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

Miguel in town, Nat posts some cool Beagle demos, Update on Beagle for windows

Went to a cool Eritrean place for dinner and to hang out with Miguel (and a bunch of Mono fans) since he is in town for a few days. Interesting discussions ensued about whether "Thick" applications were getting outmoded by "offline-aware" "Thin" "Rich" web-applications. * phew * In other news, nat's ...

Article on Helix in Linux User and Developer Magazine

Helix was the subject of a recent magazine article. I am quoted a few times in there. HelixArticleLU.pdf (413 KB) (Article appeared in issue 42 of LinuxUser & Developer and was written by Jono Bacon)

Beagle: Opensource Super Searching Goodness

A few linuxworlds ago I had a wonderful conversation with some friends at Ximian/Novell about smart searching that could take into account a great amount of meta data that today's searches ignore. This project is the answer to that question - the team's been working on creating a context aware, multiple ...

RealNetworks Announces New Versions of RealPlayer for Linux and Mac OS X

Both my teams had major releases this month. RealNetworks Announces 13 New Versions of RealPlayer for Linux and Mac OS X for Europe And Asia New Distribution Agreement with Leading Linux Developer in Asia solidifies RealPlayer as the Top Media Player for Linux Desktop; Points to Another Development Success for Helix Community. It ...

June 11th 2009
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Instant Translations in Bing

The Bing instant answer feature powered by Microsoft Translator went live yesterday. I wanted to highlight some tips and caveats. On availability: This has currently been rolled out to all English and Spanish speaking markets. Other language markets will follow shortly. You get the instant answer if your to: ...
March 16th 2009
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Counting down to MIX 09

Our team members have started descending into Las Vegas for MIX09. I will be reaching tomorrow morning, and will be in prep for our sessions and announcement. You can follow the action on twitter. I recall being very impressed with the very first MIX, what with the convergence of designer ...
January 14th 2009
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Installing Windows Seven from a USB disk

I have been running Win 7 builds since last October and I have to say I haven't booted in my other partitions since that time (earlier I used to boot into OSX on one of my laptops, and to other assorted server OS partitions on my other machines). 7 is ...
October 28th 2008
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Quick Notes from the PDC

Great Win 7 demo. For those of us who is into UX, the new UI features are outlined here. Great Touch UI improvements. My next laptop HAS to be a convertible with multi-touch (along with the digitizer). I saw most praise from the audience for the stability ...
April 27th 2008
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Very Astute Article from Steve Gilmor on Mesh

Just Say Yes - Gilmor talks about what Mesh means to the world. If you don't know much about Mesh you can get that here.