Yeah it looks like in a decade or so GoogleBucks will be on every corner, we'll be riding GUTS (Google Urban Transit System) and plans will be underway to build a large structure of satellites in Earth's orbit that, from space, will look like a giant Google logo with Earth being the middle 'o'.
I personally can't live without Stardock's RightClick. In fact, I'll go as far as say that if I had to choose only one Stardock software, that'd be it. It might seem silly but there's no way I can get back to the standard desktop right-click menu - with RightClick anything I need can be pretty much in the same place as the mouse, wherever that may be.
I think that's a vista feature. On XP, even with plus, it only displays the contents of a window when it's minimized so it just basically takes a screenshot of it. I still love that feature, that and the "show only minized windows in taskbar" option - before that I never used the taskbar in object dock because it would get very big very quick but with this thing it's actually usable now. Kudos! I found a small bug though - if you set it to hide off screen on maximized applications, it d
Quote from the article: "I wanted to test Google Apps' viability as an office suite, but also to see how close we are to tomorrow's promise of the web-based desktop. The proliferation of web-based office suites from companies like Zoho, ThinkFree and Google have set wide-eyed technological optimists -- myself included -- raving breathlessly about the web workplace of the future. But the only way to see if this dream is close to reality was t
I can't believe I'm gonna say this but I'm with Microsoft on this one. Whenever one of the two largest players in any industry buys out the other that's bad for customers - Google or not.
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Wow, those lists are completely messed up. Okay I can understand AdBlock (though I will not browse without it) but PDF download and Tabbrowser Preferences on the avoid list - crazy! Oh and I just love how the must have list contains stumbleupon and colored tabs - now those might be fun or useful extensions to some but a "must have"?!
Can I ask a question about DreamMaker (I'm just asking 'cause I wouldn't want to interfere with all that flaming action... )? (I don't have Vista so I haven't had a chance to try it) How hard is it to program the real-time 3D stuff (like the earth's shadow)? I figured the language there is some sort of script language, not full blown programming one. However, explaining to a program how to draw a shad
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I would like to see more emphasize put on new skins. I remember the old design had, I think, 5 top popular skins on the front page, now we have only 3. Which doesn't seem like much but the end result is that I feel like I have to work harder to keep in touch of what new stuff has been added. I also think that the "Today's Favorites", "Top Master Skins", "Featured Articles" and "Today's Hot Pages" should be put on the left side, while the featured skin, poll and the premium suit on the
You'd think YouTube is the only site with copyrighted material posted. Let's face it, once it's out there it's out there, if it's not on YouTube, then it's on dailymotion and dozen of other sites like that. YouTube is simply the biggest one and this is why viacom and other content providers should embrace it and build a marketing strategy around it. Look at NBC and CBS (or maybe it's CBC, whatever). They post promo clips for their shows and short clips directly from the shows. And the
Interesting read. To be honest I didn't think anyone was working on HTML any longer, I figured any more advances will be in things like CSS, XML and JavaScript, it's good to see that that's not the case. I do agree however with some of the comments below the article - a more pressing issue right now is browser compliance. I'm tired of having to design websites for two or three browsers. IE7 was suppose to resolve that issue to a large extent, but other than native PNG support I still find myself
Elements costs money, so it's not exactly what I was suggesting. Although, yeah, if they take elements, give it away for free but put some ads into it, I think that would actually work better, in terms of attracting more people to buy full Photoshop, and at the same time making more revenue than from sales of Elements.
Photoshop online - I do not think this is a good idea. We're not at a point where a program like photoshop can work smoothly and reliably online, even if it's a trimmed down version. It most likely is going to end up slow, buggy and not really worth it. What they should do is make Photoshop-lite - cut down on features (but leave enough to make it competitive with software like Gimp or Paint.NET) and put an add or two - that loading splash is perfect for adds, and make it free.
