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Reply to Windows DreamScene - Animated Wallpaper for an Ultimate Extra in CES 2007 WinCustomize Forums

Looks like the current Ultimate Extras come out January 30, but maybe Object Desktop people will see it sooner than that for beta testing, yes/no?

Reply to Windows DreamScene - Animated Wallpaper for an Ultimate Extra in CES 2007 WinCustomize Forums

a link with video http://windowsultimate.com/blogs/extras/archive/2007/01/07/windows-dreamscene.aspx notes mpeg support, so DVD playback should work, even though it may or may not handle this directly. Brad? Do we have to transfer the DVD to the local hard drive or can anything played in Windows Media Player on Vista work "through" this?

Reply to Windows DreamScene - Animated Wallpaper for an Ultimate Extra in CES 2007 WinCustomize Forums

Availability? Does/Can it work with a DVD you might be playing in the player? Or your TV tuner? I'd love to watch movies this way while I work. This is just a commercialized version of the desktop video background seen in vlc and intervideo's dvd software, etc. The Milkdrop plug-in can do this with its visualizations in WinAmp and it's pretty friggin amazing to have all your transparent windowblinds and desktop x gadgets working over live

Reply to Is "LIfe is Beautiful" a Real Virus? in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

yes, next time, use Google to search first, and you won't have to post a forum message like this kind of lame hoax again.

Reply to FSF Launches Anti-Vista Site 'BadVista.org' in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

I would think this would only be newsworthy if it was an unbiased group presenting their newly changed opinion, not the obvious partisan rantings of a group of penguin huggers. How do we digg this drivel away?

Reply to The World Only Needs 5 Computers in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

The morons at Sun say this EVERY YEAR...and every year somebody sends this story around. I'm really getting tired of people giving this dying dinosaur 15 minutes for saying something this out of touch and stupid. SUN...YOUR DAY IS DONE...GET OVER IT...FIND A NEW BUSINESS MODEL...OR DIE LIKE SGI.

Reply to Microsofts CEO: Less Piracy With Vista in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Its not a gui+ improvement. When they say its the most secure OS they've ever released ITS TRUE. To end users, who will still need antivirus and antispyware software, Vista LOOKS like little more than a GUI upgrade to Windows XP...and one that their smarter, more savvy friends already showed them 90%

Reply to Microsofts CEO: Less Piracy With Vista in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

We gave them this monopoly. If MS had real OS competition in the PC space (re: Apple did TONS of work on legacy drivers, etc.) then MS would be charging LESS for a more FULLY FEATURED OS, instead of a MORE for a GUI+ improvement to XP. It's our own damn fault, folks.

Reply to Microsofts CEO: Less Piracy With Vista in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

And have you guys seen the price MS wants in Europe???!!! Vista Ultimate is in the neighborhood of $800 USD (news item on www.guru3d.com). INSANE!!! If MS thinks that going to do anything but INCREASE piracy worldwide, I want what they're smokin'! It really looks to me that marketing is still pricing and segmenting Vista as if it actually delivered on the promises MS made 6 years ago. The pale shadow that the soon to be released Vista

Reply to Microsoft to Release Updated WGA Tool in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

just say no

Reply to Enterprise Market Cautious on Vista Adoption in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

By corporate law, it should be made mandatory to make the switch from XP to Vista within the first 8 months. You REALLY need to include a when being sarcastic...

Reply to Hidden Music Track On Windows XP (video) in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

It's amazing that given all the google hits about this track, nobody seems to know for sure who the composer is!

Reply to Enterprise Market Cautious on Vista Adoption in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

I doubt very many people will take the XP->Vista upgrade route, as myself and many other are advising against it. Not only does it seem to result in a terribly munged installation (seemingly much worse than 98->XP ever did), but it requires RAM and graphic card hardware updates (beyond the expertise of most consumers) at a minimum, and some of the widest legacy hardware STILL does not work with Vista (and in the case of the Soundblaster Live series of

Reply to WC2K7 Public Beta Open in Developer Journals WinCustomize Forums

I agree, when the navigation panel is moved to the right, it minimizes its importance (just standard GUI psychology 101). And because it is placed far below a couple of rather unimportant boxes (login and submit windows - huh?!), it causes the gallery and forum lists to not even appear in the top/first view area of the page. Instead, one would have to scroll down to know they are even there. Bad form all around. The most important part of this site is the gallery, since it shows the D

Reply to Happy Thanksgiving! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

re: WC2007 It looks nice, but doesn't fill up the browser window like the current one does. So, I'm getting about 1/2 the information on this version that I do on the current one. I'm running large monitors (1600x1200 and 1920x1200) and it makes a HUGE difference to have the text/windows/posts/etc. all auto fit the browser width. Thanks for listening.

Reply to WC2K7 Public Beta Open in Developer Journals WinCustomize Forums

It looks nice, but doesn't fill up the browser window like the current one does. So, I'm getting about 1/2 the information on this version that I do on the current one. I'm running large monitors (1600x1200 and 1920x1200) and it makes a HUGE difference to have the text/windows/posts/etc. all auto fit the browser width. Thanks for listening.

Reply to Best Overall Skinner of the 2006 GUI Championships! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Agreed. I was ho hum about this at the start, but once I saw the entries, I started following the contest on a daily basis. Congratulations on a WELL DESERVED WIN JJ!!!!

Reply to Intel Launches its Quad-Core Line Of CPUs in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

Only those of us with 3D rendering applications, video compression, etc. - in other words, software that takes advantage of multiple threads - are going to see any advantage from 4 cores over 2 for probably most of 2007. Converting game code to multithreaded is no walk in the park, so I don't expect ANY multithreaded game engines to show up in wide use until late 2007/early 2008. Anyone hear differently on anything of note for multithread?

Reply to Vista Flip 3D For Windows XP? in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

Hey, this works kinda cool. I wish there was a way to improve the quality of the antialiasing algorithm when looking at rotated images. Right now, even on the max ram/max cpu setting, they're still pretty jaggy. Otherwise, I'm digging it!

Reply to Using Multiplicity in a Home Office in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

hmmm, thanks. Synergy does copy/paste for text/clipboard, just not the file copy. And yes, I would use that hourly. Right now, I just have a shared directory on both desktops that serves a similar, if inelegant, purpose. Glad to hear it has improved. I didn't see it getting updated in the Stardock Central application at all, but that may just be because

Reply to Using Multiplicity in a Home Office in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

I am currently using Synergy (freeware) and am thinking of upgrading to Multiplicity Pro to give me the file copying feature (which Synergy does not have). Has anyone used both of these and can compare them? Thanks.

Reply to Microsoft and Novell are "New" Friends in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

That was an EXCELLENT article - VASTLY superior to the flood of blog style rants that pass for "journalism" on the web these days. Thanks for posting it, BX.

Reply to Free Anti-Virus? in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

yes, AVG is quite weak. I've seen it thwarted many times. For free, I recommend Avast (haven't trying Bitdefender). For pay, I recommend NOD32...bar none.

Reply to Microsoft Antivirus! in Windows Software WinCustomize Forums

macafee and norton AV products are utter and completely useless crap. if you aren't using nod32, you aren't protected. period.

Reply to McAfee joins Symantec protesting Vista kernel lockout in Windows Vista WinCustomize Forums

Norton and McAfee...GET OUT OF THE KERNEL YOU HACKS!