Here are some magnificent wallpapers from the Artist ShinyBinary. Nik Ainley is a digital illustrator based in the UK. He has been producing personal and commissioned illustrations for a wide array of clients for over ten years.  Lately you’ll find the ShinyBinary artwork work almost everywhere in the internet. He has worked for design inspirations and websites like PSDTUTS, Computer Arts, DigitalArtsOnline and Desktopography.

According to his autobiography he is a self-taught artist, and his interest in  digital art came late, in fact it occurred  while studying physic sat Imperial College in London. However, his interest in art came much earlier than that. But as he pursued his studies he quickly found his interest in producing graphics on computer outgrowing that of his studies. After completing his degree he moved full time into design and illustration and has been there every since, and became the artist ShinyBinary.

Mystic

Nik Ainly is constantly trying to expand his range of abilities and is he is alway looking to learning new software or techniques that will expand his artistic talent. He works in both 2D and 3D software to produce his images and enjoys the results that combining the two can achieve. His website, Shinybinary.com, was first launched in 2004 and has since attracted over five million visitors. He is represented in the UK by the Central Illustration Agency and sells high quality art prints with ClickforArt.

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The gallery has these art objects: Alienation, AthenaRedux,Dance of the Orchid, Dream Machine, Fluid, Imagine, Julia, Keep It Together, Mystic, Only this and Nothing More, Oracle, Origins, Plunge, Spawn, Strange, Swarm, The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

The art stands out because he takes ordinary objects and amplifies them or introduces different concepts and intermingles them with an ordinary object. The result is often a startling look at the object but it is enchanting. His art appears in multiple sites some that are listed above and below. In any event, the present gallery here show just some of the art.

Enjoy.

To download the ShinyBinary gallery click the the follow link:

The Art from ShinyBinary

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Source:  ShinyBinary , ArtBoom, Behance

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Can the next economic bubble already be taking place under our noses? I’m talking about the Cloud Technology bubble. The Azure Cloud is Microsoft’s latest operation at making data available to companies all over the world, regardless of their location.

Microsoft has been working hard on making the Azure Cloud one of the standards in the Cloud technology industry. Over the past several months I have written about the companies that have moved to the Cloud or about some of the technologies that make Cloud operations possible. Here is a summary of some of those posts. They show how much effort is taking place to make the Azure Cloud the standard for data support and analysis.

Is there a technology bubble on the way? Well you judge. Here are some expected growth statistics for this system.

This next figure shows what forcasts are in place for this year. Growth is expected.

The next posts show how far Microsoft has come in pushing business operations to the cloud.

Microsoft’s Cloud Assessment Tool

Summary: Use this 4 step assessment tool, to see how your IT conditions are ready for Cloud operations.

Microsoft Cloud Certifications

Summary: A new Microsoft Certification is available for IT professionals in the Azure Cloud operations.

How Companies use the Microsoft Azure Cloud to be more Productive

Summary:Various companies use the Cloud to improve the deployment of products, control costs, and improve their IT infrastructure.

3 Examples of Company Growth by using Azure Cloud Services 

 Summary: 3 companies improved their market share, and reduced costs by moving to the Azure Cloud.

Live@edu…The Azure Cloud for Education

Summary: Live@edu offers educational institutions the opportunity to provide cloud services to their students…One more way of making Cloud operations real by giving users real experience before they enter the employment market.

Microsoft Launches the Azure Cloud Trust Center

Summary: The Trust Center is a way for enterprises to search for information about the qualityof service provided by the Azure Cloud. It works with the Cloud Security Alliance.

Legacy Systems and Spending on New Technology-A Microsoft Advantage

Summary: Over a trillion dollars of legacy systems exist and are supported by companies…but IT growth can make advances in that area.

 A New Approach to Data Center Operations – the Furnace

Summary: How Microsoft is using new technologies on the Data Center.

Two New Microsoft Azure Data Centers are Online

Summary: Microsoft adds two new Azure Data Centers to its Cloud space. There are now eight world wide.

Cloud Computing’s Impact on Business – Some Findings and Statistics 

Summary: There is a lot of growth expected over the next few years toward the Cloud. Here are some statistics.

Microsoft adds Hadoop for Large Data Processing

Summary: If you are an open source user of database structures, you are probably familiar with Hadoop. That is the Azure Cloud database framework that scales huge datasets over multiple clusters, distributed under the Apache v2 open source license.

