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Wifi Locator

Now, here's a handy tool from Microsoft - a free Wifi search engine!

Apparently, there's a lot more planned for those of you who have shrugged off the tyranny of wires. I've not signed up for the beta, as I'm still firmly connected with a desktop unit (although my wife's laptop is another story). So, if you do get into the beta - and are allowed by the EULA - please post your thoughts and comments.

And then there were two

Brians...I'd like to welcome to the blogsphere Brian Powell. Brian's been with LabVIEW for a very, very long time. If you've ever talked with someone in R&D about LabVIEW, there's a good chance it was Brian at some point.

He and I actually sit just a koosh-ball throw away from each other, so we'll make sure that the other keeps posting!

However, I'll let him introduce himself, since he's already done that.

Getting Ready for Vista

Ran across this very important tool for application owners. If you haven't heard yet, or didn't get to see my NIWeek presentation, Vista has locked down file and registry access considerably to make the OS more secure. This has become known as User Access Control, or simply UAC.

.NET: The Naming Wars

I ran across a petition today to ask Microsoft to reverse it's naming decision regarding WinFX and .NET 3.0. You can read more about the change on my previous post.

Now, when I wrote about the name change, I tried to stay neutral in my announcement. But this time I'm coming out of the closet on the issue...

LabVIEW in Chinese

I'm very excited that the whole blogging concept is starting to catch inside LabVIEW's development groups. We've got several up now (See my blog roll or just go to the NI blog page), and a few more in the works!

One that I heard about this morning is different from all the others - it's from our R&D branch over in Shanghai, China. Qizhen Ruan has started up a blog on LabVIEW for the Chinese language population.

New Blogging Technology

So Microsoft's Live team has released a new tool for bloggers called Live Write. This is a full client-side WYSIWYG authoring tool that works not only with the Live Spaces, Microsoft's renamed MSN blogging site, but with a suite of 3rd party blogging hosts such as Google's Blogger and Six Apart's TypePad and Live Journal (note that this site is a TypePad site).

Now, I must be honest and say part of the reason for this post is that I'm trying it out myself right now, and because I wanted to do this...

Brian is Here!

When I saw that you could embed maps, I just had to try it :)

A New LV Blog!

I'm excited to announce that another LV developer has started a blog. This one is probably going to be one of the most popular as Christina is focusing on helping people learn LabVIEW. Right now she's working on new features in LabVIEW 8.20, but make sure to contact her with other material you'd like to see.

NIWeek 2006 Info

So, if you've been suffering through our amatuer efforts on video for NIWeek this year, you can check out the more professional offering from NI, including videos of keynotes and demos.

If you do prefer the non-corporate info, besides our blog you can also check out the LAVA group's blog.

NIWeek Video

Well, Colin and I have managed to get the first set of video clips from this year's NIWeek up on our conference blog. It has been a bit of a learning experience regarding sound quality, interviewing and web uploading (for example, Google video does a "verification" of WMV files due to the ability to inject script into them...thus if you stick with simple MPG, they post up immediately).

Today we're going to try to capture a bit more of the conference feel in the expo hall and get those up. Unfortunately, today is our last day at this, but hopefully the experiment is still valid. So far we've seen some good interest in the blog, but not much in the way of comments. I'm hoping we get some feedback (good or bad) on what you think. That is going to be a bit indicator on whether this kind of forum continues in the future. So, get out the vote! :)

NIWeek 2006 Coming To You

So, Colin Christofferson and I have decided to play around with a video camera, and, in a nod to Microsoft's Channel 9, bring you NIWeek 2006.

However, unlike the nice, clean and professional bit-o-info you'll get from NI, this blog is going to be our feeble attempts to capture "what's happening" by talking to the speakers and attendees directly. So, check us out and let us know what you think!

http://detritus.blogs.com/niweek