One of the biggest arguments against Microsoft, .NET and C# (csharp) development is that it costs so much money. Buying Visual Studio can be very expensive. So, many anti-Microsoft developers plug their open source tools, stating that you can get these, download them, and develop for free. While this may be true, what many don’t tell you is that you CAN develop in C# and .Net using free tools.

Einstein was a genius, so was Beethoven. Every parent wishes their children have some genius in them. If nothing else to please themselves and get to do things they never could. Here is a clip of Daniel playing “Clocks from Coldplay. The thing is. He taught himself to do it.

Susan Boyle had a meltdown on Wednesday in the middle of a hotel lobby. Susan Boyle's cursing and four-letter word vocabulary shocked hundreds of guests. No longer Britain's Angel anymore. I wonder how this will affect the public's view of her when it comes time to vote in the finals of Britain’s Got Talent.

A Spanish great-grandmother who was probably the world's oldest blogger, has died at the age of 97. She became a web sensation as she blogged about current events and happenings of the past.

Maria Amelia Lopez died May 20 in her hometown of Muxia in Spain's northwest Galicia region. According to her blog Amis95.blogspot.com, No cause of death was given. I wonder how that happened. Oh well, maybe someone else took over her blog. Perhaps her son detailed her passing to her beloved fans. Lopez started blogging in 2006 after her grandson created the site as a present for her 95th birthday, Amis95.blogspot.com. The blog went on to attract a huge following, with more than 1.7 million hits. Lopez shared her thoughts on everything from life in Spain under the dictatorship of Gen. Francisco Franco to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, which she criticized. Her blogging fame earned her a meeting last year with Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero. Why am I sharing this story with you? For the simple reason to show you that you can never bee too old to start blogging, nor too young for that matter.  Many people have used their age as an excuse not to get into technology or the internet. With such upstarts and extremely popular social networking platforms and micro blogging platform as Facebook, Gatorpeeps and Twitter, there is ample opportunity to get involved. This story should serve as an encouragement to you. Blogging is about the stories you can tell. About your point of view, how you see the world. You would be surprised to see how many other people there are who are just like you. Interested in the same...

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Microsoft’s next generation music player, The Zune, will have a touch screen, Web browser and an HD Radio receiver.

The Zune HD, the new device from Microsoft, will also carry a high-definition video output that will let people play files through a docking station on HD televisions. The Zune's screen will use organic light-emitting diodes (LED’s). This technology will help improve battery life and image quality.

Zune HD is the next iteration of the Zune device family and brings a new level of listening and viewing experiences to the portable media player category.

Zune will be a premium partner in the Xbox LIVE Video Marketplace, bringing a catalogue of TV and film to the platform. The move will expose the Zune brand experience to millions of new consumers for the first time.

About Zune.

Zune HD comes with a built-in HD Radio receiver so users can listen to higher-quality sound than traditional radio on the go. Users also will have access to the additional song and artist data broadcast by HD Radio stations as well as additional channels from their favourite stations multicasting in HD. If you don’t like the song playing on your station’s HD channel, switch to its HD2 or HD3 channels for additional programming. The bright OLED touch screen interface allows users to flip through music, movies and other content with ease, and the 16:9 widescreen format display (480x272 resolution) offers a premium viewing experience on the go. The HD-compatible output lets Zune HD customers playback supported HD video files from the device through a premium high-definition multimedia interface (HDMI) audiovisual docking station (sold separately) direct to an...

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Welcome to the May 25, 2009 edition of "Web Developers". This Blog Carnival is for your enjoyment. Here you will find help from marketing to using Linq to SEO for Blogs, even the od gadget might take your fancy. Take a look and have fun

Scottish singing sensation Susan Boyle, who catapulted to stardom through YouTube video singing “I Dreamed A Dream" from the musical Les Miserables was voted through to the finals of Britain's Got Talent.

Oh how I hate Telkom! For the third time this month I have run out of bandwidth. My 3 gig cap was up before the middle of the month. Forcing me to buy more bandwidth three times before the end of the month. But wait you say, you still have 20gigs of local bandwidth. But that is not all fine and dandy as I soon found out.

Reading Emil's blog on Blogging just got dangerous just made stand in awe as to how many ridiculous governments are out there. As I commented on his blog, I noted that most of us bloggers would be dead by now if that law or similar was passed here in south africa.

So you think you can program. You believe that you can write code. Well the sad story is that many people can write code. That’s the easy part. Writing good code is difficult. Writing bug free code is nearly impossible on the first try. Any complex application is always going to have bugs. Being able to effectively trace, isolate and fix those bugs is what separates the men from the boys.