The Movideo Move to Microsoft’s Azure Cloud

Summary: Microsoft’s continues to make headway in attracting customers and partners to the Azure Cloud. The latest is Movideo an online video platform, with a focus on delivering business outcomes through an end-to-end video solution

Azure Cloud

Cloud Technology…Is it the Next Technology Bubble?

Summary: Microsoft commissioned IDC to analyze the impact that Cloud technology will have on jobs and economies.  The figure below shows that job growth will reach a high level in three more years. But more than that this says something about the economies that will be created.

Azure and Office 365 for Government Operations

Summary: While Microsoft has recently cut prices on Windows Azure Storage, Microsoft also intends to add a government Cloud offering to its Office 365 line-up of services.

Microsoft Cuts Pricing on Windows Azure Storage and the Small Compute System

Summary: A month ago, Microsoft announced that it was lowering the price of SQL Azure and introducing a 100MB database option.

Active Directory on the Cloud?

Summary: Active Directory on the Cloud? Yep. That is Microsoft’s new move to make Cloud services more secure.  

Microsoft’s New Cloud Promotional Offer

Summary: Microsoft’s push to getting more companies onto the Cloud met with another success. Techstars Cloud, and Microsoft announced an agreement whereby new entrepreneurial companies would be participating in Cloud operations.

Underwriters Laboratory is now using Office 365 Cloud services

Summary: How important is the Azure Cloud for business? For Underwriters Laboratory, the answer is very. They have begun deploying Microsoft Office 365,

 Linux on the Microsoft Azure Cloud

Summary: Linux may not be dead after all. Microsoft is looking for software engineers to make Linux available on Azure, Microsoft Cloud system.

Azure Cloud Commercial Services

More Companies Enter Azure – Office 365

Summary: Office 365 continues to grow in business circles. According to Microsoft over 90 percent of their Office 365 customers have less than 50 employees.

Will Azure Cloud Services be Microsoft’s New OS?

Summary: Microsoft makes the most popular OS in the world. That’s been true for over 30 years. But could it be that their best new market is the Cloud?

Linux and Azure Cloud Operations

Summary: Linux users will have something to cheer about vis-à-vis Microsoft Cloud. While Microsoft has been pushing many changes to its software and Cloud operations, it has not done much, if anything, about Linux.

Azure Cloud Services Updated

Summary: Microsoft Updates to Azure Cloud Services were released on December 12. Azure is the Cloud service available to anyone or company that wants to move some operations to the Internet.

Viewing these posts should give you an idea of how widespread the Azure Cloud system is and how much it has grown.

See: Microsoft Azure and download the software…3 month free trial.

Windows Launches Windows Azure

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Hunger Games, the Movie, is slated for release on March 23. In a typical situation advertisers go all out in the first week to make their movie known to the public, where after that, the advertisement is word of mouth. If people like it they say so, and if they don’t they say that also.

But advertisement has been tricky for various reasons; cost for one, and then also the type of advertisement on display is another. On computer systems, most commercial advertisement has come with the use of Adobe Flash. Now Microsoft is making a change with HTML5.  In a collaboration, Microsoft and Lionsgate are hoping to lead the industry down a new path. They’re partnering on a site that uses HTML5 and other web standards, without plugins, to create an environment for Hunger Games .

Hunger Games in the Control Room

The HTML5 based site shows a fluid design, which is functional in a variety of browsers (I looked at it in Firefox) , but Microsoft says IE9 offers a better experience because of the work the company has done in the browser to use a computer’s hardware to make visuals on screen more dynamic.

Hunger Games

The Hunger Games site presents some hidden features for fans of the novel to discover as they wait for the movie. It also uses HTML video in unique ways, skewing the video to fit the circle of screens in the Control Room for example.

IE9 and MarketShare

Microsoft hopes to use the Hunger Games experience to convince users to go back to Internet Explorer. This is due to the fact that other browsers have taken a bite out of the market that Microsoft once held in the 90% range. Not so now. It is more in the 60% range, and dropping.

But the new HTML5 experience should point out to users that the browser is presenting new features that other browsers aren’t capturing yet.

Source: Geek Wire

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At the Microsoft Careers on line Job site, Microsoft has release some specifications about Windows 8.

” Are you passionate about software performance? Are you excited by the potential to have a positive impact on hundreds of millions of users, by improving their Windows experience? The Windows Fundamentals Performance Test Team is look for a software design engineer who can help us do just that – make future releases of Windows faster, smaller, and more responsive than Windows 7. OS Fundamentals, and specifically performance were a major area of focus during Windows 7 and will be just as important if not more so, during the development of the next version(s).“

So how does this pan out? If you are a developer, and you are looking at OS development, your focus would be to change and improve Windows 7 to create a new operating system, Windows8. The next question is more interesting, how do you make Windows 8 faster and smaller and more responsive?

