TechThisOut!

The latest tech news, reviews, and how-tos!

Archive for August, 2006

Posted by Kangie 4 COMMENTS

Click Here!
You’ll need a .net/windows live passport, and the answers are:

Vista
Clarity
November 2006
True
Aero
All the above
All the above
512 MB

Categories: General
Posted by Kangie 1 COMMENT

Now you can, as Microsoft is to offer a consumer version of professional tools used to develop videogames for the Xbox 360.
The software will let non-professionals develop titles and then share them via the Xbox Live online service.
Microsoft executive Peter Moore said: “It’s our first step of creating a YouTube for videogames.”
The program will seek [...]

Categories: General
Posted by Kangie 2 COMMENTS

Recently, the internet giant handed out to researchers, the serach terms that over 650,000 of its subcribers used, in what was apparently an “innocent attempt to reach out to the academic community with research tools”.
Whilst the terms could not be linked to specific individuals, they could have contained personally identifiable information. This has upset many [...]

Categories: General
Posted by Kangie ADD COMMENTS

Technology that transforms digital images into 3D models will be unveiled at a conference on Thursday.
Microsoft’s Photosynth takes collections of images, analyses them for similarities, and then displays them in a reconstructed 3D space.
The system, to be previewed at a computer graphics meeting in Boston, will allow users to walk or fly through a scene [...]

Categories: General