June 2009 - Posts
After the Amplify09 expo I thought I would take the Augmented Reality (with Twitter, Live Mesh and Multi Touch) pictures and add them as a mosaic. This article made it all sound very easy, Deep Zoom from experience would create a good experience
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Great article in the Sydney Morning Herald this morning by Avril Henry . Essentially it played to my recent management studies - her general comments were that as companies become cost focused, the impact of people is felt as they trend towards 1950’s
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Today I have been having fun with the HP IQ528 – thanks HP! We are planning to use at the Amplify09 event this Friday. I installed the Windows 7 touch pack and added a beta multi-touch driver (thanks to Windows 7 TechNet forums ) and a few games such
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Yep, Remix is tomorrow! (keep up to date with Australia dev events here ) I have just been made aware of an offer that will be made available to attendees thanks to Microsoft Partner and Remix sponsor Wacom. They are set to offer a limited number of heavily
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Good on Michael Kordahi making a home-grown blind search taste test. In a matter of days his search mash up had 100,000+ votes and 1.2 million hits promoted only through a viral twitter and blog links. You can find it located here . Results are
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If you read James Gardner’s post about Twitter then you might come to the conclusion that Twitter is of little use for banks to be concerned about because it only touches 0.5% of its user base. My friend, Roger Lawrence , makes a fine point that many
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I’ve recently spent of bit of time building a Windows 7 VHD for some custom development. I thought I’d take the time to document my experiences: 1) Download ISO. I used a tool called MagicISO to extract the install.wim file. 2) Create a VHD from WIM using
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I would love to play with this, but I doubt Ill have time…. http://blogs.msdn.com/wmoz/archive/2009/06/04/windows-mobile-6-5-developer-tool-kit-now-available.aspx .... it includes the Gestures API & doc, as well as emulators so developers can start
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As reported in multiple sources yesterday there were a number of Microsoft announcements on new video game controllers, HD video streaming, and joined up social networking. An example is the addition of Twitter to Xbox online. A video of the
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