Contents tagged with Vista
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Parallels adds "Express Windows Installation"
I just ran across this over on parallels site:
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Convert Thunderbird Email to Windows Mail
I've been converting my thunderbird email boxes to Windows Mail on Vista. To do this you need to use a tool that convert the mbox format to .eml format. I found this free one that seems to work pretty well: http://www.broobles.com/imapsize/th2outlook.php
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Made the switch to Vista
Well I took the plunge this weekend and installed the August CTP (build 5536) on my MacBook Pro. I know, I couldnt wait for RC1 to be posted to MSDN. So far everything has been running smoothly. Due to the nature of working on LearnVisualStudio.NET I have all of my dev tools in VMWare so changing out primary OSes is actually a breeze for me.
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Microsoft Product Name Generator
Feel free to customize your own. Here's the srcipt source:
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Windows graphics system to be overhauled post Vista
I just found this interesting article on some of the limitations in WDDM 1.0. Looks like most of the issues are around GPU multitaksing where generation 1 will be mostly cooperative multitasking. With some hardware improvements and subsequent software releases things will become more pre-emptive.
Man, how long is it until we are running a complete 2nd computer + OS on our video cards? Will we see display devices in the future that build in the gfx hardware? So you just plug all 9 of your monitors into a highspeed serial cmd bus (USB9) and let the parts of your "computing grid" that are doing general program execution send their display commands to any remotly connected display. The future is bright friends. Just wish it was here now. -
See Windows Vista
Just came across http://www.seewindowsvista.com/. Looks like MS has put up a collection of videos to show off Vista. It's pretty funny seeing Tom Skerritt introducing the demos. If you just sit on the home page for a bit and dont click anything he starts nagging you. :)
Most of the demos seem really geared towards business and all are using WPF heavily. The virtual books from the British library look really cool even if it does harken back to the Saturday Night Live sketch. Go on over and take a sip of the kool-aid. -
Windows Vista Photo Gallery frustrations
I have about 20gig of digital photos. And I'm constantly adding more pictures from my Canon Digital Rebel. I am really looking forward to the Windows Photo Gallery app in Vista. I just installed Vista beta2 and the app seems to run really well.
I have one big complaint though. The photo import for digital cameras. Why do all the photo apps insist on using the "film roll" metaphor? They all seem to want to organize the filesystem storage based on the date that you import them into the photo app. This is my biggest complaint about iPhoto as well so I'm not just picking on MS. ALL digicams these days stamp the date and time of the picture in the EXIF data. Why cant we use this data for naming the folders and files? Windows Photo Gallery can use this data but in a VERY limited way. I have all my photos organized like this on the file system:My Pictures\2006\May\2006-05-01 12-05-37_1.jpg
This makes it very easy to make backups of the photos because they are organized by the date and time they were taken. In the age of 1-8Gig flash cards you can take alot of pictures before importing them so the date that you get around to loading them onto the computer really has little or no meaning. This system works really well when you have tons of photos. I'll use tagging features of photo apps to organize by event types and such. I can use photo gallery to tag the pictures as "birthday" and such. But when it comes to the filesystem structure I need more control!
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My Pictures\Year\Month\YYYY-MM-DD HH-MM-SS_#.jpg
It's worth noting that no photo manager out there really supports photo renaming and filesystem organizing very well. This is why I have to use Downloader Pro today.
I really hope MS gives me more options for naming the folders and files during the photo import process. If its too hard for the grandmas to use just bury it in an advanced dialog or something I dont care. As long as I can get the filesystem structure above I'll be happy as a clam.