Tripp Parks's WebLog

It's pretty well known that Yahoo! bought Konfabulator a few weeks ago and that they released Konfabulator for free. I held off posting because it didn't work on on the Windows XP x64 release(which I use exclusively). Recently they updated to version...

I'll post more about the API's later From MSDN: Peer-to-Peer Windows Vista provides capabilities for discovering and communicating between applications without the need for centralized servers. The peer-to-peer capabilities of Windows Vista give...

What makes a good news source? For me, it consists of the following Non editorializing Thank you very much I'll form my own opinion. The source of the news has to be non biased as well. Do you think a security researcher that found an issue and...

Microsoft analyst wins bad-writing award Congradulations to Dan McKay for winning the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest! .

One of my favorite things to do after a release is watch the public reaction to the product. Regardless if its the enthusiast crowd , the non-enthusiasts , the "respectable" mainstream press , or the tabloid press its always interesting to hear what they...

You can catch the video on Channel 9 .

A pretty interesting show has premiered on the Discovery Channel called Dirty Jobs . Hosted by Mike Rowe . Unique name huh?

As promised, some beta 1 ship party pictures are here

It's party time here on campus! Announcement Screenshots! Maybe I'll post some pictures of the party later.

If you register for the PDC by July 30, you save 15% ($300). See you there!

News flash! Mapping service is not realtime! Our tech news tabloid friends( The Register , Slashdot ) have drank a bit too much of the paranoia juice(as normal). Congrads on the MSN Virtual Earth shipping a cool product!

Drool I've been tracking the release of this phone for a long time and I need it to satisfy my geek lust. Motorola, Feel free to let me test this for you!!

This was floating around the company recently. It worked, and we got chocolate!

Part of the team that Collaboration Technologies works for has a team blog located here . Hopefully this will be of interest to networking programmers.

Now that Longhorn has been given a real name Microsoft Windows Vista (isn't that a mouthful) it is time to let the world (or at least official beta testers ;) ) play with it. While beta 1 is not feature complete (it does not contain all of the features...

At least it doesnt have X in its name:) http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_1861734355/vista.html mental picture: a mental picture covering a wide range of objects or a long succession of events in the past or future

Tomorrow, at 6 am PDT , the following Web link will go live with new information. I can’t tell you what we will actually be sharing, but you will learn something new about "Longhorn" J . http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/jul05/07-22LHMA...

If you haven't already seen/beaten it, the x64 version of FarCry was released by AMD .

I just beat Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil . If you liked the origional , you will like the expansion. I actually enjoyed the expansion more, because the use of the PDA is primarily limited to the reading of email, and not listening to audio logs. Highly...

My friend John Miller in Microsoft Research just got the project he works on " Avalanche " posted on Slashdot and The Register, (The National Enquirer and the Weekly World News of the technology world respectively) Avalance is a pretty cool Peer...

I saw this over on Robert Burke's weblog. Microsoft has released a powertoy that allows for raw image support in Windows for the following cameras: - Canon EOS 1D - Canon EOS 1Ds - Canon EOS 1D Mark II - Canon...

One of the games I recently purchased decided it didn’t want me to run on my spiffy new x64 install. Being the resourceful person that I am, I decided to see if I could work around this little restriction. After trying the normal compatibility workarounds...

It seems Scoble and Joel (of Joel on software fame) are having a tiff. An amusing read .

Here is a helpful hint for those running x64 on some laptop models If you try to use headphones and the onboard speakers don’t mute, you can turn them off by going to the audio mixer (run->sndvol32, or double clicking on the speaker) Options...

Being the hardware junkie that I am, one of the neat things about my job is the hardware I get to play with. On the Windows development side of things pretty much everyone has multiple machines. They are used for various tasks such as: ...