The quality and importance of the voluminous numbers of Hubble telescope images beamed to Earth by the Hubble telescope has changed the way that the universe is perceived and helped astronomers to a great extent in understanding how the universe was formed and how long ago. Read further  Hubble Telescope Image

Finalmente, foi liberada o primeiro download do novo pacote Live, conhecido como a Wave 3 (Terceira Onda). Nesse pacote surpreendente, além de belas novidades, muitos recursos que proporcionam ao usuário uma nova e rica experiência, seja offline, seja online, o pacote Live vai te surpreender.

O Windows Live Installer Wave 3 inclui: Windows Live Mail, Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Photo Gallery, Windows Live Writer, Windows Live Movie Maker, o Microsoft Office Outlook Connector e mais. Se você já possui esse pacote, o Installer vai apenas atualizá-lo para o layout e novas funcionalidades da Wave 3.

Entre as novidades estão o uso do ribbon no Movie Maker, corretor ortográfico em português no Windows Live Mail, e a inclusão do Outlook Connector e do próprio Movie Maker, mudanças significativas no layout de todos os aplicativos do pacote, uma nova dinâmica para o MSN, Writer mais organizado e mais integrado com a Live. Resumindo está tudo muito mais bonito, e mais funcional, de encher os olhos.

Então não fique aí parado e baixe agora mesmo!!!

Nas opções para download, você pode optar pelo pacote completo que já instala tudo, ou o pacote onde você escolhe quais aplicativos serão instalados ou atualizados. Fique a vontade.

Windows Live Movie Maker Wave 3 com o ribbon e Windows Live Mail Wave 3

Download Download Download Download Download Download Download Download Download

Windows Live Installer Wave 3 Beta* (Português | Brasil)

Windows Live Installer Wave 3 Beta Completo** (Português | Brasil)

Windows Live Installer Wave 3 Beta* (Inglês | EUA)

Windows Live Installer Wave 3 Beta Completo** (Inglês | EUA)

Os estudantes que cursam Ensino médio, Técnico ou Universidade e que sejam apaixonados por tecnologia podem se inscrever para um treinamento gratuito em desenvolvimento ou infra-estrutura, oferecido pela Microsoft com base em suas tecnologias e soluções.

O Students to Business, vai abranger 25 localidades em 15 estados do Brasil: Araraquara, Bauru, Belém, Belo Horizonte, Brasília, Campo Limpo Paulista, Curitiba, Fortaleza, Goiânia, Joinville, Manaus, Maringá, Olinda, Paraíba, Petrópolis, Porto Alegre, Recife, Ribeirão Preto, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, São José do Rio Preto, São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Sergipe e Vitória.

Infelizmente, Uberlândia está de fora, mas estamos trabalhando para que essa realidade mude, e logo!

Os interessados podem se inscrever pelo site até o dia 24 de setembro. Devido ao enorme sucesso da última edição, não há vaga para todos, então, haverá uma seleção com base no questionário com dados pessoais e profissionais para participar da primeira fase. O treinamento é dividido em três etapas e, quem passar por todas as fases, terá carga horária total de 84 horas.

Para ir aumentando as chances de passar da primeira etapa, o candidato pode começar a estudar o conteúdo que está disponível na página. Os cursos acontecem de manhã, à tarde e à noite, de acordo com a demanda dos estudantes e da disponibilidade de recurso de cada localidade.

Ao final do programa, ocorre uma “Feira de Empregos”, que facilita o contato entre empresas e os jovens que acabaram de receber o treinamento. Quem participa também podem divulgar seus currículos no portal da Microsoft.

Esse programa de treinamento começou no ano passado e, segundo a Microsoft, cerca de 3 mil estudantes completaram todas as etapas do treinamento e mais de 1.500 conseguiram empregos durante o Programa.

Você que mora numa das 15 localidades, Não perca tempo! Increva-se! O treinamento é totalmente de graça e dado pela Microsoft.

