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6/24/2009 FW: Microsoft Hohm to help consumers understand energy usage and reduce their impact on the environment Post from NewsGator.com: Microsoft Hohm to help consumers understand energy usage and reduce their impact on the environment Today Microsoft announced a new online application, Microsoft Hohm that helps consumers to better understand their energy usage, get recommendations and start saving money. Microsoft Hohm is an easy-to-use tool that helps consumers lower their energy bill and reduce their impact on the environment. In these tough economic times, consumers today are motivated to save energy to reduce their spending and do their part in conserving the environment. According to a May 2009 utility consumer survey from Gartner Inc. (conducted with households in the U.S. and U.K.), 80 percent of consumers in the U.S. would participate in an energy program if it were offered by providers. Data also showed that cost reduction is the key driving force behind participating in an energy efficiency program. Microsoft Hohm provides savings recommendations, which can range from placing new caulking on windows to removing air leaks to installing a programmable thermostat. These recommendations are tailored based on specific circumstances in the consumer’s home including house features, usage patterns and appliances. If consumers don’t provide their data, Microsoft Hohm will base its recommendations on local and national averages.Microsoft Hohm uses advanced analytics licensed from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the U.S. Department of Energy to provide consumers with personalized energy-saving recommendations. The beta application is available at no cost to anyone in the United States with an Internet connection.
Follow Hohm here: · Website: http://www.microsoft-hohm.com · Blog: http://blog.microsoft-hohm.com · Give us feedback: www.getsatisfaction.com/microsoft_hohm · Follow us on twitter: http://twitter.com/microsofthohm · Become on Fan on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/hohmfb 6/23/2009 Pequenos detalhes que passam despercebidosInstalei hoje o Microsoft Security Essentials beta (antigo codename Morro) e durante a personalização de suas configurações, cliquei no botão “Save changes”, daí o Windows 7 exibiu a janela do UAC (User Account Control). Até aí tudo bem, o detalhe que passou despercebido é que na janela do UAC a descrição do MSE (Microsoft Security Essentials) ainda aparece como Microsoft Morro Antimalware. E esse não é o primeiro exemplo de mudança de versão sem alteração de captions, mas tudo bem, é só um detalhe. :) 6/19/2009 FW: YouTube Search Goes Visual With the Wonder WheelMessage from NewsGator subscriber Juliano Nunes: Busca visual?? Que tal a árvore (literalmente) de resultados do www.tafiti.com ?? Post from NewsGator.com: YouTube Search Goes Visual With the Wonder Wheel
An interesting new YouTube feature, however, shows that they have been experimenting with it behind closed doors, and – more importantly – they’re ready to use it on one of the biggest search engines out there, the YouTube search. It’s called the Wonder Wheel, and it’s a way to browse videos through association; similar to how another cool visual discovery engine, Liveplasma, lets you discover new artists through connection with the artists you know and like. Wonder Wheel appears in the top right corner of your search results, but it’s present only when you get a lot of results. For searches with less results YouTube will not suggest other searches, and the Wonder Wheel option will be absent, too. As with most other search experiments, the Wonder Wheel will not substitute the regular YouTube search, but it can be great for discovering new videos or simply killing a little time – and we all know that’s what YouTube is really for. Wonder Wheel is not all that’s new at YouTube; in fact, Google has been diligently adding new features in the last couple of weeks. Advanced search has also recently been updated, offering users the ability to narrow down their search with time of upload, as well as its location and length.
Reviews: Google, YouTube Tags: Search, Wonder Wheel, youtube 6/18/2009 FW: ASP.NET 4.0: more control on viewstate managementMessage from NewsGator subscriber Juliano Nunes: Boas notícias pra quem trabalha com ASP.net... Post from NewsGator.com: ASP.NET 4.0: more control on viewstate management ASP.NET is a stable and mature platform for building Web applications. Personally, I can hardly imagine a revolutionary set of new and compelling features to be added to it. So what's new in ASP.NET 4.0? Beyond AJAX stuff, there are some interesting enhancements in the Web Forms area. As I see things, all changes in ASP.NET 4.0 can be catalogued under the label of "more control". You get more control over viewstate, script references, ID generation, output caching and even, but in very limited form, over HTML generated by some controls. Let's briefly focus on the viewstate extended control. In ASP.NET, the viewstate is optional but it is enabled by default. In addition, the viewstate is not simply a way of reducing your bandwidth. It is rather functional to the implementation of the Web Forms model. So just dropping the viewstate in a new version of ASP.NET is simply out of question: either you get a new ASP.NET platform such as ASP.NET MVC or you stick to Web Forms with the viewstate on board. However, there's a subtle aspect of the viewstate management that has been fixed in ASP.NET 4.0. I said fixed because, well, from my perspective it had to be considered a bug-by-design in previous versions. All server controls (the Page class derives from Control) have the EnableViewState property through which you can disable the viewstate for that control. What is little known ais that the EnableViewState property is ignored for child controls. In other words, if you take the default value (true) for the page, then whatever value you assign for it to any controls in the page... it is ignored. You can have have TextBox1.EnableViewState = false but still have the text box to read/write state from the viewstate if the viewstate is enabled at the page (or container) level. This will change in ASP.NET 4.0 thanks to the new ViewStateMode property. This property indicates whether the viewstate for the control is enabled|disabled|inherit. You can use the ViewStateMode property to enable view state for an individual control even if view state is disabled for the page. This is the great news. Finally, you can now disable the viewstate on the page and decide which controls will have it enabled (opt-in). In earlier versions you could only do the reverse (opt-out): enable the viewstate and then decide which controls will not support it.
FW: XNA Game Studio 3.1Message from NewsGator subscriber Juliano Nunes: Acho que está na hora de aproveitar as férias e começar a usar o Xbox pra alguma coisa (faz 1 ano que tenho e praticamente nunca o usei). Post from NewsGator.com: XNA Game Studio 3.1
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FW: Really Love Firefox? Skin Your iPhone, Laptop or Even Your Car with Firefox ArtworkMessage from NewsGator subscriber Juliano Nunes: Quem disse que software livre não pode ter fins lucrativos?!?! Post from NewsGator.com: Really Love Firefox? Skin Your iPhone, Laptop or Even Your Car with Firefox Artwork
From time to time Infectious works with corporate partners to create custom stickers. Here’s an example of an iPhone with a Wordpress theme, for example. We’re also talking to them about designing custom stickers for the CrunchPad. The Mozilla project brings art from five Infectious artists that you can buy now. iPhone skins cost $15, laptops skins are $30 and car decals are $35. 25% of the proceeds go to the artist and the Mozilla Foundation. In a couple of weeks Infectious will also open up the project and let any artist submit work. One or more winners will be selected by user voting and input from Mozilla and Infectious, and users will then be able to buy those skins, too. More info on the Mozilla blog. Crunch Network: CrunchBase the free database of technology companies, people, and investors
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