Windows 8 Consumer Preview (Beta)

The Beta is coming... are you ready for the download?

Download links:

• 8250.0.WINMAIN_WIN8BETA.120217-1520_X64FRE_CLIENT_EN-US-HB1_CCPA_X64FRE_EN-US_DV5.ISO
• 8250.0.WINMAIN_WIN8BETA.120217-1520_X86FRE_CLIENT_EN-US-HB1_CCPA_X86FRE_EN-US_DV5.ISO

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http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/iso  << Download your ISO

! ! ! PS: the serial-key explanation is in the download page

Get started:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/get-started?page=vid2

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"Live" event here: http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/29/live-from-microsofts-windows-8-press-event-at-mobile-world-cong/

Other things about Windows 8:

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=28970&WT.mc_id=rss_windows_allproducts

http://it.bing.com/?win8start=1

Oh! The Consumer Preview, the Consumer Preview!!!:
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/5ibf-LKOVItuLFO5RzruHdMTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0
Of Windows 98 :D

Notificationsss

Some comments from a tech-blog:

 
I use both iOS and Android and I really don’t think the notifications experience is better on iOS than on Android..

    
Apple’s implementation is not as good as Android’s. Tell me one thing it does better than Android’s. One.

 
You won’t find one (against ICS).

Dat answer:

   
The ability to view notification center within a full screen app.

And I agree. Can't be that Android-ICS developers have not thought about that and iOS 5 was shipped with a better "Notifications"  feature.

So...

Time for a new OS war!

Apple shows the first screens of its new OS called "Mountain Lion" (feline names are finished :P ) and Microsoft will releases soon (29 February) the Consumer Preview (Beta) of Windows 8.

Improvements, new features and so much on.

It gets interesting.

Family Guy Online: an online game with Peter and Co.

Uhm... interesting.
The game is in BETA, but you can register your account.

http://www.familyguyonline.com

The video trailer:

Web trend map

I know you like maps
I know you like web
I know you like trends.

Enjoy this:

Click to enlarge

Kodak's failure...

A prestigious brand is giving us the farewell ...
This is the price you pay if you can not innovate.


News via MailOnline

Kodak, Kodak, Kodak... I have these (from my basement):

OS trends

I found this interesting website for analyze the trend and the share of the most important operating systems:

http://marketshare.hitslink.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=11&qpcustomb=0

in which Windows Vista and Xp  give way to Windows Seven.


There is the mobile OS chart too:

http://marketshare.hitslink.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=9&qpcustomb=1

and more...

MegaUpload: goodbye sweet prince

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16642369

Goodbye Internet Explorer 6 :-)

Check the situation with this website:

http://www.ie6countdown.com/

Minecraft update: 1.1 version

There is the 1.1 upgrade for Minecraft

Oooook.

Are you Rorscharch?

Are you a fan of Rorschach?
No, not this guy:

Hermann Rorschach looks like Brad Pitt

and no, not his test.
I'm talking about this Rorschach

Ok, you are a fan and the Halloween is coming (yeah, just 10 months), so... there is a website that sells his mask in 5 different versions with the motion blur of ink.

RorschachMasks.com

Do you want your personal Steve Jobs?

Buy this action-figure for only 100€ dollars from the In Icons website

http://inicons.com/order.html

Obviously Apple’s lawyers are attempting to stop the sale of this product, they say:

"...is too similar to Steve Jobs: he is dressed in black, has smooth shoulders.
If you want to sell your product you need to put his mouth anywhere else, making it more cumbersome and change color..."
I'm just kidding (only in the quote :P)

Top & Flop of 2011

About tech, games and other things.


Top:
- Android mobile OS: downloads from the market and impressive number of activations, ICS (Android 4) is released
- Apple Iphone 4S: despite a few news and the same design, has sold a lot
- Tablets, tablets everywhere, Kindle gold year too


Flop:
- Samsung and Apple patents war: Apple is ruining its name with its patents troll war
- Apple MacOsx Lion: good sales, but a lot of bugs, many users complained
- Nintendo 3DS: nobody gives a sh** about this (no games)
- Sony was hacked a lot of times, stolen user data
- Duke Nukem 3D: after years proves a disappointment
- 3D Tv: who bought them?
- Google with Google Plus (can't beat Facebook) and Google Wave (it's closing)
- Chromebooks: google laptops that cost as a normal laptop but only work online

In the middle (can't say if is a top or a flop, next year maybe):
- Metro interface on Windows 8: we see only the Developer Preview so we can't say anything (waiting for Beta)


I forgot something?

North Korea : No comment

Twilight:breaking dawn - another time

I saw only 30 mins of the first Twilight... guess why.
Yeah, I started to view the movie only for fun. It's the truth!!
But it's on cinemas the new episode!!! WOAA!!!
I don't give a fuc|<

A quick roll of Twilight funny images, et voilà:

American Censorship Day: Nov 16, 2011

<<On 11/16, Congress holds hearings on the first American Internet censorship system.

This bill can pass. If it does the Internet and free speech will never be the same.

Join all of us on the 16th to stop this bill.>>

http://americancensorship.org/

1000

1000 posts in this blog... 

So... a random roulette of images... click >>>

Lucca Comics and Games 2011 - Italy

Every year in the city of Lucca (Italy) there is this event about games, comics, cosplay etc...

Some photos (from my mobile phone):

Tons of One Piece gadgets...

Open this post for more...

10 years of windows xp

Happy birthday Windows Xp...

 Windows XP was released for retail sale on October 25, 2001

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Xp

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/products/windows-xp

C you in the programmers heaven...

Who is Ritchie?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie