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Unmuted: You Don't Have My Vote
You must have heard of the viral video created by Invisible Children (IC), a U.S. organization that has launched a one-year campaign (expires December 31, 2012) to eliminate Joseph Kony, the head of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a rebel group in Northern Uganda that has been embroiled in…
Google releases Google Play to replace Market - Get it!
Not so sure about the new name change, but I’m enjoying the $0.25 albums and $0.50 full games! Go get it Android peeps!
Didn’t get into the older AC games, but this one definitely looks very promising!
After futzing around with the Windows 8 Consumer Preview for a day I’ve come up with some interesting points regarding the navigation and overall feel of the new UI.
Windows 8 centralizes its navigation around the Start menu. When pressing the start key, it pulls up the Metro UI like you’ve all seen on any WP7 device. This is a tad confusing to grasp at first, but I got used to it. I almost wish they would have kept the same side start menu, and just combined that with Metro UI.
First I would like to point out some of the features I enjoyed about the new Windows distribution.
- It’s fast no doubt
- Everything is much cleaner than previous releases
- Shortcuts when holding the cursor on the left or right of the screen
- Full screen applications (IE, etc..)
- Notification integration like mobile platforms
- Windows Live integration (XBL, MSN, Music)
- The ability to move tiles to desired layout
- Xbox Integration (I can control my Xbox from my laptop!)
- Many more I haven’t discovered
Overall the feel of the OS took a bit of time to get used to. I felt really uncomfortable using the track pad on my laptop - Mainly because of the side screen shortcuts. Even with the mouse sensitivity at the maximum setting, I had to swipe to the left or right 3 to 4 times on the pad in order to get to the shortcut, it was inconvenient. Which leads me to some of the negatives. Now mind you this isn’t the full release, there are a lot more features yet released such as Zune Pass, Facebook, other application integration.
- Track pad is a no no with Windows 8, either hardware limitation or lack of drivers
- Application integration (Full screen, notifications, only Micro$oft apps)
- Missing features (Zune Pass, is supposed to be supported later)
- Navigation shortcuts, search frustrated me, I wanted to press a key on my keyboard rather than go to the side bar. There should have been a universal search button similar to OS X.
- Driver support (Had to download track pad drivers, should be better in final release when the OS will search online)
- Laptop slow to restart/wake
Overall I was very surprised at how much I liked the look and feel of the OS. I half expected to hate it and go back to Windows 7 shortly afterward.
I can’t wait to see the final release and will be running this preview until that time. I eagerly look forward to the supposed Face bag Book support, so I can read and respond to messages without opening my browser and wasting time. I also hope Google works with Microsoft (Big maybe), and integrates some (or all) of its applications into the new OS.
I would reccommend anyone to check out the preview, and use a mouse while you’re at it. ;)
Asher
Very clever, had me going. Hahahaha
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