Given that the technologies that are under development and have been available to Microsoft, such as 128 bit processors with 6,8,12 or even 48 cores, the operating system will look very different if it is trying to work with these features. There are other technologies, for instance Solid State Drives will be replacing the traditional rotating head hard disk drives. Another technology is the light  (photon) based circuitry that will replace traditional wiring.

Touch and voice technology which came of age in Windows 7 will be in Windows8, and it will be interesting to see what the development will look like.

Embedded Systems, which need a stripped down version of the full operating system could benefit  from the new more compact Windows8 version.

For more information about some of these technologies see:

Solid State Drives A Quick Review

LightFleet Delivers a Light Based Server to Microsoft

Webkit2 for Multiple Cores Architecture

Windows7 Component Embedded System

See Source: Microsoft Careers Global for the full job description.

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One of the problems with talking about a future operating system is 1) the little news that comes out of Microsoft about it, but 2) it is hard to speculate two years out about technology that might change considerably between now and then. So  we are left with rumor and wish lists and the like. Unless some company actually says something worth noting. In this case, Intel has announced that USB 3.0 will be an embedded product within the Windows 8 Operating System.

What is USB 3.0?

The original specification USB was released by a combination of manufacturers in 1996. These included, Intel, Compaq, Microsoft, Sony, Digital Equipment Corporation, IBM, and Northern Telecom.

On September 18, 2007, at the Intel Developer Forum a demonstration of USB 3.0 was presented. Two months later the USB 3.0 Promoter Group announced that the specifications for version 3.0 were complete and was ready for the USB Implementers Forum, the managing body of USB specifications to decimate the specifications and monitor implementation.

A new feature is the bus, which provides a fourth transfer mode at 4.8 Gbit/s. This gives is a “Superspeed.” With the raw throughput at 4 Gbit/s, and the new specifications, it is possible to achieve a speed of 3.2 Gbit/s, which translates to 0.4 GByte/s or 400 MByte/s or more after protocol overhead.

USB 2.0 maxes out at 480 MBits/s. USB 3.0 is expected to max out at 5 Gbits/s. This dramatic performance improvement over version 2.0, makes it more desirable. However, these new data transfer rates while attainable by the USB hardware, my not be easy to implement.

The USB 3.0 Icon

Current Timeline of Release

Consumer products are expected to become available sometime in 2010. With commercial controllers are expected to enter into volume production by April 2010.

In September 24, 2009 Freecom announced a USB 3.0 external hard drive.
Following that on October 27, 2009 Gigabyte Technology announced new P55 chipsets motherboards for computers that included an onboard USB 3.0.

On January 6th, 2010 ASUS release a USB 3.0-certified motherboard. . They had to comply with spesifications approved by the USB Implementors Forum to ensure compatibility between motherboards and peripherals.

Windows 7 and Linux

Drivers are under development for Windows 7, but initial support was not included with the initial release of the operating system. But on the other hand, the Linux kernel has supported USB 3.0 since version 2.6.31. That version was released in September 2009. This means that for the time being one complete system for end-to-end testing and development for USB3 is now available on the market.

USB 3.0 Super Speed Certified

Intel and AMD

Intel will not support USB 3.0 until next year, 2011. This will undoubtedly have the effect ofl slowing down mainstream adoption. These delays are related to problems in the CMOS manufacturing process.

AMD indicates that the new southbridges released in the beginning of 2010 will not support USB 3.0. Some market research from In-Stat predicts the relevant market share of USB 3.0 not begin to take hold until 2011.

Windows 8

At the CeBIT Global Conference in Hannover, Germany, Intel Manager Steve Peterson, attending said that USB 3.0 would become mainstream with the implementation of the next iteration of the Windows client operating system, Windows8. Intel is working with Microsoft to make sure that the hardware will work with Windows 8. It will fully support USB 3.0 Windows 8 integration. Although products featuring the USB3.0 technology have been release after the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the current expectations for USB 3.0 are that only high-end PCs will feature USB 3.0, as a general rule.

Intel expects Windows8 and the continuing evolution of computers to make USB 3.0 readily available. But, Intel, however, is not optimistic when it relates to the mainstream adoption of the technology. Apparently the technical details and specification to overcome are still problematic.

Source:  Intel Intel and USB

Intel to Support Windows8 and USB 3.0

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