Am I using Vista?

The below picture is a desktop. Now I have a question for you. Am I using Vista?

The answer is, No I’m not. I downlaoded a program called BricoPack Vista Inspirat Ultimate 2. Vista Inspirat Ultimate 2 is a grest program that doesn’t really slow down your system, or not that I’ve noticed, and effects EVERYTHING. I’m not kidding. Even on the stsrtup I was gretted by the Vista welcome screen, I have Vista style icons, my taskbar looks like it would in Vista, my start button looks like it would in Vista, I even got a the breadcrumb interface! One problem I’m having though is that I can’t play Roblox, but I’m not quite sure that’s Vista Inspirat Ultimate 2 fault becasue after I had ran Ad-Aware, which found 20 infections, and deleted them, I could play Roblox. But today, (I’m editing this post today, everything before this annotation was written yesterday), when I tried to play Roblox it wouldn’t work, and I don’t want to have to run Ad-Aware every time I play Roblox, so I uninstalled Vista Inspirat Ultimate 2. I have to say I miss the graphics. And the rocketbar, where I had set it to move all the minimized windows to, just like on the Mac. All the features were great, the start menu, the new look, especally the rocketbar. But now it’s gone. And what was aweosme was the Vista Inspirat Ultimate 2 didn’t just change the colors and textures of the windows, taskbar and add the rocketbar, it actually changed the explorer.exe file, and chnaged the files that decided how my computer looked at the welcome screen, Vista Inspirat Ultimate 2 changed all the files that went into my computer, not just covered them up with a copy of Vista. So, this said I’ll have to work on this problem so that I can have Vista Inspirat Ultimate 2 on my machine and still play Roblox.

Best features of Firefox.

One of the best features in Firefox 3 would have to be the awesome bar. The awesome bar, or the address bar to those of you that don’t use Firefox, was greatly upgraded with the new version of Firefox, Firefox 3. Now when you type something into the awesome bar, you’ll get a list sites that you’ve visited before that have the text you typed into the awesome bar on them somewhere, or include the text in the URL of the page.
Another great feature would have to be bookmarks, or favorites, for those of you who don’t use Firefox. Now when you want to bookmark a page all you have to do is click the star in the awesome bar and the website you currently have open will be bookmarked in your main bookmarks folder. Then, if you want to bookmark it somewhere else all you have to do is click the little star you just clicked to bookmark the page, again and then a menu pops up titled Edit this bookmark where you can browse through your bookmark folders until you decide where you want it. And if you accidentally clicked the star? no problem, click the star again and you’ll get the Edit this bookmark menu where there’s a Remove this bookmark button.Managing feeds is just as easy too, when you’re at a page that you want to subscribe to the feed, just click the little RSS icon beside the Bookmarking star, now you will go to that websites feed page where you click Subscribe Now. If you don’t want the feed to go to your browser, maybe you read all of your feeds in Google Reader? or maybe Bloglines? not a problem. All you have to do is click the drop-down menu and select which service you want to use. If the service you want to use isn’t there then click Choose Application… which then lets you browse through your computer for a specific application to manage the feed.
There’s another feature, that when you open the window, it’s simply called Library. Library is where you manage every page you’ve visited (History) in past time you’ve set Firefox to keep your History for, including your recently closed tabs, a section that before wan unreachable. You can also manage your Firefox bookmarks folders here too, you can import export a copy of your bookmarks folder to an HTML document, and you can also import your bookmarks from an HTML file. Another way you can keep your bookmarks safe is to Backup your bookmarks, which saves a copy of all your bookmarks to a .JSON file. Another feature is the way you can restore your bookmarks from a previous date. Every day your Restore updates so you can restore your bookmarks from yesterday, or five days ago and all the days in between. And you don’t ever have to backup your bookmarks to you the restore feature. If you’ve used Internet Explorer you would know how frustrating it is to organize bookmarks in Internet Explorer, the small dialog box, and the fact that you can’t select more than one bookmark or folder at a time. In Firefox you could select every bookmark you have one-by-one if you wanted to. You can also sort your bookmarks by name, tags, location, visit date, visit count, keyword, description, added, last modified, A>Z and finally Z>A. And if that’s not enough you can search through your bookmarks for a certain site, or a description you’ve given a certain bookmark, and if you’ve got a blog bookmarked, then you can search for posts on that blog or website with the search bar. Pretty cool. And if you need more organization or need to know more about a certain bookmark, under Views, then Columns you can decide which columns you want to see, tags, date, location, visit date, visit count, keyword, description, Added and last modified.
Another great feature of Firefox is how Firefox looks. Firefox looks great to begin with, but if you want you can click Tools, Add-Ons, Themes, and if you don’t have any themes installed, type Firefox themes into the awesome bar and hit enter and you’ll find yourself at the Firefox add-ons website. Now just type a theme, such as Vista’s Aero, or the Mac’s Aqua interface and then search for it. Then all you have to do is click Add to Firefox and restart Firefox. Now downloading file or programs or anything. And Firefox themes don’t just change the color of Firefox *cough* Internet explorer *cough* Firefox themes actually change Firefox, they change buttons, colors, sometimes even the layout.
Add-Ons are another huge Firefox feature. Add-Ons are programs, that once you put into Firefox, become part of Firefox. You can add a weather viewer, music player-almost anything. Currently I have these add-ons, Fission, DOM Inspector, Firebug, ScribeFire and Web Developer. All of there are great add-ons that work seamlessly with Firefox.

