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Great videos released by Christ Hammond for new DotNetNuke 6
By Salar Golestanian @ Sunday, July 24, 2011 :: 1:51 PM :: 79 Views :: 0 Comments :: Article Rating
Chris Hammond  released the following videos for DNN 6.  These are all relatively short videos, with the goal of them being under 10 minutes, one or two is slightly longer than that. They are all free to watch! Here’s a listing of those videos, and URLs to them in theDotNetNuke Video Library.
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Great videos released by Christ Hammond for new DotNetNuke 6
Great videos released by Christ Hammond for new DotNetNuke 6
By Salar Golestanian @ Sunday, July 24, 2011 :: 1:51 PM :: 74 Views :: 0 Comments :: Article Rating
Chris Hammond  released the following videos for DNN 6.  These are all relatively short videos, with the goal of them being under 10 minutes, one or two is slightly longer than that. They are all free to watch! Here’s a listing of those videos, and URLs to them in theDotNetNuke Video Library.
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Are we really safe using "Open Source Software"?
Are we really safe using "Open Source Software"?
By Salar Golestanian @ Tuesday, April 05, 2011 :: 10:19 PM :: 324 Views :: 0 Comments :: Article Rating
I am a little worried about some of the news coming out of Microsoft Related Court Rooms which is important to developers like us that work on Open Source Products like DotNetNuke, nopCommerce, Umbraco and others. According to this blog here, there are couple of disturbing signs that requires some attention.
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Snow Leopard vs Windows 7 – I will stick with Windows 7 for now!
Snow Leopard vs Windows 7 – I will stick with Windows 7 for now!
By Salar Golestanian @ Wednesday, March 09, 2011 :: 8:25 AM :: 411 Views :: 3 Comments :: Article Rating
Last week at Terminal 5 duty free shop on my way out to my Pondacherry office - I bought my older daughter the brand new PowerBook and I had a week to properly compare Mac OSX with Windows 7. I was going to write a long blog about my experience, However, because there are 100s of good blogs out there like this one which is well written, and detailed, so  will I just talk about my own point of view which is very short one so read on...
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Mac OSX Lion gets some of its features from iPad
Mac OSX Lion gets some of its features from iPad
By Salar Golestanian @ Thursday, February 24, 2011 :: 8:05 PM :: 390 Views :: 0 Comments :: Article Rating
As much as I am so unhappy with Apple beign so greedy recent weeks with the Apple Vs Publishers topic, yet I cannot stop admiring their consistency in looking out of the box. Today with the Announcement of Mac OSX lion, where for the first time instead a desktop OSX borrows ideas and functionalities from the new iPad and iOS like The new gestures, influenced by the iPhone and iPad, include rubber-band scrolling, which sees pages snap back like a rubber band, and double tap or pinch to zoom in and out.
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HTML5 for Developers
HTML5 for Developers
By Salar Golestanian @ Wednesday, February 23, 2011 :: 1:34 AM :: 416 Views :: 0 Comments :: Article Rating
This week I bought ordered my first HTML5 and I will talk about it when I have it in my hand next week. But here I have some of my findings freely available on the web on HTML5. This is a a language for structuring and presenting content for the Web and the latest revision of the HTML standard (originally created in 1990) and currently remains under development. Its core aims have been to improve the language with support for the latest tools and devices.
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Kinect for Windows. SDK confirmed for release this spring
Kinect for Windows. SDK confirmed for release this spring
By Salar Golestanian @ Tuesday, February 22, 2011 :: 4:35 PM :: 323 Views :: 0 Comments :: Article Rating
The latest craze among video gamers is Kinect where they navigate the rapids in a virtual world or to dance along with their amazing music. Perhaps soon to dance Salsa with their clocked dance partner. Today, Microsoft has made Xbox Kinect is a very serious business tool, vital to the future of Microsoft. Microsoft announced and confirmed today Kinect for Windows SDK this spring.
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Google Previews Its Tablet-Optimized Android 3.0 Honeycomb OS
Google Previews Its Tablet-Optimized Android 3.0 Honeycomb OS
By Salar Golestanian @ Wednesday, January 26, 2011 :: 11:54 PM :: 432 Views :: 0 Comments :: Article Rating
Google released Wednesday a platform preview for Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) and an updated set of SDK tools. Multiple tablet devices like the Motorola Xoom are on the way along with lots of others by the end of the year. But while the OS is almost done and Google’s apps third party developers still have to optimize their applications for these much bigger screens.
