, beer and of course new technologies, fresh from the Google's oven. Approximately 5,000 developers from ten countries will join the conference, with the major event happening in Sydney, Australia. On the discussion table are a number of new offerings from the search giant. Google Gears is the main focus of the talk. Among other things, showcased at this conference, are Google Mapplets and Google Mashup Editor. All of these new technologies are geared towards letting developers create web applications based on Google API more quickly. With these releases, the search giant is aiming at attracting more open source developers to its platform in hopes of taking a bite out of the developer market share dominated by Microsoft and other web 2.0 companies. [...]
When Microsoft showcases any of its new technologies the crowd usually sighs in awe and the goes back to minding their own business. Because of the stereotype associated with Microsoft these days, everyone thinks that it will be years before Microsoft releases any of the products it showcases today. For example, Windows Vista was two years overdue, Longhorn is still not released, SQL Server was five years in the making. So when Steve Ballmer announced the latest product code named Milan, everyone was in awe. The demonstration of this new table, multi-touch computer was amazing, and most importantly it worked without any hick ups. [...]
We are please to announce the release of our own Job Board section on GoITExpert.com. With this new feature we hope to provide our readers with ability to connect the world's best and brightest IT professionals with great opportunities. Find your job or use our tools to find the IT talent you are looking for. Our Job Board will be free for one month, with low posting fees being introduced at the end of June, 2007. With our Job Board you will be able to reach your target audience at a quater of the price of the big job sites. [...]
One of the more frustrating issues with UBUNTU is the WPA support not being enabled by default. If you have a WPA enabled router at home, here are the instructions on how to configure WPA on UBUNTU. [...]
Christian UBUNTU is not what most users would think it is. No shrines or temples, just good wholesome computing. The Christian theme has nothing to do with appearances rather more with providing a wholesome environment with some controls on content to keep out some of the adult material available on the Internet. [...]
Recent announcements for the upcoming UBUNTU Developer Summit will drastically change the shape and direction of the cell phone and PDA world. Inter-operability is at the forefront as evidenced by Blackberry's port to Windows Mobile and UBUNTU is driving some of the changes. [...]
This Tutorial will explain how you can import mails from Thunderbird to Evolution.
Changing email clients can be a risky task, as you usually want to keep your old email just in case you need to refer back to it. This can usually be easily done by using the Export function from the client you want to move from, and finally import to your new client using the Import function. [...]
OSX has some nice desktop effects like expose and magic lamp. Those not only make your desktop look good, but also improve usability. You can extend those features into GNOME on UBUNTU. There is a hack that will skin GNOME to look like OS X. [...]
With the release of Ubuntu 7.04, Feisty Fawn, Ubuntu is using a standard kernel 2.6.20. Because of a few changes in the API, VMware-server and VMware-workstation 5.5 fail to install under Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn. Here is how to get your VMware server or workstation up and running. [...]
