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Opera Browser "Speed Dial"
Blog If you aren't familiar with it, what they do is give you nine mini-browser windows within the main Opera window, each of which can be preset to a specific web page. You see a miniature version of the web page in the window, and you can go directly...
[April 8, 2008, 11:24]
Enlightenment Could Have Been The Best
Talkback I know what they have in mind is a "desktop shell", but they should stick to what they can do best: a window manager. I think Enlightenment represents the true window manager. I have been using E17 for at least a year now, and before that I was...
[November 21, 2007, 10:59]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Talkback Switch to O2, a bit better; if I lean out the window doing an olympic runner impression thrusting the phone like a torch in the ether to light the flame of mobile reception, I can send an SMS, and about twice a day, we get a strong enough signal...
[August 21, 2004, 8:13]
JavaScript - A Flash Competitor?
Blog Comment Microsoft if they want to maintain legacy support (and I actually think its a good idea) they can use the sandbox or Virtual PC model and stick the legacy OS and programs into a virtual PC module or window.
[August 31, 2008, 22:01]
2008-01-06 Vista Is A Downgrade.
Talkback I have window borders that I went in and set to a width of 1 because i found them way too big by default and they still look like they're at 3 or 4. To get to that setting you now have to: Right click on the desktop > A big window comes up and you...
[January 6, 2008, 23:41]
An Impressive Week With Ubuntu
Blog After a couple of false starts, because I was trying to make it much more complicated than it needed to be, I discovered the System/Administration/Network window, where I was able to enter the SSID and WPA2 key, and the connection came right up!
[May 30, 2008, 13:59]
Ubuntu 7.10 Gibbon Swings On The Asus Eee
Blog Comment I find this window-management feature invaluable when working on smaller displays. Holding the Alt+Drag on a window should allow you to move the window anywhere (including up so you can view the missing buttons at the bottom of some dialogs).
[October 27, 2007, 15:33]
Linux Can Read Your PC Floppy Disks
News To start Linuxconf, I needed to open a terminal window. Executing Linuxconf displays the window shown in Figure A. In this window, scroll down to File Systems in the left panel of the window and click on Access Local Drive to display the Local...
[November 24, 2002, 19:55]
Tech Talk - SightSpeed
Blog This is very nice indeed, and so obvious it had completely escaped me - I suppose that I had become conditioned by Skype's "fixed size video in a window", so resizing the window didn't occur to me. Once into a video call, you can switch to "video...
[November 22, 2007, 7:53]
Great New OoVoo Release!
Blog I particularly like the way it is implemented - a simple button at the top of the video chat window, you click it and if your camera will do it, you get it; if it won't, you don't. When HQ Video starts, you get a special symbol in you video preview...
[July 28, 2008, 14:39]
Dell Video Chat By SightSpeed - Excellent Technically And Commercially
Blog The biggest difference is that the window backgrounds are all black, rather than white, which I suppose gives it a more "elegant" look. Once you have started a video call, the video is displayed in a window within the main SightSpeed/Dell window...
[June 27, 2008, 10:27]
Firefox 1.0PR: A First Look
Talkback Remember that the "Internet thingy" is shown in one window Click on that window's button at the _bottom_ of the screen Mamut, I really can't understand where you are coming from. I don't even see this one in your SDI (IE), standard OS interface.
[September 17, 2004, 0:42]
Traveling Success With Linux
Blog We took a few pictures on the way down, so pop the SD card out of the camera and into the laptop.with Ubuntu a very nice, very obvious SD-card icon appears on the desktop, and the F-Spot photo viewer opened; With Kubuntu and Mandriva, both of...
[July 28, 2008, 9:38]
2008-01-06 Vista Is An Upgrade - Part 2
Talkback I cannot describe how much too big the top part of my Windows Explorer Window is. The exact same behavior occurs when you bring up the Add/Remove programs window from the control panel and you only see a few items.then some delay.then a few more...
[January 6, 2008, 23:50]
Pop-ups Add New Twist
News When I tried to close the window it kicked me to the site, which is really annoying when I have six windows open and three of which were not by my own doing," said Diane Schreiber, a high-tech executive who lives in Brisbane, California.
[December 23, 2002, 7:40]
Apple Mac OS X On X86: A First Test
Talkback Programs that are document based (Safari, Word, Excel, etc.don't quit when the last document is closed, programs that have one main window (Calculator, System Preferences) should quit unless the other way makes sense (like iTunes) or the program...
[November 10, 2005, 19:10]
Firefox 1.0PR: A First Look
Talkback Remember that the "Internet thingy" is shown in one window Click on that window's button at the _bottom_ of the screen Remember page name / window button location Click on that window's button at the bottom of the screen
[September 16, 2004, 16:04]
Tech Talk - OoVoo
Blog Unfortunately the contacts are always shown in what looks like "thumbnail" view, even if you have selected a different view in the main window, and the "favorites bar" is always on top of any other windows, which gets irritating very fast, but I...
[November 28, 2007, 13:42]
Microsoft Admits Targeting Wine Users
Talkback I mean, one of the draws of open source is that it's free and when you look at a typical Window user, they are already spending hundreds to thousands of dollars paying for hardware and software (Did I mention that office included for free?
[February 25, 2005, 21:07]
The Gizmo Project
Blog If you select audio devices that are different from the "Windows Default" devices, as I do (I always put VoIP audio in/out on my headset, but Windows audio out on a Logitech Audio Hub speaker, and Windows audio input I don't pay much attention to...
[December 16, 2007, 20:36]
