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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]
Dang, Darn, Damn Small Linux!
Blog The Official Damn Small Linux Book comes with a LiveCD that also has the means of burning a customized-by-the-user version onto another CD, installing it on a USB flash drive, running it in a VMPlayer window and another way of running it is in a...
[July 15, 2008, 4:48]
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]
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]
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]
An Impressive Week With Ubuntu
Blog I found the hardware management window, and according to that, there were only a few "problems" - the built-in softmodem required a proprietary driver which had not been loaded automatically, the Atheros WiFi adapter also required one, but it had...
[May 30, 2008, 13:59]
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]
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]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog I work on the first floor, at a desk (actually an upended crate) by a window which looks out onto a veranda and the verdant loveliness beyond. These, I prop up on a couple of bricks behind the computer, just in front of the window.
[June 2, 2006, 18:00]
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]
Firefox 1.0PR: A First Look
Talkback In IE you would use Ctrl+N or File->New->Window in order to launch a new IE window. I still have to wait for a decent Flash plug-in for FireFox that wouldn't freeze up in a flash game I am currently playing.
[September 16, 2004, 17:18]
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]
A Challenge To All Linux Users In The World
Blog Comment The goal, I suppose, is to create an install group of packages that can be run from either a command line or a browser window. That basically means he was able to click on the selection in a popup window and run the MSI package for the install.
[May 31, 2007, 20:27]
Ubuntu 7.10 Gibbon Swings On The Asus Eee
Blog Comment 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). I find this window-management feature invaluable when working on smaller displays.
[October 27, 2007, 15:33]
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]
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]
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]
Little Shop Of Horrors
Leader Soon, he had a similar sign in his window - and added a little note saying that if you placed a regular order, you could have a free banana. and put it up in his window. Remember last summer and that display of condensed soup cans in the window?
[October 24, 2006, 17:45]
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]
