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Reply to WindowBlinds Skin of the Week: 1stClass in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Marco Kuiper's Social Post Stamp icon on the start menu looks nice. i have to admit i don't really get the point though as the skin does not seem to be related to Digg at all.

Reply to “Beam me up, Scotty!”… Please! – Now Facebook Drones? in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="3" id="3453701"] moshi... You make assumptions (all unproven) that I've not traveled enough (to meet some or your standard), that people in Rajahstan have the same desires as people in the Philippines and elsewhere, and that you and I want more connectivity...that it's a hobby for Zuckerberg (and not a business) and that it will harm no one...you simply make one assumption after another with no visible support. Maybe they're correct, and

Reply to “Beam me up, Scotty!”… Please! – Now Facebook Drones? in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote quoting="post"] Also, are we really doing them a favor? Is doing them a favor even in the calculus? Why is connectivity necessarily a plus, and why do we have to westernize them? To sell them things? [/quote] it is not about doing favors. people decide whether they want connectivity or not. i do and i am sure you do as well. the farmer in Rajahstan whose children are working in Delhi or abroad wants it as well. he doesn't

Reply to Mozilla puts Metro on the shelf in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

now with a touch-friendly Office released for the iPad, shouldn't the headline be Microsoft puts Metro on the shelf ? :D

Reply to Where is KewlPad? in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Snowman" reply="4" id="3451053"] Yeah, but a whole lot less skinnable than Kewlpad.[/quote] Sublime Text is much more skinnable than Kewlpad, and is regarded as the best text editor by most coders. http://www.sublimetext.com/

Reply to Rainlendar in OS Customization WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="DaveBax" reply="8" id="3451142"] Yes you are correct. what i wrote is what I use to include 4 or 5 years ago. Should have looked into it and revised that. [/quote] doesn't really matter as actually skins should go into: C:\Users\%USERNAME%\.rainlendar2\skins\ (it is just not a good habit to litter into the program's folder. yes, i know this was common behaviour in older versions of Windows, and therefore backward

Reply to Where is KewlPad? in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

http://skinnables.org/archive.php?&current_dir=archive/kewlpad you'd better get a real text editor though.

Reply to Mozilla puts Metro on the shelf in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Uvah" reply="18" id="3450503"] Saw an email that said I should upgrade FF to version 28. Out of curiosity I clicked on it, got to the Mozilla site and the version ready for download was 27, not 28. Also...in fine print underneath it says you must agree to allow the yahoo toolbar, change to the yahoo search engine and make yahoo your home page. I wanted to tell them where to go. I used to like FF but these last few iterations are the pits! Despite the fact that I can't se

Reply to Will The Weather Be Unbroken? in Widget talk WinCustomize Forums

the Weather Underground feeds for current observations and forecast i use with Rainmeter work just fine. it's the geolookup api that stopped working. you can either hope for it to come back, or change your widgets to use natural language queries instead of location codes. example of a feed using a natural language query: http://api.wunderground.com/auto/w

Reply to Mozilla puts Metro on the shelf in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Island Dog" reply="3" id="3449611"] I doubt many people even cared if Firefox came as a Modern app. [/quote] correct. i am sure there would be more interest if people would buy Windows tablets. but the few people that do are probably IE enthusiasts anyways. right now developing Metro apps is a waste of resources for most software companies. particularly when it is not even sure if WindowsRT will be continued or merged with Windo

Reply to Apple... Rotten to the Core in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Jafo" reply="48" id="3447247"] Quoting CarGuy1, reply 46You may say that's not enough but by their accountants, that's what they were legally obligated to pay. If they were not fiddling their books and 'hiding' 6 billion a year in profits offshore they'd be paying about 5 times that much. Call it 'clever accounting' others call it 'rorting the system'...no different to sneaking yourself OS to somewhere where th

Reply to Apple... Rotten to the Core in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Daiwa" reply="41" id="3447145"] 200 million naive and uneducated people. With enough jack to buy their products. OK. [/quote] isn't it common internet knowledge that the people that buy premium products are naive and uneducated, while the smartest people on the internet live on welfare? ;)

Reply to Back in Windows 7, Familiar Territory in Windows Discussion WinCustomize Forums

but as soon as you include all smart devices, MS's market share drops to 20%. (numbers are for the US, worldwide Apple's and MS's shares are likely smaller) MS is aware of that. that's one reason why they develop software for other platforms and did choose a new ceo that is experienced in cloud services.

