Channel 10's Nic Fillingham
has gone live with a brand new show on Channel 10 focusing on digital photography and imaging called
ShutterSpeed. The idea is simple: make you a better photographer by highlighting techniques to take better photos, help you understand your camera (and camera gear), and showcase ways to edit your photos. As someone who is taking up digital photography as a hobby - I am always on the lookout for any pointers on how to be a better photographer.
In ShutterSpeed's first episode - Nic is joined by several Microsofties who focus on digital photography in the products they work on as well as being photographers themselves:
Bill Crow headed up work on HD Photo prior to heading over to Microsoft Live Labs and helped drive to get HD Photo submitted to become a industry standard (JPEG XR). HD Photo is natively supported in Windows Vista today as well - including in Windows Live Photo Gallery.
Also in ShutterSpeed Episode 1 - Nic visits the home studio of award winning photographer Phil Borges who is a Microsoft Icon of Imaging. You can view Phil Borges' Microsoft Icon of Imaging profile here.
Watch ShutterSpeed Episode 1:
ShutterSpeed Episode 01
The idea is that ShutterSpeed will be a regular series of videos on Channel 10. I look forward to it! If you have any suggestions for any future episodes of ShutterSpeed - send them along to shutterspeed@on10.net. I already got one suggestion: pointers on how to take great night shots. For some reason my night shots never turn out.
Written by Brandon LeBlanc on May 18th, 2008 with no comments.
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Written by Windows Vista Team Blog on May 18th, 2008 with no comments.
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Today Microsoft is unveiling a
technology preview to a really neat new software+services platform called
Live Mesh. Live Mesh is a brand new platform that helps your devices act together through the internet enabling users such as you and me to manage, access, and share their files and applications from nearly anywhere. By bringing user's files, applications, and devices together along with the combination of social networking (such as with news feeds) - Live Mesh creates a unique platform experience.
First and foremost Live Mesh is a new platform. The first phase of the technology preview process provides a foundational experience that exposes core concepts and functionality of the platform. In the near future developers can expect to be able to take advantage of Live Mesh to extend their software to the Web, and their services to the desktop and devices.
Today's technology preview is a pre-Beta release designed to get early feedback to make the platform even better.
I've been lucky to be given the chance to play with Live Mesh for the last couple weeks. I've had a great experience with Live Mesh so far and thought I'd share my experiences with you.
So the first thing I did was logged in to http://www.mesh.com/. Live Mesh of course supports Windows Live ID. After logging in with my Windows Live ID - I am taken to the screen where I can add/remove devices to my "mesh".
To set up folders to sync with my devices in my "mesh" I need to go to my Live Desktop. This is essentially your device in the cloud where I can manage all my Live Mesh Folders when I'm not in front of one of my usual PC or mobile. You create folders in your Live Desktop and choose which devices you want to sync them with (after you add them to your Live Mesh of course). You'll notice I have three PCs added to my Live Mesh.
On my Live Desktop I have three folders I've created. The first Live Mesh Folder I created was the one you see here called "Mesh". I use this folder to toss files that get synced to the Live Mesh cloud - and then synced to all my Live Mesh devices. You'll notice that the Live Mesh folks have tried to present a familiar approach to file management. You can even drag the folder window to any place on your Live Desktop.
After creating a folder on my Live Desktop, I can choose to sync it with specific devices in my Live Mesh. I chose to sync with all devices. Because the Live Mesh client was installed on my PCs, the "Mesh" Live Mesh Folder automatically appeared on the desktop of all of those PCs I chose to sync with.
When I open the "Mesh" Live Mesh Folder on any of my Windows Vista PCs the standard Windows Explorer window opens but with a Live Mesh addition on the right-hand side. The Mesh Bar on the Windows Explorer window lets me access my Live Mesh information for that folder.
Each Live Mesh Folder has a News Feed where it displays a history of information like when files were added, when they were removed, as well as who added them and notes. This experience exists both on my Windows desktops as well as my Live Desktop.
A Live Mesh client sits on my Windows PCs in the taskbar. I can use it to quickly access my Live Mesh "stuff" (Live Mesh Folders, devices and news).
I have three tabs that you can switch between my news feed for all my Live Mesh Folders, my Devices, and my news.
From the Devices tab, I can use Live Mesh Remote Desktop to easily access any of my PCs. Building on the awesome Windows Remote Desktop technologies - I can login to any of my PCs running Live Mesh. You'll see that Live Mesh Remote Desktop also has a Mesh Bar.
