Tom Lawrence

10th Jan 2010 at 00:06

Sorry for filling up your dashboards with crappy advertising this evening but here’s another type of ad on the Internet I find amusing which I wanted to talk about. I love it when an advert comes along and attempts to mimic an operating system’s user interface in an effort to try and catch the viewer out into thinking the on-screen message is from the system itself.

Sadly these adverts really do actually catch the technically incompetent users out there and lead them into a false sense of security as they actually end up doing more harm than good.

They’re great to laugh at however when you use a Mac or Linux-based computer and for that reason they make up for it.

1st Nov 2009 at 17:35

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the snip tool in windows 7 is my favorite thing ever.

justinleon:

inthefade:

Ok, my favorite thing today.

I really like Windows 7. I’m only using it on the laptop for now (running x86), where I* replaced Vista. I want to put it on the desktop with the 64 bit version but that requires a clean install and I’m just not up to that. I hate doing clean installs. They freak me out.

So I’ll play around with it on the laptop for now. But I like it fine thus far.

*^{Todd replaced my Vista. It was sort of a “Surprise OS!” because I was in a bad mood all day and being all grumpy and crap and he figured that would make me happy, which it did, but didn’t as make me happy as the fact that he wanted so much to make me happy did. Understand? Good.}

Just like CMD+shift+4 is for mac folks, the snip tool is the most important thing to create content on tumblr.

The Snipping Tool has actually been around since Windows XP Tablet Edition, and it’s not changed since. It’s nice how you can annotate and highlight the captured area and from there save it to your desktop but it still lacks a keyboard shortcut (but you can always right-click the program and create a Ctrl+Alt+Whatever shortcut for it) but I prefer Mac OS X’s Cmd-Shift-4 any day.

I like how pressing space whilst in Cmd-Shift-4 and hovering the cursor over a window allows you to capture a single window and also handle any transparencies the window has (such as Dashboard widgets) unlike Windows’s Alt+PrintScreen.

I can’t believe I just typed a two paragraph debate on screen grabbing keyboard shortcuts. I’ll go back to my little world now.