Internet Explorer 8 is out
March 24th, 2009It’s happy days for web developers! Microsoft released Internet Explorer 8, which touts many improvements over previous versions. Find out more at Microsoft.com/IE8. 
What people want defined
March 15th, 2009Isn’t it interesting to see what Googlers want defined? I thought it was very cute that “love” was listed first even though it didn’t have the most results. 
Zune Repair: Replacing a Flash Zune’s Glass
March 6th, 2009Over a year ago I bought a second generation Microsoft Zune. I bought the highest capacity available with flash-based storage (8GB), instead of the higher capacity hard drive-based options, because I’ve already broken two like players in my lifetime—a forth generation 40GB Apple iPod and a first generation Creative Zen Vision (no suffix).
This time the problem wasn’t the storage. Last week I broke my 8GB, second generation Microsoft Zune, but this time I could repair the thing myself!
Truth in Advertizing
March 5th, 2009
Amazing Concept Video of Future Technology, “Future Vision Montage”
March 3rd, 2009Think what you want about Microsoft, but if you don’t know Microsoft Research, you don’t have the whole picture. I just found this concept video, titled “Future Vision Montage” on Gizmodo. I think I might have recognized more of the theoretical technologies than the casual onlooker since I’ve seen other Microsoft Research projects, but basically this video has technology do everything possible to maintain the appearance of magic. This is generally called “augmented reality” and is an unbelievably cool field of research.
Here’s the Soapbox video: