Illegal Sharing/Music Downloads

The BBC has an interesting article on how people who illegally share music files online are also big spenders on legal music downloads.

Migrating from ASP.NET 1.0/1.1 to ASP.NET 2.0

MSDN has created an upgrade center for people who are looking to migrate existing 1.x based ASP.NET applications to 2.0. The site features tutorials, videos, and white papers on migration as well as what’s new in ASP.NET 2.0

Altova releases XML engines to developers

Altova has announced that they are making the XML engines used in the XMLSpy, MapForce, and StyleVision available to developers to use to create custom applications.

The toolset, called AltovaXML contains an XML validating parser, XSLT 1.0 and 2.0 engines, and an XQuery engine.

Konfabulator

Looks like Yahoo have just bought Konfabulator, which means that Konfabulator 2.1 is now a free download!

What’s Konfabulator? Widgets for your desktop. Download it now and give it a whirl.

Already more than 1,000 widgets have been created by third party developers, and are available for download at www.widgetgallery.com

Google Maps API

I just came across Google Site Maps Mania – a good site to go through the different Google Maps API references.

It is also worth subscribing to the Google API discussion group if you need some assistance.

AJAX

I keep hearing about AJAX and really need to find some time to take a look at this “new” technology.

In the meantime, here are some AJAX API links that may prove useful:

Microsoft IXMLHTTPRequest Reference
Mozilla nsIXMLHttpRequest

Microsoft release Tablet PC education pack

The Microsoft Education Pack provides five free Tablet PC programs that are ideal for students, educators, and even those who’ve long since graduated.

The Education Pack includes:

Equation Writer
Recognizes handwritten math equations which you can paste into your homework, reports or presentations for a professional appearance.

GoBinder Lite
Helps you to keep track of your schedule–the Tablet way.

Hexic Deluxe Game for Tablet PC
Fun, Tablet-enabled puzzle game from MSN.

Ink Flash Cards
Ink Flash Cards is a terrific way to practice for exams or study facts. Handwrite a question on one side of a card and write your answer on the other side. Supports ink, photos, and text.

Print to OneNote 2003
Collect information in OneNote by printing web pages, homework assignments, and other pages to OneNote so that you can save them or annotate them. (Requires OneNote 2003)

OPML

Dave Winer released his OPML editor today.

Virtual Earth user API’s

To coincide with the release of MSN Virtual Earth, Microsoft have launched a sister site (Via Virtual Earth) that shows some of the developer API’s that have been built into the service.

Microsoft release Virtual Earth

In the World’s worst kept secret, Microsoft finally launched MSN Virtual Earth today.

I’m not sure how much data they actually have online (outside of the USA) at the moment – I certainly wasn’t able to hone in on anything in the UK.