Musings of a computer science student
Windows 7
The 7 Best Windows 7 Gadgets
Sep 5th
Windows Vista brought a great new feature to the desktop: sidebar gadgets, little programs that offer information, entertainment or just plain eye-candy to a dockable bar to the right of the screen. Now Windows 7, Vista’s successor, has improved it even more: doing away with the sidebar, it lets you reorganize you gadgets however you want, in either small “sidebar” size or full size anywhere on your desktop.
The huge problem with gadgets, though, is finding functional, interesting and good looking ones. The official gadget repository, Windows Live Gallery, is not very useful, as the screenshots have a very low resolution and an incorrect aspect ratio, and ratings are usually unrepresentative of a gadget’s quality. However, after navigating a while through the Live Gallery I’ve found very useful and aesthetic gadgets. To celebrate the upcoming version of Windows, here are my seven favorite. Note: These gadgets are also compatible with Vista.
Rockin’ Windows 7 RC
May 7th
The Windows 7 Desktop
It’s official: I have replaced Vista as my primary OS with Windows 7 RC, the latest pre-release version of Microsoft’s upcoming operating system. I will post my full review shortly, but I can say that it’s extremely stable, compatible, and usable.
If you want to try out the RC for yourself, it will be available to download from Microsoft through July. The RC will start auto-destructing on March 2010, so you’ve got a good ten months to use it before you need to buy the final version.
Windows 7 bug: Distributed Link Tracking Client dies, Internet connections and Aero with it
Jan 15th
Continuing through my adventures with Windows 7 beta, I came upon a weird bug today.
Something called the Distributed Link Tracking Client crashed. With it, Aero and my Internet connection also went down.
The problem fixed itself within a minute. Nothing major, I guess, but it is a beta after all.
