Kevin Arthur

It’s kind of hard to describe just how amazing this is now. Inline spell checking (thank god ;) ), tables (I wouldn’t really use those, but still), better support for properties, and more WordPress features.  Aside from that, the UI is a lot better, and the layout is much more… flowing.

Screenshot 1.  Web Layout mode, the mode I type in.

Screenshot 2. Web Preview mode, doesn’t allow typing, but lets you see what it’ll look like. Notice how it adds the post title to the “Recent Posts” section.

I’ve moved everything from my testing site to my main site. I’m basically done editing my page, so there’s no use keeping it on a testing directory. I’ll still use it as my testing site (I use Dreamweaver, which lets you upload things to a separate testing folder).

 

The error messages are… simple. But less simple than before.

 

Source: http://thetoothpick.com/wow_error

 

That’s about it for now…

Upgrading to the final version of Vista fixed some problems I had forgot even existed. I wasn’t able to print from my computer, because Windows couldn’t connect to the networked printer. I assumed that this was because of a Vista-XP problem. Well, I was wrong. I can now print without any trouble at all.  There were some new problems, most likely caused by me changing the OS on several jumpy programs without telling them. The first couple times I loaded the OS, it was incredibly slow, yet the RAM usage was below 50%. I checked the processor, and sure enough, it was at 100%.  I looked for a while, and It seemed McAfee was using way more than it should. I reinstalled it, and everything returned to normal.

Windows Ultimate Extras is an amazing system. It gives Microsoft a chance to go back after Vista was finished and add things that would make it better. The first two ones they released were Texas Hold’em (yes, poker. It’s actually amazingly fun, and oddly real), and enhancements to Vista’s Drive Encryption program (BitLocker). I don’t use BitLocker, so I haven’t checked on the enhancements yet.  Microsoft also has a third extra on the way, which they released a preview for: DreamScene. It allows you to use movie files as desktop backgrounds. Stardock (a Windows customization company) released a program, developed with Microsoft, that allowed people to create .dream files, which made distribution easier.  This is all made possible by Windows Vista’s hardware acceleration, which uses as little CPU and RAM as possible, while still projecting a moving image onto the desktop. Put a couple semi-transparent windows on top of that, plus a semi-transparent taskbar, and Vista barely even sweats.

Of course, there are still some problems that need to be fixed. I think I’m getting a bigger hard drive soon, so I’ll do a clean install of Vista on that. When school gets out.

By modding the CNAME values in the DNS record for thetoothpick.com, my sandbox site (which is still hosted on my desktop) is now accessible from http://sandbox.thetoothpick.com. which really serves no purpose whatsoever, except to bring it to my domain. Centralization, you know?