January 2008 - Posts

Windows Vista Ultimate (PRODUCT) RED
24 January 08 01:27 PM | KamVedBrat | 2 Comments   

Microsoft, Dell and (RED) announced a partnership to help people living with HIV/AIDS in Africa. All the details are over on the Windows Vista blog . There's also some coverage of it over on Engadget . Read More...

Filed under: Windows Vista

Keeping the taskbar transparent when your deskband is enabled
22 January 08 03:51 PM | KamVedBrat | 2 Comments   

If you have code that implements a deskband for the Windows Taskbar in Windows Vista, you may have noticed that it causes the taskbar to appear opaque when there is not a maximized window open, instead of being transparent, but darkly tinted which is Read More...

Filed under: Aero, Windows Vista, DWM

Clutter
20 January 08 11:29 PM | KamVedBrat | 1 Comments   

Someone at work forwarded me a link to this video on the New York Times site about the clutter around us. Read More...

Filed under: Design

The Final Frontier
19 January 08 09:02 PM | KamVedBrat | 1 Comments   

I saw this over on one of the home server blogs I read. Read More...

Filed under: Off Topic

Camera RAW Codecs for Windows
03 January 08 11:43 PM | KamVedBrat | 4 Comments   

One of the features we added in Windows Vista was a platform to support for decoding camera raw images in Windows Photo Gallery (and later Windows Live Gallery), Windows Explorer, and Win32 & WPF applications. The camera IHV community has done a great Read More...

Filed under: Windows Vista

long time - no blog
03 January 08 11:37 PM | KamVedBrat | 1 Comments   

As you may have noticed, I've taken a bit of a hiatus form blogging for a while. Hopefully you haven't unsubscribed because I'll be picking up the blog again in coming weeks and months. Read More...

Filed under: Blog