Adamness

Adamness

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Reply to Adobe Unveils CS3 - Will You Take the Plunge? in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

Looking at the improvements to Illustrator, it seems they fixed everything that I found frustrating about it. Hopefully I can get the Design Premium suite, otherwise I'll just go for the Illustrator upgrade. When Macromedia was bought by Adobe, I thought it would just crap up all the programs, but it seems they just made them have better cross compatibility. Colors should remain consistent between programs, which was a big issue in previous version of Macromedia and Adobe apps. Can't wa

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Reply to 20 Million Windows Vista Licenses Sold in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

This should be more along the lines of "Consumers had no choice when buying a new PC at a retail store." The alternative to that would be low PC, and thus, low Vista sales, with Apple and homebuilt and/or Linux computers becoming more prominent. This data shows at least that Vista hasn't stopped people from buying Windows-based PCs. Besides, for the vast majority of people, it doesn't make much sense to buy a boxed copy of Vista, since they probably coul

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Reply to And you call MICROSOFT a Monopoly? in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

ease of use of Macs is a myth. How many programs WON'T run on a Mac? I don't call it "ease of use" when you have to throw half your software away. Most of the Mac users I know (I know a lot, being at art school), haven't had any major compatibility problems. And might I suggest installing Windows on a Mac? Best of both worlds, I'd say. That's my plan if/when I get a Mac. Apparently you weren't around in the 80's. Apple

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Reply to And you call MICROSOFT a Monopoly? in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

I've seen a few comments that Macs are 'overpriced.' Maybe for your purposes they are, but you're forgetting that a significant appeal of Apple products is their aesthetic, and ease of use. Before the iPod, Apple was just a small and far from mainstream company. When mp3 players started to come out, there was essentially a level playing field. Archos, iRiver, Creative had mp3 players out a few years before the iPod, yet as we can see, they never were able to hold the market. Why? I had

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Reply to Were widgets overhyped? in Skinning WinCustomize Forums

No one is marketing widgets or gadgets, not even Stardock. Got that right. I don't know how many of you are aware of this, but Yahoo released version 4 of Yahoo Widgets the other day. I think all the advertisement done was a submission to Digg that didn't reach the front page. The only advertising I've seen Yahoo do with their widgets is a little ad on the homepage for two weekends last year. I think the problem with widgets is that it's hard to

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Reply to Why is that? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I bet all those cloud people thought they were being really creative and unique too. I hate having to do work for friends and family. One of my mother's friends 'might' be opening up a bakery. So of course, rather than go to a designer who could charge from $500 to $1000 for not only a logo, but an entire identity, she came to me. And not only that, she had 'font suggestions.' Not only that, she had

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Reply to Leave and NEVER come back. in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

For a community that likes to argue their status as "true artists," I would have thought people would have been a little less quick to judge and jump to conclusions. With all the information at our disposal nowadays, there's no reason to make assumptions (at least on certain things). It's not my intention to antagonize anyone but, would a screenshot of a Muslim woman covered head-to-toe have elicited any response? Probably not though you can probably find many

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Non-system Wide Hidden Folders in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

One thing that's always bothered me is how you can only have all hidden files and folders displayed or not. You can't select to display them per-folder, per-file type, per-date modified, etc., so hidden files are a good idea, but pretty limiting. Does anyone know of any programs that extend hidden files? I think I saw a post around the forums here, but I can't find it. Maybe, um, Stardock can develop a program to do this? <img src="http://images.stardock.com/wc/smiles/Laugh.gif

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Reply to $50 For Custom Dream or MORE! in Windows Vista WinCustomize Forums

This might not apply, but when my typography teacher is hired to design a custom typeface, he sells it to them anywhere from $1,000 to $100,000 (depending on what's needed in the face, and the resources of the company). The company gets the 'exclusive' rights to the typeface, but that usually only lasts for 5 or 10 years. After that, he can sell off that face and get royalties from it. Unless you and the artist make some special deal, real exclusivity isn't likely. And for something lik

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Reply to Vista Sales Slow? It's Those Darn Pirates! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Im going to have to disagree with that entirely... Im running Vista Ultimate on a machine I built a little over 3 years ago, and according to Vista's cute little rating system the box rates a 4.0 Well there's your answer. I'm sure you built a pretty nice machine 3 years ago. My computer is 3 years old...3.4GHz Pentium 4, 1GB RAM, 128 vid card, 100GB HD. But I'm sure you know that most people never get the top of the line performance machines that a power

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Reply to Vista Sales Slow? It's Those Darn Pirates! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

I don't really get this. Microsoft designed an operating system that's designed for future use, and complain that it's not selling today. Most computers today will struggle to run all the features of Vista at full speed, but maybe in a year hardware will catch up to Vista. I don't see a problem with software out-pacing hardware, especially for an OS that will be around for years. But when they complain, it's just silly. If Microsoft wanted Vista to sell better immediately after release, they wou

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Reply to Let the Geek Squad save you time... in PC Hardware WinCustomize Forums

I don't see the big deal with people not being able to install software themselves. To be honest, I don't know why some would have such a problem, since you just pop the CD in and follow the on-screen directions, but some people are just too scared to do even that much. I do have a problem with the Geek Squad charging $179 just for installation. That's such a ripoff and I feel bad for the people who have been and will be taken advantage of by the Geek Squad.

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Reply to AveDesk: Basics in Customization Software WinCustomize Forums

Nice. I've always had a problem with the pidlshortcut refreshing the stats. When I add or delete something to a folder or recycle bin, sometimes it updates and sometimes it doesn't. Other than that, AveDesk uses very low resources, and is easy to set up.

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Reply to Corel Draw x3 Vs. Adobe Photoshop CS2 Vs. Whatever in Community WinCustomize Forums

Photoshop is pretty much industry standard for photo editing and manipulation. If you want to "design" things, I'd say to go with Adobe Illustrator. Once you get the hang of the pen tool, and figure out live trace, Illustrator will become your program of choice. Maybe try to get the entire Adobe Creative Suite, which includes a variety of programs including Photoshop and Illustrator.

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