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

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 ...

In search of the perfect notebook

Updated Post

THE tablet!

I present to you – what I believe (or at the least hope) will be THE definitive tablet of them all: ASUS R1F (Dual Core) # 13.3" Widescreen Display # Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 # Intel Yonah 2MB L2 Cache - up to 2.33GHz # Up to 2GB DDR2 RAM 667MHz # 80GB/100GB/120GB 5400RPM ...

Gadgetry in Las Vegas

Going from a typical (I am told - last year was dry and that's an anomaly) wet winter of Seattle Las Vegas was a welcoming 60 degrees. Fitting even a small percentage of the CES show floor into my short trip meant very sore feet and back by the end ...

June 11th 2009
Tags: Cool Tools, Technology One Comment

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.