- Posted by SondreB on January 30, 2009
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For as long as I can remember, I’ve said that design is half the solution when you’re building software. The same can be said to sound and music in a Hollywood movie: The experience of the sound is essential for a good experience. It's important that the software industry takes charge and improves software design. Read on to learn more...
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- Posted by SondreB on January 15, 2009
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Learn how you can make your own digital thermometer using cheap hardware and simple programming technics. Connect this to your computer at home or office and you can start logging how your temperature changes throughout a day...
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- Posted by SondreB on January 13, 2009
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Microsoft just launched a new technology beta called Microsoft Tag. This is a technology that is valueable to publishers of books, DVDs and other physical objects. It's also something that can be used in advertisments of various sort. I have doubt on the importance of this technology and I'm unsure if it will grow and achive the marketshare it needs to be the future of mobile tagging. Alternatives have existed for many years already...
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- Posted by SondreB on January 5, 2009
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Looking into the future and trying to come up with clues to what will happen, is something a lot of us wish we could do properly. Yet, it's probably one of the hardest thing to do. We thought it was easy a hundred years ago, and if we compare the first tens years in 1900 and the ten years between 2000 and 2010, you'll quickly realize that there is nothing quite like it...
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- Posted by sondreb on December 19, 2008
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Microsoft is getting closer to the final release of Windows Live Essentials 2009 and here are my discoveries from the release candidate that was recently made available. If you don’t care about reading my review, go over to Live and download WLE2009 at http://download.live.com/ Introduction I hav...
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- Posted by sondreb on November 23, 2008
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Abstract: Get a quick introduction on how you can start interacting with the Live Framework APIs using the SDK made available on the Microsoft Connect site. Note: You need access to the Microsoft Connect program to download the Live Framework SDK that will allow you to interact with the Live Framew...
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- Posted by sondreb on November 17, 2008
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Abstract: Learn how to use Windows Live Mesh to carry your Flickr photos with you on your Windows Mobile phone. For years I’ve relied on Flickr as my service for hosting photos that I’m willing to share with friends and others. Yet there has never been a good way of downloading all the Flickr photo...
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- Posted by sondreb on November 5, 2008
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As of late Microsoft have started a new path in their design and user experiences (UX). This is starting to become evident in their Windows Live Essentials package, Windows 7 and their websites. Why is this so important that I’m writing a blog post on the subject? Let me start with some background o...
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- Posted by sondreb on November 4, 2008
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Gøran Hansen tagged me once more, this time he want us to blog about our customization of Visual Studio IDE and third party tools we use in our daily jobs as software developers. To be honest, I rarely customize anything. I rely on few (if any) third party tools within the IDE and just a handful o...
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- Posted by sondreb on October 23, 2008
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In good spirit of the old and warm memories of Uncle Traveling Mack, I decided to write a post on how “Geek of the Year” packs his bag when he’s going to a conference. This time it’s the Professional Developer Conference (PDC08) in Los Angeles, USA. For once I decided to start packing a few days a...
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- Posted by sondreb on October 3, 2008
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Ever since I first read about Microsoft Research’s MyLifeBits project I’ve wanted to have my mobile phone continuously capture photos throughout the day wherever I’m going. The following post will describe how you can make a project that will allow you to save photos at a timed interval to a memory ...
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- Posted by sondreb on October 2, 2008
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Here2 follow a very quick introduction on how to get started with Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio and Lego Mindstorms NXT. If you have attended one of my presentations on robotics or read my presentation, this is a good guide on getting started on your own. This is the quick and dirty guide to ...
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- Posted by sondreb on September 17, 2008
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I have had one of the first versions of Zune for quite some time now and yet again amazed by the updates that Microsoft has thrown towards us users. All their software (and firmware) upgrades so far has been fully supported by the full range of Zune devices. This makes my Zune device a little bit ne...
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- Posted by sondreb on September 13, 2008
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Today I want to take some time to tell you about TED talks. There are still many people who haven't heard about TED, which is an amazing resource where you can tap into the minds of some incredible individuals. You can watch talks on all kinds of themes, ranging from technology, arts, global issues ...
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- Posted by sondreb on September 1, 2008
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We're currently in the starting phase of a big new project and we're already at a steady speed at producing the functionality that we set out to do. Actually we got a very good start, which was contributed by a lot of factors, but one important one is Microsoft Visual Studio Team System. Before al...
