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How To: Podcasting with Windows Vista
One of the neat things about an operating system is how different parts of the system can come...
Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 06/01/2006
Posting using Word 2007
If you’re not aware of the great new blogging support in Office 2007, you really should give it a...
Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 06/01/2006
LifeHacker's Windows Tweaks
LifeHacker points to some interesting tools for Windows XP: Launchy lets you just type what you want...
Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 05/15/2006
abandon the Nano?
Sean Alexander comes clean about his new job and introduces us to the new iriver clix. Could this be...
Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 05/15/2006
BBC interviews Taxi driver about Apple Computer vs. Apple Corps.
Richard links to this BBC interview where a taxi driver is accidentally interviewed about the apple...
Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 05/15/2006
Sony ships a PSP to match your XBOX 360
Gizmodo indicated that Sony is shipping a white PSP.
Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 04/22/2006
I love glass
...and so does designsponge... ds links to some really beautiful glass pieces made in Fort Payne,...
Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 04/22/2006
Tips for new Digital SLR users
Thomas Hawk has an excellent write-up of tips for new Digital SLR camera owners. A good quick read...
Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 04/22/2006
Buy a Mac that runs Windows...
title says it all...
Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 04/22/2006
J.J. Abrams to make the next Star Trek movie!
I thought Star Trek was over, but it looks like Paramount is going to take one more swing for the...
Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 04/21/2006
Office 2007 UI Design
If you're not reading Jensen Harris' blog, you're missing out. He's doing an awesome job of...
Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 04/21/2006
Core Duo Media Center in HTPC form factor for $1400
Engadget tipped me off to Okoro's new MCE system. nice.
Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 04/17/2006
Jan boots Solaris on the new intel iMac
so there's a wierd title for post on msdn blogs... my friend Jan (from Purdue) works at Sun, and it...
Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 04/13/2006
Windows Vista runs on Intel based iMac!
The folks at the OSx86 project seem to have Windows Vista up and running on an Intel based iMac! I...
Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 04/10/2006
Aero on the cheap...
I've seen a handful of comments in the press lately about what kind of graphics hardware will be...
Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 04/10/2006
mother proof!
Mother Proof reviews cars from a parent's perspective
Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 04/08/2006
Remote Desktop made easy
The folks at network magic have a great write-up on how to use Windows XP Professional's remote...
Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 04/07/2006
Interview with Gary Flake
Scoble pointed me to a great interview with Gary Flake on John Battelle's Searchblog.
Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 04/06/2006
Boot Camp!
Boot Camp is a public beta of a utility from Apple that will let you run Windows on your Intel Mac....
Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 04/05/2006
laptop cases!
Productdose has the rundown of their top 10 laptop cases. Some cool stuff in there ranging from top...
Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 04/05/2006
bike mount for ipod nano...
Gizmodo pointed me to this cool bike mount for the ipod nano! I've been really enjoying using the...
Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 04/04/2006
Why do some applications disable Windows Aero?
If you're using a recent build of Windows Vista, you may have noticed that some applications cause a...
Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 04/02/2006
life posters
lifehacker ran a post recently with instructions for making large posters out of groups of photos....
Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 04/02/2006
KidRobot
KidRobot has some fun & entertaining action figures...
Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 04/02/2006
public speaking do's and don'ts
Lifehacker has some good tips on presenting in public forums.
Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 03/29/2006
CNET's inside look at Windows Vista discusses DWM
CNET has a good write up about Windows Vista and the new Desktop Window Manager, including an...
Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 03/23/2006
great converastion going on Greg's blog
Greg's started a great converation on his blog about the internals of the DWM. I want to take a...
Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 03/13/2006
Download of the day goodness... large thumbnail support on XP!
Lifehacker's download of the day also points us to TweakUI, a great little power-toy that will...
Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 03/13/2006
no Windows Key? no problem!
If you happen to have a keyboard that doens't have a Windows key, and you're using a beta of Windows...
Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 03/13/2006
Windows Vista PC for under $400.00
Chris Sells has built a Windows Vista PC for under $400.00! I continue to be amazed at the great...
Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 03/13/2006
XBOX design process talk at SIGCHI meeting
the experience user centered design blog has a summary of an interesting talk the xbox design team...
Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 03/13/2006
Greg Schechter gives you a look under the hood of the DWM
Greg Schechter is one of the Architects on the Avalon team who's focus for the last year or so has...
Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 03/07/2006
make friends with your fast
I'm totally getting a kick out of VW's new ad campaign...
Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 03/01/2006
global news headlines visualized
here's an interesting take on presenting world-wide news...
Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 02/27/2006
Mike remotes the DWM from a Virtual Machine
Mike Kolitz posted some instructions on how to get Aero to run in a VM by using remote desktop to...
Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 02/27/2006
just plain wierd
off-topic: here's a childrens toy from the UK that's just plain wierd. They have a link to a "viral...
Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 02/27/2006
more comments...
Eli asked about OpenGL, Direct Draw, and WPF, and how they work with Desktop composition... OpenGL...
Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 02/23/2006
more comments on my flip3d post...
"JoeW" says: Echoing the point above - does any of the shell components using DirectX provide their...
Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 02/22/2006
why I always clean-install Windows...
Mike Fullerton captures the reason so elequently...
Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 02/22/2006
fonts!
here's a couple sites that offer fonts you can download: https://www.abstractfonts.com/...
Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 02/21/2006
shutterbook!
I just discovered shutterbook, a very rich new photo sharing site.. like flikr but in hifi...
Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 02/15/2006
Flip3D, Exposé, Aero Capable hardware, and Sample Code...
Lots of comments after the "John Tokash" post a while back... I got a handful of requests for sample...
Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 02/13/2006
Zillow.com is my new favorite real-estate toy
Zillow is a fun site that lets you look at the value of different homes using the address and some...
Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 02/13/2006
off topic: candle lights without candles
these are pretty cool... candle-light... no candles.
Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 02/01/2006
John Tokash likes Flip 3D
John Tokash made a nice comment about Flip3D in his blog entry about dinner with Jim Allchin. He did...
Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 01/30/2006
colorschemer
found this on digg... colorschemer is a simple Windows application that helps you pick colors that...
Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 01/29/2006
the neat thing about weblogs...
...is that there's literally a blog for everything. Even razors... I guess everyone's gotta have a...
Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 01/28/2006
free online graph paper
this is a great source for one-note stationary... just print the PDF to one-note and go...
Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 01/27/2006