Camera Labs Assignment: vote for your favourite!

It's the first day of a new month which means a new Assignment in the Camera Labs forums. The theme as suggested by the winner of April's Assignment, JC, is 'Power of Light'. To enter, visit the June Assignment Submissions page. This also means submissions for last month's Assignment are now closed so you can vote for your favourite entry of ChaplainBlake's 'Reflection' theme. So to vote, head on over to our May Assignment Submissions. Read More

Nintendo says Wii successor in development

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PicStop now stock Hama Defender Range of bags

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Engadget HD on Vampire Energy - don't shoot the plasma

July 31, 2008 Yesterday we showed you GOOD Magazine's data on Vampire Energy, but Ben Drawbaugh from Engadget HD didn't like the look of it. Using a Kill A Watt, he measured the standby draw of a 60-inch Pioneer Kuro plasma to be 20 Watts - that's an annual cost of $20 (based on a price of $0.11 per kilowatt-hour) - far from the $159 figure that GOOD Magazine claimed...

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Emailing from a Web Page

Imports System.Net.Mail

'Create an instance of the MailMessage class

Dim objMM As New MailMessage()

Dim Requestor_DropDownList As DropDownList

Dim IssueID_Label As Label

With Issue_FormView   Requestor_DropDownList = .FindControl(

"RequestedBy_DropDownList")

   IssueID_Label = .FindControl("JobID_Label")

End With

'Set the properties

objMM.To.Add(Requestor_DropDownList.SelectedValue + "@telecom.co.nz")

objMM.From = New MailAddress("est@telecom.co.nz")

'Send the email in html format

objMM.IsBodyHtml = True

'Set the priority - options are High, Low, and Normal

objMM.Priority = MailPriority.Normal

'Set the subject

objMM.Subject = "Feedback"

'Set the body

Dim sb As New StringBuildersb.AppendLine("Kiaora " + Requestor_DropDownList.SelectedItem.Text)

sb.AppendLine()

sb.AppendLine("Your EST Issue is about to be closed.")sb.AppendLine(

"Please take 5 minutes to rate the service you have received the the Enterprise Service Team.")sb.AppendLine("Click into this link: http://wstProdIIS/EST/register/Issue.aspx?ID=" + IssueID_Label.Text)

objMM.Body = sb.ToString

'Now, to send the message, use the Send method of the SmtpClient class

Dim objSC = New SmtpClient

objSC.Host = "WNEXBE01.telecom.tcnz.net"

objSC.Send(objMM)

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