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I’d Hate to See a Blue Screen of Death in One of These

By admin | Published: October 20, 2010

Windows Embedded Automotive 7 is now in cars you can buy. Via Autoblog: Windows Embedded Automotive 7 introduces new technologies such as Silverlight, which allows for 2D and 3D graphics improvements, and Tellme speech technology, which allows real-time text-to-speech technology and the ability to respond to text messages using spoken input.

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More On Courier

By admin | Published: March 5, 2010
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From Engadget: the interface appears to be pen-based and centered around drawing and writing, with built-in handwriting recognition and a corresponding web site that allows access to everything entered into the device in a blog-like format complete with comments This is a fantastic idea. I’d imagine the same thing is possible with an iPhone or [...]

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Windows Mobile 6.5.3

By admin | Published: January 11, 2010
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Day late and a dollar short: I do like the keyboard concept where other keys/layouts are stored off-screen in 2-d space. Though the “sliding-nav” paradigm is certainly derivative of the original iPod, you can’t blame anyone for using it. After all, Apple didn’t invent “left” and “right”.

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Comments on Courier

By admin | Published: September 30, 2009
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So busy the past few weeks I haven’t come up for air. Needed to post this though: Courier User Interface from Gizmodo on Vimeo. Now for some commentary: When I first saw this I was extremely excited. As someone who carries their Moleskine around everywhere I’d love a more powerful and web-connected digital replacement. In [...]

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Not A Fanboy, But…

By admin | Published: March 3, 2009

I’m no Microsoft fanboy, but this future-vision piece they put together paints quite an exciting view of the future. I especially love the idea of children collaborating and interacting from across the world, becasue if there’s anything we could use at this point, it’s a deeper understand and respect for divergent cultures & customs. The [...]

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Upgrade to LIVE Maps

By admin | Published: April 12, 2008

MSFT Virtual Earth just received a major upgrade. Being someone that doesn’t have a car or a portable nav system, I can’t really experience the export to GPS features, but one thing in this release did catch my eye. The integration of hyper-local content: (via the Virtual Earth Blog) Neighborhood Subscribe via GeoRSS – I’m [...]

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BuzzWord

By admin | Published: January 21, 2008

Buzzword is a web-based document editor owned by Adobe. Now that Microsoft Office 2008 is out in Universal Binary for Mactels, users are realizing that there are many many alternative options to the shackles of Word/Office. I’ve been a iWork user (+ Sun’s Open Office for spreadsheets) because of the dismal performance of Office 2004 [...]

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