For a limited time we're offering Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 to university students for the ridiculously low price of $75 outright or $25 for a one year license. Check out itsnotcheating.com.au How awesome is that!!!! -mk

Just came across Mike Harsh's very cool WPF/E Pad . It's a split view, XAML on the bottom and the rendered result on the top. An awesome tool to help you better understand XAML and to test your own. Ohh, and did I mention it's written largely in XAML...

Frank has been blogging about Tim Sneath's series on Great WPF Applications. Check em all out here . I'm gradually getting through them. There is one that has got my attention (read blowing me away). The German based Otto online shopping app ( direct...

My buddy Shane has put together a briefing event entitled The Age of User Experience. First stop Canberra on Feb 28 - Registration here . From the man himself : "Break down boundaries between creative vision and reality. Build bridges between...

Some of the crew behind the hugely successful Stirr event from a few months ago are organising the first Sydney BarCamp . And this one is shaping up to even bigger and better. From the barcampsydney.org : The first BarCamp is being held in Australia this...

Heaps of talk lately about localised mapping on mobile devices. Thought I'd issue a friendly reminder that we've had a mobile mapping offering for some time. Late last year Gizmodo previewed Windows Live Search for Mobile which runs on smart phones (ie...

Frank posted about it yesterday. I had a chance to play with it today and it's definitely worth checking out. Wikipedia Explorer is beautiful graphical view of Wikipedia which runs as a rich desktop app and is built WPF. Ohh, and did I mention that it...

Remember the ultra successful Mix 06 , the designer, developer and decision maker conference from last year? We'll registrations are open for this years Mix 07 event in Vegas. Details over at the MIX 07 website . Shane , Scott and I will be there...