Students to Business
Treinamento em infra-estrutura ou desenvolvimento de sistemas
Inscrições: de 8 a 24 de setembro de 2008
Mais informações: www.centrodeinovacao.org.br

PS: QUEREMOS UM CENTRO DE INOVAÇÃO EM UBERLÂNDIA (MG).

SE VOCÊ TAMBÉM QUER, DEIXE SEU RECADO NOS COMENTÁRIOS.

The main WorldWide Telescope  interface  includes  seven  abs for navigating: Explore, Guided Tours, Search , Community,  Telescope,  View ,  and  Settings .  Some  of  the  tabs ,  such  as  Explore  and  Search ,include collapsible  submenus  with further options at the bottom of the interface. The bulk of the screen is devoted to displaying detailed images of objects throughout the universe.

Well, sort of. What I saw was an overview of what Microsoft is doing in the area of R&D-- research and development.
Microsoft is planning on sticking around for a while, and they understand that technology is innovation... not a stagnant build-it-once-sell-it-a-million-times type thing, like a paperclip.

This from their Website: "Microsoft Research is dedicated to conducting both basic and applied research in computer science and software engineering. Its goals are to enhance the user experience on computing devices, reduce the cost of writing and maintaining software, and invent novel computing technologies."

It was an interesting and informative event, and I want to take a minute and thank those folks involved.

* The keynote technology displayed was a program that is available now, and it is pretty amazing -- especially when one considers the amount of data that must be accessed -- it's a virtual picture of the universe. And the best part is, you can explore it.
Yes, you can fly to Mars... or Rigel.. or the crab nebula.. or the top of Mt. Rainier here on earth (Virtual Earth is one data source).

"A state-of-the-art combination of software and Web 2.0 services, WorldWide Telescope offers terabytes of high-resolution images, astronomical data, and guided tours that bring the universe to your fingertips." (again, from Website.)

This isn't just pictures folks, when you right-click on Mars (for example) and select Properties, you will be offered practically every known fact about Mars. This is an unparalleled learning tool!

The engine behind this is kind of hard to explain; maybe.. real-time, super-advanced PowerPoint? Infinite MSN Maps?
But I don't have to try to explain it. You can see it for yourself, and I highly suggest you do. Simply stunning.

To read more about the project, click here.
To download it for yourself, click here.

I found this clip which was a "sneak peak" presented by Roy Gould and Microsoft's Curtis Wong. It will give you some idea...

*Original posting May 23, 2008.

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Antes o espaço era algo impensável para meros mortais, e de certa forma ainda é, mas pelo menos é possível dar uma olhadinha nas estrelas sem gasta milhões de dólares. Software de astronomia desvendam estrelas, planetas e cometas no seu PC.

Hoje todos querem ganhar o céu, e este já não é mais o limite. Programas de observação estão em alta, e super aprimorados permitindo a qualquer pessoa interessada o acesso a images feitas diretamente de satélites.

Se você ainda não conhece nenhum desses software, baixe um e divirta-se observando planetas, estrelas, galáxias, etc. No mínimo é muito interessante. Cada ferramenta tem suas vantagens, então vai do gosto de cada um, escolher o que melhor lhe atende. Abaixo segue uma lista de 10 ferramentas para você levar o espaço até o seu computador. Na minha modesta opinião, os três melhors são: WorldWide Telescope, Google Earth, Stellarium.

