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Fractal Wallpaper
Not sure if I should make it a full deviation or not, but I have posted a wee fractal wallpaper in my scraps.
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New PC
Well I finally bought a new PC, I have a swanky new monitor and I am trying out Vista.
Phantom as it is currently dubbed is a Core 2 Duo with 2gb of ram and a Geforce 7950GT.
Its pretty fast, I'm just learning how to tweak up Vista, the options are more limited than XP so if I do post a screen shot, more than likely it will just look like most other Vista shots. It is such an unfinished OS it isn't even funny. Simple things like; duplication of interface elements (Detail View Vs Preview Panel) and Windows Calendar not talking to Windows Mobile Device Center.
I haven't had anything of sufficient quality for deviations recently hence my laziness concerning DA. I have fav'd a few things so my fav gallery is probably of more interest at the moment.
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Phantom as it is currently dubbed is a Core 2 Duo with 2gb of ram and a Geforce 7950GT.
Its pretty fast, I'm just learning how to tweak up Vista, the options are more limited than XP so if I do post a screen shot, more than likely it will just look like most other Vista shots. It is such an unfinished OS it isn't even funny. Simple things like; duplication of interface elements (Detail View Vs Preview Panel) and Windows Calendar not talking to Windows Mobile Device Center.
I haven't had anything of sufficient quality for deviations recently hence my laziness concerning DA. I have fav'd a few things so my fav gallery is probably of more interest at the moment.
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Websites in Safari for Windows Look Bad
Whilst it has it’s detractors I really like Cleartype, Microsoft’s Sub-Pixel Anti-Aliasing system. Personally I prefer my text to be sharp and readable in most applications. The exceptions being DTP, Illustration Apps or print previews where font accuracy is of the highest order. Shown left is a screen shot of Opera 9, Firefox 2, IE7 and Safari 3 Beta. Personally I like Opera the most, FF looks a bit heavy, IE b0rks on the ‘'’ and Safari well just looks awful. Safari behaves nothing like any windows app, it feels like running IE in Parallels Coherence on OS X. Whilst I don’t deny that OS X does many things better, more intuitively and accurately than Windows I do find it annoying when companies just up and ignore application consistency. Again the very application I am writing this post in, Windows Live Writer, ignores any pretence of consistency. Really anything above a widget or mp3 player should stay inline with the host OS by default whether the author agrees or not. One of the key reasons Linux keeps failing to win the desktop market is everyone doing their own thing in applications. It’s hard enough to learn one new OS interface, let alone some sort of shape shifting chimera. Then again Linux isn’t alone now increasing Windows and Mac Apps just ignore consistency for the fun of it.
