Duncan Mackenzie

A little while ago, back closer to the Beta 2 release of Vista, I went over to the office of Scott Dart, a member of the team that works on the Vista Photo Gallery. Check out this chat to learn a bit more about how you'll view your pictures on Vista!

Looking for more coverage of the Penny Arcade Expo 2006? Then check out this archive of over 40 posts that Brian Crecente made from the event.

Ah the Penny Arcade Expo 2006, I remember it well... watching Alex St. John light up a cigar on stage, finding the best case mod in the world based on a sentient kitchen appliance, and watching other people play Guitar Hero. Sampy, Tina and I had so much fun at PAX that it couldn't…

Outlook 2007 brings along a wide variety of new calendar features, so I sat down with Hank Leukart from the Office team to go over what's new and interesting, including improvement Sharepoint integration, better sharing of Calendars with folks outside your organization and…

In anticipation of PAX and just because we're fans, Laura and I headed over to Seattle to visit the guys behind Penny Arcade. Check out this video of Mike and Jerry and you'll see how funny they are even outside of their comic strip!

Into eBay, but not interested in hanging around your computer waiting to jump in and snipe that last second bid? Well, now you can bid on auctions with your TV remote! I was down in Las Vegas for the Ebay Developers Conference and I met up with Christoph Buenger from Scendix. Scendix specializes in…

I don't really know what to say about this video. We have coffee now, fresh, rich coffee... and it is a gadget... and we love gadgets.featuring music by Theory In MotionNote that the iCup also appears, briefly, in this video

Geoff Harris from the Windows Media Player team walks us through some of the new features in the current beta release of WMP 11, including the new URGE music service from MTV.

Anyone interested in this? We have a 2mbps WMV version of our videos that we can offer, if people would find that useful.Here are a few recent videos in this format for you to check out:right click and save to disk... you don't want to stream these!Nintendo (2mbps WMV)Sony (2mbps WMV)Microsoft at E3…

So you want to get in shape, but all that running and sweating seems so lo-tech... Never fear, I'll show you how to bring your love of gadgets together with the need to get your body moving. Watch the show to learn about heart rate monitors featuring a new model from Polar and a cool gadget that…