Monday, November 06, 2006

What Windows Vista Should Have Been

If Vista looked anything like this, I would've given up XP for it. However, I was part of the latest Vista Beta and I'll tell ya', Vista is NO WAY even close to being this cool. The video is showing Longhorn, which should've been out in 2003! Back then we were all excited about the successor to XP. Longhorn was gonna' be the shiznit yo! Then something got delayed, and delayed and other delays and we are left with Vista which is basically XP with a new coat of paint and some little extras thrown in, which, by the way, already exist in freeware and commercial programs available for some time. Like, let's take the cosmetic changes. Anything Microsoft can do, Stardock can do better as far as cosmetic work goes. Save your bucks when Vista comes out, get Stardock Object Desktop Subscription and enjoy the "Vista Look" now. I could go on and on, but I'll let the video speak for itself.


Friday, November 03, 2006

Get Perpindicular!

A cute way of explaining the newest round of Hard Drives. Reminds me of the Schoolhouse Rock days, you'll see what I mean, it's obvious. This technology will make the average drive capable of holding 10 times the storage in the same amount of space, or something like that. In other words, its the next evolutionary step in storage technology for hard disks. Check It Out ...