EasySky
Software de astronomia com mapas estrelares, animações e impressões. Mostra o céu noturno com 340.000 estrelas e o sistema solar em 3D com planetas, asteróides e cometas.
Google Earth
O popular programa do Google que mostra mapas da Terra, agora também traz mapas estrelares. É possível explorar o céu, por galáxias, estrelas e planetas com imagens da NASA e do telescópio Hubble. Você pode procurar por constelações, conhecer o ciclo de vida de estrelas, fazer buscas múltiplas e salvar os resultados em pastas, além de dividir os lugares marcados com seus amigos.
Home Planet
Enciclopédia astronômica gratuita. Traz informações sobre mais de 2.000 corpos celestes, incluindo planetas, estrelas, meteoros, satélites e cometas. É possível acessar dados em tempo real, baseados em sua posição geográfica.
Planet Quest 4
Protetor de tela com simulações artísticas de como devem ser os planetas desconhecidos do homem. Em três dimensões, é possível navegar por nebulosas, galáxias, estrelas, sóis, cometas etc. Ele nunca repete uma cena (na versão paga) e economiza energia.
SkyMapPro
Mapas de estrelas e planetário. Pode exibir o céu visto de qualquer localidade da Terra desde 4000 AC até 8000 DC, mostrando o céu visível a olho nu ou detalhes vistos em telescópios. O SkyMap tem ainda ferramentas ajustadas para auxiliar na observação, planejamento e gravação de dados sobre as estrelas. O banco de dados conta com mais de 15.000 estrelas e 7.000 objetos.
SkysWallpapers
Coleção com 10 papéis de parede com imagens do céu, para variar as imagens tradicionais do Windows.
Stellarium
Aplicativo gratuito simula a abóbada celeste em tempo real. É possível observar estrelas, constelações e planetas em 3D no passado e futuro. O programa também mostra informações de todos os corpos celestes e dependendo do horário inicia com luz do dia ou da noite. Você pode marcar sua localização aproximada para ter o céu correspondente à visão real.
WinStars
Ferramenta mostra o aspecto do céu a partir de qualquer ponto da Terra, em qualquer época do ano. O programa dá informações detalhadas sobre todos os objetos que estão sendo mostrados na tela: a posição dos planetas, satélites, cometas e asteróides, o Sol, a Lua etc.
WorldWide Telescope
A Microsoft entrou na briga dos softs de exploração espacial e lançou o WorldWide. O programa funciona como um telescópio apontado para o céu e mostra o universo conhecido pelo homem (atual e passado). É possível viajar por planetas, estrelas e galáxias.

La scoperta è avvenuta tra l'altro grazie a (le stranezze della vita!) Microsoft. Ha infatti lanciato da poco un prodotto concorrente: WorldWide Telescope.

Come spiega Punto Informatico,

"la versione beta dell'applicazione desktop è già disponibile a questo indirizzo, e consente già da ora di addentrarsi tra galassie e pianeti grazie ai tour guidati disponibili. Inoltre anche gli utenti saranno in grado di personalizzare il proprio viaggio spaziale, realizzando percorsi come se si stesse realizzando una presentazione. Complessivamente l'utente potrà accedere a contenuti per un totale di 12 terabyte di dati, corrispondenti circa a 2,6 miliardi di pagine di testo"

Che dire: 2 ottime notizie!!

ps: per par condicio inserisco anche il video del prodotto di WorldWide Telescope:

Well, sort of. What I saw was an overview of what Microsoft is doing in the area of R&D-- research and development.
Microsoft is planning on sticking around for a while, and they understand that technology is innovation... not a stagnant build-it-once-sell-it-a-million-times type thing, like a paperclip.

This from their Website: "Microsoft Research is dedicated to conducting both basic and applied research in computer science and software engineering. Its goals are to enhance the user experience on computing devices, reduce the cost of writing and maintaining software, and invent novel computing technologies."

It was an interesting and informative event, and I want to take a minute and thank those folks involved.

* The keynote technology displayed was a program that is available now, and it is pretty amazing -- especially when one considers the amount of data that must be accessed -- it's a virtual picture of the universe. And the best part is, you can explore it.
Yes, you can fly to Mars... or Rigel.. or the crab nebula.. or the top of Mt. Rainier here on earth (Virtual Earth is one data source).

"A state-of-the-art combination of software and Web 2.0 services, WorldWide Telescope offers terabytes of high-resolution images, astronomical data, and guided tours that bring the universe to your fingertips." (again, from Website.)

This isn't just pictures folks, when you right-click on Mars (for example) and select Properties, you will be offered practically every known fact about Mars. This is an unparalleled learning tool!

