Daily Cup of Tech

Just a quick post to with a Happy Thanksgiving to all of our Canadian DCot’ers.

Here is a little Thanksgiving game to help you ward off the Turkey Coma.

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Microsoft has made Winodws Vista Release Candidate 2 available for download. If you are interested in getting this release, I suggest you get is quick because it is only going to be online for a short period of time.

You will need your Vista key that you downloaded earlier (see Fresh Windows Vista Keys Available!) for this RC but if you have them, you should be good to go.

Now go and test how much download volume your ISP is willing to give you. (The ISO is 2.49 GB!)

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This just goes to show that there are some very impressive people at MIT.

Unfortunately, this type of technology will not get to the majority of students. Most teachers need to fight with administration to just get chalk for their chalkboards. I could just imagine the reaction that a teacher would get if they requested this type of technology for their classroom.

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I remember back in my early days of computing when I was still a noobie. I had a massive folder of files that I wanted to rename to something like file0001.jpg, file0002.jpg, file0003.jpg, etc. I thought, “Man, it sure would be great to be able to just point a program at the folder and have it do it all for me.” Instead, I took a few hours and did it all manually.

If only I had AutoIt back then. I could have then taken the script from Folder Recursion in AutoIt, tweaked it a bit, and I would have been done in a few minutes.

Well, if you find that you need to perform an action on every file in every subfolder of a specific directory, then Folder Recursion in AutoIt will be a big help for you.

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Just a quick entry today. My past couple of days have been insane but I promise I will make it up to you tomorrow.

One very cool thing that I noticed that might interest all you webmasters out there is that Google Gadgets are now available for your website. Previously, these little web applications were only available for your customized Google web portal but Google has made them open to everyone to put on their website.

Here is a small sampler of some of the gadgets you can get (feed readers may have to come to the actual page). There are well over 1200 of them so there should be something that everyone will like.

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