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If you’ve seen Minority Report and watched with glee as Tom Cruise effortlessly navigates piles of media with lightning speed using only his hands, you’ll immediately recognize Seadragon. Blaise Aguera y Arcas and the team at Windows Live Labs have created an engine for managing large collections…

People often stop me in the streets to ask "Hey Tina, what's life "really" like at Microsoft?  Sometimes I can't even walk outside my house without somebody standing there with a giant neon sign that blinks "What is life "really" like at…

Here at 10 we have a resident shooter whom we call Finley.  Scott Finley to be exact.  He is one of favorite camera men to work with.  Here at 10 as well most of us shoot many of our own segments and are learning how to properly shoot video as we go.  Scott and I spent some time…

A show of hands: Who here among us is storing all of their important data (media and otherwise) in a safe location where it’s constantly accessible, as well as backed up to prevent loss? Not a lot of hands here at the 10 HQ, and probably not many of the rest of you. Well thanks to CJ Saretto and…

We see it all the time.  The passing of the night sky in an episode of "Survivor".  The quick steps of pedestrians making their way through a crowded street corner.  I've been asked by a few poeple about shooting Time-Lapse video, and just for the record I'm no expert…

The goal of the InkSeine project is to completely rethink the user interface for tablet computers. Some people have described InkSeine as "Windows Journal on steroids." But InkSeine goes well beyond Windows Journal, particularly in its features to search from ink and to easily drag…

Community Clips is a portal for viewing, sharing, and discussing informal "how-to" videos (screencasts) on Microsoft Office products. It also includes a client application for easy recording of screen views and voice.

The Popfly Game Creator offers a fun and easy way to create and share personalized games.  Creating a game with Popfly is as simple as selecting actors, specifying a scene, and then defining behaviors that bring the game to life.  With just a few clicks and some creativity  you can…

At Zune Blogger Day today we got an inside peek inside the Zune and I mean an inside peek.  We were there to celebrate the Zune Spring Update Version 2.5 but the Zune team got a bit creative and threw us a few other tidbits.  Here's a look at all things "inner" Zune.

Gapless playback Zune users will now be able to listen to an album without the brief gap between tracks, both on their Zune and the Zune software. Now play the album and the feature is automatically turned on. This is especially important for the continuity of live or electronic music albums.…