I can also login to my PCs remotely using Live Mesh via the website as well.
I continue to use Live Mesh for syncing data and the overall all-out access to my information and devices. The above is just a quick overview of my experiences. To quickly recap - Live Mesh provides me with a way to manage and interact with all my data, devices and people.
You can read more about today's Live Mesh Technology Preview announcement from Amit Mital who is the General Manager for Live Mesh on the Windows Live Dev Blog. Keep your eyes on the Live Mesh Blog as well. Noah Edelstein, Group Program Manager for Mesh Platform Experiences, has a in-depth post discussing Live Mesh and possibly answering your questions about Live Mesh - like why you should care about this platform experience.
Channel 10's Nic Fillingham has a great hands-on video of Live Mesh worth checking out! Watch it here in Silverlight bliss:
Hands on with Live Mesh
I believe this is Nic's first video since joining the Channel 10 Team. I look forward to seeing more from Nic in the future.
Oh and Jon Udell over on Channel 9 got a chance to sit down with Ray Ozzie to discuss his role as Chief Software Architect and discusses Microsoft's overall software+services strategy.
You can sign up to get an invite to test Live Mesh for yourself here by logging in with your Windows Live ID.
Written by Brandon LeBlanc on April 23rd, 2008 with no comments.
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Keeping a close eye on Microsoft is not exactly an easy task, moreover since the company has entered a new era of translucency over transparency. But at the same time there are a variety of sources orbiting Microsoft and providing enough crumbs from the Redmond feast. The problem in this context is the centralization of information. In this regard, the Microsoft EvNet Dev Team has made available a collection of no less than five gadgets designed to integrate seamlessly with the Windows Vista Sidebar and deliver content from the main videocontent websites focused on the Redmond company.
“Check out this set of Windows Vista Sidebar Gadgets for keeping up to date with the latest content on Channel 8, Channel 9, Channel 10, TechNet Edge, and Mix Online. Features: automatic rotation of latest articles on the site allows you to quickly see what’s new and keep up to date without opening a browser, read articles and view videos right on your desktop or navigate directly to the post and the gadgets work with both Silverlight 1.0 as well as the SL 2 beta,” revealed Ronan Geraghty, a member of the Developer and Platform Group in Microsoft Ireland.
All the gadgets are delivered free of charge and enable Windows Vista RTM and Windows Vista Service Pack 1 to enjoy videos and news from Channel 8, 9, and 10 as well as TechNet Edge and Mix Online. Out of all five, the item designed for Mix Online is without a doubt hitting a peak of relevance during the conference, usually scheduled at the end of March the beginning of April. Edge Technet is a hotspot aimed at IT professionals and is updated with new content quite frequently.
“Channel 10 covers the latest news in new PC hardware and software, mobile gadgetry, photography, videography, and gaming. Keep up to date with the latest and greatest from the Channel 10 team right on your desktop. (…) Check out the latest videos and news from Channel8.msdn.com, Microsoft’s community site for technical students. Covering topics ranging from new programming languages to building a custom PC, C8 is worth a look. (…) Channel 9 is Microsoft’s developer community where you can learn about the latest technology and meet the people behind Microsoft products. Watch videos right on your desktop and hear about all the cool, new up-and-coming technologies,” read the descriptions of the Sidebar gadgets for Channel 8, 9 and 10.
The Windows Vista RTM and SP1 Sidebar Gadgets are available for download via the following links: Channel 8, Channel 9, Channel 10, TechNet Edge, and Mix Online.
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For information on the announcements made from Microsoft at CES this year head on over to Microsoft's CES Virtual Pressroom.
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I've uploaded the final photos from CES I shot to Flickr using Windows Live Photo Gallery. You can check out my photo set here. I've got some great shots up from the Microsoft Product Pavilion. Here are a few of my favorites:
Lots more pictures here!
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While the CES excitement is over... we've got some pretty exciting things coming up post-CES I think you will enjoy. Stay tuned!
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Channel 10 was able to score a high-quality version of the hilarious "Bill's Last Day" video from yesterday's keynote - viewable in glorious Silverlight: Bill's Last Day: The CES Keynote video This is the only official version. Thought you might enjoy Read More......(
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Channel 10 was able to score a high-quality version of the hilarious "Bill's Last Day" video from yesterday's keynote - viewable in glorious Silverlight:
Bill's Last Day: The CES Keynote video
This is the only official version. Thought you might enjoy the video ;-)
I'm posting this from my Samsung Q1 Ultra.
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