BasisBit

I am born in Germany in 1993, my main hobby is developing software using C, C++, C#, ASP.Net, VB.Net, Java, PHP and a bit Perl. Projects I am working on are ExtHostBlocker for Windows, TweetMyPC, ReactOS, MySQL, a Skype-to-IRC bridge and a time-registration program for small businesses.

Homepage: http://basisbit.de


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Ted talk: Sheena Iyengar on the art of choosing

08/12/2010 - 5:53 AM

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About this Ted talk:
Sheena Iyengar studies how we make choices — and how we feel about the choices we make. At TEDGlobal, she talks about both trivial choices (Coke v. Pepsi) and profound ones, and shares her groundbreaking research that has uncovered some surprising attitudes about our decisions.
 
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Explained: Garbage Collection

07/22/2010 - 4:50 PM

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Garbage Collection is the concept of collecting useless “dereferenced” memory, and freeing it for re-use by the system. De-referenced resources are those objects that are no longer in use by the program but are still allocated for use by it.
Languages like C/C++ could allow programmers to directly interact and play with memory, a responsibility that [...]

Windows Intune – PC management in the Cloud!

07/21/2010 - 5:46 PM

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Windows Intune, in a nutshell, is a Web-based console where IT administrators can manage the deployment of Microsoft updates and service packs to all PCs, keep track of hardware and software inventory, fix PC issues remotely, manage protection from malware threats and set security policies. Windows Intune can be accessed anywhere an Internet connection is [...]

WPC 2010 Virtual Pressroom: Video Gallery

07/15/2010 - 10:31 AM

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Demo: The Personal Cloud
Corporate Vice President Brad Brooks shows off how Windows 7, Bing, Windows Live and other services connect to create a connected “personal cloud.”

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Have you made your decision to be a Mac or a PC?

05/31/2010 - 1:55 AM

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This is a video review of Mac versus Windows which shows both – the good and the bad – sides of PCs and Macs:

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Personally I made my decision to be a PC because I love to have control over every little part of the OS (using OpenBSD, Ubuntu Netbook Edition and various Windows).
What are you? (Mac, PC or both?) [...]

Update: Should colleges start giving Apple’s iPad to students?

05/22/2010 - 3:11 AM

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This morning I wrote about all the discussions to the question Should colleges start giving Apple’s iPad to students? 
But since this time there were many important news-releases surrounding the Apple iPad.
For example data now points that the iPad has become (or always was, given its short life thus far) so popular that it is on [...]

Should colleges start giving Apple’s iPad to students?

05/21/2010 - 1:54 AM

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The iPad has landed. But should campuses be throwing it a welcome party? A online search for “free iPad at college” shows that many are doing this now! Hundreds of educational institutions announced in the last weeks that they would be giving Apple’s new computing tablet to each new full-time student when they arrive on campus in the fall for free. [...]

New Hotmail design and impressive upgrades!

05/18/2010 - 7:31 PM

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It’s official! Microsoft have just announced that Hotmail is getting a new design and some impressive upgrades!
www.hotmailpreview.com
Wow! Go to the preview website, and also read the announcement, this is good stuff. Hurry up and launch the new Hotmail please! Best of all, Hotmail will now be fully integrated with SkyDrive! This will be really useful. Every [...]

Ted-Talk: The surprising science of motivation

05/08/2010 - 7:46 PM

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I just found this really interesting ted talk from Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation.
Here the description from http://ted.com/talks to the video:
Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don’t: Traditional rewards aren’t always as effective as we think. Listen for [...]

The Black Box Recorder

05/03/2010 - 12:20 AM

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Every developer wishes there was a way that an end-users could quickly and simply record a repro for the problem that they’re running into that is unique to their machine.
Here a little tool from Windows 7 comes to the rescue!

The in-built diagnostic tool ”Problem Steps Recorder” provides a simple screen capture tool that enables you to [...]

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