Incoming Windows 7, What's Behind the Buzz?

Installing Microsoft Windows operations systems were always nice and easy. But installing Windows 7 was incredibly easy, compared to Windows XP installation which I have been experiencing hundreds of them. When installing Win XP we sometimes had a crash a little bit, but turned out to be OK. Installing Win 98 do you remember? yes, sometimes we had to reinstall it to have a clean install. But, however they were easy.

I installed a Windows 7 in a dual boot mode. You know, I just don't want to lose anything I've been working on. They are mostly in my Win XP. 

After done installing, I was rather shocked by the degradation of visual quality compared to that i've been experiencing with, that is Vista. Windows 7 is somehow not as 'blink-blink' as Vista. Well, yeah, I must tell you I also have an Acer notebook with Vista business installed, and my favorite a MacBook. I use Vista because Microsoft someday has to leave WinXP to either Vista or now Win7. I don't know, when done installing, I just didn't feel as good as when I first saw Vista. Not that they look alike and I had this taste of Vista first and therefore not being surprised to Win7 because I already got used to something alike at the first place. But rather, the visual quality itself is degraded, Windows 7 however looks rather slum. I am sorry to say that but it does.

Anyway, the dual boot is running great. I installed Win 7 in a different partition, same hard disk. Installed it as custom installation. It is running perfectly well, and about dive to it deeper.

The Cool Mac Dashlets

I was really amazed by the first time I did the programming in Mac. Created a Widget for dashboard was just awesome.

The development environment that was so called SDK was indeed a big bunch of files. Yes, I mean BIG. Consuming some gigs of my hard drive. But tell you, they are worthwhile. I am not such a Mac Mania or something, but from my little experience with Mac. I know it is something great.

I used widgets. Both in Mac dashboard or Windows Vista sidebar. Vista's sidebar is good also, but I haven't got any that I could consider a significant plus. Somehow Mac is different. Mac pays respect for our space in desktop and booting time. I think Mac tries to get rid of unnecessary things from desktop, therefore Stack and Dashboard (as it is now) were created.  You'll be amazed of how fast a Mac machine boots up. That's a really big point.

Vista's sidebar occupies some significant space in desktop. The good thing about it is that it would be very beneficial if you use it as a dedicated dashboard for applications or services needed to be monitored all the time. Unfortunately, that kind of applications or services won't be too many. Until now I don't have any because all important things are already taken care of by the respective applications that deal with them. 

However, widgets may provide a better way of remote computation. It is like having widgets as application agents. To be extended to mobile computations, it will be even better. For me, they are all thin terminals and very potential ones.

Most Exciting Next Decade of Internet and Computation

A guy once told me that this century is gonna be an interesting century. It's gonna be like a renaissance of computing era. Well ,it was in an occation when some robotic guys hang out and concluded that the exponential progress in computer development would change our definition of life in this century. I couldn't deny the fact and it was so real. With Moore's Law and industrial economy nobody would say other wise.

I think this decade will also be very interesting in computing and internet too. By the beginning of the next decade we will have these new definitions:
- cellphones have to be smartphones or touch screens.
- every body in the civilized earth will have to have pushmail in hand.
- every body knows every body else, in terms of their mind as in personal blogs and shared photos, and also in terms of phisical location as every device they carry is in fact a gps device.
- self employee and professionals will rejoyce the joy of infrastructure previously own only by big company (enterprise) by using public internet services such internet document storage, calendar, notes, contacts and all sync'ed. Hey, you don't need to buy those tech nitty-gritty anymore.

With smaller size of terminals, you know your cell phones are the next terminal, with more powerful feature because you have all resources connected to them. it simply means MORE mobility, LOWER entry barrier to hi-technology infrastructure, MORE access to resources. Basically all will be connected and more productive, anywhere on earth. And common peaple like you and me will have no excuses to be lame. Competition will be interesting, mate!