Beijing to become world's largest Wi-Fi city

Beijing is to become the world's largest Wi-Fi city by 2011, according to reports.

Residents of the Chinese capital will have access to free Wi-Fi in both the main city areas and the surrounding districts.

The news was announced at the Wireless City Summit 2008, where Zhang Yu, Deputy Director of Beijing's Information Technology Office, revealed his Wi-Fi plans.

Beijing's central business district was initially equipped for this year's Beijing Olympics, but a poor signal meant that many could not log on.

Free Wi-Fi

The city does currently have a generous amount of free Wi-Fi spots, with one of Beijing's top universities, Tsinghua university, playing host to 500 hotspots.

Pilot schemes in the districts of Xuanwu, Chongwen, Chaoyang, Shijingshan, Daxing and Pinggu are already in place, but this will be extended by 2011 to cover the whole of Beijing.

Source : techradar.com

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Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 for Windows 7

Moving forward with the evolution of the Business Desktop Deployment, Microsoft is now cooking the next iteration of what is at the present the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit.

Moreover, according to the Redmond company, the next version of the MDT solution accelerator is almost ready to be made available for download.

Having gone from Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) 2007 to the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2008, the software giant is now readying the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010. According to Microsoft, the solution accelerator will be tailored to the next releases of the Windows client and Server operating systems.

“The latest version of the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, MDT 2010, is currently being developed. This new version, which is due to be released shortly after the Windows 7 release, will offer: support for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2; deployment Workbench and script architecture improvements; documentation improvements,” revealed a member of the MDT team.

Up to this point in time, the software giant did not indicate in any way the deadline for the delivery of Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010. However, in early December, the company pointed out that MDT 2010 Beta would start being distributed in the coming weeks. For the time being Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2008 Update 1 is available as a free download, and is designed to support the deployment of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 3.

“Please sign up for at the Connect website to be notified as soon as it is available, if you haven’t already done so. To sign up, follow these simple steps: access Microsoft Connect; sign on using any valid Live ID; from the Connection Directory, find the 'Solution Accelerators' connection; apply for the 'Microsoft Deployment Toolkit;' program. Approval is automatic,” the MDT team member added.

Download:
Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2008 4.2 Update 1 - x86
Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2008 4.2 Update 1 - x64

source: softpedia.com

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Time magazine's Top 10 Video Games of 2008: GTA4, LBP, GoW2, etc.

With 2008 drawing to a close, it's that time of the year when publications roll out their very own "Top of 2008" lists. Their "Top 10 Video Games of 2008" list is online, and these are the winners:

• Grand Theft Auto IV (PS3, 360, PC)
• Braid (XBLA)
• LittleBigPlanet (PS3)
• Rock Band 2 (PS3, 360)
• Gears of War 2 (360)
• Dead Space (PS3, 360, PC)
• Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (PS3, PS2, PSP, Xbox 360, Wii, DS, mobile)
• Hunted Forever (Flash)
• Fieldrunners (iPhone)
• Spore (PC, Mac, DS)

Of course, Time isn't primarily a video game publication, and some of you may think that that may throw off some of its credentials in creating a list. And to think, this list was generated by Lev Grossman, the same guy who said, back in 2006, that the PS3 was "not worth the hype."
Nevertheless, it's nice to see a PS3-exclusive (LBP) up there though, as well as a 360-exclusive (GoW2) title too. If you remember, GoW also made it to their 2006 Top 10 list.
Other big titles like MGS4, Fable 2, or Brawl aren't though. And speaking of Brawl, there's not a single Wii-exclusive in the list, despite the domination of Wii titles on the charts for the past few months.
And then there are the handhelds. Or the lack in representation thereof. There aren't any titles for the DS or PSP, unless you count Spore's DS spinoff and the multiplatform Force Unleashed. Which doesn't mean the handheld market is barred from the list. Fieldrunners for the iPhone is in it. Uh-oh, are critics' claims proven true?

Source : wii.qj.net

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Download Windows 7 Pre-Beta Build 6956 Setup Installation DVD ISO Image (Torrent)

Afraid to tryout Windows 7 build 6956, which rumored and speculated to be the beta version, or at least functional close to the final beta (or beta1) that will be released early 2009, due to cumbersome installation process using the leaked 6956 version VHD image? Now there is no more headache, and the unofficial Windows 7 build 6956 setup installation ISO image, which can be burned to DVD has been composed and created, and released for free download via BitTorrent.

