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Thirsty Developer Show - Vista Gadget, WPF, and UC

A little while ago, I sat down with Larry Clarkin to record an episode of the Thirsty Developer about the Office Communicator Vista Gadget project that we recently published on CodePlex. I just finished listening to the podcast - it never gets any less weird hearing your own voice - and it turned out...

Posted to George Durzi (Weblog) by gdurzi on 09-23-2008
WhereTheEL: Tracking the Chicago CTA "El" System

Try the WhereTheEL alpha The past few weeks I have been spending some of my days creating a project we have discussed here at Clarity for quite some time: live tracking the trains of the Chicago "EL" system. Currently GPS data is not yet available for individual trains, so we decided to leverage...

Posted to Steve Holstad's "the bright lights" (Weblog) by sholstad on 07-22-2008
MSDN geekSpeak show on 5/21 at 2pm CST

I'm going to be a guest on MSDN geekSpeak this coming Wednesday at 2pm CST, the topic is Contextual Collaboration Using Unified Communications . We're going to discuss how to communications-enable an application by going through a couple of demos that we built for this year's UC track at...

Posted to George Durzi (Weblog) by gdurzi on 05-19-2008
OpenSocial Google API Release taking on Facebook

Today is the target launch date for Google's OpenSocial, a programming API targeting social networks such as Orkut, LinkedIn, Friendster, Plazo & more. This move is intended to challenge the stranglehold Facebook currently is developing with social network programmers. I'm not much of a Facebook...

Posted to Steve Holstad's "the bright lights" (Weblog) by sholstad on 11-01-2007
Apple to provide SDK & allow 3rd party apps on iPhone

Wow, it's been awhile, and I apologize for the delay in posts. I took some time off to get married and head off to Greece... amazing times. Now that I'm back, I thought I'd take a moment to pass on some interesting news: Apple is releasing a first SDK in February that will allow developers to create...

Posted to Steve Holstad's "the bright lights" (Weblog) by sholstad on 10-18-2007
New Clarity blog launched

Hey all, we've launched a new blog at Clarity: A Motorola Q phone tips & tricks blog. My colleagues at Clarity have been working like crazy to build this wealth of information...check it out: Q-Tips thanks! steve

Posted to Steve Holstad's "the bright lights" (Weblog) by sholstad on 06-07-2006
Utility List Envy....my favorite three apps

I know as well as anyone that Scott Hanselman posted the world's all-time best tool list, which I use all the time to find certain utility programs. I've whittled my favorites down to only three, but they are all free, and good enough that I put them on my relative's systems when I am doing routine maintenance...

Posted to Steve Holstad's "the bright lights" (Weblog) by sholstad on 05-22-2006
Samsung T809

Finally, after 3 years, I've broken down and purchased a new cell phone...I went with the Samsung T809 from letstalk.com . So far, I really love the display and the features of this phone...the phone's display is the best I've seen, and this weekend I compared this phone to a buddy's new Razr, and the...

Posted to Steve Holstad's "the bright lights" (Weblog) by sholstad on 04-10-2006
NCAA Live Video feeds

Not that I would EVER do this, but if you check out http://www.ncaasports.com/ , all games are available to watch for free via streaming video. i signed up as a VIP, and its pretty great... Tech wise, the video looks really good for a free service, and the audio is fine. you can even hear the announcers...

Posted to Steve Holstad's "the bright lights" (Weblog) by sholstad on 03-16-2006
Hey, your ringtone sucks. Yes, yours.

Here's my favorite website of the week: http://mobile17.com After creating a free account and specifying your phone model and provider, Mobile 17 allows you to upload any mp3 you like, specify the start time & duration, and they will create and send you your new ringtone. Did it work for me? No,...

Posted to Steve Holstad's "the bright lights" (Weblog) by sholstad on 03-02-2006

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