It’s been a while, a particularly long while since I didn’t make much sense of everything. It wasn’t here to be a guerilla radio, horde attractant or the occational life updates.
“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.” - Buddha
My economics teacher mentioned that PLDT earns billions per month/year (not sure), I think it’s a load of crap, what’s even worse is that if it’s true.
I have tons of reasons to hate PLDT, specific to their poor service and customer support. Phone lines screw up often (no outgoing signal) and let’s not forget, myDSL is just AWFUL. It’s so frustrating that at times I really need to calm down as I can visualize myself doing very inhumane things to their employees.
BAD BUSINESS PRACTICES. Just last month, competitors rolled out their services to our area, and a week after, PLDT did mass calls to their customers requiring them to enter a lock-in period for a free month, or else.. THEY WOULD BE CUT OFF. This is absurd on many levels, shows how greedy (possibly to the billions) this company is.
To PLDT’s managing directors, or any administrative idiots sitting on a high chair. I resent you all. I have nothing but pure disgust of your doings and ignorance of your bad service. I wish you all hell, actually, worse than that, you don’t have souls to go anywhere, that is how much I hate you all.
Out of complete curiosity, I backed up all my files, and reinstalled Vista RC2 as my main operating system. It was awezome.
Courtesy of codinghorror.com
It felt new and it ran new. One of the many things I do after every install is move my documents folder into the next partition so that I don’t really need to literally back up everything. Something new here is the obvious removal of the “My” prefix on every folder type. Picture, video folder no longer resides within the late “My Documents” which are now standalone folders and “Documents” respectively; all residing on what’s supposed to be my User/Isamu (user home directory) folder.
Courtesy of thoosje.com
Gadgets, I love em. The Windows Sidebar (the right bar in the picture above) is probably one of the neatest features Vista has to offer. Not underestimating these mini-programs but they’ve been more than helpful to me than anything else in Vista. First off, the very fancy looking clock, no longer would I have to look to my lower right (I find it more efficient to look up than down) to get the time as I’ve even disabled the taskbar clock. Second, I had this gadget that syncs itself with Outlook which informs me about new mail and conveniently displays my to-do list so I don’t slack off. Third I was running these two gadgets that displayed my system uptime and bandwidth use respectively, and that just fires up the geek in me.
Courtesy of beyondthemanual.com
Putting the pre in search. If you noticed the new search bar in the also (and very) new start menu, this is what it’s all about. Windows Vista keeps an index of folders of your choice for faster searching. Seen above is the actual Indexing options found in the Control Panel where you can add your own personalized folders as well as exclude (which really comes in handy). The searches you would get are live, as the index is queried everytime you type a letter in, and the best part is that supported files are indexed within therefore not limiting you to file names only.
If that wasn’t clear, what I usually do when demonstrating this to people is grab Notepad (done by typing in notepad in the search bar and pressing enter, although even notepa or notep would do) and type in my name, then save it in a random filename (ex: abcde.txt). After, I would type my name in the search bar and in no wait, the file is listed. More on this, if there exists a program, contact and an e-mail with my name on it, the results would be categorized, making it simpler for the rest of us.
Courtesy: Microsoft
Not only pictures, and not just a slideshow. To quickly kill two birds here, (again) new in Windows explorer is file and folder preview. Not entirely similar to how XP handles picture folders but depending on the zoom level, folders come out to life!~ Not only pictures, as your Office presentations and a lot more file types are previewed as well.
Make that three, Windows Vista empowers (big word, big word) you through tags, basically metadata (data that describes other data), which is of more use when combined with the search functionality.
Courtesy: lifehacker.com
Okay, four, it also automatically makes versions of your file (point-in-time copies of files, quoting lockergnome.com) so if anything goes wrong, you can easily restore it, even as a new file.
Going back, to where we really should were, the (cough, NEW) Vista photo gallery (seen above, well, go reaaaaaaally above) is somewhat a major upgrade from XP’s picture and fax viewer. I should note (and now tell you) that it creates STUNNING slideshows (aka Photostory style), you can even select from several slideshow transitions, I personally like the travel one. If you’re running a Vista version that has the Windows Media Center (Home Premium and Ultimate), you can use it’s slideshow feature while playing a song in the background so you don’t need to run an mp3 player separately.
There are a lot more that I haven’t mentioned and most likely I’ll tackle them on future posts.
So, I’ve been discussing and telling you great new things on Vista, but the screen captures aren’t really mine.. a reason for this is that I only used it for less than a week and I reverted back to XP. The reason, for that reason (heh), is sadly because Vista doesn’t support two of my devices, namely my scanner and videocam.
In whole honesty, I LOVE Windows Vista, and I almost weeped seeing it all go away as the drive formatted. Everything felt right, it also kept suprising me with things I quickly came to use of later on. Quoting myself, it’s a totally new experience, and if you haven’t used it yet, find out why even Microsoft crowned it as a major Windows release since 95′.
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