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Steve Jobs

6October2011GeekTieGuyPersonal

From the Whole Earth Catalog October 1974, actually titled â€œWhole Earth Epilogâ€, Page 324. Founded by Stewart Brand. Mentioned by Steve Jobs in his commencement address at Stanford University in 2005. Thanks for reading! It looks like you’re new here. Welcome! If you like what you see, I encourage you to subscribe to my RSS

A brief history of five TouchSmart generations–pioneering ideas for Windows 8

26September2011GeekTieGuy30 CommentsAgile, HP TouchSmart, Microsoft, Opinion, Software, Software development, Windows 7, Windows 8, WPF

A few weeks ago I attended Microsoftâ€™s BUILD conference to get ready for whatâ€™s coming in Windows 8. As I was sitting in the first dayâ€™s keynotes and big picture sessions, I couldnâ€™t help but think back on the work HP has done with its TouchSmart software and notice areas where the TouchSmart software pioneered

Custom RSS feeds for BUILD 2011 videos

17September2011GeekTieGuyUncategorized

Now that //build/ is over, lots of people want to download the sessions they missed because there was an ocean of stuff being presented and you couldnâ€™t possibly catch it all live. One way to do this is to use a PowerShell script (I found one here). Hereâ€™s the script code in case you donâ€™t

WebOS and Windows Phone 7 development – Part 2: Windows Phone 7

11August2011GeekTieGuy1 CommentMicrosoft, Software development, Windows Phone 7

This is part two of a “miniseries” on my forays into mobile development. Part one is here. My interest in Windows Phone 7 development grew partly out of my experience with writing a simple app for WebOS and partly out of conversations with a friend at work who was really excited about what at the