More later.

Windows 7 might work.

According to This article from PC World titled Microsoft May Use 2,000 Developers for Windows 7, says, as the title suggests, that Microsoft will probably have at least 2,000 people working on Windows 7. Now more people are better in some cases, but not in all. Take my FLL team for example. Our first year we had 10 kids on our team, the max amount of team members. That number went down to 8 eventually, and since then our team has consisted of about 6 or 7 team members. We’ve found that the number, around 6 or 7, works best for us. We all contribute skills, and we all have areas where we’re especially good, that’s what makes us a team. Now on a larger scale, I don’t know if 2,000 people is, hypothetically speaking, if Windows 7 is a flop, is going to make a bad operating system any better, hypothetically speaking. But I’ve also learned through my FLL years that more people working on the same thing, programming for example, allows a smaller chance of getting something wrong. So good luck Microsoft.

The never ending level.

Have you ever heard of The Never Ending Story? well Square Enix decided to make a Never ending “boss” level. Check out This article called New game enemy takes solid day to defeat. That’s hard core.

“…the boss monster “Pandemonium Warden” remained perfectly fit after a group of high-level adventurers wailed away at it nonstop for over 18 hours straight…”

“…People were passing out and getting physically ill…”

“…leaders of the player guild said in a forum post. “We decided to end it before we risked turning into a horrible news story about how video games ruin people’s lives.”…”

“…Though the seemingly unbeatable boss will not prevent people from ‘completing’ the game…”

Right, if you play for a whole 24 hours, you might win!

Yahoo! said: “Too Late.”

Wow. That’s amazing. It’s definetily a good thing leaders of the player guild decided to end it, otherwise they would have the worst publicity, but probably the most played game ever. This reminds me of something I read awhile back. Since these high-level adventurers wailed away at that monster, nonstop, for 18 hours, they must have been really serious gamers.  But maybe nothing compared to some people in Australia. I read somewhere that some guy in Australia killed one of his friends because his friend stole a sword on a game.

Online document creation.

There’s Google Docs, Zoho and now Adobe Buzzword. Adobe Buzzword is a product, totally internet based, where you can create Word-like documents easily. With Google Docs, which is rumored to be the best, should bow down to Zoho. Zoho isn’t as widely used, but if you look at Zoho’s features, and compare them to Google Docs’ features, there’s no comparison. All of the services let you export them to a .doc format, a .pdf format and some others. Google’s simple layout and white colors make it look a little primitive, compared to the sleek black look of Adobe Buzzword. And Zoho resembles Microsoft Word. Adobe Buzzword has the least fonts, with Google in second and Zoho having the most. This isn’t necessarily a huge concern for most but it would be a huge problem for some. Check out the below link for a detailed comparison.

Comparison of online office suites.