David’s Dictionary for the Internet Age: Nommable
January 28th, 2009Nommable (adj.)
Good to eat: having an appealing or enjoyable taste or smell (see: tasty, yummy, delicious)
Example: 
(Taken inside of Owens Food Court)
A thought about skipping Vista
January 25th, 2009I read Gizmodo on a regular basis, and I just came across this article noting how “Add/Remove Programs” has disappeared form the control panel. In 7 the item is in the programs section, and the user can get to the list of programs to uninstall by clicking “Uninstall a program” in the main control panel window. More over, he obviously has been using Windows XP for the three years that the release version Windows Vista has been available to consumers. (To be fair that time range should start when Vista went out into public beta since Windows 7 isn’t even released yet, but I’ll underestimate.)
Let us compare:
Windows XP Control Panel: 
Lazy man’s way to prepare for IE8
January 23rd, 2009Internet Explorer 8, Microsoft’s up-and-coming browser to supersede Internet Explorer 7, has a very different layout engine than it’s predecessor. IE8’s engine is much more standards-compliant than any version of IE so far. Standards-compliance is great, but for IE it does yield some unfortunate consequences. Websites that produce special code for pages downloaded with IE7 often send the same quirky code to IE8, which renders the page according to the “official rules”. The end result is a webpage that doesn’t look right.
IE8 has a few features for the transition time between now and when IE7 (and older) usage drops to an insignificant level. First is Compatibility View. If the user sees a website that isn’t rendering correctly (for example, my website right now), he can click the “broken page” button in the navigation bar. 
Windows 7 Feature Focus: Burning Disk Images
January 23rd, 2009Windows 7 (currently in public beta) has a new and very useful feature built-in: burning disk images.
A simple double-click on an ISO file will bring up this simple interface: 
It couldn’t be simpler, but you will still need some third-party software if you want to create a disk image.
Neat feature of Media Player in Windows 7: Pretty generic album art
January 23rd, 2009Sometimes an album doesn’t have album art, or the album art hasn’t been loaded yet. Previous version of Windows Media Player would solve this problem by displaying the album as a glossy blue tile overplayed with the album title in white text. With a lot of albums without cover art (or before the album art has been loaded) this look didn’t meet Media Center’s premium visual standards. The solution: 