penguin.balances

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Defraggler 2.0 beta gets faster, adds boot-time defrag (Download Squad)

Oct 25th 2010 12:02PM i vote for: IObit SmartDefrag

the best feature i need in a de-fragmenter is "idle auto de-fragmenting". the ability to set the defragger to analyze your disks and defrag in idle resources/time.

you choose of the CPU and disk usage amount to be considered "idle" (E.G. only defrag when CPU/disk usage below xx%) and also choose "if idle for xx minutes then defrag).

so if your PC is doing nothing important or strenuous resource-wise, and after a certain time, IObit SmartDefrag will defrag your drives without impeding your work and save you messing about with schedules and manual defrags.

best free tool i have next to CCLEANER :)

Daily Todo is a gorgeous, minimalistic manager for repetitive tasks (Download Squad)

Oct 10th 2010 11:42PM "I mean, one less feature and this thing would not even work."

there's a term for that already: "irreducible complexity"

Google tests further Bingification, adds site previews to search results (Download Squad)

Oct 6th 2010 1:03PM this feature has been available as Firefox extentions for YEARS, if anything, Microsoft would be "flattering" the Firefox community.

Watching movies on an iPad: What you see is what you get (TUAW.com)

Apr 21st 2010 11:56AM "The iPad will not be any different. 1024px of width on a 9" screen will be FINE. Netbook users do it all the time on a 10" display with less vertical lines!"

the vertical quality is not in question, it's the HORIZONTAL.

either make the iPad have increased horizontal size, or decrease the vertical size to get closer to filling the screen with video that apparently is "the best experience for video. hands down" on iPad's official site.

video content is not suited to the iPad's ratio. 4:3 content hasn't been made in movies for years, and broadcast content is almost entirely migrated to widescreen. you can't even BUY a 4:3 screen TV or monitor, and that includes laptops. so what on earth is Apple releasing a video device in this age with last millennium's screen ratio ?

seriously, somebody at Apple can't look at all the screens around today and match the ratio? Apple looked at the screens around them and said:

"yep, the iPad should have 4:3 screen as that's what we keep seeing around the world today. yep, everyone is watching 4:3 TV's and using 4:3 screens on the computers".

did they design this thing in 1980 ?

Watching movies on an iPad: What you see is what you get (TUAW.com)

Apr 21st 2010 11:29AM "So the iPad isn't the 'vuuurry best' movie watching device, fine, neither is any shipping Macbook Pro except possibly the 17 inch model..."

do Apple advertise their desktops as the best experience for video hands down? because Apple does on the official iPad site.

simply put, Apple are deceiving it's customers and bluntly lying about it's abilities. this is behaviour that worries those of us that prefer our products to be at least *close* to what they are advertised as.

but when Apple has the official iPad page claim "the best experience for the web, email, photos, and video. Hands down", we take exception and wonder if Apple hasn't started selling their products on cable accesses infomercials. the quality of the claims is outlandish, not what you expect from a high-profile company like Apple.

Watching movies on an iPad: What you see is what you get (TUAW.com)

Apr 21st 2010 11:02AM from official iPad webpage:

"the best way to experience the web, email, photos, and video. Hands down."

it can't render 75% of the pages on the web (statistic of pages that contain Flash content), and it has neither the resolution NOR the ratio suited for video.

how is that "best...hands down" ?

Adobe fires back at Apple again: your users DO want Flash, and we can prove it (Download Squad)

Feb 10th 2010 10:24PM Apple have as much control on the Mac as they want.

they already dictate the hardware, limiting the CPU, GRFX, motherboard, etc options consumers have. they also have complete control of the Operating System.

these two facts are the same for their portable devices. the only difference is that they haven't exercised as much restriction on the Mac, they can anytime they want.

they can restrict any API's, drivers, software they want either because they own it, or they have the choice to include another company's code (other drivers, API's,etc).

Apple is like a restrictive parent. you say they can't control the Mac because it is an "open platform", when the truth is closer to Apple being able to restrict the options their free-willed child has.

you may think that the Mac is more open,, but it's only as open as Apple allows. just like Microsoft tried to control things with Vista and it's restrictions attempts for OpenGL, audio drivers, admin accounts, WGA....hell MS even attained their monolithic position by restricting what retail stores could sell.

in the early days the company dictated that any store wishing to sell a computer with Windows pre-installed, can't sell any other operating systems the same way!

Apple has the same options for restricting anything they want on the Mac platform. they permit your Mac to have the same Adobe Flash that they tell you isn't safe for portables.

Larry Ellison does near-standup comic rif on cloud computing (Download Squad)

Oct 5th 2009 7:38PM quite odd considering a decade ago he was championing the "network computer" which was a simple PC that stored everything elsewhere.

http://news.cnet.com/Ellison-resurrects-network-computer/2100-1001_3-233137.html