Saitek Cyborg Gaming Keyboard

Well over the weekend I was searching around for a new keyboard because I am afraid that my current keyboard might just decide to croak it rather soon. After all its survived roughly 5 years of my physical abuse. So I was browsing around and came across a beast of a keyboard called the Cyborg Keyboard.
Now it could be that this keyboard is nothing more than a load of rubbish and has too many unnecessary functions but for the uber elite among us this keyboard should be very tempting. It even has for the hardcore gamer, metal-plated key caps metal-plated key caps.
Also it has 12 programmable "cyborg" keys which would be extremely handy just for net surfing or for gaming as well. You can even change the back lighting colours, while this is really not amazing or needed it is none the less cool. Its even got a usb and audio jack.
So needless to say I was pretty impressed about this keyboard just because it looks like something out of Stargate or Starwars, but yet I'm not 100% sure I'd use most of the functions of this keyboard. Apparently some reviewers have had a hard time with the software that comes with the board. Also after all these years of having a corded keyboard it would be kind of nice to have a wireless keyboard which this board is not.

Check it out.
http://www.saitek.com/uk/prod/cykey.htm

MS Office Courses

Today I have started the MS office training courses.
So far I have done,
Office security basics
Work with the keyboard
Protect Word documents

D'Fusion.

AUGMENTED REALITY

D’FUSION® is a real time visual software which makes possible to create Augmented Reality Applications with standard PC receiving one or several video inputs, with high performance and high quality images.

D’FUSION®:

• works with HD
• works with one PC or several PC's on an ethernet network
• handles in real-time videos taken froms cameras standing still or moving/instrumented cameras
• handles in real-time animated virtual 3D objects either static or dynamic
• uses a brand new technology : Markerless Tracking

D’FUSION® is delivered with all the necessary tools for calibration, and for an immediate use of the technology.

This seems like a really awesome use of technology , The possibility's this technology that could be used for game play is pretty awesome to think.
I can imagine this being used to great extend for RPG's and FPS's. It would be great one day to actually being holding your weapon(s) and to be able to see the amount of destruction that you are causing on the screen in real time.
Alos the use that this techology has for other than games is pretty amazing, it was pretty cool to watch the presentor show us how this technology can be used for design purposess. I can invision in a few years seeing designers using this to easily design entire citys and maybe even iinterior deisgners too. Even at this stage i was pretty impressed with the ablity to see every event play out right infront off me, i think its due to the fact that everything looked like it was actaully happening even though it was just 3d video.

Vet IT laptops.

I have just finished setting up my Dell laptop. I didn't really have any major hassle , when it came to installing Windows XP, Firefox and the other applications, however it did take me some time to figure out how to install the wireless connection. Yet that was fixed easily and quickly when i realised that all i had to do was simply enable the connection using the functions keys.
We also had to set up some older compaq laptops, the one I had to set up worked fine as soon as i got it and the OS was installed drama free. The only thing I had to change to get the wireless connection working was to upgrade the serviece pack from SP 2 to SP 4.
So in conclusion, all the work on the laptops was completed without any drama or problems.

1st Vet IT blog.

Ok well i just finished setting up the Dell laptop. Nothing really too brain racking, had a stupid problem with the wireless connection but that was fixed with a simple strike of a function button.
So yeah the Dell now has ,Windows Xp, Firefox, Wireless and Open Office