Feed: Within Windows - AggScore: 74.7

While the read on the site may be a bit verbose, the video does a great job at summarizing what Pivot is: “A brand new technology [...] that enables you to see massive amounts of visual information at one time.” I haven’t had a chance to dig deep into Pivot, but the visualization capabilities look [...]

Microsoft PDC09 Keynote 2 Copyright © This feed is for personal, non-commercial use only. The use of this feed on other websites breaches copyright. If this content is not in your news reader, it makes the page you are viewing an infringement of the copyright. (Digital Fingerprint: 37aa860d8f0e41a3973e635ea261c6fa (74.125.44.136) )

After our keynote live blog (numero uno), myself, Tom Warren, Long Zheng and Andrew Lyle ran a few doors down to the Windows Ribbon Technical Deep Dive. It started out okay but quickly deteriorated after about 15 minutes. Why? Well it didn’t help that the speaker started implementing mass amounts of code via custom macros. [...]

Microsoft PDC09 Keynote 1 Webcam chat at Ustream Copyright © This feed is for personal, non-commercial use only. The use of this feed on other websites breaches copyright. If this content is not in your news reader, it makes the page you are viewing an infringement of the copyright. (Digital Fingerprint: 37aa860d8f0e41a3973e635ea261c6fa (74.125.44.136) )

After a quick (and ungodly expensive) breakfast in the morning, Tom Warren, Long Zheng, Paul Thurrott, Stephen Chapman, et al, made a run (almost literally) to the already-started Windows 7 Developer Boot Camp with Mark Russinovich and gang. Paul and I ran to the front and managed to somehow snag seats right next to Mark [...]

Like last year, I’ll be teaming up with several other hacks bloggers to cover the two keynotes during the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference next week. The live blog, powered by Cover It Live, will be embedded in a future post here. Stay tuned. Day 1: Tuesday, November 17 8:30am - 10:30am (PDT) (See other [...]

Update 11/7: The example I provided yesterday (ReadBytes) was replaced with a new one. Note that it is only an example. I’m not here to prove my case in a huge exhaustive post for you. That’s left as an exercise for the reader. Update 11/7 (2): The code in question is not a part of the [...]

Software Candy, a Vermont-based company, makes its business scouring the web for various invaluable tweaks, throwing an executable wrapper around it, and selling it at enticing prices. If they want to waste their time creating wrappers – fine – but I draw the line at the ripping off my logon UI tip then returning to comment-spam [...]

While Paul Thurrott was playing with the official Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool, creating a bootable USB stick for his netbook upgrade, he ran into an interesting snag with certain discs. The tool, when directed to use an ISO dumped via ImgBurn, would error out. Everything was to UDF spec, so what was going on [...]

Rather than regurgitate the coverage on a thousand other enthusiast blogs, I took some of my unedited photos from the Windows 7 launch event in New York City and glued them together using Shape Collage. If you create your own, make sure you tag them with Windows 7 Launch Collage so we can all find [...]

Back in March, I wrote about how Microsoft was restricting wallpaper usage on their Starter SKU of Windows 7 – a version of Windows to be preloaded by OEMs onto netbooks. Nicholas R., mistakenly initially emailing Paul, noticed HP was somehow bypassing this restriction according to a bulleted claim on their Mini 110 netbook [...]

Update 10/8: The site is no longer blocked. I received a note from a reader indicating users of OpenDNS are receiving phishing warnings about a site I created a few days ago, in light of the Hotmail news. Upon using OpenDNS’ CacheCheck feature, it appears the site has indeed been blocked. According to OpenDNS’ little blurb [...]

In response to news about a large amount of harvested emails being spread around the Internet, I created a site to do a quick lookup against a list of known-leaked addresses. Despite what Neowin’s ignorant audience claims, it’s not fake nor a site to harvest email addresses. Hopefully this post will clarify the site’s intentions and [...]

I am now accepting your stickers for placement on the lid of my oft-used Lenovo X300 laptop, measuring at 12.4" x 9.1" (314.96mm x 231.14mm). I will showcase the stickers at least until November 20th, but it’s very likely they’ll remain in place for much longer. (Removing stickers is not fun.) Notable showcase locations: Windows 7 Launch [...]

Back on the 17th, I posted a quick registry hack for those that wanted to force certain Zune software features on or off. One of my readers inquired, however, about Radio features that seemed to exist but were disabled. Double-checking my previous research, there was nothing available to enable anything related to Radio, so [...]