Anith Gopal

If you look around for Kinect SDKs, you’ll find that there are at least three frameworks ( OpenNI , CL-NUI , and the official PrimeSense NITE ) to play with. For me, this is all too much to suss out, so I’m delighted to report that Microsoft Research will be releasing a non-commercial Kinect SDK in Spring 2011.  Rob Knies at MSR gives us the skinny: Ever since the November launch of Kinect for Xbox 360 , enthusiasts and academic researchers alike have expressed their excitement and intense interest in the possibilities created by the product’s ability to enable users to bring games and entertainment to life without using a controller.

Today’s guest blogger is Access MVP Garry Robinson, who offers the Smart Access collection of articles at http://www.vb123.com/kb . Here’s a great tip from the Smart Access collection that I used recently. I needed the count of rows in a subform to display on the main form.

Well, Microsoft made the big announcement on Monday and the dust has settled! I’ve briefed several of my customers and they all love the direction we are taking with the O/S, UI and the integrated experiences (XBOX Live, etc). Next week, I’m switching gears a little to discuss some of the great things Windows phone 6.5 brings to the table <today> and some of the cool devices that are on the horizon

About a month ago, we posted a Power Tip from Edwin Blancovitch about creating shortcut menus by using VBA .

Dopo aver introdotto lo Smooth Streaming nell’area ad alta qualità dell’offerta di video on demand del sito RAI TV , RAINET ha avviato la sperimentazione della versione beta per lo streaming live di questa tecnologia, trasmettendo in diretta su internet a qualità HDTV le partite della Nazionale Italiana alla Confederation Cup. Di seguito un’immagine del player utilizzato per la prima partita: La sperimentazione è realizzata in collaborazione con Inlet Technologies produttore degli encoder utilizzati…( read more )

Once of the most interesting trends in the web application space has been a refocus on user experience improvements. Often times Access gets a bad reputation for not keeping up with the times from a look and feel perspective. Our good friend Brandon from OpenGate Software created a great white paper (with sample database) on how to bring these improvements to your existing Access databases

Once of the most interesting trends in the web application space has been a refocus on user experience improvements. Often times Access gets a bad reputation for not keeping up with the times from a look and feel perspective. Our good friend Brandon from OpenGate Software created a great white paper (with sample database) on how to bring these improvements to your existing Access databases

I tried HealthVault today, as well as Google Health. The following qualified opinion is from a user’s perspective and probably contains factual errors because I didn’t understand the products’ designers’ intent. Also, this is just my first impression.

Access MVP Albert Kallal has developed a Ribbon class object that you can use to simplify modifying Ribbon commands at runtime. The office ribbon is an amazing new interface. The problem with the ribbon is that takes a lot of code to change the ribbon at runtime.

I’m a pretty good speller . If I want to show impatience, I will type very fast and make no attempt to fix the typographical errors. Here’s an example: Somebody asked me what the correct name is for a particular user interface element

Just wanted to take a moment to highlight Mike Swanson’s amazing theme pack for Windows 7. Mike is a colleague, friend who works just down the corridor from me. His primary role with the company is as a content owner for our developer conferences (he’s responsible for the MIX09 keynotes)

Ok I know this blog is not about Windows but I thought I’d share the love. To me it looks like as is someone has combed through the entire user experience and fixed most of the stuff that bothered me.