During those four weeks I’ve experienced happiness, sadness, surprise, flying, presenting, chatting, volunteering, assignments catchup, laughter and suspense. It’s been four weeks since I announced the Camtasia Studio giveaway exactly 28 days ago. Offenders will be banned from downloading this once-in-a-lifetime wallpaper. I know everyone is just dying to get it, but please queue in an orderly fashion. Please, only take only one copy per person. SolitaireĬlick image to play video (H.264, 1:33min) Spider SolitaireĬlick image to play video (H.264, 1:53min) Purble PlaceĬlick image to play video (H.264, 2:38min)Īnd here is your complimentary Purble Place wallpaper. The speed of the video during my intense play session has been sped up to maintain your sanity and hide my n00bish gaming skills.
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I made three screencasts of the two most popular Windows games: Solitaire, Spider Solitaire as well as everyone’s upcoming favorite, Purple Place.
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Imagine how rewarding it would be if you were a professional player. Just playing the games out of curiosity was totally worth it. Apart from the new cinematic-quality card appearances and WETA-rendered table backgrounds, the most exciting addition to the Windows gaming experience is the end-game animation. One of the key selling points of Windows Vista and the likely cause of the next economic depression is the freshly updated bundled games. Big thumbs up to all those people who develop tools assisting handicapped people. Even if you are affecting the lives of only 5% of the users, the difference it makes between allowing that person to not able to use the computer at all and being fully capable of using a computer for even commercial purposes is just astonishing. This just shows how important it is to develop accessibility features from a ISV’s perspective all the way up to an operating system. The interview itself is extremely insightful, and James’ commentary about the atmosphere makes me really really hungry. James had an informal chat with him over dinner and wrote about the experience. I would imagine there are few like him, Saqib Shaikh is blind, but is also a developer. James Senior, a Microsoft technical evangelist, met this interesting fellow in Paris on training. Whether you love or hate Aero (Glass) in Windows Vista, there’s one person that I would have never guessed of even having the slightest desire to care about the style of the user interface.