Oct
19
2007
I’ve covered alot about the Microsoft Surface and other multi-touch technologies recently but here is another called ThinSight
It comes from Microsoft research at Cambridge and uses infrared transmitters and receivers mounted behind the screen which enables the screen to ’see’ when and where you touch it.
This is an actual off the shelf laptop with has been modified with the new multi-touch [...]
Tags: Microsoft Surface, ThinSight, Touch
Oct
19
2007
Everyone knows that Vista is bloated, its a big operating system because Microsoft have tried to cram every last possible function in to it. Thats not necessarily a bad thing, many people use many functions and Microsoft’s approach is to ensure that most users get what they need out of box.
The mobile device market however [...]
Tags: jkontherun, Microsoft, MinWin, Vista
Oct
18
2007
Pretty much the main reason for migrating my blog away from Blogger.com to a different provider was because of the lack of postingfrom my Windows Mobile smartphone.
Well finally someone has written an application which works with the Gdata API that Blogger uses.
The applications called GBlogger and comes from Pocket Watch Software which are the creators [...]
Tags: Blogger, Blogging, GBlogger, GData, Windows Mobile, XML-RPC
Oct
17
2007
The device that’s had the blogosphere in suspense for the last week or so has had its launch party. The MTube which UltraMobileLife are labelling as an ‘Internet Media Player or IMP is one of the first to market to use the new VIA Mobile-ITX is shown in this video with a full version of Firefox streaming YouTube [...]
Tags: Mobile-ITX, MTube