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| Posted on: Feb 22, 2012 17:28:33 IST |
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ThinkDigit takes immense pleasure in announcing the first list of Windows App Challenge Contest. First of all, we’d like to say a huge ‘thank you!’ to everyone who took part in this contest. We are utterly overwhelmed by the response from the developer community and swamped with some excellent candidates. As expected, many enthusiastic developers responded to our call for entries with hundreds of high quality app submissions.We know everyone's dying to hear who won, so here goes! The contest was judged on overall impressions and wasn’t meant to be overly technical. All the successful registered apps were creative, insightful and incredibly well made. The winners have been drawn on the basis of the official contest rules.The best part was that each and every...
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| Posted on: Feb 14, 2012 17:29:10 IST |
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Microsoft India’s ‘I Unlock Joy’ program is an initiative that hopes to encourage developer interest in developing apps for the Windows Phone Marketplace, with a free Windows Phone device as the incentive.With the largest technology enthusiast community in India, Digit and ThinkDigit.com has partnered with Microsoft India and its ‘I Unlock Joy’ program, offering ThinkDigit readers special privileges with the ThinkDigit Windows App Challenge contest. Interested readers can visit the ThinkDigit Windows App Challenge contest page here.The ThinkDigit Windows App Challenge contest will give developers some exclusive guaranteed awards. If you submit 3 apps that pass the Windows Phone 7 Application Certification Requirements, and are published on the Windows Phone...
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| Posted on: Aug 15, 2011 00:15:53 IST |
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Adobe has released a trial version of their second release of Creative Suite Extension Builder 1.5. This is the first time such a trial is being offered, and earlier the software was only available for those who were part of Adobe’s Enterprise Developer Program.Creative Suite Extension Builder makes the process of creating extensions to Creative Suite (CS) applications similar to creating RIAs. The CS Extension Builder plugs into Flash Builder, and allows you to create an additional project type, a Creative Suite Extension Project.The new version has several improvements. With CS Extension Builder 1.5, you can create extensions that target multiple versions of CS (both CS5.5 and CS5). Hybrid extensions that...
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| Posted on: May 19, 2011 03:33:44 IST |
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As application developers embrace more screens, desktop, mobile, tablet, netbook, and even TV, tools for prototyping such applications become even more important. One example is 10Screens a software prototyping tool developed by the Indian company Bizosys. This Flash-based applications is capable of running both online, and offline via Adobe AIR.This tool offers a rich interface for creating prototype designs of user experiences. 10Screens lets non-programmers develop simple simulation that can use sample data, and offer a level of interactivity. It is possible to simulate user experiences for different platforms, such as mobile, web, and desktop.Creating an Windows Phone 7 interface prototype using 10screens10Screens a quite...
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| Posted on: May 10, 2011 14:01:50 IST |
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Microsoft has declared a special screening for their Windows Phone 7 announcement on May 24th 2011. In all likelihood, it is about the much awaited “Mango” update that was announced in April.“Mango” is touted to be a major upgrade for the Windows Phone 7 platform — possibly to be released as Windows Phone 7.5 — with inclusions like true multitasking, performance improvements and suggested upgrades to the browser along with some possible UI tweaks, the Mango update will go a long way in improving the Windows Phone experience.Fresh reports of the addition of two new features to the Windows Phone 7 platform were released via the Windows Phone developer podcast yesterday. Microsoft plans to add “Bing Vision” and “Bing Audio”...
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| Posted on: Apr 19, 2011 09:08:06 IST |
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Adobe has announced an upcoming version of their Creative Suite, CS 5.5 and it bring number great features for RIA developers. One of the central themes of this release its to enable creation of content for multiple screens, features for which have been added to Dreamweaver, Flash Professional, Flash Catalyst, and Flash Builder among other applications.CS5.5 includes updated versions of Dreamweaver and Flash Professions, and includes Flash Builder 4.5 and Catalyst CS 5.5. It also brings in the new Adobe Acrobat X into the CS.Adobe Dreamweaver CS5.5 brings support for emerging web standards with HTML5 and CSS3 support. A new multi-screen preview panel lets web developers design for smartphones, tablets and desktops with greater...
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| Posted on: Mar 27, 2011 18:05:11 IST |
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Finally, fog can be used for something other than keeping planes grounded. A group of students at Japan's Osaka University have devised a way to use mist as the backdrop for a 3D hologram floating in midair. Using a stream of water vapor and three Pico projectors, the team has been able to render a levitating neon rabbit which can be seen from multiple angles as the viewer moves about the hovering rodent.The holographic effect is created by taking advantage of the directionality of light dispersed by fog. Each of the three projectors presents an image of the rabbit taken from a different angle—if you stand at one angle, you are presented with the front image reflected through the fog, as you move to the side you'll...
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| Posted on: Nov 17, 2010 19:04:04 IST |
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Linux distributions have been evolving since the very beginning. They’ve moved from just reliable operating systems for high priority servers to the play OS for geeks and hackers. In recent years, they’ve jumped leaps and bounds ending up on desktops as operating systems for everyday computer users.Being open source, Linux and its other *nix flavours have spawned many more variations. The user on the other hand is left more confused than ever before. Instead of having to choose between Windows and Linux, now he has to decide whether he should install Redhat, Slackware, Debian, Ubuntu, SLAX or one from the hundreds other distributions out there.As part of a yearly practice at Digit and ThinkDigit, we try our hands at all kinds of distributions and tell you which...
