Vista’s File Copy - The Real Story
Posted by Jonathan Ng | Filed under Technical
This post by Jeff Atwood is definitely a MUST READ. Everyone’s been complaining about Vista’s file copy. “It’s so much slower!” they say. However, Vista’s file copy is based on an improved algorithm and performs better in most cases, as compared to XP.
The thing is, Vista’s file copy performance is only perceived to be slower. It does not reflect it’s actual performance. No point in me repeating the whole article, go read it yourself now!
Tags: out_there
My Favourite Photographers on Flickr
Posted by Jonathan Ng | Filed under Personal
There’s more than 2 billion photos on Flickr, some are downright crappy, a lot are the usual family/vacation photos and of course, there are those posted by professionals with gear more expensive than a Kancil. I don’t explore Flickr super actively, but as of now, there are several photographers that I absolutely love.
ç±³æ»ç±³(MSM) and AehoHikaruki
Spectacular portraits, beautiful models :p
Frankly, they’re not my fav simply ’cause the models are pretty, there’s still a lot of technique involved in taking portraits. MSM’s photos tend to be more Photoshop-ed while AehoHikaruki’s tend to more “right out of the camera”. yoccakamada also has some pretty good photos.
mister bokeh, motionid - masters of bokeh
Both great photographers (and damn rich I might add) of bokeh-styled pictures.
Of course, there’s thousands of other great photographers on Flickr, but these 4 stand out due to their styles. Yeap, I love portraiture (more so if it’s female :p) and bokeh-ed out pictures! =)
Tags: out_there, Photography
Vista Application Incompatibility: Even Zune!
Posted by Jonathan Ng | Filed under Technical
This is simply hilarious, Windows Vista is not supported by Microsoft’s own iPod killer: Zune. Complete article at AppleInsider.
It also turns out that quite a number of other applications don’t work in Vista. Windows Live Messenger is reported to crash after a few hours. And worst news of all, Visual Studio 2002 and 2003 won’t work in Vista. VS.Net 2005 has some compatibility issues, but I guess it’s fine then. Heh, Visual Studio 6 still works..
From: eWEEK.
Tags: out_there
Links 2
Posted by Jonathan Ng | Filed under Technical
Linky time again.. hehe.. I didn’t expect Brozar to be such a fake. I can’t do a review on it since I can’t find any reason to try it in the first place. It’s just another IE shell, no, it’s even worse than one:
- New secure browser: Brozar is fake and full of adware
- Why is Apple so secretive?
- Google Revealed: the IT strategy that makes it work
- 21 tactis to improve blog traffic
- The Problem with Threads, doubt I’ll understand much of it.
- A little outdated: Risks and Rewards of AMD-ATI merger by John C Dvorak
Do You Tag Your Files?
Posted by Jonathan Ng | Filed under Technical
No right? But, Vista expects you to do so. James Bannan brought up an interesting topic in his article “Vista: ultimate confusing mess edition“. Explorer in Vista allows users to sort files by metadata. But let’s face the facts, how many of us actually bother to do so? Perhaps Office 2007 will prompt you to tag your Word documents everytime you create them, but what about your existing photos? Most people have tons of them.
The point is that Microsoft seems to have missed a key learning from computer history: end users are not the least bit interested in putting their own metadata into files.
Vista really doesn’t work around the fact that users never add their own metadata. Without some miraculous educational push to encourage users to tag all their files, all of Vista’s ‘innovations’ amount to 10 per cent more than nothing much.
One of the features Vista’s been bragging about is how easy it is users can organize their files. It seems now that that particular feature won’t be a big hit..
Tags: out_there
