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Books books books! Microsoft’s free ebooks

I don’t know about you but speaking for myself free goodies are always welcome! The last few days added a category in Microsoft’s Virtual Academy in which you can find  plenty of free ebooks ready to download in several formats. Categories are Windows Server, Windows

Intel MinnowBoard Max at $99

Surprise surprise! Intel announced the new MinnowBoard Max BUT this time at a really nice price. From $199 down to just $99! This version has an Atom E3800 series and Intel HD400 vga. You can run Linux or Android 4.4 and 1gb of Ram should

Understanding delegates in C#

Best explanation I came across so far is this: General Scenario: When a head of state dies, the President of the United States typically does not have time to attend the funeral personally. Instead, he dispatches a delegate. Often this delegate is the Vice President, but

Arduboy, the interactive business card

A nice project from user Batseke showed up recently on the web. It looks like a miniature gameboy with dimensions of a bussiness card. It is powered  by an Atmel TQFP32 which has enough juice to let you play tetris or flappy bird in its Oled

Soundcard for RaspberryPi

Element 14 announced a Wolfson powered audio card for Raspberry Pi. Price is around 33$ and it can be connected to an amp over 3.5mm line-out or via the digital S/PDIF output. The resolution is 24-bit / 192KHz which is more than enough for most

40 Raspberry Pi cluster

A brilliant project from engineer David Guill. David wanted a cluster to work on distributed software so he designed and build his own supercomputer! Here are the specifications of the final system: 40 cores Broadcom BCM2835 @700 MHz 20 GB total distributed RAM 5 TB disk storage –

Mobile/Tablet Emulation in Chrome

The easiest way I found so far to do a quick check on how the website I am working on appears in some of the most popular mobile devices is through the latest versions of Google chrome. So just browse to your website and then

Ray Kurzweil Explains Singularity

In this short video Ray Kurzweil, the great mind behind Google Engineering team explains Singularity. Not an easy topic for sure! My small brain has trouble digesting theories, views and ideas like these. Have a look, it worths it: Raymond “Ray” Kurzweil born February 12,

SanDisk 128GB microSDXC card

SanDisk breaks the limit for one more time! They managed to squezee 128gb in a microSD card. 10 years ago the first microSD card had only 128mb and now it has 1000 times more! Innovation comes with a high price tag though so if you