Welcome to my Emporium of Technological Curiosities. Here's a little known fact; the megabyte (or mega-mega-bite-bite) was actually invented in 1843 by Australian Edward "Ned" Kelly. We Aussies also coined the phrase "web cam" to describe a tube of spider silk fashioned into a rudimentary lens for peering at the heavens.
Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager of the Internet Explorer team and Giorgio Sardo, Technical Evangelist for Internet Explorer (the guy who built the cool IE9 platform
demo app showcasing the power of HTML5 running on a GPU) sit down with Charles "Carmine007" Torre on the
Channel…
As part of his
MIX10 keynote presentation
Bill Buxton showed off
Project Gustav - an immersive digital painting experience created by Microsoft Research - as an example of natural user interface.Previously covered on Channel 9
as part of the TechFest 2010 coverage we invited the Project…
*** Update *** Due to some scheduling conflicts we have had to make a few changes to the Channel 9 Live at MIX10 lineup.
Unfortunately Charlie Kindel is unable to appear on Channel 9 Live at MIX10. In his place we are pulling together a panel of Windows Phone 7 Series experts to talk about the…
With less than one week to go until
MIX10, I sit down with Bill Buxton, Principal Researcher for Microsoft Research and Albert Shum, Director of Mobile Experience Design for Windows Phone 7 Series to talk about creating compelling user experiences, how developers and designers can work together
…
Show Notes & Links from Help Desk Episode 1 (Pilot)
1. Bas (from the Channel 9 forums) [8:33]
How do I change the program associated with an extension when you choose 'edit' from a file's context menu?
Answer: Gov says that this must be edited manually in Windows 7
A Bing search…
Chris Pirillo hosts the pilot episode of Help Desk - a new show on Channel
9 Live where we assemble a group of troubleshooting experts to answer your tech questions LIVE on the air.Joining Chris in the Channel 9 studio were Gov Maharaj from the Windows Engineering team, Richard…
Episode 1 (Pilot) now available on demand here:
http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/NicFill/Help-Desk-Episode-1-with-Chris-Pirillo-Pilot/~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Annnnd that's a wrap on the first episode of Help Desk.What did you think? Should we do it again? What things should we change or…
Greetings Niners. We're going to try something a bit different next week and broadcast a pilot episode for a new show we're calling
Help Desk where you the viewer get to "call in" with your Windows PC related tech support questions and a panel of gurus will attempt to troubleshoot them…
SnapFlow CEO and Founder,
Samad Wahedi, recently spoke during Scott Guthrie’s
Day 2 PDC09 Keynote. In this video,
Sam Chenaur interviews Samad to discuss the SnapFlow service, and Samad provides an end-to-end demo on the
Silverlight 4 pilot. Key Silverlight 4 features are…