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#Windows10 – Fixing Mouse Without Border DPI screen settings (very easy!)

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A while ago, I wrote about the awesome [Mouse without Borders] application. This app is extremely useful, and it’s becoming very handy in scenarios like the Avanade Toronto Innovation Center.

In our Innovation Center, we have plenty of different machines, and it wasn’t a good moment when I realize that this is how the App Settings looks in a Windows 10 machine with some DPI customization.

mouse without borders crappy UI experience

I don’t have a lot of Windows Presentation Experience, however I know that we can solve this via some configuration / manifest changes for the App. I look up for the application folder [C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Garage\Mouse without Borders], and I opened the [MouseWithoutBorders.exe.manifest] file with Visual Studio Code.

mouse without borders change app manifest to enable DPI experience.jpg

Lucky for me, the section that I needed to add it was already there. It was commented, so I un-commented this, save the file and restart the application. Of course, you need elevated privileges to do this.

5 seconds later my Settings windows was finally amazing again!

mouse without borders improved UI experience

Happy coding!   

Greetings @ Burlington

El Bruno

References

Mouse without Borders, https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/garage/profiles/mouse-without-borders/

Download Mouse without Borders, https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35460

El Bruno, Mouse without borders, a Must Have App if you work with 2 or more computers https://elbruno.com/2019/10/30/windows10-mouse-without-borders-a-musthave-if-you-work-with-2-or-more-computers/

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#Event – You can now watch all the sessions from #MSIgnite. Bonus: there is an official #PowerShell script to download videos and slides!

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Wow, I’m still amazed about the awesome Microsoft Experience. And on top of that, now we have the chance to watch all the sessions online. A simple step

Just navigate to https://myignite.techcommunity.microsoft.com/sessions

And, as a bonus, you can download the videos and slides from most of the sessions. There is a couple of ways to do this.

You can browse a session, in example “Diversity is more, much more! Living in tech as a Latino who can’t dance” (https://myignite.techcommunity.microsoft.com/sessions/80650?source=speakerdetail ) and you can see the view slide deck and download video in the right menu.

ms ignite my session how to download slides and video and powershell script

However, if you are curious, you can also see the “Get the bulk session resource download script” at the bottom of the page. This action will download a zip file with 2 files

  • Download-Resources.ps1
  • README.txt

The PowerShell file is a script to download all the videos from Microsoft Ignite! That’s amazing. Of course, there are a couple of parameters to use, so you can only download what you need.

To run the script, open a PowerShell window to the directory in which the script is located.

To download everything run the following
 .\Download-Resources.ps1 
 To download everything into a given directory run the following 
 .\Download-Resources.ps1 "C:\Microsoft Ignite" 
 To download a set of sessions, supply the session code like this: 
 .\Download-Resources.ps1 -directory . -sessionCodes "KEY,TK01,TK02,BRK3016"

If you want more details and a better process, you can read my friend Guy post using a similar script to download Microsoft Ignite 2019 materials (see references)

Greetings @ Burlington

El Bruno

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#Event – remember #GlobalAIBootcamp 2019, Dec 14, Call for Speakers and pre-registration !

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The Global AI Bootcamp is a free one-day event organized across the world by local communities that are passionate about artificial intelligence on Microsoft Azure.

The Global #AI Bootcamp is a perfect balance of quality content, awesome talks, and hands-on learning with like-minded peers in your community. As usual, a video is better than my words:

And, here is a list of resources for the event.

Resources

See you on December 14th!

Happy Coding!

Greetings @ Burlington

El Bruno

#PowerPoint – How cool is the Accessibility Checker? Powered by #AI, so a #MustDo for my next #MSIgnite sessions!

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I was reviewing my slides for Microsoft Slides, and I remembered that Melissa Hubbart (@melihubb) was tweeting about checking your slides previous to the event.

So, I decided to give it a try. And, it was my time to check what’s new with the Accessibility Feature in PowerPoint. There are several ways to use this feature. If you want to check the content of the current slide, in the Review menu, there is an option to check the current slide.

powerpoint accessibility checker menu

If you want to check the complete PowerPoint File, in the menu [File / Info / Inspect Presentation] there is an option named [Check Accessibility] to do this.

powerpoint check accesibility

Once the Accessibility Checker panel is open, we can review all the issues.

powerpoint accessibility checker results

There are organized by severity levels (errors, warning and tips). And we can find common scenarios like

  • Missing alternative text for images and shapes
  • Missing title slides

One cool feature here, when working with pictures, is that we can leverage the power of Artificial Intelligence to automatically describe de content of the pictures. In the following image we can see how it automatically recognizes my cat Goku lying on a bed.

powerpoint generate alt text automatically

So, you know, please check the Accessibility of your files and Happy Coding!

