Dave Friedel

Dave Friedel

Dave Friedel

I am a  //  Technology Architect, Developer, Futurist, Audiophile

Building .NET and SharePoint solutions in Denver

 
May 28 / 3:38am

Next Windows with MultiTouch!


Windows 7 with Multi Touch
Microsoft seems have found a way to dramatically lower the price of wall computing (they’re saying hundreds of dollars). There’s a great Flash movie here from the CEO Summit in Redmond. My curiosity is who will format and produce print and media content for this if it explodes over the next five years. I want.

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May 14 / 11:30am

Inexpensive Wall Computing


Touch Wall Interface
Microsoft seems have found a way to dramatically lower the price of wall computing (they’re saying hundreds of dollars). There’s a great Flash movie here from the CEO Summit in Redmond. My curiosity is who will format and produce print and media content for this if it explodes over the next five years. I want.

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Jan 20 / 5:07am

Unmanned Vehicles, Cigarette Size


Tiny Propulsion
Imagine an unmanned lightweight plane scouting for our troops in the battlefield.  Now image making it the size of a cigarette and could carry many of them and look on a wristwatch size screen to see what's ahead. Let's hope advertisers don't get wind of this technology... shhhhhh.   I don't want drones buzzing around my head with ads.

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Jan 11 / 2:06pm

3D Printing


3D Printout
There's been alot of buzz about 2008 being the year that 3D printing becomes more accessible to the masses. Pretty soon we'll be emailing each other physical things. How great for small manufacturing shops.

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Dec 12 / 2:51pm

Itchy Butt


Itchy Butt
What can I say about this video, except that it's called "Itchy Butt".  Make sure you have sound so you can hear the wa-wa pedals.  From Break.com.

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Nov 30 / 8:06am

USB 3.0


USB 3.0
USB 3.0 is coming with 4.8 gigabits per second. Very nice. We'll be able to run virtual servers off our USB keys.

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Nov 20 / 2:52am

REALLY Flat Screens


OLED flat screens
OLED is going to change everything. Normal flat screens have a 800:1 contrast ratio or thereabouts. That measurement is the brightness of something bright white to something pitch black. Flat panels are backlit, so even black isn’t black really. It catches some of the light on any monitor or HDTV, making it look less real. Most people don’t notice because there wasn’t anything better. Until now. OLED’s can have a 1,000,000:1 ratio because the pixels are each self powered, individually. Organic Light Emitting Diode.And to top it off, they can be only a couple millimeters thick. Soon the world will be flowing with rollup displays that are a thousand times the quality of the best HD that exists today.

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Nov 15 / 8:13am

Remote Desktop Support the Easy Way


crossloop
Now here's something cool for you "home" admins out there. It's essentially like Microsoft LiveMeeting's remote control functionality. Yes, yes, there already is Remote Assistance in Windows that does this, but it's a real pain to set up. CrossLoop is way cool. You just start it, say if you want to be a guest or a host on both ends (you need to be talking to the person), then the host gives the guest a ID number that works for a couple minutes. Click click, connect. It's not just remote desktop either, it allows both people to see what's going on and pass control back and forth. And it's FREE during the beta. Great for supporting those family members or a small business.

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Oct 4 / 7:08am

Laptops that See You


Laptops that see
Yes, it's a laptop that recognizes your movements. Once again proving that the Japanese are way ahead of us, even if nobody can figure out what it's good for. When the machines take over and enslave us, then we'll go "oh, right, I remember when that first happened". But seriously, the more usable computers are made, the more worthwhile they'll be.

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Oct 3 / 3:09am

Photoshop in the Browser


Photoshop Express
Adobe just demoed their early beta of "Photoshop Express". It runs inside a browser (in Flash). Pretty cool and lightweight concept. It's not meant for graphic artists, but there are alot of normal home users who don't know what to get for photo software. Windows still has sucky "Paint Brush", even in Vista. And full blown Photoshop is way too pricey and complicated for a home user. Great idea Adobe! Plus it'll be nice when editing this blog to not have to fire up an entire graphics package to resize images.
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