February 08, 2007

• Litestep all the way Lite, Free and easy. Like a drunk Elf. www.litestep.net
• Litestep all the way Not much info on that site without login, but those two screenshots have piqued my interest.
• Following up on that, wikipedia's list of desktop shell replacements.
• obligatory: http://store.apple.com
• Monkeyfilter: Lite, Free and easy. Like a drunk Elf.
• Vista looks nice. Of course there is no reason to be an early adopter and pay to be a MS beta tester. Also, since nothing looks/acts familiar you can kiss your productivity goodbye for a while. And you will probably need to upgrade your machine to run it. But other than that, it looks pretty.
• You want to make your windows pretty? Jesus, just get some new curtains. I don't understand you people - you can't do a single fucking thing anymore without double-flickring your gmails and cybering your myspace. GET A LIFE.
• I stick tin-foil on my windows to make them pretty.
• 'ere's a loovlee new desktop shell for ya, guv! Jeepers creepers wotta pair o' peepers!
• RocketDock
• I like it!
• Sweetly! Think RocketDock and LiteStep would play together nice? I don't wanna fool about too much, but Oy! Is Windows ugly.
• Elim would have to help you on the LiteStep stuff, but I don't see why it wouldn't.
• RocketDoc, you'll always beeee Home sweet home, to meeeee Good old RocketDoc RocketDoc Tennessee RocketDoc Tennessee /banjo break
• I have the visual settings on my xp machines set to "best performance" because I'm a l33t gamer and I want the cpu cycles that would otherwise be wasted on looking pretty.
• Yeah, I spent long enough allocating resources to scraping 10Mb disks as fast as 1994ically possible just to watch the progress indicator creeeeeep along. Screw that. It's 2007 and I want my @#%! flying car and a non-craptastical interface goldarnit! (yeah yeah, Ubuntu, I know.) And these Vista installations just don't seem right.
• Tried 'em, and got lost. Windoze might be boring, but it's familiar.
• Since I've installed Ubuntu, my brain has overwritten the MS portion of my head with show tunes.
• I kinda like RocketDock, but I also kinda think that if I actually used it, some of my Mac-owning friends would just mark me as having a serious case of Mac-envy. Which isn't the case! I like that all my Windoze computers feel like erector sets and that the hardware isn't proprietary. I never feel like I can really get to know any computer that I'm not periodically taking apart. Next computer gets an Ubuntu partition at least, though. ps, fish tick - conchy goodness! it's kinda cute, even.
• Heh heh, I said erector.
• Beryl on Ubuntu does look to be the kind of eyecandy.
• I haven't used Ubuntu now since it ceased starting my fan when necessary, and my processor kept overheating. Solutions to this problem would be very welcome, because I want to permanently moon Redmond.
• That's a bugger Skrik. Have you tried asking about your problem on the Ubuntu forums? Very helpful and knowledgeable crowd.
• Skrik, I recommend you put down the duckie.
• Today's Giveaway of the Day: AltDesk. You'll have to download and install it today if you want it for free.
• Been playing with Emerge Desktop, and overall I like it. There are a couple of weird bugs, but I love the forced simplicity of it and the fact that you can't dump stuff to your desktop -- it basically forces you to organize your downloads and temporary junk files as you go. Still adjusting to not having a taskbar, but I'm getting there. Here's a screenshot of what I've got so far. More than half of what you're seeing isn't out of the box stuff, but other software I've added to enhance it. Fun stuff.
• I enjoy the mandelbrot set on Obama's nose. Fractals we can believe in.
• That's quite nice. It's a little bit gnu-ish, but not in a bad way.