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Windows Vista And Mac OS X Leopard Upgrade Chart
Friday, February 2nd, 2007Launchy: Quicksilver style launcher for Windows
Thursday, February 1st, 2007Quicksilver is arguably the most indispensable app on my Mac. A Mac without Quicksilver is sort of like watching TV minus a TiVo. It’s also something I wish was available for Windows.
So it was nice to see Launchy version 1.0 Final released last week over on SourceForge. While not as feature rich as Quicksilver is today, just being able to launch apps with an alt+space in XP is a huge step forward!
Bill Gates on the Daily Show
Tuesday, January 30th, 2007I was slightly disappointed with Jon Stewart’s interview with Bill Gates yesterday on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart (or perhaps more appropriately titled the Vista Infomercial with Jon Stewart). Just about every question Jon asked lacked imagination (though I did like the Flying Toasters comment). My perception of poor questioning is probably the result of Microsoft talking points for those less techno savvy (Jon did apologize upfront for not being much of a PC user).
In any case, the Daily Show fully redeemed itself tonight by crashing with an IE error explaining why Bill prematurely left the stage prior to commercial. The error box said in part, “Bill Gates has encountered a problem and needs to leave. We are sorry for the inconvenience. We have created an error report that you can send to help us improve Bill Gates.”
Safari Alternatives: Flock
Thursday, October 5th, 2006Well my brief browser affair with Camino has ended. It was great while it lasted, but the lack of a built in spell checker was really starting to annoy me. So a few weeks ago I downloaded Flock and for the moment, couldn’t be happier! Flock is billed as a social web browser and as such has built in photo (flickr) service, favorites (del.icio.us) sharing, and blog (wordpress, etc) posting capabilities. But what I really like about Flock is it’s built in RSS news reader/aggregator which presents all your feeds in a very visual newspaper layout.
If I had a rating system, Flock would receive 5/5 
Flock is available for Mac, Linux, and Windows.
