January 2005 - Posts

Now this is cool...
31 January 05 08:56 PM | KamVedBrat | 0 Comments   

Looks like folks are really starting to dig in on Avalon... http://www.mobiform.com/2005/XAML/xamlhome.htm#aurora Read More...

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One button and a scroll wheel
31 January 05 11:14 AM | KamVedBrat | 1 Comments   

Steve's funny. He won't put another button on that mouse , but a scrolling trackpad on the powerbook is no problem ... maybe he'll start bundling intellmouses (intellimice?) with the iMac's... Read More...

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Creating 2-D and 3-D Dynamic Animations in "Avalon"
30 January 05 08:12 PM | KamVedBrat | 0 Comments   

Karsten Januszewski posted a great sample on MSDN showing how to do some basic animiations in Avalon. Read More...

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Avalon Resources
17 January 05 10:47 PM | KamVedBrat | 2 Comments   

So now that Avalon is available to the public - here are some great resources to help you get started: What's in the CTP Build Visual Studio C# Express Rob Relyea's Blog Chris Anderson 's Blog Chris Sells ' Blog Nathan Dunlap's Blog Daniel Lehenbauer Read More...

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Car PC MCE
17 January 05 10:39 PM | KamVedBrat | 6 Comments   

Sean Alexander found what has got to be just about the coolest car-pc mod I've seen to date . Hosting Windows XP Media Center Edition in the dashboard is very cool. He's even got a great video walkthrough . What a great use of MCE! I wonder if there's Read More...

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Avalon available to the public!
14 January 05 02:47 PM | KamVedBrat | 0 Comments   

The November 2004 CTP release of Avalon is now publicly available on MSDN , for use with the Express versions of Visual Studio tools that you can also download from MSDN. Check it out! Read More...

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Customer Service - Episode 3
10 January 05 12:32 PM | KamVedBrat | 1 Comments   

Finally got my phone replaced last week by Audiovox. They put a $319.00 charge on my credit card while they wait for me to send in my broken one but it was pretty much my only option at this point. Cingular/ATT in Redmond weren't all that helpful either Read More...

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Upgrading MCE...
02 January 05 09:46 PM | KamVedBrat | 3 Comments   

I had the pleasure of upgrading my media center pc over the holiday break... it took a lot of work - but the reward is great. First the ugly part - My big motivation for moving to MCE2005 was dual-tuner support. Wednesday is becoming ground-zero for me Read More...

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Customer Service - 1 for 1
02 January 05 09:33 PM | KamVedBrat | 3 Comments   

So the nifty audiovox smartphone broke down on New Years Day. Was out for walk around Greenlake with my wife and took the phone out of my pocket to see the time and discovered it was off. So I turned it on - got the Audiovox splashscreen followed by the Read More...

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