Archive for May, 2009

More Great Press For Surface Applications

20 May, 2009

Blogger Chris Dannen recently wrote an article for tech magazine and blog Fast Company entitled “11 Killer Apps for Microsoft Surface“. Indeed, Dannen presents an impressive collection of what independent software vendors have been able to do with the Surface platform.
A feather in IdentityMine’s cap is that we have been involved in four of those [...]

Routed Events in Silverlight 3

19 May, 2009

I am pleased to announce that I once again had the privilege of editing a new book for Friends Of Ed: Foundation Expression Blend 3 with Silverlight.  Compared with the last book, this title focuses exclusively on Silverlight, as opposed to the last book which covers both Silverlight and WPF. The book should be released [...]

IdentityMine For Windows 7 Makes Front Page News

15 May, 2009

I don’t cross-post other articles and blogs very often but this news is directly in line with UIHero content so, in this case, I’ll make an exception.
Renowned blogger Todd Bishop of TechFlash featured IdentityMine as a company leading the way forward in Natural User Interfaces for Windows 7, and potentially reviving a sagging tech industry. [...]

IdentityMine Gesture Engine Announced

13 May, 2009

Wow. I can FINALLY talk about what I’ve been working on in secret, dark rooms for the last several months: a Gesture Engine for .NET!
Multitouch is all the rage, everyone knows that. Well, handling multiple, simultaneous input is much, much more complex than the single-point-of-contact mouse paradigm. After analyzing the space extensively, IdentityMine determined that [...]

3D Modeling With Gestures – On The Horizon

13 May, 2009

I finally got a moment to write this post. Even though it’s not recent news anymore, it’s still very cool.
The R&D division of SolidWorks, one of the largest CAD software companies in the world, invited IdentityMine to port their popular eDrawings 3D model viewing sofware to Microsoft Surface, to start getting a feeling for how [...]

Presenting Microsoft Surface Service Pack 1 at TechEd

12 May, 2009

To my readers, I apologize about the extended blog post hiatus. I’ve been working on super-duper top-secret stuff that I couldn’t write about. However, now I finally have the opportunity to post one of the projects I’ve been working on!
The Microsoft Surface team invited my company to create an application to demonstrate in front of [...]