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First Drive: 2009 Ford Escapes, more of almost everything {Autoblog}
May 16th 2008 5:59PM I think that came with the MY08 redesign.
Xbox 360 Spring update to include motion control and game install support? {Engadget}
May 14th 2008 3:07PM You can still use the 360 and play games... just not on LIVE... MS doesn't want to have to support older firmware on live.. so when they make an update to the dashboard and they update their live servers they go together right. So if you don't want to update... you can still play u just can't be connected to xbox LIVE.
Poll: Have you purchased a Blu-ray player post-fallout? {Engadget HD}
May 3rd 2008 11:08PM Sticking with HD-DVDs and DVDs and HD digital downloads from Xbox live video MP until the prices drop. I have a 42" so a 720p movie will look just as good as a 1080p movie... for now anyway... i can live with that... just gonna try to snap up some cheap HD DVDs for now too... eventually will rip em to a server and stream em through my xbox360...
MSI's GX600X TurboBook gets inspected, reviewed {Engadget}
May 2nd 2008 4:41PM Come on! Optimus Prime has flames! But this doesn't change it's shape more than opening the lid. My vote is: No way!
Managed Copy to be sorely absent from finalized AACS specifications? {Engadget HD}
Apr 22nd 2008 4:09PM Steve Jobs. The closest thing to managed copy is the iTunes digital copy disks.
Managed Copy to be sorely absent from finalized AACS specifications? {Engadget HD}
Apr 22nd 2008 12:34PM So this is what happens when the competition is gone. The only reason BDA ever said they'd do managed copy was because HDDVD was able to do it. Now that HDDVD is out of the way, they have no reason to do it anymore. Screw us over some more Hollywood.
Damn that Flex is sexy! {Autoblog}
Apr 17th 2008 10:19AM haha... i never thought about the range rover bit... but the design suggestions that i would rather see it have do indeed make it look like a range rover... just need to angle the grill a lil bit back... and rear window forward a little and bingo.... range rover..
Vista beats OS X? Really? {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Apr 11th 2008 11:02AM @ Bhavesh Patel
Thanks for these suggestions.
In Vista you don't even need the task switch pro (thumbnails not live). The live thumbnails when you alt+tab are there natively as long as your PC is good enough to run AERO. And that quicksearch in every finder window is also available in ever explorer window in vista. (Just a note: This was a feature of longhorn that MS announced they were doing and demoed long before spotlight was announced or came out to the market in tiger.)
Also, expose doesn't work for minimized or hidden windows.
Vista beats OS X? Really? {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Apr 10th 2008 5:50PM Warning: this is loooooooooong.
These sound like the classic arguments any dumbass would make about why Windows is better than Mac OS. I bought a MacBook Pro about a month ago or more, and I can tell you from my own personal experience that I like Windows Vista more than Mac OS X. There are certainly pros and cons for each one, but here are a couple examples of features in Vista (and older windows) that I really do find myself missing when I use Mac OS X Leopard.
1) The Task Bar: Sure you can say that the Menu Bar and the Dock are a good replacement, but here's something that I've found myself having to do. My computing habits are those that I tend to have a lot of open windows floating around and a lot of minimized windows. This is what I've found myself doing a lot when looking for one of my open windows. In windows I either use Alt+tab with live thumbnails to flip through windows a lot, or going to the taskbar to find it. Either place, I can find every single window, maximized, minimized, or floating around with a live thumbnail, just by hovering over the item in the task bar. All my windows are grouped by program so all IE windows are right next to each other or collapsed into a group (which i can also see thumbnails for by clicking on the group and hovering), or all my word or excel files are right next to each other.
In Mac OS this is what I have to go through. I can click on the program running in the dock and all its windows (that are not minimized) come to the front, but there are some still hidden. I'd then have to either go to the Windows Menu or use expose to find the window that i'm looking for if the one i want isn't on top. Or if it's minimized i'd have to look through the minimized windows in the dock and find it there. But I'm not always sure if it's minimized or if it's floating, so where ever i start looking i have a 50/50 chance for being wrong. I suppose i can just not minimize anything and just use expose, but what if i hid the program? And command+tab doesn't flip through every open window, but just the open program. It would have the same effect as if i clicked on it in the doc. I haven't seen an option to show all open windows in the dock; doesn't seem like that's how it was designed. The dock just seems like a glorified quick launch toolbar with some little taskbar ability like showing running programs and holding minimized windows.
If anyone has a solution to this that would make my life finding windows easier in mac os x, please let me know.
2) Explorer vs. finder:
Explorer has auto arrange. Finder has arrange. It can't automatically re-arrange my folder's contents to maximize the items shown in the window's proportions. It doesn't keep the folder contents automatically sorted by name, date created, date modified, type, etc. I have to choose it manually every time I resize a finder window. If there is a solution to this, also, let me know.
I supposed with Spotlight or Windows Search I can find any file just by typing the name or something related to the content i want. But there are a lot of times where i just want to send files to a friend over IM or look through all the files in a project. Or zip up a project to transfer it to someone. Where Explorer or Finder windows are needed. Old habits die hard.
Desktop items on mac OS X can't automatically keep themselves aligned to the grid, or automatically arranged by whatever. Have to right click and clean up desktop every time I move something. I like having everything lined up neatly, not jumbled around.
No keyboard Shortcut in mac os to open a new finder window from anywhere, like win+e brings up a new explorer window no matter what program i am in. I'd have to go down to the finder icon in the dock and right click it and choose new finder window.
There's no folder tree view in the finder windows, but the columns view sort of takes care of that.
Those are 2 of my biggest gripes about Mac OS X and how it slows down my productivity. There are lot of nice things that I do like about Mac OS X, but there is more that I do like about Windows Vista.
Oh another thing, not about slowing down my productivity, but something that vista has over mac os, that I've noticed. In SP1 they implemented a feature that was supposed to be released from the start, but they didn't have time to finish. Updating without requiring a restart. The ability for programs that are being updated to shut them selves down (including OS components that are being update) and restart them after the update, without having to restart the computer, and losing your place. Mac OS X so far has given me a bunch of updates that require me to restart, and i haven't heard about them doing anything to reduce restarts. MS is actually doing stuff to address this, and it's out now in SP1.
I do use both OSes regularly. I use Mac OS X more on my MBP because of it's power savings which result in less heat being produced and burning my lap, and apparently anything that isn't mac os just runs hotter on a mac no matter what OS it is. And because I can use smcFanControl to turn up the fans in mac os and run it cooler.
Spy Shots: 2010 Ford Taurus... finally {Autoblog}
Apr 10th 2008 12:48PM A lot of you people keep comparing the taurus with the malibu, altima, camry, and mondeo...
It clearly isn't competing or in the same class as those. It would be going up against the impala, maxima, avalon, and accord (which is now a large car, not midsized).
While some design may be similar between this car and the mondeo, the mondeo is clearly the basis for the new mazda 6, which would lead most people including myself to conluded that it would be the basis for the next fusion, not taurus. It'd assume that the taurus is still going to be riding on the same platform as the MKS which is an S80 platform. And seems like it will share some components with the MKS as well. Those outside rear views mirrors are 100% MKS (I have an MKS picture on my cube wall to admire everyday so I know it's design REALLY well)
Get your classes and competition straight.
