Tag Archive | "windows 7"

Why The Windows 7 Taskbar Sucks

Monday, February 22, 2010

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Windows 7 has been quite a hit among Windows users, some calling it what Vista should have been. I’ve used Windows 7 as a secondary OS since the public beta, and I’ve never really been comfortable with the new taskbar. These are the reasons why. That extra click—By default, the Windows 7 taskbar groups instances [...]

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Run Snow Leopard On Windows With VMware

Monday, December 28, 2009

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VMware is a great solution for testing out different operating systems, but OS X clients have never been supported (for obvious reasons). Fellow hackintosh site iHackintosh has a great article on getting Snow Leopard to run on an Intel-based Windows machine. It involves getting a pre-made .VMDK file and tweaking some VMware settings. Overall, it’s [...]

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Re: The Old Copycat Debate, Revived

Thursday, November 19, 2009

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(Repost from subjectivemorality.com, my personal website.) This is a response to an article in Win7 News, which you can read in its entirety here. The author, Deb Shinder, is a Windows/Microsoft fan. I am decidedly more in the Apple camp. In her article, Shinder talks about the popular perception that Microsoft copied aspects of OS [...]

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Snow Leopard Theme Pack for Windows 7

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

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I just threw together a Windows 7 theme pack with Snow Leopard’s wallpapers and some sounds from OS X. Here’s a preview: You can download the Snow Leopard theme here, and I’ve also taken the liberty of making a Leopard/Tiger theme as well, for those of you who are partial to the older wallpapers. If [...]

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Never In My Entire Life Have I Seen Anything as Awkward as This Windows 7 Ad

Saturday, October 10, 2009

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This article appeared originally on subjectivemorality.com, where I put all the other crap I write. Microsoft, in a not-so-well-thought-out move, has actually let this horrible, horrible, horrible advertisement for Windows 7 launch parties out of the torture chamber basement to see the light of day (not to mention the stares of disbelief and disgust of [...]

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Windows 7′s Login Background to be Customizable

Monday, March 16, 2009

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The recently leaked build of Windows 7, build 7057, has a new (and rather ugly) login background. But don’t start your Windows bashing yet, because, as Windows hacker, Rafael Rivera explains, the background is customizable without third party hacks. Yes, Microsoft, vowing to actually listen to it’s users this time, has delivered on their promise [...]

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