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  • Firefox interface to look more like Google Chrome

    As iTunes moves to more of a web-style interface, it's starting to look very different from the rest of OS X," Beltzner added.Firefox 3.6, which launched last Friday in beta, includes support for some Windows 7 interface elements, including Aero…
    05 November 2009
    Tags: Elements • Browsers • Mozilla • Bar • Discussions • Tabs

  • Mozilla offers first glimpse of Firefox 3.6

    Integration with Windows 7's Jump Lists - a feature that would list recently-visited sites when Firefox's icon is right-clicked in the taskbar - has been postponed and wasn't included with the beta.Support for Windows 7's Aero Peek and taskbar…
    02 November 2009
    Tags: Warning • Plugins • Plugin • Mozilla • Editions • Addon

  • Mozilla releases Firefox 3.6 beta

    Thumbnail taskbar previews - An option available to Windows 7 users. Mozilla today released the first beta of the next iteration of their Firefox browser, version 3.6. Word broke earlier last week with details that 3.6, codenamed Namoroka, would…
    16 October 2009
    Tags: Beta • Status • Firefox • Alpha • Orientation • Previews

  • Windows 7 user interface questioned by expert

    But if you click on a web link in an email, examine the resulting page, then want to return to the original message, it's definitely not easier.The Windows 7 user interface, according to Thurrott, abounds with similar problems.For example, in…
    04 December 2008
    Tags: Warned • Button • User Interface • Beta • Harder • Expert

  • Programmer cracks Windows 7 alpha

    Microsoft is currently testing Windows 7 internally.Rivera's tool lets users access Windows 7's new taskbar - a feature that Microsoft heavily promoted at the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in late October - as well as other unfinished…
    12 November 2008
    Tags: Gregg Keizer • Scheme • Utility • Windows Vista • Alpha • Unlocked

  • Windows 7 will fix Vista woes, Microsoft promises

    In Vista, gadget icons were confined to a task bar.Perhaps the sexiest new Windows 7 feature demonstrated was its touchscreen interface, which lets people use their fingertips and small hand gestures to control applications on their PCs.Microsoft…
    29 October 2008
    Tags: Elizabeth Montalbano • Folders • Photos • Window • Learned • Reflect

Latest Features

  • Snow Leopard vs Windows 7

    A variation on this comes when you hover over an application on the taskbar, to bring up a thumbnail of the application screen (or rows of thumbnails, if the app has multiple windows open), then hover over the thumbnail.
    27 October 2009
    Tags: Folders • User Interface • Transparent • Usability • Tends • Noting

  • Snow Leopard vs Windows 7

    For example, if you right-click iTunes Dock icon in Snow Leopard, youll get a menu that lets you see whats playing, play or pause your music, assign a rating to the current song, and control other simple iTunes commands.With Windows 7s re-tooled…
    28 August 2009
    Tags: Flow • Pictures • Folder • Windows Vista • Icons • Operating Systems
 

How-Tos

  • How to break your bad tech habits

    Here's a little known but much faster alternative: In Windows 7 (and Vista, if you enable the Quick Launch toolbar), you can launch any program to the right of the Start button by using the Windows key and a number.For example, the icon in the…
    12 March 2010
    Tags: Sync • Locked • Icons • Handy • Care • Calendar

  • How to open a stuck DVD drive tray

    And I found one: a tiny freeware app called, simply enough, EjectCD.After extracting the program from the Zip file, I pinned it to the Windows 7 taskbar. Even better, because I know the ancient secrets of the Windows taskbar, I can just as easily…
    03 December 2009
    Tags: Button • Icon • App • Toolbar • Glitch • Taskbar

  • Putting the finishing touches on your Windows 7 migration

    Any mixing of old and new iTunes library files could lead to unpleasant results.While still in Windows 7, exit iTunes, then click the Windows Explorer icon in your taskbar. One cool exception: When you mouse over the iTunes icon in the Windows 7…
    18 November 2009
    Tags: Music • Icon • Copying • Folder • Videos • Contents

  • How to customise Windows 7 your way

    If you disable them, you may miss an important warning.Move the Taskbar to the Side of the Screen Widescreen monitors are great for watching movies and for organising windows, but a lot of time the space goes to waste.
    22 October 2009
    Tags: Lock • Jump • Downloads • Startup • Disable • Lists

  • How to transform your operating system into a chameleon

    The taskbar looks and works very much like Windows 7's, and the credit for this goes to ViGlance. It provides some (but not all) of the features of the Windows 7 taskbar. After a restart, the Windows taskbar was supposed to look and act like the…
    07 September 2009
    Tags: Art • User Interface • Instructions • Bar • Graphical • Icons

  • How to customise Windows to suit your needs

    Here's how:With at least one document open, click the Office Button, then Advanced Options.Click Advanced, then scroll down to the Display section.Clear the check box next to Show all windows in the Taskbar.
    19 August 2009
    Tags: Check • Windows Xp • App • Pack • Mouse

Reviews

  • Zinstall XP7

    Zinstall refers to each operating system as a desktop, and you can switch between the Windows XP and Windows 7 desktops simply by clicking on the Zinstall icon in the Taskbar in either Windows 7 or XP environments.The program does work well…
    07 January 2010
    Tags: Virtual Machine • Programs • Installation • Folder • Drivers • Custom

  • Microsoft Windows 7 OS

    Windows 7 eliminates Quick Launch and folds its capabilities into the Taskbar. You can also organise icons in the Taskbar by moving them to new positions.To indicate that a particular application on the Taskbar is running, Windows draws a subtle…
    20 October 2009
    Tags: Searches • Media Player • Icons • Generic • Disk Space • Tray

  • Windows 7 RTM - Hands on with the OS release

    Hover your mouse over the stacked icons, and thumbnails of all the open windows appear above the taskbar. You'll also be able to close all open windows or pin the program to the taskbar if it's not already pinned there.
    13 August 2009
    Tags: Media Player • Pin • Windows Media • Resolved • Control Panel • Clicks

  • Microsoft Windows 7 review - First look at the new OS

    The PC World Test Center hasn't benchmarked the shipping version of Windows 7 yet - stay tuned -but all signs point to this OS being sprightly enough to perform decently on all current systems, including those allegedly underpowered, pint-size…
    09 August 2009
    Tags: Installing • Folders • Folder • Libraries • Stage • Tray

  • Dell Vostro 1220 laptop

    It makes web browsing and drag-and-drop operations a pain, but it can be disabled through Dell's touchpad utility in the System Notification area of the Taskbar.These quibbles aside, the Dell Vostro 1220 is definitely worth your time and money if…
    06 July 2009
    Tags: Notebook • Reader • Battery Life • Cpu • Modem • Slot

  • Windows 7 RC1 review

    Microsoft says that the taskbar changes are now made permanently within 30 seconds of when they are applied, which should eliminate the problem.Alt-Tab windows switching has been improved; the feature has now been combined with Aero Peek.
    29 April 2009
    Tags: Magic • Windows Media • Notification • Tweaks • Quicker • Control Panel

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