This month's Java Developer's Journal "takes it up a notch" in terms of betraying the best service to the readers for advertising bucks. For awhile, JDJ has been selling portions of its cover space to advertisers, imitating the snap-off "belly band" that costs a little more but doesn't actually interfere …
more ...Ink blogging with text recognition. Metaweblog API. App & code coming soon...
Blogged on a Tablet PC
more ...Has anyone programmed Radio Userland using C# or VB.NET? I don't want to get involved in religious wars about blogging APIs, all I want is an example that shows how to create a blog post using .NET objects like HttpWebRequests. My first attempt just timed out and Google isn't …
more ...Oh, by the way, can I suggest a Let's Bash Class-Action Lawsuits Day? I just received some notices from the California-Microsoft settlement: \\(1.1 ***billion** dollars*?, *gee, maybe I'll get some real money... let's see...* \\)16 for each Windows or MS-DOS operating system, \\(29 for each Office... *oh, and if …
more ...Philip Greenspun had Let's Bash Microsoft Day over the weekend and I couldn't resist Scoble-baiting. Sure enough, Scoble defended the Outlook / VBA security model: "...it's impossible to double-click on executables in Outlook 2003, so the chances you'd get a virus now are very small...." Oh dear, now I am worried …
more ...I love the Internet. I just spent the past, oh let's see, 1:22 trying to figure out why the "OK" Button in my .NET CF program disappears when I recycle a dialog a bunch of times. So finally I Google for the problem and, boom!, I discover that it's …
more ..."Alternate Programming Languages for .NET" got approved as a BOF gathering at the PDC! Since I'll be the host, I guess now I really do need to get a room...
more ...Is there ink-recognition relevance to the rsereach at an Elingsh uinervtisy, taht seowhd it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are? Should word recognizers try to exploit a similar strategy, concentrating on recognizing the initial and ending strokes of an ink group, the length of the …
more ...Your tax dollars at work: the latest PC Magazine reports "Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory have developed software that can detect extremely tiny differences -- smaller than a fraction of a pixel -- between two digital images...."
Update: PC Mag's description is wildly …
more ...All the Tablet bloggers are pitching in ideas for Microsoft's internal Power Toys competition (it's so easy to think of software). Loren's suggested a "snap on dwell" tool and Peter a "pen scrolling tool." So my suggestion is that if you can't pull off a fully customizable and skinnable tablet …
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