Barak Obama - President 2.0?
Filed under: Fun, Internet, Photo
It appears is going to keep it up. There are Presidential baby photos on the web. And, the President-elect is on flickr. He has released an entire set of election night photos of his family awaiting results in their hotel room. I wonder what will be next.
The Obama's certainly seem willing to let us have glimpses of their world. And they understand how to reach out on the web. No wonder someone took the time to make a flash game for Obama. Let's hope it continues. Maybe there will be a presidential blog.
[Via Lifehacker]
Barak Obama - President 2.0? originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsWindows 7 scheduled for a mid-2009 release
Filed under: OS Updates, Windows, Microsoft
The news came out of a presentation at WinHEC. And it's not a huge surprise. After all, an early build of Windows 7 is already in the hands of developers and a ton of folks who know how to use BitTorrent. The early build is still rough around the edges and lacks some of the features Microsoft hopes to ship in the final version. But initial reports indicate that it's more responsive than Windows Vista and has a number of improvements affecting startup, battery life, and general usability.
At least one computer maker has already said that it plans to release a laptop running Windows 7 as early as mid-2009. At the time, that sounded like optimisitc talk. Now it's starting to look a bit more realistic.
Windows 7 scheduled for a mid-2009 release originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsCreate bulleted notes and get things done with Notable
Filed under: Text, Windows, Office, Productivity, Freeware
I've been looking for a good, small note taking / gtd application for a while, and hadn't found anything that suited my needs until I came across Notable. To me, it's like a better, digital version of the $1 spiral bound notebooks I've always used.
It's design is simple, yet perfectly suited to the way I take notes. The top of the application window contains a list of your notes and the bottom allows you to view and edit them.
One thing I love about Notable's interface is the lack of, well, everything. It's about as minimal as it can be. It's designed for the way I work: with the keyboard and right-click context menu.
The first line of your note will automatically appear in bold and become its title in the list view. To bullet a line, press the tab key before you start typing (use multiple tabs to indent). Text can be formatted as bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, and fixed width.
Notes can be saved as rich text, and the archive function will both save a note and remove it from your list.
Notable is freeware for Windows only, and requires the .NET 2.0 framework - sometimes an annoyance, but it's worth overlooking in this case.
Create bulleted notes and get things done with Notable originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsMicrosoft has no plans to buy Yahoo! (this time)
Filed under: News, Microsoft, Yahoo!
Now Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has a message for Yahoo! "We moved on." Ballmer says Microsoft might be willing to look at a partnership that would allow Micorosft to use Yahoo! Search or other technologies. But the software giant has no plans to purchase the internet portal.
Microsoft has no plans to buy Yahoo! (this time) originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 07 Nov 2008 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsCustomize your Spaces on OS X with Hyperspaces
Filed under: Utilities, Macintosh, Productivity
Hyperspaces is an app that lets you customize the behavior of Apple's built-in screen-switching app, Spaces. If you're not familiar with Spaces, it basically gives you multiple desktops and lets you assign different apps to them. This keeps your screen uncluttered, so you can work in Photoshop on one Space and keep all those chat windows in another. Spaces is one of those features that users either love and rely on find completely useless. If you're in the latter camp because of interface and usability issues, Hyperspaces may just convert you.Hyperspaces was developed by Tony Arnold, creator of VirtueDesktops, which introduced screen-switching to the Mac before Apple came out with Spaces in OS 10.5. With Hyperspaces, you can tell your spaces apart more easily, by naming them, adding labels to them, and assigning individual desktop pictures to each one. It also introduces a neat little visual navigation menu, which makes getting to right space less of a hassle. One thing Apple got right about Spaces was the hotkeys, so naturally Hyperspaces gives you more of them, for easier control.
Customize your Spaces on OS X with Hyperspaces originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 07 Nov 2008 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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