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After much spare-time work, I’ve finally gotten approval to publish a tool that helps you install the TouchSmart 4 software on previous generation hardware. It’s currently available through the TouchSmartDevZone.com site. You can find it here in...
A few weeks ago I attended Microsoft’s BUILD conference to get ready for what’s coming in Windows 8. As I was sitting in the first day’s keynotes and big picture sessions, I couldn’t help but think back on the work HP has done with its TouchSmart software...
Now that //build/ is over, lots of people want to download the sessions they missed because there was an ocean of stuff being presented and you couldn’t possibly catch it all live. One way to do this is to use a PowerShell script (I found one here). Here...
This is the first of a two part “miniseries” of my forays into developing for mobile platforms. After Phil McKinney announced a WebOS app development contest at HP’s internal technology conference, Tech Con ’10, I was somewhat...
I’ve written about this topic a couple of times before. But it seems like another post is in order since my main box is now running Windows 7 and I’d like to share how Windows 7 has changed in the area of SMART monitoring. I keep all my “data” on a separate...
This is what I wanted to see: Instead I got error messages, followed by a rollback of the uninstall I was in the middle of. Why did I need to uninstall QuickTime and iTunes? Because after finally upgrading my last Windows XP machine to Windows 7, iTunes...
As I’m diving into Windows Phone 7 development and making notes for myself on how WP7 compares to WebOS, I’ve come across one little wrinkle that works really nicely in WebOS (out-of-the-box) and doesn’t work so well in WP7 (out-of-the-box). I’m talking...
Only a little vanity post; a collection of links to stories and other potentially interesting tidbits. These were some of the first mentions of the HP TouchSmart 310 with HP TouchSmart 4.0 software, unveiled on September 20, 2010. Most of these have no...
If you have several machines that you want to install the Windows Phone 7 Series developer tools on and don’t want to have to wait for the download on each machine, here’s a little tip for how you can make yourself an “offline”...
To mark the release of the TouchSmart 3.0 SDK, HP has a goodie to give away at the Microsoft PDC 09: A super-slim 2 GB USB memory stick (embedded in a hard-plastic business card with a nice imprint). It contains the new SDK and a few documents about a...
I can’t get into every detail of the upgrade process (how to install Windows 7, drivers, etc.), but I thought I would list the HP TouchSmart software applications that are currently available for download and suggest a good order of installation to you...
There are plenty of tutorial videos for the TouchSmart 3.0 software available (see a longer list at the bottom of this post). For those of you who would rather read about things, here is a little overview of what’s new and changed in TouchSmart 3.0: Direct...
Just in case you’re wondering (yeah, I know, you probably AREN’T) what you’re missing by buying a new PC (such as the HP TouchSmart 600xt – hint, hint ) with Windows 7 preinstalled, here are some pictures of a Windows 7 upgrade DVD that recently showed...
PCMag.com:
This third-generation TouchSmart PC is boosted by Windows 7’s gesture support, but HP’s custom multitouch software is even more impressive. But as with the earlier models, on the TouchSmart 600 it’s HP’s custom software...
There is a document available for download (wrapped in an MSI to keep the HP lawyers happy) that describes all the nitty-gritty details of how to create an app that “fits” into the HP TouchSmart software environment. But some people might...
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