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No sooner had I finished writing yesterday’s post than did my Windows OS decide to punish me for the slander against its progenitor. I closed the window for my browser and my taskbar immediately exploded. It appears to have created a window and task bar item for every process and driver running. Nice.
I am sooooo wanting to switch to Mac/Linux.
I finally got sick of it. Microsoft does some things well but is increasingly finding that the substitutes do it way better. If I wasn’t tied to MS project for my job I’d be on a Mac right now (I may still but need to evaluate some cross over products).
Case in point: Hotmail.
I quit using hotmail about a year ago now, mainly because I got sick of constantly weeding through spam. I still use MSN messenger to keep in touch with certain people so I am able to easily keep tabs on the growing size of my inbox. I am proud to announce that it topped 1,000 emails yesterday, 95% of which are sure to be spam.
On the flip side, I have been using Gmail for the past year or so and can remember only having to report 3-4 items as spam.
As you can see, Gmail still gets a lot of spam – the difference is that it goes to my spam folder, not my inbox. Once again Microsoft has missed the boat.
I came across this new feature of Google maps the other day that I thought was rather cool. Some places have had photos taken at street level that will then let you “walk” along a street route. Here is St. George Street in St. Augustine, FL. The images were taken using an 11 lens camera mounted to vans so you won’t get to see anything but the ends of St. George Street, since it is pedestrian traffic only.
Pretty cool, Google.
