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Archive for December, 2007

Free Microsoft Press e-book offer

Just sign up with your Windows Live/Passport account and you can download all three e-books by Microsoft Press.  It includes the following: Enjoy!

JibJab e-cards

Just thought I’d share this with you…it’s a new kind of e-card that you can send to your loved ones. Funny flash videos, cartoon animations, and pictures. Post, share and store favorite jokes…     Enjoy!

Web 2.0: Gray out the screen

This snippet grays out the screen and allows you to create a modal environment. A gray out is useful for creating a DHTML dialog box, or showing off a picture or video. While a gray out is active, most interactive elements on the page (links, etc.) are inactive – you’ve probably seen this on the [...]

Bill Gates: The skills you need to succeed

Here’s an interesting article that Bill Gates wrote for the BBC News web site, that talks about the skills one needs to succeed in any career.

Humanoid i-Sobot Toy

For $300, you can get a humanoid toy robot that can recognize spoken words and be controlled remotely.  It has 17 motors that allows it to walk, somersault, and do karate chops. The Guinness World Records recognizes it as smallest humanoid robot in commercial production; i-Sobot went on sale in Japan, in white, and the [...]