Yizhe Online Tablet

DeepZoom on PhotoZoom: http://photozoom.mslivelabs.com

Dan Waters (http://blogs.msdn.com/dawate) posted a good video series on how to develop robotics code. Check out this blog post:

http://blogs.msdn.com/dawate/archive/2007/12/14/robotics-and-net-fundamentals-series.aspx

Here is a brief index of the content. Enjoy and comment!

1. Introduction
2. Getting Started
   • Setting up the Create
   • Serial port communication in VC# Express
   • Teaching the robot to sing
3. More on serial port stuff
   • Setting up and utilizing Bluetooth
   • Driving the robot in a square
4. Intro to VPL and MS Robotics Studio
   • Learning how to drive the robot via a dialog box
   • See how you can use VPL to create a program without writing any code whatsoever
5. Introducing Autonomous Behavior
   • Using the iRobot Create's sensors and a flow diagram to back up when an obstacle is encountered
   • Conclusion to the series

You can now download and test out the WorldWide Telescope project: http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/experienceIt/ExperienceIt.aspx?exp=true

News: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/cna/cgi-bin/search/search_7days.pl?status=&search=microsoft&id=346873

I attended the Futsal charity event on Saturday where Microsoft Singapore raised near to half a million dollars for SPD.

More pictures here: http://yizhe.com/futsal/

Cool video demonstration of HTC products. Check out the new features:

http://msmobiles.com/news.php/7343.html

There's this cool site that allows you to create your own font online and when you are done, you can download it to your machine and use it.

http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/

Interesting read: http://encosia.com/2008/04/16/why-do-aspnet-ajax-p...

For those who have seen the Hard Rock Memorabilia site which utilize Deep Zoom, you can now create your own Deep Zoom site with the updated Deep Zoom Composer.

http://memorabilia.hardrock.com/

 Download the Deep Zoom Composer

While doing a search today, I realize the interface of live search has changed! Change your localization to English-US or English-UK and you should be able to see the new changes.

(http://www.live.com)

Another cool WPF application that helps you build better presentations! (It's still in public beta now)

(Download: http://www.erain.com/products/standout/publicbeta/Download.asp)

WeatherBug FX

Weather in Singapore is super warm these days... want to check out the latest temperature on WeatherBug? They have a WPF version of a weather report client that can be downloaded for free:

(Download directly: http://weather.weatherbug.com/weatherbugfx/index.htm)

Start making your first silverlight game with 0 lines of code! All this is possible through the use of Popfly Game Creator: http://www.popfly.com/gamecreator/Default.aspx

Video introduction: http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=401969 on Channel9.

I'm looking for students in Singapore who fits the following requirement to work in the Microsoft Innovation Center.

1. Student from Polytechnic (Year 2 and above) or University in Singapore

2. Doing a computing related diploma/degree

3. Have a good project idea in mind that could benefit the general population in Singapore

4. Self-motivated and ability to think out of the box

5. Have a burning passion in technology - most important

Logistic Requirement:

1. Able to commit full time for 3-6 months

2. Has to seek school support/approval

3. Able to start before June 2008

To apply, send me a short profile of yourself along with your project ideas. It is important to ensure that you project can benefit not only to yourself or a particular organization, but also to the general population in Singapore. It can be a totally new idea or it can be an improvement over an existing solution.

Do contact me at i-yishen@microsoft.com for more information.