Smart objects
Tuesday, March 03 2009 - smart-objects
I was watching yesterday the Microsoft Office Labs 2019 Vision . The common theme throughout both videos was the ubiquity of the smart objects. For an example, take a look at 2:20 in the second video, where the actor looks at a PDA-like object and then detaches the top half of it to get two separate devices that interact, one as a main display and one as a secondary display offering auxiliary function (in that particular case it looked like a location based service). This really reminded me of the Siftables scenario. Except that Siftables targets kids. Than again, in ten years the kids that play...
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Different ways to use Live Sync
Monday, March 02 2009 - live-sync, cloud
Technorati Tags: cloud , live sync I’ve been using Live Sync for the almost four years, from before Microsoft bought Foldershare. It’s been slowly creeping into my everyday life more and more, until today I realized that I am so used to the personal cloud I’ve built with it that I can’t even remember what the life before it was. Well, almost :-) I’ve decided to enumerate here the things I am using Live Sync for. If you have other ideas, shout out to francip at Twitter. 1. Live Sync of documents The first thing I use Live Sync for is the classic one - I am sharing the...
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Graffiti and Windows Live Writer
Saturday, July 12 2008
I've been trying WLW on and off for some time now, but I've never actually got to use it regularly. I guess I just couldn't get into it given I wasn't blogging quite often. however, since I have a brand new blog :-), it just seems natural to give WLW another try. After couple of test posts, I noticed couple of small things, but nothing too annoying: - I am still not sure how WLW will work with Graffiti's hierarchical categories. I guess for now I'll just have to create new categories from Graffiti. Just in case. - Trying to post the draft and edit online opens a new post in Graffiti, not the draft...
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New blog home
Tuesday, July 01 2008
After several years of occasional blogging on MSDN and Spaces , I decided it's about time for me to merge my professional and personal blogs under a new roof. Aside from increasing the chances that I'll post a bit more often now that I have to manage only one blog, hosting my own content gives me a lot more flexibility and control over the format and the structure of what I publish. Welcome to my new blog! :-)
