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DOSBox Sees Continued Success 271

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday May 10, 2009 @11:55PM from the but-does-it-have-xp-mode dept.

KingofGnG writes "DOSBox, the emulator designed to run DOS games on modern operating systems (and not necessarily on a PC), has been chosen as project of the month for May on SourceForge. It's the latest award granted to a piece of software that 'simply does what it is supposed to do,' as the authors say. After having amassed more than 10 million downloads, it will soon be getting an update that's been awaited for almost two years."

Microsoft Tag, Smartphone-Scannable Barcodes 258

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday January 13, 2009 @06:30AM from the cue-cat-lives dept.

dhavleak writes "Microsoft Research has come up with Microsoft Tag: '...just aim your camera phone at a Tag and instantly access mobile content, videos, music, contact information, maps, social networks, promotions, and more. Nothing to type, no browsers to launch!' Device support is fairly extensive (iPhone, WinMo, BlackBerry and more), and tag scanning appears to work quickly and reliably from different distances and angles. Long Zheng has an overview on his site. The Tag is similar to a barcode, but has obvious visual differences — colored vs. black and white, and triangles vs. squares or lines. The technology looks interesting, but will it get the adoption necessary to be successful? What applications do you see for such technology?"

Comment Congrats (Score 1) 90

by joswald on Thursday May 13, 1999 @05:32PM (#1893031) Attached to: Slashdot's One Hundred Millionth Page

Kudos Rob, Hemos et al. Slashdot is my daily read, and I've also introduced a few paeople into it who, as I do, realise the value of this place. Here's to another 100 million more :> PS. Pity it had to be a Mac user.... JUST KIDDING.

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