September 2006 - Posts

Guns to save laptops?
25 September 06 05:25 PM | alexholy | 0 Comments   

Cryptography and security experts bruce Schneier dug up this little gem: Photographer Matt Brandon was posting a worried blog entry about the future outlook of transporting valuable goods in airplanes. Think expensive photo equipment or laptops. Being Read More...

Filed under: Security

Need more cool WPF demos...
25 September 06 04:00 PM | alexholy | 2 Comments   

Heard this a lot recently - in the meantime, ease the pain with Kevin's Bag-O-Tricks aka Kevin Moore's collection of WPF controls and samples . Kevin has updated his sample collection so it compiles and runs nicely under .NET Framework 3.0 RC1 (both on Read More...

Filed under: NetFx3, Windows Vista

Gadget Dept.: Smartphone keyboard made of cloth
14 September 06 06:37 PM | alexholy | 3 Comments   

I've seen flexible rubber USB keyboards before, but this is a true novelty: Based on a British technology called ElekTex fabric, finally we have the rollable keyboard, made of electroconductive cloth. It's wireless, it has drivers for Windows Mobile 2003 Read More...

Filed under: Gadgets, Windows Mobile

Vista RC1 + Office B2TR == Happiness
14 September 06 01:40 PM | alexholy | 0 Comments   

In case you have not seen Jensen Harris' announcement, you will be able to download Microsoft Office Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR) by the end of this day. Office B2TR is a huge improvement in terms speed and memory consumption. In fact, running on Windows Read More...

Filed under: Windows Vista

Updated ATI and NVidia drivers for Windows Vista RC1
06 September 06 09:35 AM | alexholy | 1 Comments   

Windows Vista RC1 comes with inbox support for those neat new graphics cards, but if you care for the very latest drivers or exended control panels, both big vendors have released new drivers: ATI: Catalyst Beta Driver for Windows Vista RC1 NVidia: ForceWare Read More...

Filed under: Windows Vista