Excalpius

Excalpius

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Reply to What Dual Monitor Software are you Using? in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

John's Background Switcher...it's free and it's the best wallpaper handler for dual+ monitors. I replaced DisplayFusion and Ultramon as wallpaper handlers with this wonderful program. Ultramon - if you want a separate taskbar per monitor with only the programs running on each monitor displayed there. It's cute, but I never found it all that useful. I have one central/vertical taskbar replacement (ObjectDock zoomer) and that's the fastest, least mouse traveling road f

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Reply to Economic Stimulus Package in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Unfortunately, the entire point of the bill is to CONVINCE investors and banks that our economy still works. The amount is actually irrelevant. It's just supposed to "feel" large enough to look like it will make a difference, even if it actually doesn't in any real, measureable way. Since our banking system relies on the good will of all involved (since it is not backed by hard assets) everything economic is, in a very real sense, just an illusion. If the bankers a

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Reply to 3d Desktops in Customization Software WinCustomize Forums

[quote]I think you will see 3D destops in Linux before windows becuase of[/quote] If you do, it will be simple because there are a lot of programmers who are experimenting with it in Linux as shareware/open source. There is no "resource issue" between any of the modern OS's that would make any one of them more or less suitable. OpenGL, DWM/DirectX10, and the OSX graphics libraries (old and new) are all more than capable of hardware accelerating these operations.</p

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Reply to 3d Desktops in Customization Software WinCustomize Forums

[quote]Madotate [/quote] Thanks for pointing this out! It's a shame the windows aren't anti-aliased. It has some very nice functionality. Is it being actively updated?

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Reply to 3d Desktops in Customization Software WinCustomize Forums

[quote]Video rendering tests I have done[/quote] Actually, any 3D desktop interface would use the GPU to accelerate and render this with pixel shaders for any special render operations. There'd be no CPU or tradional scan-line rendering required.

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Reply to Laptop, Hard Drives and Airport X-Rays in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

There's no issue with electronics and airport X-ray machines. It's an old wives tale/urban legend. BUT always carry the expensive stuff with you in your carry on. There are a LOT of baggage handlers all over the world who steal stuff out of your luggage. I've seen it MANY times now.

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Reply to What Would You Like to See in WindowBlinds for Windows 7? in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

Besides more transparency (check out diafragma's latest Mac screenshot https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.aspx?skinid=23547&libid=13) and animated window frames... Reflection options :) I know that we've seen this for icons in the Mac dock, so I hope it's on tap for OD+ 2.0+. Or, at a minimum is a setting that can be applied to a folder of custom icons/pngs with IconPackager or IconFX perhaps? But the reflective floor elements aspect is very sexy with other w

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Reply to Microsoft: No Ultimate Extras for Windows 7 in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

[quote]Will W7 be upgradable from XP?[/quote] Not directly. A big mistake IMHO. But I believe you CAN upgrade from XP to Vista, not bother to activate it, and then upgrade Vista to 7. I don't see why that won't work and let you keep your settings, etc. on the same machine.

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Reply to Circuit City alleged sales in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Since they can always return the stock to the manufacturer or sell it at auction to another warehousing company, these franchise chain stores never have real going out of business sales. The best deal you will get is close to what you'd pay an online vendor for in the first place. So, yeah, pass.

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Reply to Where’s the external video cards? in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

There are hardware issues with both shielding the cable and, even more importantly, the length of the cable, vis a vis signal strength and integrity. Given that, I used the nVidia QuadroPlex recently which is a high end version of what you are talking about, and I just saw this article on Guru3d about another vendor's external graphics card product. http://www.guru3d.com/news/amilo-sa3650-with-graphics-booster-review/

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