Software

Writing a Windows application is like having Microsoft
give you a periodic table of the elements and asking you
to make a broccoli.
--Kraig Brockschmidt quoting Alan Cooper

PowerPoint

I spent over three years working on Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007:

• Buy my PowerPoint book to learn some neat PowerPoint tricks I learned while there (shameless plug).
• Read the blog I wrote while at Microsoft if you're too cheap to buy the book (heh).

Tablet PC Powertoys

About

In early 2003 a friend Amit Kumar and I whipped up mini Tablet PC programs to try to win a lease on a fabulous car of some sort. We got two honorable mentions but no car (sad). Might as well make these available though.

Warning: We spent all of 5 minutes testing these with a real Tablet PC, the installation/dependencies are horrendous since these are proofs-of-concept, and they are definitely unsupported. If you have a specific problem with one though, send me mail and if I have time I can attempt small fixes.

InkSaver

You draw ink and it creates a screensaver that draws back the ink just like you were drawing it. There were one or two Tablet screensavers before this one, but this was the first to animate back the ink.

Microsoft's Ink Screen Saver for Tablet PC is based on this one. Amit and I are mentioned as the authors, but we weren't involved in its creation.

version 1.0 18 March 2003 Initial release.

inksaver.zip (2 megs)

InkCube

A Rubix Cube game. You move faces on the cube by making gestures using the pen.

version 1.0 18 March 2003 Initial release.

inkcube.zip (4 megs)

Binko

Ink bingo. A Clippy (Office Assistant)-like wizard verbally calls out numbers and your job is to circle or X them out on the grid. Hit the Binko! button when you have marked five numbers in a row horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.

The game itself isn't too great but at least the name's creative.

version 1.0 18 March 2003 Initial release.

binko.zip (2 megs)

WebAddress

A utility that lives in your system tray that makes it easier to enter URLs when you don't have a keyboard handy.

Not too useful anymore since Tablet 2005 added this functionality as part of the OS.

version 1.0 18 March 2003 Initial release.

webaddress.zip (2 megs)

WordMixink

An ink-enabled word-guessing game. The goal is to guess the word the computer is thinking of. If you're wrong, the computer tells you which letters are correct and which letters are correct and in the correct position. There's a similar game out there but the name escapes me at the moment.

version 1.0 18 March 2003 Initial release.

wordmixink.zip (2 megs)

Wayne's Worship Set Generator

About

This program lets you automatically generate a PowerPoint or Word worship set within minutes:

1. Choose from the 50 song files included with the program, or create files for your favorite worship songs using the built-in song editor.
2. Select the songs you want in your set.
3. Hit the big Generate Set button... and this program does the rest, generating a PowerPoint or Word worship set.

Freeware.

System Requirements

• PowerPoint 2002 (part of Office XP) or PowerPoint 2003
• Word 2002 (part of Office XP) or Word 2003
• .NET Framework 1.1 - You will be prompted to install this free component during setup if you don't have it.

Screenshot

Download

version 0.7.1 18 October 2003 Added an installer.

worship.exe (4 megs)