Microsoft Office Ultimate 91% Off to "Students" (Again) [Deals] (79)
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Microsoft yesterday re-introduced its "Ultimate Steal" program, offering students (but, in reality, anyone with a .edu address) its Office Ultimate 2007 package for $59.95, which goes for $680 on retail shelves. The company will also put up its Visio Professional 2007 design package and a Vista Ultimate Upgrade at the $60 price on Sept. 8. The web-only offering will be available "throughout the academic school year," according to a press release, but if you haven't ...
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WindPower said:
Sadly on peut pas en profiter puisque Stanislas n'a pas de .edu domain name comme toutes les ecoles qui se respectent, et ne donne pas d'aresses email comme toutes les ecoles tout court
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lewis said:
This is valid for anyone with a .edu address. Which you can usually get for free as an alumnus.
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sirmikester said:
@Roger, you buying this? I thought the Moto deal was better...
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Alexander Williams said:
The only way to give Microsoft about what Vista's worth.
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jsuplido said:
Great deal for students in the US! How about faculty?
Songbird Hits Beta with Better Interface, Smart Playlists [Featured Download] (51)
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Windows/Mac/Linux (All platforms): Songbird, the cross-platform, open-source music manager long in development, has reached its first beta release, 0.7, code-named "Fugazi." New to this version are an interface overhaul with drag-and-drop capabilities, Last.fm and smart playlist capabilities, improved cataloging and playback speed, and better album art support. If you're not familiar with the 'bird, it supports a bunch of add-ons, uses the plays-anything back end of VLC media player (in the Windows and Mac clients), ...
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Art said:
Songbird will never take off and fly until it nails smart playlists.
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Derek said:
I love this player and with the addition of smart playlists it's almost ready to take over iTunes for me. Only thing that is missing is party shuffle, which I do like
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sirmikester said:
Starting to look pretty good...
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androcles said:
Songbird rules!!
One in three new Vista machines downgraded to XP (14)
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Filed under: Business, OS Updates, News, MicrosoftYou probably knew that a lot of dissatisfied WIndows Vista users had downgraded -- some might say "upgraded" -- to Windows XP. It was never clear exactly how many people took that step, but it was enough that Microsoft extended the shelf life for XP for a while. Now we have a number, thanks to a survey by Devil Mountain Software: nearly 35% of new Vista machines are being ...
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JDevL said:
I've been very tempted after this most recent crash.
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Keith said:
The other 2 are upgraded to Linux. :-P
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AdamB said:
And I downgraded 6 so far... with 2 more on the way... vista sucks!
Who's telling you the truth about your online personal marketing? (25)
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Yes, it's true. People judge you. They judge you especially harshly online. They judge you by your teeny picture on Facebook (named, after all, after the original quick judgment document) and they judge you by your email sig file and your domain (Hotmail?!) and by the look of your bio on Squidoo or Linkedin or the number of typos in your instant messages. They even judge you by the typeface and ads on your blog. ...
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Michael Hyatt said:
Read this post carefully. Seth is dead-on.
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Landon Ray said:
Is your online pic as important as all that? I chose mine in 2 seconds, thinking not. Thoughts?
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aElian said:
sick, sad, and true. how bout this? how bout we GROW THE FUCK UP and not let others' judgments affect us? do good work, be a decent human to others, and don't worry about the message your profile pic sends for chrissakes. personal brand image is measured by the quality of your product and i hope it's more than a facebook pic.
Microsoft enlists Seinfeld, Gates to battle "Get a Mac" ads (72)
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Filed under: Misc. Gadgets Those Apple "Get a Mac" ads have long been an annoyance to Microsoft and to Bill Gates in particular. No surprise as an emboldened Apple with rising market share has continued to ratchet up the venom with quips like, "fear of switching is the foundation of customer loyalty for PCs," found in its latest TV ad. Now Microsoft is fighting back. Microsoft's new $300 million campaign (one of Redmond's largest ever) ...
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Derick Valadao said:
I can see it now:"Have any of you ever notice that every time I try to send an email I get this _blue screen_. What IS this screen? I keep hitting a button, but the screen stays blue!"--Jerry Seinfeld.His acute powers of observation can only hurt Windows operating systems ;)
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Stevo said:
Rectum? It nearly killed him!
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codefin said:
Very excited to see how this turns out. Competition drives innovation.
Tiger Woods’ Jesus Walk Not a Glitch (46)
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It’s fun when you see major companies really begin to understand the nature and cultural ins ands outs of your particular subculture. Despite the fact that YouTube has grown over the last couple years that it’s a little large to be called a subculture, the majority of corporations out there wouldn’t know what to do or where to begin if they see something with the potential to turn into negative publicity surface on YouTube. We’re ...
