Thursday, September 02, 2010
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The third and finale concept video in the Microsoft XUI series, “Play”, has now been officially published online by Invivia, the makers of the video. In contrast to the previous “Home” and “Work” videos released over a year ago, it is by far the most bizarre and incoherent of them all. Although August de los [...]
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
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Bringing multi-touch technology to the desktop mice might seem trivial but Microsoft Research doesn’t just want to stop at a couple gestures. A group of researchers there have been thinking of new ways to redefine the dated but familiar traditional mice interaction model with new multi-touch-enabled ones. In their report “Design and Evaluation of Interaction [...]
Friday, August 27, 2010
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During my last day at TechEd Australia 2010, I spotted this interesting image flashed briefly on one of the promotional video loops for Windows Phone 7 at the Microsoft booth. On closer inspection, it appears to be a screenshot of the upcoming MyPhone portal on Windows Live for Windows Phone 7. Although it’s fairly hard [...]
Thursday, August 26, 2010
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At TechEd Australia this week, Microsoft’s Peter Torr suggested that the Windows Phone team will ship more sample code after the final release of the Windows Phone 7 SDK to close the last few inches between first-party and third-party applications. Unlike the panoramic and pivot controls which are coming to complete the core SDK, an [...]
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
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During August de los Reyes‘ presentation on natural user interfaces at TechEd Australia 2010 today, he showed off a really interesting video produced internally at Microsoft for the purpose of demonstration a natural user interface prototype with nothing but paper sketches and stop-motion animation. August who references Microsoft Research’s Bill Buxton, the fidelity of prototypes [...]
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
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4:15 AM
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At TechEd Australia 2010 this week, Microsoft is handing out 250 blocks of chocolate with Windows Phone 7-branded packaging at various sessions and activities for correctly answering quizzes. Although they might look like nothing more than ordinary gifts, but for a few lucky people, chocolate is not all you will find inside. For five lucky [...]
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
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1:33 PM
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At the TechEd Australia 2010 keynote today, Microsoft Australia’s Dave Glover took a minute to highlight a few interesting locally-developed Windows Phone 7 applications specifically for the Australian market. The first was TelstraOne, an integrated information hub from the local telecommunications carrier, surfacing general and sports news, Australian weather information and quick access to popular [...]
Sunday, August 22, 2010
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7:38 PM
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When’s the last time an ad gave you a freebie made just for you? Well Microsoft Australia has a cool new ad campaign for Office 2010 that not only lets you customize a magazine cover with your own picture and message, but they’ll actually print it and send it out to you for free. Using [...]
Sunday, August 15, 2010
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3:51 PM
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Perhaps one of many reasons why Windows Phone 7 has captured the attention of so many is because it’s taking the iPhone head-on with attention to detail that people have come to expect only from Apple. During a 30-minute presentation on the topics of “sounds” in Windows Phone 7 by Microsoft’s Matthew Bennett, Senior Sound [...]
Sunday, August 15, 2010
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2:15 PM
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With the developer momentum building behind Windows Phone 7, there’s a lot of work-in-progress applications flying around. Although many of them show a lot of potential, it’s easy to get distracted by the rough edges that is not representatives of the final polished experiences. For those reasons now, this “USGA Shot Tracker” social golf scoring [...]