The developers in China has managed to install Windows 7 build 6956, clean the extra user accounts, run the Sysprep utility to generalize, clean and re-initialize the system to factory state, and then uses ImageX to capture and create Windows image (.wim file format) consisting of only Windows 7 build 6956 installation files under WinPE environment. Then, the created install.wim file is used to replace and overwrite the same file in Windows 7 build 6801 installation DVD image (the latest build which has setup DVD image leaks).

Download: Iso Image

More: mydigitallife.info

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Download ASP.NET MVC XForm

ASP.NET MVC XForms is a simple, strongly-typed, extensible UI framework based on the W3C XForms spec. It provides a base set of form controls that allow updating of any complex model object, even complex nested lists. It uses clean, semantic HTML and a fluent, lamba-based API.

XForms spec: "The group element is used as a container for defining a hierarchy of form controls. Groups can be nested to create complex hierarchies."

This means that Group essentially gives you a "context" to work from. An example could be an address of a person:

<% form.Group(p => p.Address).Template(address => { %>
	<%= address.Input(a => a.Address1).Label("Address") %>
	<%= address.Input(a => a.Address2).Label("") %>
	<%= address.Select1(a => Country, ViewData.Model.Countries, c => c.ID,

c => c.Name) %>
<% }); %>

Which would generate the following HTML:

<div id="Address" class="xf group">
	<div class="xf input text">
		<label for="Address_Address1">Address</label>
		<input id="Address_Address1" type="text" value="" 

name="Address_Address1"/>
	</div>
	<div class="xf input text">
		<input id="Address_Address2" type="text" value="" 

name="Address_Address2"/>
	</div>
	<div class="xf select1">
		<label for="Address_Country_ID">Country</label>
		<select id="Address_Country_ID" name="Address_Country_ID">
			<option value="1" selected="selected">UK</option>
			<option value="2">USA</option>
			<option value="3">France</option>
			<option value="4">Italy</option>
		</select>
	</div>
</div>

Download : codeplex.com

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AMD LIVE! Explorer

The new AMD LIVE!™ Explorer provides an immersive way of managing and interacting with your entertainment library. Explore your complete digital collections of music, photos, and videos in a single window, in full 3D.

The AMD LIVE! Explorer is available for free with the purchase of a new AMD LIVE! PC. The AMD LIVE! Explorer runs best on the AMD Phenom™ 9000 Series quad–core processor.

Browse your photo and music collections in 3D

Peruse your video library in full-motion 3D

Watch your favorite TV show* while you surf the Web in the unique AMD LIVE! Explorer window

At home, the AMD LIVE!™ brand represents a suite of products, software, and services that offer a simple and secure way to access, manage and share entertainment experiences virtually anytime, anywhere.

Download : AMD LIVE! Eplorer (5.34MB)

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Detours 2.1 is now available

Innovative systems research hinges on the ability to easily instrument and extend existing operating system and application functionality. With access to appropriate source code, it is often trivial to insert new instrumentation or extensions by rebuilding the OS or application. However, in today's world systems researchers seldom have access to all relevant source code.

Detours is a library for instrumenting arbitrary Win32 functions on x86, x64, and IA64 machines. Detours intercepts Win32 functions by re-writing the in-memory code for target functions. The Detours package also contains utilities to attach arbitrary DLLs and data segments (called payloads) to any Win32 binary.

Detours preserves the un-instrumented target function (callable through a trampoline) as a subroutine for use by the instrumentation. Our trampoline design enables a large class of innovative extensions to existing binary software.

We have used Detours to create an automatic distributed partitioning system, to instrument and analyze the DCOM protocol stack, and to create a thunking layer for a COM-based OS API. Detours is used widely within Microsoft and within the industry.

Detours 2.1 includes the following new features:

• Complete documentation of the Detours API.
• Transactional model for attaching and detaching detours.
• Support for updating peer threads when attaching or detaching detours.
• Unification of dynamic and static detours into a single API.
• Support for detection of detoured processes.
• Significant robustness improvements in APIs that start a process with a DLL containing detour functions.
• New APIs to copy payloads into target processes.
• Support for 64-bit code on x64 and IA64 processors (available in Professional edition only).
• Supports building detours with Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio .NET 2003, Visual Studio .NET (VC8), and Visual Studio (VC7).

Download Detours Express 2.1!

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