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Top 10 Fresh Machine Installs

Posted By: Larry Larsen | Nov 14th @ 11:37 AM
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I've got a newly formatted laptop in front of me and as I go through the rote process of installing 'the usual suspect' applications that I always do, I'm wondering what applications you install first on your PC after a format. Here are mine in order of install (starting after the Windows Updates), leave us a comment and let us know what your first 10 installs are.

1. Windows Home Server Connector
2. Office Suite
3. Adobe Suite
4. Live Mesh 
5. Windows Live Suite
6. WinRar
7. Video Inspector
8. Sling Player
9. The Brain
10. DIVX | VLC
Tag: digital lifestyle

Get Your Zombie On with COD:W@W

Posted By: Larry Larsen | Nov 12th @ 2:00 PM
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I had the opportunity to play Call of Duty: World at War (PC version) from beginning to end. After the credits started rolling, I went upstairs to get a cold one and heard odd noises coming from my PC. When I got back to my PC, I had * zombies biting at my head. Apparently there is a bonus game at the end of the game you can play with attacking zombies.

It's the typical nightmare: You're in a room with several doors boarded over and an increasing steady stream of slow moving zombies coming for you. You have to shoot, melee, and run to stay alive. As you build points for 'killing' the already-dead, you can buy more powerful weapons that appear on the walls, and you can kick a little coin toward putting pulled-off boards back over the doors and windows to help slow the zombie horde.

More info over at Geeks of Doom, including the news that this level can be played co-op with three friends. Also check out Laura's look at the launch party.[Click to read the full post ]
Tags: Call Of Duty, PC Gaming

Get a Taste of Internet Explorer Mobile 6

Posted By: Larry Larsen | Nov 12th @ 10:17 AM
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Yesterday at Tech-Ed EMEA, Microsoft announced the emulator for Internet Explorer Mobile 6, which will be the next browser for Windows Mobile phones. You can download the emulator here and give it a try with your favorite sites. Featured include full rendering, AJAX, Flash Lite, and Flash support, integration with search, touch and gesturing, and a new navigation model. Check out the Windows Mobile Team Blog for more details.
Tags: mobility, windows mobile

First Look: Live Mesh Client for Mac

Posted By: Larry Larsen | Oct 30th @ 8:28 AM
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Noah Edelstein stopped by and gave us a first look at the Mac client for Live Mesh, so now if you've got some electro-diversity in your home ecosphere, you can drag & drop, share & push all your files to your other machines just like the I'm a PC folks.

If you're already a Live Mesh user, this will be a familiar look for you, although some of the UI has been tweaked to conform with Mac norms. If you're dying to get your Mesh on your Mac, head over to mesh.com and sign-up, so that you'll be ready to be a part of this limited release once it goes live later today.
Tags: Live Mesh, LiveMesh, Mac

Ori Amiga's MeshMobile - Very Cool!

Posted By: Larry Larsen | Oct 30th @ 8:27 AM
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I followed Charles Torre recently to meet with Ori Amiga from the Mesh team and see his "Mesh Mobile". Ori and some other folks tricked out his car with a custom display and PC, controlled with touch, voice, and a Griffin Powermate. It is incredibly cool.

Because his car is 'on the Mesh', Ori can sync his music automatically, and even send an invite to his mechanic to view his telemetry and diagnostics in real time. With the built in navigation he can even share his location with people through Mesh.
Tags: auto, Live Mesh, LiveMesh, MS Auto

First Look: SecondLight

Posted By: Larry Larsen | Oct 29th @ 2:04 PM
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It's hard to top Microsoft Surface, but the brains at Microsoft Research (with help from MS Hardware) certainly did with SecondLight. SecondLight is a variation on the Microsoft Surface computer, the twist is that it can actually project a second image through the first image, which can land on a sheet of paper, a plastic sheet, or anything else semi-transparent that you want to use as a make shift secondary (or third, fourth, fifth) display. Those displays can also have their own multitouch capabilities in the air.

So what does this mean? It means a doctor can use a sheet of paper to dynamically 'cut through' a 3D MRI, or you could even scoop up windows on a surface computer and then interact with them on this lightweight display without altering the original Surface image. We just showed SecondLight at the MSR keynote but last night I got a few minutes with Steve Hodges, Alex Butler, and Shahram Izadi from the SecondLight team and they walked us through how it works. I apologize for how horrible I sound, I lost my voice the day before. Also, we couldn't turn the lights on so it's a little dark. Smiley[Click to read the full post ]
Tags: Microsoft Surface, multi-touch, SecondLight

First Look: Windows 7 Screenshots

Posted By: Larry Larsen | Oct 28th @ 10:27 AM
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You might have noticed that the version of Windows 7 given out at PDC is a pre-beta developer preview. You might also notice that this copy looks a lot like Vista. No doubt you're wondering what the post-pre-beta Windows 7 will look like, so we've secured and uploaded some Windows 7 screenshots for you to check out. See them here.
Tag: Windows 7

Take a Look at Some New Microsoft Gaming Hardware

Posted By: Larry Larsen | Oct 22nd @ 12:12 AM
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Channel 8's Max Zuckerman has a two part special (one | two) with Mega-Microsoftie Stefan Weitz. In part one you can see the SideWinder X6 keyboard, part two will give you a peek at the SideWinder X5 and the original SideWinder mouse. Be sure to check out the end of the second video, you might be landing your hands on one of those keyboards before the rest of us.
Tags: Gaming hardware, Sidewinder

Smart Driving 10 Years Out

Posted By: Larry Larsen | Oct 14th @ 12:34 PM
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Autoblog has a post about a new Audi dash system called Travolution that establishes communication between your car and traffic lights. The system will tell you what speed you need to maintain so you don't have to stop at the light, and no braking means better gas mileage and reduced emissions. Currently the pilot program is only running in Ingostadt, Germany.

The system requires a module retrofit on the traffic light to communicate with the dash system, so don't look for this in the short term, but as more cars arrive with in-dash computers (like Microsoft Sync) the possibility is only a software update away. What would be even better is a two-way communication system so that a traffic light can understand which side of the light is backed up the most and help alleviate some of that congestion and intelligently synchronize with other traffic lights.[Click to read the full post ]
Tags: , cars, MS Auto

Skyfire Mobile Browser Open to Public

Posted By: Larry Larsen | Sep 24th @ 9:03 AM
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Skyfire has opened their beta to the public and released an update. This is the first mobile browser to support full web browsing, supporting AJAX, Flash, Windows Media and Silverlight. You can zoom in and out of webpages with a double tap or by using the 1 and 3 keys on your phone. Now you can watch Channel 10 videos right from your cellphone.

The 0.8 version has better video quality, you can download content (images, etc..), the zooming was improved, and the new version launches faster and auto-reconnects. Skyfire's 'Super Bar' combines URL and search into a single auto-completing text box, and you can send a web page by text message to anyone in your contacts.

The browser will give you a little alert when there is a mobile version of a site available, which is nice for faster loading, but really you don't need it as this browser is the current flagship when it comes to seeing a page on a cellphone as it was meant to be seen on a desktop.[Click to read the full post ]
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