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July 7th, 2008

New Technical Preview Available for Windows Live Writer

One of the tools that has become invaluable to me in publishing posts to my variety of blogs is the Windows Live Writer software that works so brilliantly with WordPress.
There’s a new Technical Preview release available for the software that includes the following features:

Uploading videos to Soapbox
new ways to crop images, including tilting and new […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

June 13th, 2008

Copying Images Out of Outlook

I was reminded today of a real annoyance of mine when I’m trying to work with Outlook. Somewhat frequently in my week I receive an e-mail with a graphic or image in it that I need to do some editing. It’s not really any serious editing that needs to be done, just a notation […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

April 30th, 2008

Ex-Photoshop Developer Moves to Microsoft SmartFlow

There’s a new Microsoft employee in town and he comes to campus by way of the Adobe parking lot.
Former Adobe Photoshop developer Mark Hamburg has been hired at Microsoft and will be spending his time working on a new Microsoft product “SmartFlow“.
Mary Jo Foley reports that SmartFlow is a new graphics program that, with […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

May 24th, 2007

More Halo 3 Screen Shots

 After looking through the Bungie Studios website after my last post, I’ve just got to share some of these amazing screen shots from Halo 3.

Tags: 360, animation, Bungie-Studios, fights, gaming, graphics, Halo 3, screen-shots, Xbox-360

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By Jason Bean -- 2 comments

March 15th, 2007

DirectX 10 Still Only Available for Vista?

Originally Microsoft planned to only have DirectX 10 available for machines running their new Vista operating system. However, with less than stellar sales of the new operating system and people not running to jump on purchasing the new software like it’s a PS3 or Xbox 360, have caused the possibility of DirectX 10 becoming available […]

By Jason Bean -- 5 comments

September 8th, 2006

Windows Vista Upgrade

I downloaded and installed the Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor and ran it. Looks like I’ve got everything I need to run Vista when it’s released except for a powerful enough graphics card, which I knew already.
What I find interesting is that there are Microsoft applications that are listed as warnings for working with Vista.

Windows […]

By Jason Bean -- 3 comments

August 30th, 2006

Microsoft Word Image Editing Functionality

Why is it I can’t select one of my full-featured image editing applications as the default image editor for images in Microsoft Word? Microsoft Paint or Image Editor is useless compared to other applications that most people have installed. Why can’t I easily add those editors to the ones called by Word for editing images […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

June 7th, 2006

Halo 3 Sneak Peak

Here’s a video of some of the development taking place in preparation for Halo 3. This video is just amazing of what the next version is going to bring to the table. This game will change gaming for the future and what’s deliverable through a gaming platform.
Between Father’s Day and birthday, there will be an […]

By Jason Bean -- 2 comments