This one was cool enough to keep me up at night with an X-acto knife and double-sided tape. Fotomo is the art of taking pictures of a scene, printing it out, cutting and folding into a three-dimensional construct of the scene. This link will give you an overview and a sample photo to start with. It…

Via our good friend Charles Torre over at Channel 9: I had the pleasure of chatting with Ray Winninger and Beth Goza yesterday about MIX07. They know a little bit about MIX since they are two of the folks who are running the show, which includes thinking up the details behind the event,…

The MIX07 Sandbox is the place to Experience the technologies you learn about at MIX. If you're a developer, you can get your hands into code and build things that you'll be able to take away with you when the event ends. Designers, you can dig into a set of tools that will make your life easier…

Last week saw a fair bit of chatter on the msdn about developing, testing, and designing software (surprise surprise). Shane Morris will be hosting talks on the, “Age of User Experience – Sydney, Brisbane (2) and Melbourne.” If you’re in Australia in a couple weeks go check out demos of WPF, WPF/E,…

If you have ever worried about the manageability of a Service Oriented Application you are most certainly not alone. My colleague Mark Baciak has felt your pain and probably knows of pains you haven’t even begun to feel yet. In his role as an architect in Microsoft IT, Mark developed a framework…

This morning the Windows Business Group announced two new ways to deploy Vista in enterprise scenarios, both of which seem to be targeted at a return to 70’s cool. The first is simply a change in the EULA that allows for Vista to be used on diskless machines. This agreement allows customers to…

The Inquirer is reporting that Microsoft is making the boldest move yet into an existing market: coffee. Windows Vista WOWffee is certainly on the menu in this Bangalore coffeehouse, but is it really a new SKU? I'm not at liberty to say, but let me sit back with a cup of Windows Vista Ultimate…

Ladies and gentlemen, I introduce to you the WORLD'S FIRST massively multi-player online sports game. Thats right- real time action, real hitting, real slides and real catches...all being controlled by different people scattered across the globe. I had a chance to hit a few questions back and…

July 31 2007: Update from Bill Crow: This is a pretty exciting day for all of us working on HD Photo.  Today, the Joint Photographic Expert's Group (JPEG) announced a new work item for the standardization of a HD Photo as a new file format called JPEG XR (XR is short for "extended…

Clint Rutkas decided it was a good idea to drop 1000 super bouncy balls onto his CTO.  His rig has a Control Anything USB relay board, a slightly modified ceiling tile, and a drill. It uses the .Net SerialPort object to interface with the relayboard and was remotely executed through Remote…