Holy mother of Google goodness

2007-08-25 Leave a comment

Been fiddling with Google Desktop (GD). Yes I am slow on the uptake, but I did try to give Live Desktop a chance, and it is bleh. I had it installed on the same too machines that I am now testing GD on both my laptop and my Vista box, and did it cause huge slow down. It always seemed to be indexing, if I forgot to pause it when my laptop was off power, sucked the juice right out.

Vista’s search does a job of finding stuff, it just does it. After installing GD I could not believe the difference in speed that it finds things in, and more accurately (precisely?). I have around 800GB of Video, Music, Documents, Games, my GMail accounts and all the other stuff to sort through and it took last night to index and it is finding stuff very quickly. Works using both IE & FireFox, although I gather there where problems with Opera. Can’t say don’t like Opera very much, feels bloated.

I also like the fact that on my WinXP laptop I can have the same sidebar as on my Vista machine, so I should always have what I need. Just a pity that you cannot seem to scroll if you have too any gadgets (widgets?). I have a task widget, Dictiory Google Search (cannot remove grrr), Google Calendar Widget, a NetStat Widget (noob security nut :p ), a cool gadget via intel that checks your notbooks battery, charge and CPU usage and speedstep status and a Twitter gadget. The only one I seem to be missing is one for FaceBook.

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Vista Update

2007-08-20 Leave a comment

6 Months later and I am still with Vista. I do not get why people are having problems using it, yes it is slower and you need a “new” machine but I find the experience more satisfying.

I have a Core2 E6600, 2GB DDR400 RAM, 250GB SATA Hard drive for Windows and a 7900GS 512MB Graphics card. It does run 100% fine with the E6300, butI would recommend a decent graphics card (any discrete card should do) if you plan on using Aero.

My main use of this machine is gaming, mostly rFactor, GTR2 and World of Warcraft. I had the same system running Windows XP and used to get the odd stutter in both the racing games, with Vista I cannot ever remember having the samething happen.

I have found that all the programs I use are working fine, except for iTunes as it goes black when it opens and I have to minimise and restore for it to sort itself out.

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World of Vista

2007-02-02 Leave a comment

Installed Vista on Saturday, and no I did not miss formatting using the old console :p

The installation went smoothly, until I realised that I did not have nVidia drivers, nor Live 24 drivers.

Goto nVidia’s site, download, install, wow it works.
Goto Creative’s site, download, install, they also worked (or so it appeared)
Install Logitech Momo drivers and split pedal not working, hhhmmmm. Reboot reinstall and now works. Yay

Installed rFactor works for a while, then CTD, Windows say the Creative drivers

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IE7 – My first thoughts

2006-10-23 Leave a comment

One word, WOW

I haven’t enjoyed IE for a very long time now, but I must say they have really looked at what the others have been doing and tried to take it one step further.

The plugins are a welcome addition, and this post was written using the Live Writer plugin.

I am going to use it and see how it goes, maybe they can get me too switch back, but then what will the final Firefox 2.0 look like. OMG and I thought that choice was good, it just makes life difficult. LOL  *update* The problem seems to exist with the Widgets and a JavaScript code for the stats counter I use, removed it a voila… me = smiling again.

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