April 2006 - Posts

Sony ships a PSP to match your XBOX 360
22 April 06 01:57 AM | KamVedBrat | 2 Comments   

Gizmodo indicated that Sony is shipping a white PSP . Read More...

I love glass
22 April 06 01:47 AM | KamVedBrat | 0 Comments   

...and so does design*sponge... d*s links to some really beautiful glass pieces made in Fort Payne, Alabama. Very nice. Read More...

Buy a Mac that runs Windows...
22 April 06 01:42 AM | KamVedBrat | 1 Comments   

title says it all... Read More...

Tips for new Digital SLR users
22 April 06 01:42 AM | KamVedBrat | 2 Comments   

Thomas Hawk has an excellent write-up of tips for new Digital SLR camera owners . A good quick read with some sage advice. In one of the updates, he adds a comment from "carpe icthus" (sieze the fish? my Latin's kind of rusty...) that reads: "Cheap advice Read More...

Sean McBride asks "Windows Vista Aero... Why again?"
21 April 06 05:49 PM | KamVedBrat | 3 Comments   

I came across Sean's blog while figuring out how to register with Technocrati... He recently got around to watching my channel 9 interview from last fall and asks some questions about what we're doing with the UI for Windows Vista. Here are some thoughts Read More...

J.J. Abrams to make the next Star Trek movie!
21 April 06 02:09 PM | KamVedBrat | 0 Comments   

I thought Star Trek was over, but it looks like Paramount is going to take one more swing for the fences with it. This time, they've brought in J.J. Abrams to co-write and produce the film. That's super promisng, considering he makes two of my favorite Read More...

Office 2007 UI Design
21 April 06 11:00 AM | KamVedBrat | 0 Comments   

If you're not reading Jensen Harris' blog , you're missing out. He's doing an awesome job of chronicling and explaining the all the design changes that are going into the new user interface of Office 2007. It is an awesome read! Read More...

Core Duo Media Center in HTPC form factor for $1400
17 April 06 01:32 AM | KamVedBrat | 0 Comments   

Engadget tipped me off to Okoro's new MCE system . nice. Read More...

Jan boots Solaris on the new intel iMac
13 April 06 07:14 PM | KamVedBrat | 1 Comments   

so there's a wierd title for post on msdn blogs... my friend Jan (from Purdue ) works at Sun, and it seems he's gotten the new Intel based iMac to boot something called "Solaris Nevada" ... which is hopefully less of a gamble than other things you can Read More...

Windows Vista runs on Intel based iMac!
10 April 06 01:44 AM | KamVedBrat | 1 Comments   

The folks at the OSx86 project seem to have Windows Vista up and running on an Intel based iMac ! I noticed in the post that they don't have Aero running, and that they used the ATI drivers from Apple's site. ATI's latest Windows Vista drivers might work Read More...

Aero on the cheap...
09 April 06 11:42 PM | KamVedBrat | 3 Comments   

I've seen a handful of comments in the press lately about what kind of graphics hardware will be necessary in order to run the new Windows Aero UI features on a Windows Vista computer. So as an experiment, I thought I'd take a few minutes and price out Read More...

Charlie Owen talks Windows Vista..
09 April 06 09:36 PM | KamVedBrat | 2 Comments   

Charlie Owen on the Windows Media Center team has been posting quite a bit lately on Windows Vista. He's got Aero running on his Toshiba M200 Tablet PC, which is exciting to hear, considering that it's almost two years old, and has a lower-end graphics Read More...

mother proof!
08 April 06 10:04 AM | KamVedBrat | 0 Comments   

Mother Proof reviews cars from a parent's perspective Read More...

Remote Desktop made easy
06 April 06 11:41 PM | KamVedBrat | 0 Comments   

The folks at network magic have a great write-up on how to use Windows XP Professional's remote desktop functionality to get back to your home network. Read More...

Interview with Gary Flake
06 April 06 06:52 PM | KamVedBrat | 0 Comments   

Scoble pointed me to a great interview with Gary Flake on John Battelle's Searchblog. Read More...

Boot Camp!
05 April 06 08:45 AM | KamVedBrat | 3 Comments   

Boot Camp is a public beta of a utility from Apple that will let you run Windows on your Intel Mac. Nice to see the folks in Cupertino recognizing the excitement about running Windows in the Mac community. I'm super impressed that they did this! Way to Read More...

laptop cases!
05 April 06 01:07 AM | KamVedBrat | 0 Comments   

Productdose has the rundown of their top 10 laptop cases . Some cool stuff in there ranging from top secret to Solar powered ! Read More...

bike mount for ipod nano...
03 April 06 10:41 PM | KamVedBrat | 0 Comments   

Gizmodo pointed me to this cool bike mount for the ipod nano ! I've been really enjoying using the nano for cardio outside... can't wait to get on the bike with it next... Read More...

Why do some applications disable Windows Aero?
02 April 06 02:37 AM | KamVedBrat | 10 Comments   

If you're using a recent build of Windows Vista, you may have noticed that some applications cause a dialog box to pop up which disables desktop composition when they start up. Here’s why this happens: one of the key aspects of desktop composition is Read More...

life posters
02 April 06 02:12 AM | KamVedBrat | 2 Comments   

lifehacker ran a post recently with instructions for making large posters out of groups of photos. http://www.waywardpuppy.com/archives/2005/02/iphotoshop.html http://deepsan.livejournal.com/28761.html Read More...

KidRobot
02 April 06 12:54 AM | KamVedBrat | 0 Comments   

KidRobot has some fun & entertaining action figures... Read More...