Greendale.tk » windows http://www.greendale.tk Rantings on computers, software, books, music, movies and the internet. Wed, 28 Dec 2011 10:28:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Windows 7 http://www.greendale.tk/2009/04/27/windows-7/ http://www.greendale.tk/2009/04/27/windows-7/#comments Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:09:34 +0000 Eric http://www.greendale.tk/2009/04/27/windows-7/ More >]]> Windows 7 RC1 will be released on MSDN on april 30th. There is a very nice review/ preview on the windows supersite. From my experience so far (from the public beta):  it’s very slick and snappy. The ui is a lot better too, especially the task bar. It stacks the programs in a much nicer way, and you can easily switch between windows etc.. But read the extensive review below for (much) more info .

But Windows 7, in release candidate guise, is already a towering achievement that casts Windows Vista immediately in its shadow.

Microsoft’s Windows 7 Site

Windows 7 RC1 Review

]]> http://www.greendale.tk/2009/04/27/windows-7/feed/ 1 Quicksilver on windows http://www.greendale.tk/2006/08/29/quicksilver-on-windows/ http://www.greendale.tk/2006/08/29/quicksilver-on-windows/#comments Tue, 29 Aug 2006 09:02:00 +0000 Eric http://www.greendale.tk/2006/08/29/quicksilver-on-windows/ More >]]> Colibri Logo
One of the things you really miss, once you have also used a mac, on windows is Quicksilver. It’s a program that lets you start programs and open documents incredibly fast. Just hit ctrl-space, type a few letters and usually the right program boots up. This would be especially handy on windows, when you’re like me and install and try a lot of programs and your startup menu is totally cluttered and you cant find anything anymore ;) .

Looks like Colibri does about the same thing, just recently started using it and seems to work fine, this blog post mentions some more programs that I am definately going to try.

Colibri can be found at colibri.leetspeak.org
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