Hasta La Gadget!

This article was written on September 25, 2006 by CyberNet.

I think by now we are all used to the Windows startup sound and you could probably pinpoint it no matter how crappy the speakers were that it was playing out of. Microsoft might be changing things up a little bit by providing a new more “spiritual” startup sound in Windows Vista.

Here is a Google Video of what the proposed startup sound will be:

It is much more subtle than the normal Windows sound and I actually like it. You can definitely recognize that they tried to keep it close to the old sound while giving it a fresh new appeal.

If you still don’t like it don’t worry, you can always disable it!

News Source: IStartedSomething

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We’re kind of getting used to Intel setting records with its earnings this year, and it capped off its 2010 with another killer quarter. With $11.5 billion in revenue, and a total of $43.6 billion for the year (up 24 percent from last year), Intel is naturally riding high. There’s danger lurking on the horizon, however, with Microsoft announcing at CES that the next version of Windows will also run on ARM chips, potentially ending a decades-long x86 dominance in the desktop OS space. Naturally, the topic came up in the earnings call, and here’s Intel CEO Paul Otellini’s level-headed statement on the topic:

The plus for Intel is that as they unify their operating systems we now have the ability for the first time, one, to have a designed-from-scratch, touch-enabled operating system for tablets that runs on Intel that we don’t have today; and, secondly, we have the ability to put our lowest-power Intel processors, running Windows 8 or the next generation of Windows, into phones, because it’s the same OS stack. And I look at that as an upside opportunity for us.

On the downside, there’s the potential, given that Office runs on these products, for some creep-up coming into the PC space. I am skeptical of that for two reasons: one, that space has a different set of power and performance requirements where Intel is exceptionally good; and secondly, users of those machines expect legacy support for software and peripherals that has to all be enabled from scratch for those devices.

After careful analysis of Paul’s voice, we couldn’t detect any hints of panic or fear in it, and we buy about 50+ percent of what he’s putting down — a lot better than we expected, to be honest. It’s very interesting that he sees the new version of Windows being a “designed-from-scratch, touch-enabled operating system for tablets,” and the idea of Windows Phone running on regular Windows is also news to us — though it certainly makes plenty of sense in the long run (and perhaps Ballmer has been hinting at it). Still, Intel has just as much of a disadvantage making a phone processor as ARM guys have a disadvantage at making high-powered PC processors, and when it comes to legacy support, they’ll at least be on pretty equal footing when it comes to a “designed-from-scratch” tablet OS. No matter what, Intel certainly has a great roadmap and a ton of cash right now, so we look forward to a fair CPU fight on all sides of the form factor coin.

Intel CEO Paul Otellini addresses Microsoft’s ARM move in the wake of record earnings announcement originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 13 Jan 2011 20:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on September 19, 2007 by CyberNet.

You may remember an application called Yod’m that we wrote about back in March. It brought the famous 3D Linux virtual desktop manager over to the Windows side, but it was pretty rough around the edges. Well, I’m proud to say that a lot of work has been done to make it a lot better, but there’s a catch.

Otaku Software, the creators of the popular TopDesk application, snatched up the Yod’m developer shortly after the free version was released. Now to get the software, renamed to DeskSpace, you’ll need to plop down $19.95 for use beyond the 14 day trial. It might be worth it after you checkout the features:

• Work and play on multiple desktops.
• Display multiple desktops in stunning 3D.
• Quickly switch between desktops using the mouse and keyboard.
• Drag windows between desktops by moving them to the sides of the screen.
• Display desktops in 3D on multiple monitors.
• Configure the hot keys and mouse buttons used to switch between desktops, and how DeskSpace displays and manages desktop.
• Use DeskSpace in multiple languages.

Personally I’ve installed virtual desktop managers before, and often times forget to use them. For that reason I didn’t even try this out, and definitely wouldn’t spend the money on it. Although I know it would impress a lot of my friends.

Here’s a quick video I grabbed that shows DeskSpace in action:

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This article was written on March 08, 2007 by CyberNet.

Tutorial Thursday

I’m sure all of you are probably getting sick of me raving about Vista’s incredible integrated search, but it really is that good. When you get your computer all setup the first thing you might want to do is choose what locations and filetypes Vista is allowed to index. Remember, you really want to keep your index as slim as possible because that will mean that the searches are performed even faster.

Here’s what you need to do to customize the way Vista indexes your computer:

1. Go to the Start Menu and type index into the search field. Press Enter when the Indexing Options appears. Note: if prompted with a User Account Control (UAC) warning press Continue.
   
2. The screen that you should now be at is essentially the central hub for controlling Vista search indexing. First, you can modify the locations that are currently indexed by clicking the Modify button:
   
3. Now navigate through your hard drive and select which folders you want to be indexed. For example, if you only want to search your own files then select your directory in the “Users” folder. When you finish selecting the folders press the OK button.
   
4. Now you should be back on the main Indexing options screen pictured in Step 2. Select Advanced and on the popup window choose the File Types tab. Go through and unselect any of the filetypes that you don’t think you’ll ever need. You can always go back and change this later on, so it isn’t that big of a deal if you uncheck something you didn’t mean to.
   
5. Lastly, go back to the Index Settings tab and select the option to Rebuild the index. This will ensure that your index is updated with the latest settings you just chose by erasing everything that has already been indexed.
   
6. Press OK on that window and press Close on the next window to exit the Indexing Options.

When I have everything on my computer indexed right now with all of the different filetypes, it has about 75,000 files indexed. If I go through and filter out the directories that I don’t really use along with the filetypes that I don’t care for I can trim that down to 30,000 files. That’s a pretty big difference and I can definitely notice a difference in speed when searching for things.

I’ve been using the final release of Vista for a little over a month now and I am really pleased with how it handles. In pre-release builds of Vista the search indexer would frequently crash when I was in the middle of a search, but the only thing I have had crash on me thus far is Firefox…and that is to be expected since I am using Firefox 3 pre-release builds that are fairly unstable.

Some of you may argue that there are plenty of desktop search application out there, such as Google Desktop Search, that will provide the same instant results without the need to upgrade to Vista. That’s true, but I always found those applications to either slow down my computer or I would simply forget to use them. Vista’s search is always right there in front of your face, and there is no way that you’ll forget to use it. Heck, I use the Search Bar in the Start Menu to run programs over trying to find the shortcuts! Microsoft made it so simple to use that Search Bar as well…just press the Windows Key on the keyboard and start typing your search because the Search Bar automatically receives the focus when you open the Start Menu.

I would also like to close by mentioning a nifty little add-on that a Microsoft employee made to make the Search Bar even more powerful. It’s called Start++ and will let you create custom search strings that can either perform a search on a website or launch a program. It has all kinds of uses, and for more information checkout the post that we made about it.

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The folks from One Laptop Per Child were on-hand at this year’s CES, courtesy of the organization’s hardware partner, Marvell. I had the opportunity to chat up OLPC’s chief technology officer, Edward McNierey, who was showcasing a forthcoming version of the company’s flagship XO laptop.

The new system, due out later this year, if the organization’s first to be built around an ARM chip. In light of Microsoft’s announcement earlier this week of an new version of Windows capable or running on an ARM processor, I had to ask whether the company had any plans to partner with Microsoft on a future system.

McNierey joked that the company had finally managed to create a version of hardware that couldn’t run a Windows OS, adding that the organization’s head, Nicholas Negroponte had predicted that Microsoft would soon issue an arm compatible OS, prior to the recent announcement.