February 2006 - Posts

make friends with your fast
28 February 06 10:47 PM | KamVedBrat | 1 Comments   

I'm totally getting a kick out of VW's new ad campaign ... Read More...

global news headlines visualized
27 February 06 01:33 AM | KamVedBrat | 0 Comments   

here's an interesting take on presenting world-wide news... Read More...

Mike remotes the DWM from a Virtual Machine
27 February 06 12:32 AM | KamVedBrat | 3 Comments   

Mike Kolitz posted some instructions on how to get Aero to run in a VM by using remote desktop to connect to the VM through our updated RDP client. This brought to mind something that people often ask me about the desktop composition system and its relationship Read More...

just plain wierd
26 February 06 10:40 PM | KamVedBrat | 0 Comments   

off-topic: here's a childrens toy from the UK that's just plain wierd. They have a link to a "viral ad" on their site that made me chuckle (the link, not the ad)... you'd think this would be a choking hazzard... Read More...

more comments...
22 February 06 09:51 PM | KamVedBrat | 24 Comments   

Eli asked about OpenGL, Direct Draw, and WPF, and how they work with Desktop composition... OpenGL can go through one of three paths in Windows Vista depending on how your computer is configured. MSOGL - this is an implementation of OpenGL 1.4 that uses Read More...

more comments on my flip3d post...
21 February 06 11:45 PM | KamVedBrat | 2 Comments   

"JoeW" says: Echoing the point above - does any of the shell components using DirectX provide their own API? How much of WPF is being used here? If there is an unmanaged API will it be public? MS has been mysteriously quiet about the level of integration Read More...

why I always clean-install Windows...
21 February 06 11:29 PM | KamVedBrat | 2 Comments   

Mike Fullerton captures the reason so elequently... Read More...

fonts!
21 February 06 01:53 PM | KamVedBrat | 0 Comments   

here's a couple sites that offer fonts you can download: http://www.abstractfonts.com/ http://www.dafont.com/ Read More...

shutterbook!
14 February 06 09:20 PM | KamVedBrat | 0 Comments   

I just discovered shutterbook , a very rich new photo sharing site.. like flikr but in hifi... Read More...

Flip3D, Exposé, Aero Capable hardware, and Sample Code...
12 February 06 10:18 PM | KamVedBrat | 11 Comments   

Lots of comments after the "John Tokash" post a while back... I got a handful of requests for sample code for how to do the live window previews like we use in the updated Taskbar in Windows Vista. I'll post some samples once Beta 2 has been released Read More...

Zillow.com is my new favorite real-estate toy
12 February 06 10:13 PM | KamVedBrat | 3 Comments   

Zillow is a fun site that lets you look at the value of different homes using the address and some nice ajax style mapping user interface... Read More...

off topic: candle lights without candles
01 February 06 05:18 PM | KamVedBrat | 1 Comments   

these are pretty cool... candle-light... no candles. Read More...