Excited about the release dates of your favorite software (Office 2010, Visual Studio 2010, Adobe Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver, Illustrator CS5)? Here’s a list of upcoming software release dates that us geeks would like to mark out on our calendars!   Visual Studio 2010 – 22nd March 2010 Current Status: RC (release candidate) http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010/default.mspx Microsoft...

Have you always pressed Ctrl+Alt+Delete to get the task manager? In Windows 7 or Vista you’re brought to a login screen like page offering you multiple options. Pressing Ctrl+Shift+Escape gets you directly to the task manager instead. Here, you can close applications in the applications tab and processes in the processes tab, but be careful which processes you close. In general, Windows doesn’t...

In my opinion, a revolutionary set of ideas that if adopted and implemented well will change computing we know. Now we interact with the computer using the mouse and multitouch. This expands on multitouch! See the video after the break. 10/GUI from C. Miller on Vimeo.

Google has recently purchased 3 companies and expect to receive great new services from our friendly search giant soon! Picnik is an online image editor, DocVerse enables you to work on Google Docs(and have its collaboration functionality) from within Office and Aardvark provides ‘human’ answers to your questions. Here we take a look at these 3 services! Picnik Picnik makes your photos fabulous...

WPF provides a powerful foundation for amazing animation effects (hopefully GPU accelerated). Here’s part 2 of my roundup on a few easily done effects you can add to your project. In this part we take a look at some powerful transition libraries.   Fluid Kit Fluid Kit contains a transition container that enables rich transitions between views. The transitions themselves are pluggable...

WPF provides a powerful foundation for amazing animation effects (hopefully GPU accelerated). Here’s part 1 of my roundup on a few easily done effects you can add to your project. Fade, Wipe, Slide … they’re all here! Slide/Wipe transition for your Windows in WPF Ever wanted to slide or wipe in your windows in WPF? Ever wanted that powerpoint wipe transition effect for your windows? Here’s...

Ever wanted to slide or wipe in your windows in WPF? Ever wanted that powerpoint wipe transition effect for your windows? Here’s how to do it in WPF and in XAML. First of all set an opacity mask for your window: <Window.OpacityMask> <LinearGradientBrush StartPoint="1,0" EndPoint="0,0"> <GradientStop Offset="0" Color="Black" x:Name="BlackStop"/> ...

Ever needed a solution for putting some order to the huge amount of media files (pictures, videos and music) you have on your computer? Want to create reports? Want to record what you’ve loaned out? DataCrow is a multiplatform (Java based) software which helps you upkeep your media collection. http://www.datacrow.net/index.html Data Crow is the ultimate media cataloger and media organiser. Always...

Ever wanted to access files on your iPhone or iPod Touch like how you do on a USB flash drive? iPhone Explorer is a free software that just works. No need to sync with iTunes anymore, which can be troublesome sometimes. Just drag and drop files in to this software and it transfers them for you. It’s compatible with Mac OSX and Windows. Want to put your iPhone or iPod Touch in disk mode? Use an...

If you ever tried to add a animated GIF to your image control in WPF, you’d be disappointed to find that it doesn’t play and merely shows the first in your image sequence. Here’s a combined list of ways and work arounds for this problem.   Here’s the best solution I found, a working animated gif control (host): Written by Greg E. Wilson on Pragmatic TSQL Programmer. http://www.solidrockstable.com/blogs/PragmaticTSQL/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=37 The...