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Jack LiMay 16 Windows 7 RCToday I spent some times on installing Windows 7 RC. The experience was smooth, I encountered no problem at all when I install it on my 2 years old Lenovo X60s. My X60s is on 945 chipset and Aero effect works well on it. The first difference that I notice was the taskbar. It’s a very much welcome addition. You can easily launch application from it, also getting application status from it. For example you can see a progress bar on it when you are downloading files on Internet Explorer. There is another feature that I guess a lot of people are dying for, that is a finer control over UAC. Personally I do not have any problem with the UAC at all, even on Vista. However I do agree it’s annoying to repeatedly ask you the same question. Most people avoid that by completely switching off the UAC, right now on Windows 7 you can preserve the security while having less prompt. You can setup the UAC in a way such that the UAC will only prompt you for confirm IF the modification was trigger by a program. That is, if it’s trigger by you, pressing a button, it is NOT going to ask you the same question again and again. I am installing various beta product right now, such as sliverlight 3. I am going to give more review later. (This entry was my first post composed using Windows Live Writer.) September 07 Silverlight 1.0 released!Check it out at silverlight.net!
Also MS is working with Novell to bring silverlight to linux! Read here. June 01 Tru 2nd Gen UMPC?I discover that this UMPC 'Vega' is selling in MongKok. It's eye catching as it is really small in size. The shape is pretty weird, a bit thick, long, but overall it's very small. It smaller than my Sony U series. I went to their web site to check it out and find that they provide another model call 'Everun' (Check out the video!). It quite cool! What's I really would like to look into is they are claiming 7 to 12 hours of REAL battery life. That's what I want!
The spec is kind of weird though, some highlight:
Just thinking getting a new UMPC, my 256mb Sony U8G should be retired. I am also looking at OQO model 02. September 30 Windows Vista RC1 upgradedJust get my IBM X41T installed with Vista RC1. Installation was smooth. It recognized my Hauppauge WinTV PVR2 USB2 Encoder, which allow me to run MCE and view live TV. Previously beta 2 does not recognized the device. Vista also recognize my notebook as TabletPC. Although most hardware buttons are not working, I discovered a feature that is new to me, that is "Flicks". By using "flicks", I can swing my pen horizontally from left to right to denote a "forward", right to left for a "backward", which is actually a "mouse gesture" feature. I haven't tried this feature thoroughly but I think it will be a very good one and increase the usability of applications. It is good that if Microsoft allow developers to extend it. It currently support 8 direction swing which maps to 4 navigation action and 4 editing action (copy/paste/etc). May be this is not a new function but I just discovered it. August 30 GPRSI was using Peoples GPRS for a month and everything was great, speed is ok, EDGE supported. Combined with my hw6965 I am able to get on MSN all the time and be alerted when there is new mail arrive. Checking email on the road is great!
However my mobile number are subscribed thru Sunday, I would like to consolidate my bill and use one SIM card, therefore I switched to Sunday 5 days ago. During these 5 days, it is like nightmare. The GPRS mysteriously disconnected while the signal is showing full. MSN keep disconnect every minute. On IE, you never able to load one whole page, all pages timeout in the middle and EDGE is not supported. You can't even get a signal at urban area like Central... Terrible isn't it?
Finally I terminated the Sunday plan and will switch back to Peoples. HP hw6965I'm back, WM5! I bought the hw6965 few days ago. I love the little iPAQ very much, reminded me the time when I just bought the classic iPAQ. Hw6965 is a Blackberry like device, quad-band, wifi bluetooth plus GPS device. It suits my needs very well. The keyboard is lovely. In fact, I'm using it now to type this blog entry, with the new live spaces mobile. And the GPS is nice, it allow you to attach the GPS info to a picture when you take one with the built in 1.3mp cam. PS. If you plan to buy English version like me, please note after installing chinese viewer (ce-star / monster), the GPS stop working. It throws LtoManager.exe unknown exception. Please let me know if anyone knows the cure. |
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