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Smart phones are one of the most intimate devices we own. We take them with us so many places throughout the day, be it in a pocket, bag or purse. We hold them so many times during the day. And at night we often take them to bed with us, usually leaving...
Last week Neil Armstrong passed away. He was part of an era in which innovation truly thrived. Profoundly back in 1969 he said “ That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind” . The space race drove innovation and invention. There were so...
The North American TechEd videos are online now. The keynote from Day 2 is about Windows 8 and is worth watching. Actually, whilst watching the day 2 keynote see if you can count the times “actually” is used, actually ...
My first impressions of the windows 8 mail application ... Accounts : The mail app seemed to work straight away with my @live account, and looks like it will offer good synchronisation with multiple accounts however I am unable to get the “accounts” charm...
The software a phone runs is important but the hardware is even more so. My current day to day phone is the Lumia 800, and the previous one was a HTC mozart. To me the difference is massive. The lumia has a much better display, better reception (which...
The following is my response to the VS blog post about the design for all caps in top level menus: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2012/06/05/a-design-with-all-caps.aspx First off, why would you want to add *EMPHASIS* to menus when the design...
Today I has having some discussions over the right roof pitch for a car port, so I grabbed my phone, rotated it and did some quick trigonometry. Ten minutes later I tried to do the same and I could only see HEX and BIN, not Sin and Tan et al. ...
The beta of Visual Studio 11 is causing a lot of feedback around the grey shade icons. The use of colour or not has also brought to the forefront the UI for colour-blind people. So I thought I’d post a picture of my toolbar, along with some...
From time to time there’s discussion about the way dates are displayed in the Visual Studio IDE for Visual Basic. Typically dates are shown using VB’s date literal syntax of #MM/dd/yyyy# which is the standard US format. For people outside...
I recently bought a Dell XPS17 (L702x) and thought I’d post a review for those considering purchasing this notebook. There’s a massive thread about all things good and bad in relation to this notebook over on notebook forums; the following is just my...
Cory Smith has a set of posts on some of the differences between VB6 and VB10. There’s one which I think needs a bit further clarification: Private Class Variables. In VB7 and later, you can access private class variables from another instance of the...
You can view PDC 2010 sessions online at microsoftpdc.com , but you can also download sessions to view later or copy over to your windows 7 phone The sessions info is all online in one nice big XML file : http://videoak.microsoftpdc.com/pdc_schedule/Schedule...
With all the focus on Windows 7 RTM announcements, the availability of Expression 3 on the MSDN site last Thursday may have sneaked under folks radars. For MSND subscribers, grab your copy of Expression 3.
Via Nancy’s blog , I saw the link about Apple’s claim for accessibility features on the iPhone. Have a look at this picture of their claimed “ Giant font for Mail messages ” Maybe they could have made the picture a bit bigger, but...