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My festive geek gift list
19 December 08 11:12 AM
Everyone else does one of these, so I couldn’t resist throwing my gadget and geek desires onto HTML/RSS. Flip Mino HD This little beauty is an HD video recording device. It would be cool to start capturing more and more video moments both personally (family Read More...
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HP Mini-Note
09 April 08 09:36 PM
I blogged about this before here and now it has been released (in the US it seems). In depth video from jkOntherun : If there is anyone in HP UK marketing that wants to loan me one, I'll happily test it out! (I also know about 18,000 students who connect Read More...
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Gadget rumour drool...
21 February 08 03:25 PM
HP's UMPC 2133 to cost $630 when shipping in April-   If this is true then I'm so getting one of these?!?! Read More...
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British Army use Xbox 360 controllers :-)
02 December 07 06:57 PM
Was sitting with my future brother in-law who is in the RAF as an engineer. We were watching telly and this army jobs ad came on. He knows a few lads who work on UAVs which got us talking, and then I spotted the Xbox 360 controller they were using to Read More...
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Vista Sidebar Gadget Resources from Conchango
08 February 07 06:09 PM
As a nice follow on to my post yesterday about the Universal Music uMusic gadget I spotted on Rich Griffin's blog an excellent entry with a comprehensive set of resources on coding a gadget and deploying in a production environment: Vista Sidebar Gadget Read More...
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Nice new gadget from Universal Music
08 February 07 04:18 AM
If you are into music and want a minimalist way of playing your music collection on your Windows Vista PC, keep up to date with the latest music videos from major record label Universal Music then I know just the solution for you: Download and Install Read More...
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WPF app - Yahoo Messenger looks amazing
09 January 07 09:48 AM
With Vista general availability under 3 weeks away, there are more and more companies jumping on the WPF and great user experience bus. Yahoo has just announced its new Messenger applicatin which takes advantage of the .NET Fx 3 and more importantly WPF Read More...
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More gadget goodness from DPE Intern, Matt
08 January 07 11:47 AM
Matt has been working away on gadgets for a while now , and is becoming a bit of a guru on developing gadgets. He's actually working on an internal tool for our group to help promote awareness of the various programs and teams in DPE. Check out his latest Read More...
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The Panel - Creating front end experiences
28 November 06 10:04 AM
The Panel is a new site/community/buzz thing all about stuff that you look at on Windows Vista and the web. It is going to be a 'place' for Microsoft to showcase interesting applications, websites, gadgets that take advantage of all the great new stuff Read More...
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Now running Vista on all my work machines - including shiny Macbook Pro
03 October 06 07:37 PM
Since RC1 has been released and reading around internally and externally about how stable the OS it was time to upgrade the shiny machine and the Tablet PC to Vista. And all I have to say, is that "Vista has arrived" for me :-) I have now got two stable Read More...
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More Gadget Goodness
06 September 06 10:48 AM
The Sidebar gadget team are blogging - hopefully they will have much more insightful stuff than my hacking :) http://blogs.msdn.com/sidebar/default.aspx tags: vista , sidebar , gadgets Read More...
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