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Experience the planes of Magic: The Gathering – Tactics – For PC Release
Experience the planes of Magic: The Gathering – Tactics – For PC Release
By Salar Golestanian @ Wednesday, January 19, 2011 :: 1:06 PM :: 301 Views :: 0 Comments :: Article Rating
Magic the Gathering fans! Sony Online Entertainment LLC is scheduled to release Magic: The Gathering – Tactics™. The big news is the fact that Magic: The Gathering - Tactics will be able to run well on a medium level or higher gaming PC. Final specs coming soon. It also will be is free to download and play. Players will enhance their gameplay by purchasing digital booster packs that contain a mix of figures and spells that they can add to their spellbooks. Players will also be able to purchase additional campaign scenarios for more single-player fun.
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Machinima Expo: a two-day virtual film festival was “Close Up” by Rollo
Machinima Expo: a two-day virtual film festival was “Close Up” by Rollo
By Salar Golestanian @ Tuesday, December 28, 2010 :: 6:07 PM :: 282 Views :: 0 Comments :: Article Rating
In this year's MachinExpo 2010 took place in the Expo Hub and UWA theater. You can see the Films offline and on demand on the Vimeo channels. And the winner of December Muvizu/Expo Contest was “Close Up” by Rollo. This Blog is also shared at Scifiwood Portal Blogs.
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HTML5, is still experimental a little like perpetual beta version of Chrome
HTML5, is still experimental a little like perpetual beta version of Chrome
By Salar Golestanian @ Thursday, December 23, 2010 :: 12:47 AM :: 349 Views :: 0 Comments :: Article Rating
Today I had a customer that was complaining about lack of support for HTML5 in DNN. The question was completely alien to me as I could not understand the relevance of HTML5 with a Web Content Management System like DNN. I have always thought we can deliver some aspects of it so long the customer browser can manage to view it. So I thought I do some research and identify the part of the technologies around HTML5 that continue to develop, and finding a better way to distinguish the more experimental parts of HTML5 from the parts ready for use in mainstream Content Managed Sites.
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Improved Large Object Size limit in Amazon S3
Improved Large Object Size limit in Amazon S3
By Salar Golestanian @ Friday, December 17, 2010 :: 11:30 PM :: 285 Views :: 0 Comments :: Article Rating
Amazon Simple Storage Service, also known as Amazon S3 is an online storage facility. It is cheap, fast and easy to setup. And since it’s a service provided by e-commerce giant Amazon, you can be rest-assured whatever you stored at S3 is secured. Borrowed from Salar Golestanian Blogs.
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Improved Large Object Size limit in Amazon S3
By Salar Golestanian @ Friday, December 17, 2010 :: 10:41 PM :: 481 Views :: 0 Comments :: Article Rating
Amazon Simple Storage Service, also known as Amazon S3 is an online storage facility. It is cheap, fast and easy to setup. And since it’s a service provided by e-commerce giant Amazon, you can be rest-assured whatever you stored at S3 is secured.
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Software that can help Robots read will take them to a whole new level
Software that can help Robots read will take them to a whole new level
By Salar Golestanian @ Sunday, December 12, 2010 :: 11:39 AM :: 229 Views :: 0 Comments :: Article Rating
It is one of the biggest challenges in Robotics to allow them to interact with their surrounding without the aid of voice or clear pre written set of instructions. So when I heard that there have been some recent advances in this subject so I thought I do some specific searches and compile an up-to-date state of art on this matter. These are sourced from the original Salar Golestanian Blogs.
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Software that can help Robots read will take them to a whole new level
By Salar Golestanian @ Saturday, December 11, 2010 :: 4:16 PM :: 441 Views :: 0 Comments :: Article Rating
It is one of the biggest challenges in Robotics to allow them to interact with their surrounding without the aid of voice or clear pre written set of instructions. So when I heard that there have been some recent advances in this subject so I thought I do some specific searches and compile an up-to-date state of art on this matter.
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How to Second Life on your iPad or iPhone
How to Second Life on your iPad or iPhone
By Salar Golestanian @ Friday, December 03, 2010 :: 5:33 PM :: 477 Views :: 0 Comments :: Article Rating
I am afraid this is a cheat since I have not developed an application to allow you to view SecondLife directly on iPad or iPhone. I am talking about my favourite remote access programme on my iPad the “SplashTop” and how I use it to remote control my Home/Office Windows Home Server or any other pc/laptop at your home and Second Life as if the Tablet is running the app in iOS4.2. Original post at Salar Golestanian Blogs
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nopCommerce is a good Open Source E-commerce solution on Microsoft .NET platform
nopCommerce is a good Open Source E-commerce solution on Microsoft .NET platform
By Salar Golestanian @ Wednesday, December 01, 2010 :: 10:44 AM :: 332 Views :: 0 Comments :: Article Rating
A few months ago we looked for an Ecommerce Web Application with small footprint. For years we have been using DotNetNuke together with Catalook to achieve this for our customers, and very successfully too. However, some of our customer’s don’t need the Advanced CMS aspects’ of DNN that is very capable and we love it. Original post at Salar Golestanian Blogs
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