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Windows 7 family pack (3 copies of home premium) + free Cisco Valet wireless router $149 +tax from Microsoft store. Found this on slickdeals.net, so I wanted to share with everyone, http://store.microsoft.com/FPCisco-offer
It’s been a few years now that Apple Keynote has taken over as my presentation software of choice. Now the bar is being raised where it might also be my wireframing tool of choice.
Enter Keynotopia a place where you can buy very affordable Keynote templates (or stencils in OmniGraffle) for wireframing an array of apps and devices.
Since Keynote is a presentation tool you can create links to other pages of the document.
This will be tested the next time we do wireframes!
Also check out this post by Amir Khella the founder, where he talks about how he launched Keynotopia.
Just stumbled across this thing through a friend’s link the other day, and I can’t wait to start playing around with it..It is from a company called Emotiv, and is:
“a high resolution, neuro-signal acquisition and processing wireless neuroheadset. It uses a set of sensors to tune into electric signals produced by the brain to detect player thoughts, feelings and expressions and connects wirelessly to most PCs.” (from here).
Emotiv Brain Computer Interface Technology
There are even Tetris-like games that you can play with this device, like Cortex Arcade (shown below) and Spirit Mountain Demo Game.
Cortex Arcade
It seems like it seem to work for some people better than others. There is a YouTube video (shown below) that shows someone unpacking it from the box and trying it out with the supplied demo software. Their results are a bit fuzzy as to how well it works for them, however.
Maybe the console-makers will incorporate this into their next-gen systems? It seems that Nintendo might already be planning to go down this route..Other companies, such as Canadian Interaxon are actively working to integrate thought-controlled computing into real-world scenarios, like recently at the Vancouver Winter Olympics where visitors were able to use their brainwaves to control live lightshows.
Ran into this for C# development on slickdeals.net and figured I should post to share the wealth :
http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?threadid=2291335
Stackoverflow.com has a list that covers various languages and topics in development, check this one out too:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/194812/list-of-freely-available-programming-books
If you have any you use, please share with us and I’ll add to this list.
Last week was a busy one but awesome nonetheless. Monday myself and the team attended the Princeton Chamber of Commerce 
Culinary Trade Show at the Westin Hotel at Princeton. It was a great introduction to many of local businesses in Princeton. At the event we were able to have great face time with other businesses in the Princeton area. You never know who you will meet at those types of events. Oh and the food was awesome too as there was a spotlight on local Princeton restaurants. I took many opportunities, to visit many of the booths with sample dishes…delicious.
Congratulations again go out to the winners of our Wine Raffle, Debra Richlin from Bristol-Myers Squibb, Copley Szostak from Present Company, Barbara Aldrich from Long & Foster Real Estate, Inc. and Scott N. Schneider from Firmenich.
Wednesday, I met up with Jay MacLean from the MacLean Agency. Jay and I had a great conversation about our respective businesses. I find it therapeutic to talk to fellow business colleagues and owners about the challenges, hurdles, and successes faced daily. The MacLean Agency is a family owned business with a 44 year history of doing business in the arenas of Insurance and Financial services in the Princeton area. There is something to say about longevity. I wanted to thank Jay for giving me some great insight and I look forward to continuing to our conversations in the future.
In LW Wii Bowling news, the battle of two titans…Christine (No Pin Left Behind) Robinson vs. Derrick (All Strikes) Larane produced two miraculous unheard of ties. Yes two ties!!!
LW Wii Bowling
LW Wii Bowling
David Spira and Tracy Severino were on a selling Local Wisdom spree last week. By weeks-end, there were total of 5 sales meetings completed. I love the sales energy coming out of the shop. If you have a website or online interactive need or know someone who does please contact sales@localwisdom.com or give us a call at 609.269.2320. Have a referral for us? Check out our referral program.
So what’s in store for week 40. More networking, selling, designing, programming, curating websites, and of course continuing to be a Premier Website Design Agency in Central Jersey.
Till next week.
Finally we found a developer tool for Oracle that works right within Visual Studio, we have yet to install but it looks like it will eliminate the need for the 2 other tools we use to manage Oracle and our data.
To see the source, click here
Here’s the highlights:
For those of you who know me and my DJing past, this will be no surprise. As I was going browsing through the app store I came across Baby Scratch.
It’s basically a turntable with a break beat and sound effects record playing. You can fluidly scratch the record. You can add a beat in the background so you can scratch over it. You can also record your own voice and scratch that. Best of all the app is f-r to the double e (free).
I’ve had the itch to scratch for a long time so I pulled out the iPad and put the app to work. Unfortunately, you can’t scratch your own songs. This is where Flair Scratch comes in.
Flair is a similar app made by the same company. This time you can pick songs from you iPod library to scratch as well as play in the background. Flair is for the OS4. Flare Scratch is $4.99 in the app store.
I wouldn’t DJ a party with these, but it’s a fun time waster!
