January 2006 - Posts

John Tokash likes Flip 3D
30 January 06 07:53 AM | KamVedBrat | 5 Comments   

John Tokash made a nice comment about Flip3D in his blog entry about dinner with Jim Allchin . He did as one question in his post that I'd like to address: I wish they’d shown more of Flip 3d and the active thumbnails that rise up from the start bar. Read More...

colorschemer
28 January 06 09:59 PM | KamVedBrat | 2 Comments   

found this on digg... colorschemer is a simple Windows application that helps you pick colors that match... Read More...

the neat thing about weblogs...
28 January 06 08:24 PM | KamVedBrat | 0 Comments   

...is that there's literally a blog for everything. Even razors ... I guess everyone's gotta have a passion. Read More...

free online graph paper
27 January 06 12:06 PM | KamVedBrat | 2 Comments   

this is a great source for one-note stationary... just print the PDF to one-note and go... Read More...

shameless plug...
18 January 06 10:14 PM | KamVedBrat | 0 Comments   

I've started reading brandscribe , which linked off to this honda commercial that is unbelievable... Read More...

way off topic... Brak!
16 January 06 10:54 AM | KamVedBrat | 1 Comments   

way off topic... one of my friends showed this to me... such a waste of time, but so funny if you're into cartoon network http://www.nd.edu/~comet/stuff/sounds.html Read More...

Boilermaker wins Next Generation Windows PC Design Competition
14 January 06 08:46 PM | KamVedBrat | 0 Comments   

Two industrial designers at Purdue won Microsoft's ID competition for PC's . The winning design is this hot looking bookshelf-style PC: ...it's great the to see the innovation keep coming from Purdue! Read More...

comments are back
05 January 06 01:04 AM | KamVedBrat | 2 Comments   

...so after a bit of fiddling with the community server settings, people should now be able to comment without having to sign-in. enjoy! Read More...

Fair Use
04 January 06 06:28 PM | KamVedBrat | 4 Comments   

Virgin Records in India is distributing some regular CD's with copy protection on them . Being someone who works on a product that suffers from billions of dollars of loss due to piracy every year, I should be sympathetic to this, but frankly I think Read More...

Filed under: Life

legislation to close "analog loophole"
03 January 06 02:28 PM | KamVedBrat | 1 Comments   

eHomeUpgrade has a write up about some legislation restricting the use of recorded analog brodcasts. Not sure how real this is, but sounds pretty frightening. I think this is all part of a massive conspiracy that tv and movie studios have put together Read More...

comic book characters on stamps
03 January 06 12:06 AM | KamVedBrat | 0 Comments   

way off topic... I'm a sucker for cool stamps... so this is really exciting for me. It seems the postal service is going to have some stamps with DC comics characters on them. The design weblog has more info... Read More...

Tinted Windows
02 January 06 11:38 PM | KamVedBrat | 9 Comments   

I finally got around to reading Paul Thurrott's write up of the December CTP of Windows Vista . I was pleasantly surprised to see that he likes the new Window frame colorization feature we have as part of Aero. With this feature, we reprise some functionality Read More...

3D Tools Workspace Updated to WinFX December CTP bits
02 January 06 11:18 PM | KamVedBrat | 0 Comments   

Daniel Lehenbauer has updated his 3D Tools Workspace to work with the December CTP bits. Read More...

Filed under: Work

Guy Kawasaki on PowerPoint
01 January 06 05:16 PM | KamVedBrat | 0 Comments   

Guy Kawasaki makes some interesting comments on PowerPoint presentations he sees on a regular basis. His 10/20/30 rule is great for anyone doing exec presentations. Read More...