The engine behind this is kind of hard to explain; maybe.. real-time, super-advanced PowerPoint? Infinite MSN Maps?
But I don't have to try to explain it. You can see it for yourself, and I highly suggest you do. Simply stunning.

To read more about the project, click here.
To download it for yourself, click here.

 I found this clip which was a "sneak peak" presented by Roy Gould and Microsoft's Curtis Wong. It will give you some idea...

Copyright 2007-8 © Tech Paul. All rights reserved. post to jaanix

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Also...pictures taken with a lens a tad stronger than mine.
http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/galaxy_collection/

See ya soon!

Lindsey

In afara volumului mare de date care permite explorari ale cosmosului cu un grad de interactivitate sporit, WorldWide Telescope ofera specialistilor si publicului larg posibilitatea de a face schimb de experienta prin aceeasi platforma de lucru. Astronomii amatori vor putea sa-si aduca contributia la cercetarea cosmosului, invatand totodata de la specialisti.

It's a deep space telescope delivered right to your computer.  The same images that NASA looks at.  You can navigate the universe just like you search for a Starbucks on google maps, only with cooler photos. Also, there are some interesting guided tours available. Installing the program is super simple, so don't let that stop you from exploring the heavens.

Nawet strona wygląda naprawdę ładnie.

Naprawdę polecam zainstalować. Więc do dzieła!

http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/

In our house THIS is about as fun as fun can be. As you can imagine, homeschooling astronomy geeks are sqeaking with glee. At least at my house. Not to mention how it gives the writers imagination a injection of Super Creativity Juice.

Worldwide Telescope

Stellarium

Where I will be buying most of the Christmas Presents for Hatchling #3

If none of that makes you lose hours of your day Kristen's Letter to her Cat cracked me up. Go say Hi!

Η δωρεάν διαδικτυακή υπηρεσία WorldWide Telescope που παρουσίασε η Microsoft επιτρέπει στο κοινό να εξερευνήσει γαλαξίες, άστρα, αστεροειδείς, μακρινά πλανητικά συστήματα και άλλους προορισμούς στο γνωστό σύμπαν. Διαθέτει ένα τεράστιο όγκο πληροφοριών, 2,6 δισεκατομμύρια σελίδες κειμένου και 12 Terabytes εικόνες, που προέρχονται από τα διαστημικά τηλεσκόπια Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope και Chandra X-Ray Observatory Center, το πρόγραμμα χαρτογράφησης του ουρανού Sloan Digital Sky Survey και από άλλες πηγές.

Μερικά από τα σύνθετα χαρακτηριστικά του WorldWide Telescope είναι η δυνατότητα θέασης των πλανητών σε θέσεις του παρελθόντος, του σήμερα αλλά και του μέλλοντος. Επίσης υπάρχει η επιλογή παρατήρησης του σύμπαντος μέσα από διαφορετικά μήκη κύματος του φωτός, ενώ μπορείτε να κάνετε zoom in και out. Έτσι, μπορείτε να δείτε μία X-ray άποψη του ουρανού, καθώς και τα απομεινάρια μίας supernova εκρήξεως που συνέβει πριν από μερικές χιλιάδες χρόνια.

Αν και το WorldWide Telescope φαίνεται να έχει καλύτερα γραφικά και animations και εξαιρετική ευκρίνεια εικόνας από το Google Sky, υστερεί στο γεγονός ότι, τουλάχιστον ακόμα, δεν επιτρέπει την χρήση layers ή την προσθήκη επιπλέον πληροφοριών, ένα χαρακτηριστικό που έχει κάνει αρκετά δημοφιλές και το Google Sky αλλά και το πιο κοντινό στην γήινη πραγματικότητα, Google Earth.

