A couple of days since my last post, mainly because I have been busy with the latest Angry Birds Rio, up to seventh place in the world rankings for a while one of my personal charity projects which I don’t like to talk about; I just like helping other people with no benefit to myself. But how the hell do you get three stars on that last puzzle?
Back to the real world and I boot my computer into my newly installed Windows 7 where it helpfully tells me that it cannot start Windows and will now try to repair. This is much better than the blue screen of death offered by Windows XP; but the end result looks like it could be similar (i.e. a new install) when I am told that it is unable to repair whatever is broken. Then it tells me that it will try and restore to an earlier version, and it manages that, although I am then left with several hours of work reinstalling all the updates, virus scans and Total War: Shogun which I had laboured over only the previous day.
It has now been stable for more than 24 hours, but I remain cautiously pessimistic. Snow Leopard and previous incarnations of the Mac OS have never, ever failed on me; why can’t Windows be the same?
One of the first things I did after installing Windows, was open the tragic Internet Explorer and download Firefox 3; then close Internet Explorer and may it never darken my door again. Firefox (or Chrome, or Safari on a Mac) are way better than IE; and now Firefox just became even more wonderful with the release of version 4. Really like the new App Tabs feature. Have it running on the Mac, wondering if I dare try and install it on Windows; or will the act invoke the “sorry your install is screwed, please go back to square one and start again” message?
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2011-03-25| Barry saysI took a look at the description of Firefox 4 and it looks impressive. HOWEVER, I am happy to be corrected but it - like all other browsers I have checked - appears to lack the one feature I REALLY REALLY like in IE-based Maxthon. And that is a ‘Utilities’ area where I can put shortcuts to programmes I open frequently (such as my folder where I keep everything so allowing for easy back-up, address book, photo viewer etc). Brilliant - sort of like bookmarks for programmes instead of websites. It also has the reload if you closed by accident - and ability to reload all tabs if the entire browser closes, auto complete previously visited sites and many other features of Firefox. But each to their own.
2011-03-25| Pete saysAren’t “bookmarks for programmes” known as shortcuts? Press Ctrl-Alt-(other key) and the programme you’ve assigned that combination to starts. Browser independent, it’s the underlying operating system that’s doing the work.
2011-03-25| Spike saysSounds like the Dock in Mac OS.
2011-03-25| Barry saysPete - we are talking browsers, so that’s why I refered to “kind of like bookmarks for programmes.” As for assigning keys for each programme, I don’t have to. I just provide the shortcut and click on the icon, instead of trying to remember loads of key assignments. As I said, each to his own, but I wonder why no other browser appears to provide this convenience. Certainly keeps my desktop free of icons.
2011-03-25| Pete saysBrowsers. Aren’t they a programme being run by your operating system? Maybe I’m missing something here. What you’re saying is that all your icons, which are not cluttering your desktop, are now in your browser? Is that cluttered?