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Jeffrey said:
interesting...
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Allison said:
Brilliant.
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Angel said:
Chequen el video por favor. Admitidamente es cuestionable si es efecto o no. La neta si alguien puede hacer eso es el ;)
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Joannie said:
LOL this is awesome :)
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Veritas Noctis said:
Tiger Woods is Black Jesus! :D
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Josh said:
Absolutely hilarious, and one of the smartest marketing moves I've seen out of EA, which I usually abhor.
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Tor Erling said:
As much as I may dislike EA some times, this was just genious :)
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Ooble said:
This is the best commercial response to anything, ever. Watch.
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Chris Schrier said:
brilliant!
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Joe said:
yes folks, this is a sample taste of what you can do if you can respond quickly to the groundswell.
The predictable lifecycle of the skeptic (37)
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The Kindle is a lousy idea. No one will read a book that way. The Kindle is late. Amazon has no clue how to launch a product. The Kindle is poorly designed. See, we told you. The Kindle's pricing model hurts book publishers. It will never be adopted by them. The Kindle is pretty cool. Non-techies like it. The Kindle is sold out. Amazon doesn't know how to produce a product. The Kindle is selling ...
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Dan Dawson said:
*Sigh* This sounds far too much like the way I think about so many new ideas. I need to move from being pessimistic about new products to better discerning which ones the fickle market will adopt.
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Umang Saini said:
Like the story. And this comes amid the rumors of a letter (8.5"x11")sized Kindle aimed at the $5.5b textbook market of USA. Go Kindle.
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David said:
Very funny.Good call from Seth.
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Jonathan Washburn said:
In reality the skeptic changes his tune after presented with a proven success, so the last line is typically:I always knew Amazon had the potential to do great things.
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Josh Bancroft said:
LOL. So true. :-)
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Jay said:
Cool.
American Airlines goes live with in-flight WiFi service (13)
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Filed under: Transportation, WirelessAt long last, "you are now free to surf the intarwebz while flying." Okay, so maybe it has been possible in the past, but American Airlines is taking a huge leap forward in the US market today by giving passengers aboard long-haul Boeing 767-200 flights the option to hop online during the trip. The GoGo service, which is being provided by Aircell, will charge customers $12.95 for access to the world wide ...
NBA Eyes Streaming, NFL Gets Mobile (1)
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While nerd-friendly content has ruled the online video world up till now, the jocks and all their sporting events are storming the web. Yesterday, the Sports Business Journal reported that the NBA is in negotiations with regional sports networks and cable providers to stream live basketball games online. And today, MediaPost writes that the NFL has entered into an exclusive deal with Sprint to offer live telecasts of games. The NBA deal is a complicated ...
More Cool Video Technology: Microsoft Unwrap Mosaics (24)
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This demo video from Microsoft demonstrates a new technology, Microsoft Unwrap Mosaics, that can make it easy to do video special effects editing: The representation has some of the power of a full reconstruction of 3D surface models from video, but is designed to be easy to recover from a priori unseen and uncalibrated footage. By modelling the image-formation process as a 2D-to-2D transformation from an object’s texture map to the image, modulated by an ...
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MichaelMJ said:
Interesting way to show that even tho something is possible, it has value to make the process simpler and more approachable.
And Another Useful Online Music Service Shut Down By The RIAA (5)
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Ever since it launched, people have waited for the RIAA or its member record labels to go after Muxtape. The site allowed individuals to upload MP3s that they had and create a streaming "mixtape" of music. It was actually a pretty cool way to hear new music from individuals you trusted -- just like sharing mixtapes back in the 80s. You might think that, perhaps, the recording industry would recognize how successful mixtapes were back ...
YouTube Podcaster Creates Video Feeds from Searches [YouTube] (38)
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YouTube Podcaster takes your YouTube video searches and creates RSS feeds of either links or download-able videos from them. In a standard RSS reader, the search results come back as video titles and links, but copy the link to the iTunes feed and you'll get a stream of MP4-formatted videos. Given the popularity of the video sharing site, you'll want to winnow down your search to avoid overwhelming your reader or iTunes player every hour, ...
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Kenneth said:
this is so awesome
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Harry Brignull said:
Tweens everywhere will benefit hugely from suddenly having an easy way to get piles of youtube clips on their ipods.
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Courtney said:
podcasting via Youtube? nice!