Εκτός από τις έτοιμες ξεναγήσεις, οι χρήστες μπορούν να σχεδιάζουν και να αποθηκεύουν τις δικές τους διαδρομές. Δοκιμάζοντας την υπηρεσία, θα έχετε την αίσθηση ότι παίζετε τελευταίας γενιάς video game. Μια αντίστοιχη υπηρεσία για εικονικές περιηγήσεις στο Διάστημα είναι το Google Sky, το οποίο τρέχει είτε μέσα από το Google Earth είτε από τη δική του ιστοσελίδα.

WorldWide Telescope > http://www.worldwidetelescope.org

Programmet kan lastes ned fra denne siden - lykke til!

Donc le dernier produit en date de la firme de Redmond est le WWT, soit le WorldWide Telescope.
Alors oui il existe déjà GoogleSky, mais là ou le logiciel de microsoft se démarque, c'est par la qualité de ses images, elles sont tout simplement sublimes et dépassant sans problème celles de google, et c'est vrai que je n'avais jamais vue de photo du ciel aussi belle. Le logiciel en étant connecté au net, fait pivoter en temps réel la carte.

De plus le logiciel possède des petits plus plutôt cool, des sortes de visites guidées, comme si on était dans un musée, cela dure en général entre 2 et 10min, moi j'ai complètement craqué sur c'est aspect là.

Que dire de plus, à oui, un truc hyper génial, il permet de connecter un télescope muni d'un moteur grâce à la connection ASCOM. et donc du coup, il suffit de chercher une image d'une étoile et le télescope va aller se caler dessus.

Par contre, le point noir est qu'il faut une bonne grosse connection au net et bon gros PC, car le logiciel prend pas mal de place, car il stocke toute les photos sur le disque dur pour un accès rapide, soit 1go pour l'install mini et jusqu'à 10go maxi si on laisse le logiciel télécharger toute les cartographie! Donc même avec ma config, le pc à du mal à suivre des fois.

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首先给我的感觉是对系统要求太高了。看看下面的：

For PC:

1. Microsoft® XP SP2 (minimum), Windows® Vista® (recommended)
2. PC with Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 2 gigahertz (GHz) or faster, recommended
3. 1 gigabyte (GB) of RAM; 2 GB RAM recommended
4. 3D accelerated card with 128 megabytes (MB) RAM; discrete graphics card with dedicated 256-MB VRAM recommended for higher performance
5. 1 GB of available hard disk space; 10 GB recommended for off-line features and higher performance browsing
6. XGA (1024 x 768) or higher resolution monitor
7. Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing and scrolling device
8. Microsoft® DirectX® version 9.0c and .NET Framework 2.0
9. Required for some features; Internet connection at 56 Kbps or higher through either an Internet service provider (ISP) or a network. Internet access might require a separate fee to an ISP; local or long-distance telephone charges might also apply

软件总体给人一种很舒服的感觉，你可以轻易的找到你像浏览的星球，如图火星。还可以用它浏览地球的数据，象Live Earth。用户可以制定自己的Tours，配以音乐等多媒体来动态展示天文信息。对于天文爱好者和用来培养孩子们的天文知识，是个不错的工具。我想微软肯定也会加入更多的功能，比如如何和live map结合等。

（不知道是什么原因，当我浏览星球的时候，图像总是晃动）更多的功能有待你自己去尝试。

URL: http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/

Microsoft’s WorldWide Telescope Released. May 12th, 2008

Any Star Wars , Star Trek fan ( like me :) ) knows that space travel is not always easy, but Microsoft wants to make traveling the 'final frontier' as simple as turning on your computer.

Joining Google Sky and Stellarium is Microsoft’s entrant to the stars, Worldwide Telescope. I’ve been playing around with it for about an hour and it’s pretty cool. It effectively turns every computer that downloads it into a mini-planetarium capable of displaying high resolution images of millions of stars, planets and other celestial.

First of all I was happy to see that Microsoft has came out of “ ~ ta's “ naming ( e.g. Vista, Lista, Volta ... that “ta” was getting on my nerves ), “Worldwide Telescope” is a bit old skool name, inspired from you know what ... I can live with this one.