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- Posted by sondreb on August 23, 2008
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Following up some of my great friends, Jonas Follesø, Gøran Hansen and others like Pål Fossmo. Paul Stovell was the guy that started it all. Without any further ado here is my Circle of Interest! Check some of the links above for explanation on the terms used in this diagram, but I t...
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- Posted by sondreb on August 23, 2008
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This week the CTO of Intel Corporation delivered a keynote at the Intel Developer Forum, where he laid out some of his predictions of the future and some interesting details on research that Intel is working on. http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20080821comp.htm I have always had a d...
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- Posted by sondreb on May 14, 2008
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When I attended the MVP Global Summit 2008 in Seattle in April, Steve Ballmer asked all the attendees to try using Live Search as their default search engine for one week. I have since then, been using Live Search as my default engine in Internet Explorer. Initially it's been very hard get...
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- Posted by sondreb on April 30, 2008
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PC World ran an article on 18 Features they think Windows should have, but doesn't, and that they think Microsoft should borrow and steal to add them as features in Windows. While the list is great, there are alternatives and mistakes in the article. Here is my own list of alternatives to the 18 fea...
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- Posted by sondreb on April 22, 2008
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Microsoft recently released the first CTP of Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 (RDS). Ever since the first public announcement of Microsoft's endeavor into robotics I was inspired to get deeper into this field. It's always been a huge interest (robotics) of mine and not only the mechanical ...
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- Posted by sondreb on March 30, 2008
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During Easter this year I ordered myself a Sahara i440D Slate Tablet PC from TabletKiosk.com. This was one of my top 3 favorites that I was considering buying (read the Showdown of slate Tablet PCs). You can read the standard specifications on this great tablet PC on TabletKiosk's site, but my cust...
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- Posted by sondreb on March 25, 2008
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Today I decided to upgrade our Windows Server 2008 with the release candidate 0 of Hyper-V (the virtualization engine from Microsoft) and I stumbled upon various issues. The first mistake I did was to download and run the patch without reading all the knowledge base and read me files... not a good...
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- Posted by sondreb on March 7, 2008
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Last night, Microsoft arranged the Heroes Happen Here release party for Visual Studio 2008, Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008. As a part of the event, the National Broadcasting Channel (NRK) wanted to make a story on one of the nominated candidates and they choose me to be part of this. NRK c...
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- Posted by sondreb on February 27, 2008
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HEROES happen {here} is the concept for Microsoft's release of Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008. Part of this launch is the release parties and the Norwegian one happens 6th of March in Oslo. The event has been fully booked for a long time, so it might be hard getting int...
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- Posted by sondreb on February 9, 2008
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If you've read my blog before you'd know that I'm a big fan of tablet PCs and I used to own an HP TC 4200 convertible tablet PC that I loved and spent countless hours "playing" with. Always been a creative person and the tablet PC inspired my to take up my hobby and interest in drawing. J...
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- Posted by sondreb on February 7, 2008
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If you have read my blog before, you might have read my post about Internationalization and localization. Here I go again with the same topic but this time I'm covering 4 different Microsoft products: Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V Windows Live Services (Beta) Microsoft SharedView Beta...
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- Posted by sondreb on February 4, 2008
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If you read my predictions for 2008 and beyond and had a look at the Gizmodo video, then you might have noticed the last CPU on the video had 582,000,000 transistors. The Quad-Core Xeon processors. Now we have entered 2008 and Intel have just launched their new Quad-Core named Tukwila. It's expect...
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- Posted by sondreb on January 12, 2008
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During CES 2008 in Las Vegas, Microsoft and Ford demonstrated the Ford Sync technology (built on Microsoft Windows Automotive) which is starting to appear in certain Ford models. Ford Sync is a technology that allows you to easily integrate your mobile phone and music player with your car and operat...
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- Posted by sondreb on December 10, 2007
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As we are closing the chapter on another early year in the 21st century, I have some thoughts about what to expect from the technologies that arrive next year and what we might possibly see beyond that. As a Microsoft Regional Director for Norway and a Technology Leader in Capgemini Norway, one of ...
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- Posted by sondreb on November 15, 2007
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Recently I made my first publicly released Windows Vista Gadget, named Lyrics Player. This is a mashup gadget that is based on the work by Jonathan Marston. The gadget have already seen more than 9000 downloads and received good reviews. What it does is integrate with your Windows Media Player libr...
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