Vikram’s “Muse”

“And this one thing is what gives the confidence, however out of place this confidence might seem, to be absolutely unworried about the permanence of this bond. How can you somehow lose your reflection?” - Vikram

And finally - The Mac Tablet

There was a period in time, between working with Microsoft Research at Caltech and working for Microsoft now, when I worked on all sorts of non-microsoft things. We were building a new open source media experience for unix and linux (and it's community) and I was having a ton of fun ...

Mac Tablet at WWDC

Okay... everyone is having fun making claims about all the fun stuff coming out at WWDC. Here is my totally unsubstantiated prediction: The Mac Tablet is coming! Now that it's out of the way, I do hope they put out a Macbook Pro that's updated to Merom and with a two ...

Asus Tablet and UMPC make an appearance at Computex

Just came across coverage of Asus's offerings that were on display at Computex. PC Perspective has comprehensive coverage of Computex and here they have details on W7J, R1 tablet and the R2 UMPC. This Asus R1 model is the upcoming release featuring the tablet PC concept, as you can easily see. ...

In search of the perfect notebook (Updated 6/10)

Everyone knows that I am a big Tablet PC fan. From the time when I worked with MSR on ink related stuff and the early Tablet teams I have championed Tablets. I even started one of the first tablet software companies – and toted around the CalTech campus one of ...

January 24th 2008
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Troubleshooting driver problems in Vista

This is a problem that has confounded and caused no end of trouble to me and several friends/colleagues. Now that I seem to have found a fairly reliable solution, I wanted to highlight it here. Problem Symptom: Vista fails to find drivers for devices - typically USB devices. Often these ...
November 26th 2007
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Forever Star

As someone said on TV recently, "I don't want to give an eulogy because that would be acknowledging that he is gone" - I have been trying to block out this reality for a little while now. The last email I got from the man who I have often ...
September 18th 2007
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All ur Translation are belong to Us

Mike tells me that this is what he translates every time he finds a new translation service. So, I decided that I would run it through the new translator service that went into silent beta recently. German: Alle ur Übersetzung sind gehören uns Arabic: كلّ [أور] ترجمة ينتسب إلى نا French: Toute la ...
June 2nd 2007
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Business Models for India - Recycling

There are two kinds of disappointments to those with an entrepreneurial bent. One - the "in retrospect" kind and another - the "ideated but un-executed" kind. The first kind is where you look at something that just happened and say "that is so obvious", and the second kind is where ...
May 30th 2007
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Surface is here!

Sometimes some products need little introduction or explanation. They easily capture your imagination and make you say - "I want one!" Here is one such truly cool product from Microsoft: Microsoft Surface.  Lately there has been a TON of news around touch computing TED Multitouch demo, iPhone and so forth. I ...