Google Beijing olumpic logos and the creator Sunday, Aug 17 2008 

Its always nice to see the search engine gaint comes up with new doodles on every special day in this world  . Google is not only famous for their search engine but also for their Google Doodles which are cartoon modifications of the Google logo to commemorate special holidays, birthdays of famous people, and major events like the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.This is the new way to cover the viewers by changing logo. Even if we forget to search the on going Olympic result yet the logo remind us to search the Olympic news because the styles of the logos have been designed simply attractive and enjoyable as the Olympic Games.

However, these logos do not make any different in us but it is sure that it will deprive some seconds of us. Although changing the logos doesn’t make any different for Google yet they are doing to attract the viewer and Olympic fan is a great job.

Who is behind all this ?


These logos are created by Dennis Hwang , a 29-year-old Korean computer artist in the United States, who has been drawing the face of Google for almost eight years, creating a buzz of sorts with his simple yet witty designs.
if you want to know more of him visit http://artkami.blogspot.com/2008/01/dennis-hwang-google-logo-designer.html

MFC Beta Now Available Saturday, Feb 9 2008 

MFC Beta Now Available

A beta version of a major MFC/TR1 feature pack is now available for download. Please note that this feature pack is only supported on systems which have the English language (ENU) version of Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite or Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition installed.

These components allow developers to create applications with the “look and feel” of the most popular Microsoft products – including Office, Internet Explorer, and Visual Studio.  With this update, you’ll be able to build applications that utilize:

·         Office Ribbon style interface

·         Office 2007, Office 2003 and Office XP look and feel

·         Modern Visual Studio-style docking toolbars and panes

·         Fully customizable toolbars and menus

·         A rich set of advanced GUI controls

·         Advanced MDI tabs and groups

·         And much more!

In addition, this release includes an implementation of TR1.  Portions of TR1 are scheduled for adoption in the upcoming C++0x standard as the first major addition to the ISO 2003 standard C++ library. Our implementation includes a number of important features such as:

·         Smart pointers

·         Regular expression parsing

·         New containers (tuple, array, unordered set, etc)

·         Sophisticated random number generators

·         Polymorphic function wrappers

·         Type traits

·         And more!

Please note that the beta installation may require Visual Studio 2008 media be available during setup.  This will be resolved in the final release.

Enjoy!

 

For more update refer : http://blogs.msdn.com/vcblog/archive/2008/01/07/mfc-beta-now-available.aspx