2008 – Page 2 – GeekTieGuy

Word 2007 and Vista Speech Recognition – don’t say "delete document"!

10December2008GeekTieGuy2 CommentsMicrosoft, Personal, Software, Vista

I had a very unpleasant experience today. My wife is trying to deal with pain in her arms and hands from too much typing by using Vista’s speech recognition feature along with Word 2007. She was writing a final paper for a college class and had just finished the last four of nine pages. That’s

HP TouchSmart development on .NET Rocks!

2December2008GeekTieGuyHP TouchSmart, Software development, Tech Toys

Check out the interview with some of the HP TouchSmart folks on .NET Rocks! It just went live earlier today. http://www.dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showNum=399 The parts for developers are mostly in the first 15 minutes. I have some PDF slides that might illustrate things for people who are just looking for a quick visual and not a whole

HP TouchSmart software update: Touch Optimizer

20November2008GeekTieGuy2 CommentsHP TouchSmart, Software, Vista

Lots of people find that once they’re outside the touch optimized environment that the HP TouchSmart software provides, things in Vista are not all that easy to use with touch. This is something we addressed with what we called a “Touch Optimizer” on the IQ770 (our first TouchSmart series). On the IQ500 series we initially

WIC metadata in .NET: Getting around "Property cannot be found" / System.ArgumentException /"Exception from HRESULT: 0x88982F40"

16November2008GeekTieGuy4 CommentsSoftware development, WPF

Here’s a bit of an obscure error message I’ve run into while working with WIC (Windows Imaging Component) on .NET/WPF, trying to write XMP metadata into an image: So far, a search on Google has yielded few usable results. I hope this post will change

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Yearly Archives: 2008

Word 2007 and Vista Speech Recognition – don’t say "delete document"!

HP TouchSmart development on .NET Rocks!

HP TouchSmart software update: Touch Optimizer

WIC metadata in .NET: Getting around "Property cannot be found" / System.ArgumentException /"Exception from HRESULT: 0x88982F40"