Windows 7 has been quite a hit among Windows users, some calling it what Vista should have been. I’ve used Windows 7 as a secondary OS since the public beta, and I’ve never really been comfortable with the new taskbar. These are the reasons why. That extra click—By default, the Windows 7 taskbar groups instances […]
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Run Snow Leopard On Windows With VMware
December 28th, 2009
VMware is a great solution for testing out different operating systems, but OS X clients have never been supported (for obvious reasons). Fellow hackintosh site iHackintosh has a great article on getting Snow Leopard to run on an Intel-based Windows machine. It involves getting a pre-made .VMDK file and tweaking some VMware settings. Overall, it’s […]
Re: The Old Copycat Debate, Revived
November 19th, 2009
(Repost from subjectivemorality.com, my personal website.) This is a response to an article in Win7 News, which you can read in its entirety here. The author, Deb Shinder, is a Windows/Microsoft fan. I am decidedly more in the Apple camp. In her article, Shinder talks about the popular perception that Microsoft copied aspects of OS […]
Snow Leopard Theme Pack for Windows 7
November 17th, 2009
I just threw together a Windows 7 theme pack with Snow Leopard’s wallpapers and some sounds from OS X. Here’s a preview: You can download the Snow Leopard theme here, and I’ve also taken the liberty of making a Leopard/Tiger theme as well, for those of you who are partial to the older wallpapers. If […]
Never In My Entire Life Have I Seen Anything as Awkward as This Windows 7 Ad
October 10th, 2009
This article appeared originally on subjectivemorality.com, where I put all the other crap I write. Microsoft, in a not-so-well-thought-out move, has actually let this horrible, horrible, horrible advertisement for Windows 7 launch parties out of the torture chamber basement to see the light of day (not to mention the stares of disbelief and disgust of […]
February 22nd, 2010
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