Time Warner is offering $5 off on Internet connection if users subscribe to their cable services. Signs of Internet streaming affecting traditional cable TV are all true.
Gartenberg backs Steve Jobs’ marketing claim of a post-PC era. I say there’s none. The PC is still the same, does the same but we interact differently.
System design decisions aren’t random, there is quite a bit of thought behind each of them. As bloggers/influencers we need to look into things before jumping the gun.
The browser is now the desktop. Most of our daily computing activities can be done via the browser and traditional computing is undergoing a transition.
I find geo-location based services to be quite fascinating. Windows 7 brought with it themes and geo-location sesnor APIs, mixing both to have themes change based on geo location has been lingering on in my mind for long. Once Long and Rafael released Geosense, I realized this could quite well be possible without depending on GPS hardware.
I call this application GeoThemes. The idea is quite simple, you can set themes for specific locations, a different theme for work or college and a different one for your residence. A simple mock up of the application:
Microsoft Research has released a utility called JoulesMeter that provides information about the power consumed by your PC. GPU-Z and Real Temp give heat and temperature info about the GPU and CPU, respectively.
A quick review of Norton 360 v4 and give away of a Norton 360 v4 box pack.
Changes, improvements and new features in the recently leaked Windows Live Wave 4 Windows Live Mail.
Some thoughts on Windows Phone 7 Series platform and comments made by Mozilla, John Gruber about copy/paste in Windows phone and the iPhone 4 OS
At MIX10 a touch enabled open source ebook reader for books sourced from Project Gutenberg was demonstrated. Books.Show was built with Microsoft.