CelestiaIf you like Google Earth, then you'll enjoy Celestia. Explore our sun and moon, the other planets and their moons, asteroids, neighboring solar systems, the Milky Way, and beyond. All from your desktop. An OpenGL app, runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
read more: Brand Designer Says Shopping Today Is Like Speed Dating with ProductsCo-host Brad Forsythe interviews Darrel Rhea, Principal/CEO of Cheskin. Darrel Rhea is a Principal and CEO of Cheskin and a passionate spokesperson for the design research industry. He has been a pioneer in incorporating market research into the brand design and product development process. Rhea is considered one of America’s leading strategic design consultants, having extensive experience managing industrial design, product development and innovation, graphic design, and brand identity creation. His qualifications for this commitment include a degree in design and psychology, many successful years in graphic design and entrepreneurial endeavors, and over 20 years with Cheskin. Rhea is a producer and leader of professional development seminars for senior executives in marketing management, market research, and corporate design management at leading corporations including Pepsi, Kraft USA, General Foods, General Mills, Clorox, 3M, Andersen Windows, Procter & Gamble, Pillsbury, Frito-Lay, AT&T, Motorola, HP and many others. He lectures regularly with industry organizations such as the American Marketing Association, the Design Management Institute, the Industrial Design Society of America, the American Institute of Architects and the Art Center College of Design.
For entertaining advice join hosts, Ray Schilens and Brad Forsythe, for a lively and informative discussion.
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read more: MSN Search now liveI have been using the MSN Search service in its beta form for several months. To be 100% honest here, I started using it primarily because I work for Microsoft, but I was also very curious to see how the MSN search folks were doing. I know some of the folks working on that team and they are really pushing the Windows platform hard to make this competitive.
It took me a while of switching back and forth between the MSN search beta and Google to prove to myself that I wasn’t wasting time using MSN search. I wasn’t. Here are my approximate, unscientific results: about 60% of the time I find what I am looking for on either site on the first page within three searches, about 20% of the time I find it faster on MSN and about 20% of the time I find it faster on Google. I also use the site tag (site:msdn.microsoft.com) on either search for MSDN specific searches.
So for now, I am 85% switched to search.msn.com and my theory here is that that they are still just learning how to make search work…so MSN should be better a bit faster rate, right? I still like the fact that it is easier to type “google” + Ctrl + Enter to get to Google (especially on other peoples machines), but now that the MSN search is the default on the “msn” + Ctrl + Enter… it is a wash.
I use them both a lot and can’t imagine trying to write code without them any more. So I am basically a convert and use http://search.msn.com most of the time.
So, without meaningless rants, what do you think is good and bad for developers about either MSN or Google search? What can we ask them do to make our lives better?
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