Scott Guthrie, the General Manager of the .NET Developer Platform team, has a fantastic video up on the ASP.NET website that demos some of the cool features in the ASP.NET AJAX toolset, formerly known as Atlas. At the risk of sounding sycophantic,...
An article on shell revealed goes into a great deal of depth about why the Windows Vista Aero Basic theme looks the way it does. Why does Aero have a solid 1-pixel black border inside the frame, and Aero Basic doesn't? Because the DWM is ren...
From Greek Island Notes: For some incomprehensible reason, sewer pipes in Greece are of such small calibre that toilet paper invariably clogs them up causing a calamitous backup of sewage. So, instead of being dropped into the pan, used toilet pap...
Tantek Çelik and Leah Culver competed in the Yahoo Hack Day competition a couple weeks back, and won a 30GB iPod for their trouble. Their 2nd place-taking hack combined the Yahoo Mail APIs with Flickr and a Greasemonkey script, which would send a ...
No, I don’t think it is. On the contrary, Windows Media Player 11 is actually my favorite media player on the market, handily beating iTunes 7 in terms of speed, usability, and aesthetics. That said, as it was put in MS Tech Today: I’m confused ab...
Khoi Vinh has a three-question interview with Jeffrey Zeldman up on his website. Khoi interviewed Zeldman in advance of an appearance Zeldman will be making at the Small Talks series at AIGA New York, today. Sadly it appears that the talk has been...
In just over a month my least favorite time of year, the holiday shopping frenzy, will begin in earnest. On the 12th, Microsoft announced that “More than 250 hardware and software products from over 50 industry partners have received either the Ce...
I just found this blog entry from Rebellin Woman: Today marked the end of Day 3 where a hacker has had access to my personal Gmail account, and Google has done absolutely nothing to rectify the problem. What really urks me is that yesterday, I ...
Dave Vronay has a post up on shell revealed about features that didn’t quite make it into Windows Vista, like Mimesweeper, not-very-safe Delete and a TECO interpreter for the Start Menu: This was really a great feature, and it was nice to cater to...
Hi there - I am composing this on Thursday, October 12 around 11:30PM Pacific time, in Seattle. At the time this message is published, I will be touching down in Athens, Greece. It will about 9:50 AM in Athens, and I’ll probably be stumbling aroun...