Greetings @ Toronto

El Bruno

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#Event – My sessions at #MSIgnite 2019, rocking #AI and #Diversity !

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Next week I’ll be at Microsoft Ignite 2019, and I’m very excited. I’ll have 2 sessions (see below), and I’m also excited for the networking opportunities and for some amazing sessions.

My Sessions at Ignite

Diversity is more, much more! Living in tech as a Latino who can’t dance

I was born and raised in Argentina, then I lived eleven years in Spain working all around Europe. Finally, three years ago I moved to Canada. And yes, my Latin background impacted my professional career.

This session is mostly sharing what I’ve learned during these past years. How I learned to get the most from sentences like “You have a very strong accent; I don’t think you will fit this meeting. These are Senior Executives” or “Wow, your accent is amazing, our leadership team will love it!” In both scenarios, I manage to move from frustration or surprise to “let’s focus on our business.”

And it’s not only about language and accent; family, culture, and even food and drinks are a part of the story. Espero que nos veamos en la sesion!

https://myignite.techcommunity.microsoft.com/sessions/80650?source=sessions

How a PoC at home can scale to enterprise level using custom vision APIs

It all started with a DIY project to use computer vision for security cameras at home. A custom machine learning model is the core component used to analyze pictures to detect people, animals, and more in a house environment. The AI processing is performed at the edge, in dedicated hardware and the collected information is stored in the cloud. The same idea can be applied to several CCTV scenarios, like parking lots, train stations, malls, and more. However, moving this into enterprise scale brings a set of challenges, which are described and explained in this session.

https://myignite.techcommunity.microsoft.com/sessions/78686?source=sessions

Happy Coding!

Greetings @ Toronto

El Bruno

#Windows10 – Mouse without borders, a #MustHave if you work with 2 or more computers

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Somehow, I didn’t know this one, shame on me!

If you work with 2 computers, is a must have. In example, at home I have a power gaming computer for AI and Mixed Reality. I work with 2 monitors, my ergonomic Microsoft keyboard and my Logitech MX Master 2S mouse. I perform most of the work on my main computer, however from time to time, I need to switch to my laptop.

Thanks to the Microsoft Garage team, in 10 minutes I can easily share my mouse and keyboard from my main computer to my laptop just moving the mouse between desktops. As a bonus, I can also share clipboard, and tons of other amazing features.

mouse without borders in action

Official Description

Mouse without Borders is a product that makes you the captain of your computer fleet by allowing you to control up to four computers from a single mouse and keyboard. This means that with Mouse without Borders you can copy text or drag and drop files across computers.

See references for more official information and download

Greetings @ Burlington

El Bruno

References

#Event – Resources used on the session [Everyday Artificial Intelligence] @Hack4Heritage

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Somehow, I forgot to share this. I was at the hack4heritage during the weekend, and it was awesome. I meet some amazing people and I also have the chance to see the results of 3 days of work of 6 groups, who worked on great ideas on Unity focused on Heritage preservation.

As usual, here are the Slides I used

And some tweets and resources

Happy coding!

Greetings @ Burlington

El Bruno

#Event – Building an Anomaly Detector System with a few or no lines of code at @MSFTReactor

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Microsoft opened a brand new Microsoft Reactor in Toronto, and I’m lucky enough to host a AI session about Anomaly Detection. Below are the details

Detecting anomalies is a common scenario which can be applied to dozens of industries. From the analysis of power consumption, medical data, or even analysis of personal information, anomalies can be detected based on historical data.

During this workshop, Bruno will guide attendees to code a complete system that will detect anomalies: you will train a model based on historical data, and later use the same model with new data to identify anomalies. At the end of the workshop, attendees will review a new set of options to create an Anomaly Detection System without a single line of code!

Please bring a laptop or other personal device to participate in this hands-on workshop.

Event: https://www.microsoftevents.com/profile/form/index.cfm?PKformID=0x8330114abcd

Happy Coding!

Greetings @ Burlington

El Bruno

#Quantum – #Google AI Quantum, freaking awesome!

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I was starting to read Nature article about Google Quantum breakthrough, and then I found this amazing video. No words, just amazing!

Greetings @ Toronto

El Bruno

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