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Greenfoot 1.5.6 (Mac)

An integrated development environment that makes it easy to write games and simulations in the Java Programming Language. It comes with a broad range of demo scenarios and documentation that gets newcomers started very quickly. Greenfoot may be used to learn or teach programming, or just to put a cool...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, University Of Kent, Games, Development Tools, Personal Technology, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2009-10-19

BlueJ 2.5.3 (Mac)

BlueJ is an integrated Java development environment developed specifically for introductory programming learning and teaching. It is ideal for small-scale development. BlueJ offers a very easy-to-use and highly interactive interface that allows the interactive creation and invocation of objects.

Tags: Invocation, Apple Macintosh, Java Development, University Of Kent, BlueJ, Java, Java Development Tools, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Development Tools

Software downloads 2009-10-08

Will Windows Vista live to die another day?

After spending most of the morning on the phone to a number of UK universities (due to the time difference, many US universities were still sleeping), the general consensus is that Windows 7, when released, will not be the first upgrade they roll out to their networks. ...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Operating System, University, Microsoft Windows Vista, University Of Kent, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-05-12

What Possible Computer Disasters Can Be Associated With "Cloud Computing"?

"Cloud computing" is a difficult term to explain to most; even to technologists and IT professionals, the concept of computing in the cloud is a wide, generic term for many specific areas within online environment. The "Cloud" is defined as the Internet surrounding every part of the daily lives, similar...

Tags: Computer, Cloud, University Of Kent, Cloud Computing

White papers 2008-11-20

Blocking System Calls in KRoC/Linux

This paper describes an extension to Kent Retargetable occam Compiler KRoC, which enables the execution of a blocking call, without blocking the occam-kernel. Blocking calls are implemented using Linux clones which communicate using shared memory, and synchronise using kernel level semaphores. However, this mechanism is not limited to blocking in...

Tags: Multiprocessor, University Of Kent, Linux, Processors, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

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Additional Resources

Are legacy game consoles making a comeback?

Are legacy game consoles making a comeback?what about 8 and 16 bit...I had the same fuzzy feeling when I played some nintendo, super nintendo and genesis emulators a few years back. I was almost as good at Punch Out and Mario Bros as I was when I was a...

Tags: Games, Classic Game, game, NES, psychology, console

Discussion threads 2009-07-09

Are legacy game consoles making a comeback?

I am not a gamer. I don't spend hours of my time in front of a computer screen playing games because quite simply, I don't have the time. That is until this summer when I moved into my new house, everyone else buggered off back to their respective homes around...

Tags: Console, Game Console, Games, Personal Technology, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-07-09

Hands on with Outlook Live: universities choose Microsoft over Google

Universities are increasingly moving away from in-house email and communications systems, and moving towards externally hosted systems. While that may have sounded like utter garbage and geek speak, it means universities can't afford or cope with their own email systems, so they're letting Microsoft and Google do it for them...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Corp., E-mail, Online Communications, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-06-26

Recession, depression, and a graduate job market drought

Summer is fast approaching and job vacancies are being snapped up faster than a fat person snapping up cake in a bakery. Undergraduates like me, but unlike me as you will see, are struggling to make it through the term through the lack of work and employment opportunities on the...

Tags: Human Resources, Industry Connection, Job, Management, Recession, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Technology Industry, Workforce Management, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-06-02

Femtocells: your very own home cell network

Besides the "femtocell" sounding like a robotic sex toy or an individually wrapped feminine hygiene product, in technological terms it is a router-like device which converts a portion of your broadband bandwidth to provide you with a compact cell network in your house. The concept is a...

Tags: Phone, Router, Network, Broadband, Network Technology, Routers & Switches, Telecom & Utilities, Networking, Telecommunications, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-05-17

Will Windows Vista live to die another day?

Will Windows Vista live to die another day?Honestly...who really cares about Vista, the lamentable agglomeration of software junk?Vista has been a great OS.However if Windows 7 is right around the corner and one doesn't absolutely need to buy new systems then my recommendation would be to wait for Windows 7.This...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7

Discussion threads 2009-05-12

Student bloggers open transparency to Imperial

Students from a wide variety of subjects and cultures have enabled Imperial College London to break down the barriers of insular university life to the wider public and prospective students, in form of a series of regularly updated blogs hosted on the site. From masters students to...

Tags: Student, Blog, Blogger, Blogging, Internet, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-04-07

Is Google slowly alienating the Microsoft cloud market?

Both Queensland University for Technology QUT and Ohio State University OSU have now signed up to Live@edu, Microsoft's online cloud suite designed for students, including Hotmail, SkyDrive and Workspaces. Over 100,000 students from these two universities are now using Live@edu, after extensive testing resulted...

Tags: Google Inc., Student, Microsoft Corp., E-mail, E-mail Providers, Public Relations, Online Communications, Internet, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-03-17

Should universities forget email and use Facebook instead?

Neilsen Online has just released a report stating that amongst other things such as search engine usage, social networking is more popular than email. Considering email is one of the main ways students hear about things from the student unions and university, is email becoming a thing of the past?...

Tags: Facebook, Neilsen Online, E-mail, Online Communications, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-03-09

Social silly season

Social silly seasonit's the audience, sillyI was at an event last week with over a 100 CIOs and I was getting agitated because the wi-fi was intermittent. Most of the audience did not seem to care. they were raptly focused on the speakers (which I appreciated when it came my...

Tags: Twitter, silly season, social media

Discussion threads 2009-02-17

University students sends city of Canterbury to the dial-up age

With three universities, two colleges and multiple schools all arriving back at their desks at the same point in time, especially the migration of students flocking back to the city, has left my home, the historic city of Canterbury, with crawling broadband speeds. I don't often write...

Tags: Network, Student, Broadband, University Student, Canterbury, UKC, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Telecom & Utilities, Networking, Internet, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-01-22

Windows 7: search your university library from your desktop

Federated Search, from a developers perspective, is like the search bar in Firefox and IE7. For the end user, and in this case, the student, it allows you to browse a search engine directly from your desktop, in Windows Search. So instead of searching "Everywhere" or "Indexed Locations", why not...

Tags: Desktop, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Domain Names, XML, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-01-17

Outsourcing email, opening communications

OK, Christmas is over so put down the mince pie, fatty. It's time to get down to business, and this time I'm throwing myself in at the deep-end, in the salt-water connected to battery mains, swamped with sharks with lasers on their heads. At university, email can...

Tags: MSN Hotmail, Google Gmail, Mobile, Outsourcing, University Email, Google Gmail Gmail, Gmail Service, E-mail, E-mail Providers, Online Communications, Internet, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-01-05

Journalism vs. blogging: the present and the future

With the rise of online media, from YouTube to Facebook, WordPress to the New York Times, journalism has expanded over the course of the last decade into a new era. "Journalism" may not be guaranteed work all of the time, but it is most certainly in my eyes one of...

Tags: Journalist, Journalism, Microblogging, Blogging, Internet, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-01-02

Is It Time to Bench Your Anti-Spam Solution?

The attendee of this webcast will learn how to address the threats facing the school and easily lower the Total Cost of Ownership TCO of the email security solution. The attende will see why schools such as City University of New York, Kent State, Oakland Unified School District, Prince William...

Tags: Anti-spam, Proofpoint Inc., Roi/Tco, Spam, Cyberthreats, E-mail, Viruses And Worms, Security, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Spam And Phishing, Online Communications

Webcasts 2009-01-01