OK, now Check it out if you’re an outer space dork — it includes a bunch of guided tours from astronomers. I liked the “many worlds” tour, which started with Mount St. Helen's ranges and then flew off to the rest of the planets in our solar system for some hot world-on-world action. A tour called “Dust and Us” walks through the dark regions in galaxies where stars and planets form.

The software allows users to develop their own guided tours  of the universe to share with others or take part a guided tour  created by astronomy experts.

The WorldWide Telescope stitches together 12 terabytes -  the data of pictures from sources including the Hubble Space  Telescope, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory Center and the  Spitzer Space Telescope.

The experience is similar to playing a video game, allowing users to pan, zoom in and out of galaxies that are thousands of light years away. It allows seamless viewing of far, far away star systems and rarely-seen space dust in breathtaking clarity.

I can use WorldWide Telescope for 4 different "looks" - Panorama, Sky, Earth, or Planets. Users can see the X-ray view of the sky, zoom into bright radiation clouds, and then cross-fade into the visible light view and discover the cloud remnants of a supernova explosion from a thousand years ago.

Other data sets include the ongoing Sloan Digital Sky Survey, also known as the Cosmic Genome Project, which aims to capture detailed optical images of more than a quarter of the night sky.
By default, WorldWide Telescope is configured to view the night sky as if you were standing at Microsoft Building 99 in Redmond. But you can change your Observing Location very easily via View options.

Experience WWT:

To use the new system, users need to download WorldWide Telescope from the web ( it's free ). It only runs on Windows operating systems ( M$ strikes back ! ... as usual )
The System Requirements does include 2GB of RAM , 3D accelerated card with 128 megabytes (MB) RAM; discrete graphics card with dedicated 256-MB VRAM, but i'm using it on my PC : Windows Vista, intel CTD 2.2 G Hz, 1 GB RAM, no graphics card, and it just works fine.

A test version is available for download at:  http://www.worldwidetelescope.org

P.S.  -  it’s interesting how the site is made using Adobe Flash and not Silverlight. ... yehh !!

Other options :

Google Sky, an add-on to Google Earth has been there for some time, but I found WorldWide Telescope's GUI, and overall experience better than Google sky.

Stellarium is a free open source tool that gives people a chance to access more than 210 million stars, in addition to planets and moons. The project was launched in 2001 and is used in many planetariums.
Like WorldWide Telescope the software allows users to record and play their own tours of the Universe. Stellarium is really good, and Microsoft must continue taking WorldWide Telescope to next levels to stay ahead.

Stellarium is just wonderful. Best of all is that it is not quite the memory and system resource hog that Starry Night Basic and Pro is ( it is one more option ). In fact, I have found that the latest versions of Starry Night often will not run on computers that are a few years old. It gives good view of what the sky would look like from pretty much anywhere on Earth at any time over a wide range of dates. If you want to know what stars and constellations are which, if you are an amateur planning an observing session, or you have any other need for a basic planetarium software, then this seems good.

Future From My View:

-    WorldWide Telescope is not bad, but it’s not great either. It would be better as an online app where people can share access to their telescopes. People with better telescopes with the servo system and the drivers and the right CCD. They could sell time on their equipment via the Internet or at least share it with some new Microsoft or Google services.. A virtual space marketplace. I would pay for something like that and so would a lot of people.

-    I see social network interaction potential in developing our own guided tours and sharing them. We can have forums facility bundled where people interested in common space topics can interact and share information through custom tours and traditional chat.

-    This software will be like having an important educational mission.

-    Microsoft will never learn it…
Under download for Mac: ‘Minimum Windows XP SP2 , Vista recommended …with BootCamp”
Guys a Mac running Windows IS NOT A MAC, it’s like a beautiful woman wearing a sack and led boots….
Anyhow, they don’t seem to get it that clinging to their old lady OS doesn’t fly anymore.

-    In the hollywood hills we only use telescopes to see into our neighbors houses. let me know when someone comes out with that one.  ;)

ranjit