I've downloaded quite a few skins (backgrounds) for my OD and the list is becoming very large. Would it be possible to include a sort of sub-skins for the OD? It could be done similar to how Rainlendar works - each skin folder can contain several ini files, and if there are more than 1 then each file is a sub-skin as it were. In rainlendar sub-skins are usually used to create different language versions or more compact (mini) calendars, or horisontal calendars, stuff like that. Here it could be
First - UAC is retarded. I'm sorry but it just is. This is a perfect example of MS taking their sweet time to do something that should've been done years ago, and when they finally do it they don't think things through and screw it up. If somebody could modify it to actually function in a useful manner, I'd welcome it although it really should be taken care of by MS, which brings my to my second point... We'll be waiting till the cows come home for MS to change the UAC, and when they (t
You know, I keep hearing this thing about WindowBlinds 5.5 and how its skins use up less power, except for one thing - to the best of my understanding the Vista Aero GUI has animated glare effects (i.e. those glares you see on the vista windows actually shift around as you move the windows) across the entire glass surface, correct me if I'm wrong. Plus, and this I know for certain, anything obstructed by the glass portion of a window becomes blurred. As far as I know, neither of these things exi
Only thing that will make the Vista-sales pickup is when games start going DX10 and as MS has stated that XP will not run DX10 - people will have no choice but upgrade. Legally or illegally. And by "people" of course you mean "gamers", because I know plenty of people who don't play many games on PC, or at all, and I'm not talking about my grandparents. I do agree though with the general idea - MS really missed the mark by targeting all the Vista mark
The saddest thing about this whole thing, is that 5-6 years from now they're going to repeat the whole thing with the next OS and chances are we'll have to buy some 3rd generation quantum 16-core chips with SLIx32 graphics cards, 2TB of RAM and 5000watt PSUs, and we'll still be getting crappy performance from the GUI!
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While I haven't exactly done the research but it would appear that the majority of those who purchased Vista are "power users" to some degree. Which is ironic considering how Microsoft emphasized the user-friendliness of Vista when it comes to the casual user. Of course, like Philly says, Vista will eventually end up on most PCs simply because it is bundled by default with most new PCs sold. I think the biggest factor in the not-so-overwhelming reception of Vista is, and I doubt it woul
So does nobody have any suggestions or ideas?
I'm creating a widget that based on some actions of the user creates new objects, I do this by cloning a template object that is hidden. The problem I'm having is that when I close the widget, it doesn't remember all those new objects it created and when I open it again they are gone. Those objects, while not very complex, do have a number of parameters that they need stored and so using something like Local/PersistStorage to save each object's parameters and then essentially recreate them w
God that was just terrible, but it was also one of those "it's so bad you gotta watch it" things. So who exactly was it suppose to be aimed at - rapping executives?? As for the apple ads, while I do find them funny, it is interesting how the big evil corporation that is Microsoft doesn't advertise its products by directly degrading or insulting the competition, while "everyone's favorite underdog" that
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To compare that to 3-month subscription price for WoW, this comes down to the price of about 13 months. For some people it would actually be cheaper to pay that instead of spending the time to do it themselves. Of course if you were to play it yourself, you'd have 12 months to realize what a waste of time and money it is, while this way you'd fork over half a G for a top level character in a game you don't really know how to play and would probably get bored of in a week.
Well I think more than word processor or a spreadsheet manager, a "powerpoint clone" like this is even more suitable to be an online tool that can be worked on simultaneously by a group oh people. On the other hand, this is also the most power hungry application of the three - graphics, animations, sound, etc. Given the slow performance of google spreadsheet I'm not sure we're at a point where a presentation tool like that can fulfill its full potential while being completely online.
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I love this part - "...what people really want, such as the ability to search reference works, participate in distance learning, search the holdings at the local library, and practice electronic democracy." Yeah unfortunately what people actually want is to watch videos of fake lonely girls talking about fake drama, guys mixing M&Ms with Coke and of course the most popular thing to watch is other people doing stupid things. <img src="http://
Has anyone done laptop battery testing using windowblinds themes? I mean heck, if running WB vista theme instead of the native aero one means the laptop will last an extra hour or so, it's definitely worth it.