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Jul 29, 2006
Accessibility

Check your Accessibility with MSAAVerify

Sara Ford, formerly the de facto head of Accessibility testing for all of Visual Studio (and a Black Belt in Karate, so don’t mess with her), published a handy-dandy utility for verifying the correctness of common MSAA properties and roles on GotD...

Jul 29, 2006
Miscellaneous

Haley Joel Osment in Car Crash?

According to CNN, Haley Joel Osment (18 years old, now…creepy) was in a car accident a few days ago. Supposedly he hit a brick pillar in his 1995 Saturn (?!?).

Jul 28, 2006
Windows

Microsoft + Hardware Design = Yum

An article from Business Week discusses the innovation going into PCs for the Windows Vista timeframe. My opinion? It’s about damned time. Why is it that we have to settle for dull, ugly, oversized beige hunks of plastic when the competition has s...

Jul 28, 2006
Windows Mobile

Not Zune Enough!

As everyone and their mother probably knows, now, Microsoft is planning on releasing an iPod competitor in time for Christmas 2006. According to Engadget, Zune is actually the name of the brand and the device, and there are, supposedly, more Zune ...

Jul 28, 2006
Usability

Web Usability Pet Peeve #92: Overriding Common Accelerators

I am a huge, huge, huge advocate of correctly supporting mnemonics and keyboard shortcuts throughout your application. It was, for this reason, that I was very excited when I first learned that you could do the exact same thing for web pages. Mova...