Reply to Back in Windows 7, Familiar Territory in Windows Discussion WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="gmc2" reply="12" id="3446132"] Quoting moshi, reply 11but it's not really that important. operating systems will become less and less relevant anyways. a lot of software like Google Mail or Office 365 for example runs in the browser, not the os. I'm not that technically savvy but can either programs mentioned run without an operating system? [/quote] of course, but it can be any os, as long as there is a half-d

Reply to Back in Windows 7, Familiar Territory in Windows Discussion WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Island Dog" reply="1" id="3445936"] is it possible that Linux is overrated? I think you have to be relevant in the first place to be overrated. [/quote] with about 1.5 billion smartphones (and many more to come) and also plenty of devices running a real-time operating system i wouldn't be surprised if there is more hardware running on a Linux-kernel than running on a Windows-kernel. and if that's not the

Reply to Suggestions for 2014 WC Community Project in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="DaveBax" reply="462" id="3445700"] This can be done using the ini format?[/quote] no, that's not possible as INI as a format with only sections and options is pretty limited (you can do awesome stuff with it as you can see with Rainmeter, but XML as a format makes much more sense for Rainlendar) and Kimmo stopped developing that skin format long ago. there is one thing you should have in mind: XML as INI is just a method to structure data, i

Reply to Suggestions for 2014 WC Community Project in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="DaveBax" reply="429" id="3445532"] Quoting sydneysiders, reply 427is it a piece of coding that could be added? no there isn't. [/quote] yes, there is. the key would be using variables and gradients when creating the skin. Rainlendar's "new" (just about 8 years) skin format offers everything that is necessary. if you would want a color picker gui instead of being limited to pre-defined variables, you could cre

Reply to A "Free" version of Windows? in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="kona0197" reply="26" id="3445484"] Quoting Island Dog, reply 23Well with your hardware I'd be surprised if Windows 95 would run efficiently. And what is that supposed to mean? What kind of hardware did you think I have?[/quote] it appears you (or those friends that leave their computers in your house) regularly make impulse purchases of electronic waste on craigslist. imho it would be smarter to save and buy a new device. b

Reply to A "Free" version of Windows? in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

a device comes with an operating system, be it a phone, laundry machine, laptop, tv or game console. usually the device manufacturer provides software updates for the hardware. the concept of selling an operating system in 2014 is anachronistic. it seems like MS is realizing this now. after all who will use services like OneDrive that are deeply integrated in the operating system if nobody uses the os? i wrote "it seems" because nobody here knows what their plans really are. m

Reply to March 2014 Desktop Screenshots in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

if you got a Google account, you can just put your screenshots in a public folder and use the links under "Hosting" at the bottom right to embed them on websites.

Reply to Nokia X - Android, Windows Phone...What? in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

i would buy a Lumia 920 with vanilla Android. but this is just too little, too late.

Reply to Suggestions for 2014 WC Community Project in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

i think a little more "leadership" or "mentoring" (or whatever a better English term might be) would be required for such a project to take off.

Reply to Fences ruin my computer in Fences WinCustomize Forums

a faster solution would probably be: right-click your desktop, go to the "View" submenu and uncheck auto-arranging.

Reply to Does anyone follow or watch the Olympics? in Life, the Universe and Everything WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="JuniorCrooks" reply="18" id="3442743"]I don't know people. I think some of you make sense but lets face it, the Olympics is hardly the only event one can find fault with. [/quote] you are Canadian. you probably don't get the full dose of propaganda because your country doesn't really matter from a global perspective. it's the same here. media coverage in Austria (where i live) or Switzerland is very different and way more di

Reply to Microsoft Sells More Than 200 Million Windows 8 Licenses in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

considering desktop/laptop sales i am not even sure the hardware for the OEM licenses has been built yet.