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The Link Removed enables Adobe® Illustrator® to export vector and bitmap artwork directly to an HTML5 canvas element that can be rendered in a canvas-enabled browser. The plug-in provides drawing, animation and coding options such as events so that you can build interactive, well-designed...

In this episode of Link Removed, Kuat Yessenov and Link Removed, Principal Researcher in the Research in Software Engineering (RiSE) group at Microsoft Research, show how a program can be constructed by stepwise refinement. First, a high-level description of the program is given. Then, some...

Hi everyone, Yesterday we Link Removed to let customers know that we were investigating a publicly disclosed vulnerability in the Windows Kernel-mode drivers (win32k.sys) affecting all supported operating systems. We are not aware of attacks that try to use the reported vulnerability or of any...

Just how many web-capable image formats does the world need? To most people, the well-known combination of JPEG, PNG and GIF will suffice for most needs and situations, but it seems that Google is far from satisfied with the current status quo. However, instead of proposing changes to the way...

Link RemovedThis past weekend, a team of Microsoft Employees - many from Windows -*participated in the Link Removed, a competition where teams from all over the world build human-powered flying machines, push them off a 30’ high dock, and see who can fly the farthest. The event was tons of fun...

From: Daily Tech.com July 27, 2010 Forget traditional metal block coolers a nanowick could remove 10 times the heat of current chip designs Link Removed due to 404 Error The new cooler design uses copper-coated carbon nanotubes. (Source: Wikimedia Commons) Link Removed due to 404 Error It...

It somehow doesn't surprise me. NEW ORLEANS — Oil spewed uncontrolled into the Gulf of Mexico again Wednesday after an undersea robot bumped the cap being used to contain it, forcing BP engineers to remove the device and then scramble to reattach it. The latest setback left nothing to stem...

Link Removed Link Removed These bridges are located in Amsterdam and were made by Naomi. Three unusual red steel bridges extend over the water between the islands Sporenburg and Borneo. Two of these three bridges stretch for 90m and the 3d one is 25 meters long. The pedestrian bridge is the...

Fill the well with unused Larrabees A man who makes a living selling chips for Intel has come up with a cunning plan which he thinks can stop the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Steven Laughlin has devised a plan to "plug the hole" of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig. However he is a little...

AMD CPU+GPU Fusion by 2010 end Intel has been trying to do it since years, but they have failed in a an ugly fashion with poor graphics performance of Core i3, Core i5. Not just that, Intel has failed at even creating a decent dedicated Graphics processor. Now AMD, with years of strong...

Back in the olden days, people would sit around their living rooms, light up fancy cigars and talk about the future. They’d also try to guess what color looked like, given that everything was black and white, but I’m getting sidetracked now. Back to the future, people.If you were to somehow...

Don't know if anyone posted this already BUT it deserves multiple posts. If u go to the now SLIGHTLY useful new feature of libraries and search for a file with Windoz Explorer u won't find anything. WE search can't search the libraries. U MUST go the the folder location/drive/whatever and...

PC chassis revolution Thermaltake's Level 10 chassis Extreme Gaming Station, or one of the most innovative and at the same time strange looking cases on the market should be available as of October. Among the reasons why this case should attract some attention is the fact that it was designed...

Hi all I like W7 as much as the next person but there are a few reasons why I'M STILL keeping XP around for a while even after the final W7 is released. These applications will NOT run on even VISTA, so no chance also on W7. 1) Legacy HP plotter and my Engineering drawing software -- it...

According to a report found here: Microsoft Already Starting on Windows 8 - Tom's Hardware MS are already advertising for engineers to work on the next os. MS claim to have a 3yr turn around for operating systems so I guess the above is to be expected...

Windows 7 is growing at fast pace through development milestones, in its way from Beta to Release Candidate stage, with interim builds cooking over in Redmond even though served only to select company testers and dogfooded internally. The start of March 2009 is synonymous with reports indicating...

Hi guys -- when something's not broken why fix it as the Engineers say -- I haven't yet been able to get the Library management / search facility to work properly. It might be OK if you just want to look for documents / pictures etc but I'm always "Hot swapping" discs (often quite large one's -...

Many of us use either ATI or Nvidia to provide a solution to our graphical needs but have you ever considered what actually goes into making one of these chips? This article provides an insight into the highs and lows that engineers go through and some of the tough decisions that they have to...