Comments on: Little things add up

By: Michael Mc

Michael Mc — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 17:34:33 +0000

I gotta admit, I do love the clock/calendar thing. If you click on the month at the top in the calendar it does a really cool thing where it slides back to a list of months, and if u keep clicking the top it goes back to a list of ranges of years.

It’s just a little thing, but like you said it does add up.

By: Another little thing: Windows Mobility Center - istartedsomething

Another little thing: Windows Mobility Center - istartedsomething — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:42:05 +0000

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Mon, 26 Mar 2007 08:30:41 +0000

[...] Little things add up – istartedsomething: Long Zheng makes some good points here. The features that make Vista such a vast improvement over XP are features you’ll never read about in a major review. It’s about so much more than “Flip 3D.” Per-Application volume control, the date/ time feature… it’s the little things that add up to make the Vista experience what it is. Source:http://davidbrunelle.com/2007/03/24/windows-vista-its-the-littl e-things/ [...]

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Windows Vista: It’s the little things at David Brunelle: Geek for Life — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 18:46:50 +0000

By: Mike B.

Mike B. — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 05:31:08 +0000

One of the simplest things that I really LOVE in Vista is in Explorer. When you scroll down the tree on the left it automatically scrolls horizontally for you to show you the folder name. LOVE IT.

By: Tomer Chachamu

Tomer Chachamu — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 23:54:37 +0000

grtet: Where did Long Zheng say he would only write about news?

By: Andrew F.

Andrew F. — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 04:05:48 +0000

The “Wow” for me came when I brought up two different 3D, DX9 games (albeit simple ones–EVE and Civ 4) in windowed mode, ran them both simultaneously with minimal slowdown, and then hit Win+Tab and cycled through the STILL-MOVING game windows.

I’m not sure, but I believe that medium-to-high-quality games have better windowed-mode performance in Vista than in XP…can anyone confirm or deny this?

By: Sid

Sid — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 21:23:30 +0000

Per-app volume controls are great. That calendar with zooming (month, year, decade) is excellent, and so are the two additional timezones.

The type-to-find-program in the Start menu is amazing (I suggest Launchy if you’re on XP).

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 12:45:51 +0000

There are a bunch of really cool tid bits all over. You’re really right that a lot of what makes Vista great can’t easily be summed up. Here are a few cool things I’ve recently discovered: configuring new wireless laptops to a network just by plugging in a USB key (go to network and “add wireless device”) and also shift clicking an object and being able to “copy as path” and for folders “open command window here”.

By: Alan Weber

Alan Weber — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 05:11:34 +0000

You missed the most important clock feature. Multiple time zone clocks. Click on change date/time and look at tab labeled additional clocks. Because of work, I keep IST and GMT clock settings also.