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Back on Channel 9!

In late December, I sat down for another interview on Channel 9. It took a little while to "bake"...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 01/26/2007

USA Today on the Windows Vista Upgrade Experience

In the USA Today Personal Technology Column this week, Ed Baig talks about his experience upgrading...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 01/26/2007

Sky Surprise

This site cracks me up. The offer is pretty incredible also.

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 01/26/2007

Bill Gates introduces Windows Vista on the Daily Show

As part of our launch activties for Windows Vista, Bill Gates will be on the Daily Show with John...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 01/25/2007

PayPal Add-In for Expression Web

WebAssist has created a great Add-In for Expression Web that allows you to easily imbed PayPal...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 01/25/2007

53 CSS Techniques You Couldn't Live Without

Smashing Magazine has a round-up of CSS based design techniques on their blog.

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 01/25/2007

Share your score!

A colleague recently pointed me to www.shareyourscore.com - this is a web service that lets you...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 01/25/2007

Someone forwarded me this great gallery on flickr of different web sites.

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 01/19/2007

Touchlight

Now that Apple has annoucned their iPhone, theres a whole lot more interest in touch-based...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 01/19/2007

Windows Live Writer

I just got around to trying Windows Live Writer. Wow - this thing is awesome. It autodetected my...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 01/19/2007

Expression Momentum

Momentum is starting to build around the expression tools. There's a nice write-up in InfoWorld...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 01/19/2007

Instant Viewer & Intellipoint Software for Windows Vista

The new Intellipoint Software for Windows Vista has a great feature that builds on the DWM API...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 01/18/2007

Refund Please

This article on Slate just turned me on to Refund Please. A great new web service that does the work...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 01/16/2007

Dell Concept LCD – Please Build it!

Dell makes some of the best LCD monitors out there, if not the best. I have a Dell 2001FP's at home...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 01/13/2007

Stephen Colbert on CES & iPhone

This made me laugh out loud:

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 01/13/2007

Children’s Hospital

Live Search and Team Seattle are partnering to help children's hospital. Children's is an awesome...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 01/10/2007

John Tokash’s 3 lies about iPhone

John makes some interesting comments about iPhone. I certainly believe that homebrew code will find...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 01/10/2007

iPhone

Time Magazine has an interesting article on the genesis of the Apple iPhone. I read through the...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 01/10/2007

Hearsay on Exec briefings with Steve Jobs

Someone recently emailed me this article about an executive briefing some senior folks at NIH had...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 01/08/2007

Personal Again

I have no idea why these videos aren't on television. HP did a great set of advertising a while back...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 01/08/2007

Yahoo! Messenger for Windows Vista

Yahoo has posted short video about Yahoo Messenger for Windows Vista. It looks really nice, and does...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 01/08/2007

Keep up with Microsoft CES announcements on the Microsoft @ CES blog

The title pretty much sums it up. https://www.microsoftatces.com will cover all our activity at CES.

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 01/06/2007

Report on the performance impact of Desktop Composition

Ars Technica picked up a report on a study on Windows Vista performance that was conducted at...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 01/06/2007

Off topic – Doogie Howser Sings!

A colleague in the office sent me this link. My wife and I have started watching a sitcom on CBS...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 01/04/2007

CSS Cheat Sheet

Lifehacker points to a handy CSS Cheat Sheet this morning. It's funny – stuff like this can be...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 01/03/2007

Make your car look like a car form Cars!

Autoblog links to a neat write-up about how to make a photo of your own car look like Lightning...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 01/02/2007

Snap Anywhere

I just discovered Snap Anywhere's link preview service, and decided to try it out on my blog. If you...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 01/02/2007

A new job and a new look!

Several weeks ago, I started a in a new role at Microsoft as a program manager on the Expression Web...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 12/20/2006

Heuristics for enabling Aero

If you're a system builder or just building a pc for yourself, and you want to make sure that your...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 12/08/2006

DPI Scaling in Windows Vista

Someone posted a question via the blog recently asking about how Windows Vista supports high DPI...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 12/02/2006

Shipped!

It's done! Windows Vista has released to manufacturing! The Windows Vista page on Microsoft.com has...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 11/08/2006

features that didn't make it into vista

Dave has an interesting list of these over on the shell blog. Most enjoyable to read. :-)

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 10/10/2006

colorization improvements for maximized windows

One question (complaint really) we've gotten for quite some time with Windows Vista has been that...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 10/06/2006

exposé using DWM API

Greg Schecter has been blogging extensively about the DWM API's in Windows Vista lately. It's...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 09/25/2006

Arrested Development

MSN Video will be hosting the entire 3 season run of Arrested development on MSN Video. Awesome.

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 07/27/2006

Dissecting my WinHEC talk

I got an email recently about a post on a third-party discussion board regarding my talk at WinHEC....

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 07/06/2006

Photographing Fireworks

Sean Alexander pointed me to this great article about photographing fireworks. Timely.

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 07/04/2006

Computerworld’s Top 20 Reasons Why Windows Vista Will Be Your Next OS

Computerworld has a comprehensive write-up on Windows Vista that just went up a couple days ago. One...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 06/29/2006

Traveling with your Windows PC? Try SpeedSwitchXP

Chad Essley’s blog pointed me to SpeedSwitchXP. A great little utility for managing your CPU’s...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 06/16/2006

Closing windows, learned behaviors, and the forward-slash key

I just read Jensen’s post about the history of the close button and it made me chuckle. You see,...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 06/09/2006

Off topic: inexpensive mini-rc airplanes!

A friend just sent me a link to Raiden Tech Inc., who make some neat little remote control...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 06/08/2006

Take Windows Vista and Office 2007 for a test drive!

The Windows Vista site on Microsoft.com has all the details on getting signed up for the Windows...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 06/08/2006

The only thing cooler than the Halo 3 trailer at E3…

…is this video the folks at Bungie produced about the making of the trailer. I can’t wait for this...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 06/08/2006

Hack your router

UPDATED: fixed the link -now it points to the same article LifeHacker was linking to (I can't find...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 06/08/2006

Seema’s Blogging!

Seema is a program manager on my team focusing on 2d & 3d graphics in Avalon. She’s started her...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 06/08/2006

How to get “glass” into your application using WPF or WinForms

The great thing about working at a company the size of Microsoft is that sometimes people get things...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 06/05/2006

iTunes and QuickTime updated to be compatible with Aero

Back in February, I posted about some compatibility issues various applications may have with Aero,...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 06/04/2006

Plays For Sure hat-trick: WMP11+URGE+Clix

Windows Media Devices have been getting a whole lot of really positive press lately. CNet stacked...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 06/04/2006

Responding to comments on podcasting

No question that this whole process is way more difficult than what's available with iTunes (I'm...

Author: Kam VedBrat Date: 06/04/2006

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