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Create your own frosted glass in VistaMay 03, 2007 at 5:18 AM
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If you're like me, you tend to be impressed by the small things. Mac OS X has Expose and live updates in the dock, Vista has the Flip and live updates too in the start menu and alt-tab. Vista's ability to do this is build into the Desktop Window Manager and actually can be accessed… -
Microsoft at Maker Faire 2007!May 02, 2007 at 11:49 AM 10
Event Recap 2 days + 45,000 Attendees + 5,000 ft2 of Microsoft Makers = 100% Goodness We had an amazing time at Maker Faire this year. It's always so much fun to interact with folks - show all the cool stuff you can build with our tools/technologies, and also get a better understanding… -
Roomba, your home defender systemMay 01, 2007 at 5:23 AM 3
Chris Myers over at isopod design created a home defending system by using a Roomba. He salvaged a red Roomba off Craig's List and gutted out the vacuum. Using Make Magazine's bluetooh tutorial and a bluesmurf bluetooth module from Sparkfun, Chris managed to get the Roomba… -
XNA Gaming Studio Express Refresh and so cleanApr 26, 2007 at 7:08 AM 0
The developers on the XNA Gaming Studio team have just released a new version. A few of the new features are Vista support, Bitmap-based fonts, XACT 3D audio support, customizable thumbnails for the XNA Game launcher and a bunch more. You can grab the new version of XNA Gaming Studio… -
Tracing Rays in c#Apr 25, 2007 at 8:11 AM 1
Luke, a member of the c# team, created a Ray Tracer in c#. What is ray tracing exactly? Well, Wikipedia explains it to be a technique to model the path taken by light by following the rays as the interact with different surfaces. Ok, in English it means you get an extremely… -
LEGO, they do actually have real world applicationsApr 23, 2007 at 5:42 PM 0
Matthias Wandel, an engineer over at Research in Motion, came up with a clever way to test Blackberries under multiple angles and orientations by using LEGO. The device will rotate on an axis by the battery in a circle along with rotate the pager. Is there a single thing LEGO can't… -
Visual Studio Express Orcas CTP is releasedApr 21, 2007 at 10:19 AM 0
Any good software has updates and Visual Studio isn't any different. Microsoft just released a Community Technology Preview of VSE Orcas. Orcas is the code name for the next version of Visual Studio and contains loads of new features. What is new in Orcas? Well, LINQ, Windows… -
I can see through my menus!Apr 20, 2007 at 11:59 AM 1
HARSH_JOSHI has a post over on the MSDN forums on how to create transparent menus and title bars for your applications. The article itself is written in VB.Net and is based off C++, c# and VB implementations. Adding this code into your project is relatively straight forward… -
Got the drive removal detection blues?Apr 18, 2007 at 7:26 AM 1
Jan Dolinay shows over at Code Project how to detect if a removable drive was removed. It also has the ability to detect if drives are inserted as well. Why would such a task be important? If your application has its data being saved to a flash drive or iPod. -
I'm exactly 4.562 feet from the wallApr 16, 2007 at 5:58 AM 1
Want a cheap webcam based laser range finder? Todd Danko did and build two different applications to do it. One is in Visual Basic 6 and the other is in Visual C++. Todd based his application off the UB Robotics project. Using some of the examples from Coding 4…
