I used to wonder who in the world still used Windows DOS anymore. Well in my past and current jobs I’ve seen it being used in a number of places where you wouldn’t expect to see it. It’s used in McDonald’s and Burger King, as well as for telemarketing. In fast food places, the cash registers and order screens are all based on it. In telemarketing, DOS is used to display the scripts as well as for inputting information. At first I was struck by the thought “wow this shit’s outdated…”
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Disclaimer: This was an April Fool’s joke. Hell will freeze over before I actually switch back to Windows.

To Windows 7, that is. I’ve been debating on this issue for a while now, and I’ve made up my mind. Why? There are several reasons for this, actually. Windows 7 looks a lot nicer than Mac OS X at this point, especially with its new dock-like superbar. A lot more music software is available for Windows, and it’s much easier to obtain. Photoshop runs just as good on Windows, too.

Now I’m not completely switching over yet. I’ll be dual-booting 7 and OS X for some time before I can completely move over. I still love Apple and all of its products, it’s just that I find 7 to be a better product than OS X at this point in time.

 

All those web designers out there, with their fancy coding skills, nobody knows how to make a proper website anymore. In this wonderful article, I’ll show you how. So open up Frontpage and let’s get started!
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Edit: The sale is over. It was a very nice sale, too.

Panic, the company behind Coda and Transmit (two of the greatest Mac apps ever made) is having a 50% sale! If any Mac users here want to buy Coda or Transmit, you can get them at a bargain right now, in this one-time event. As for all you Windows users, it is a really nice-looking page, so you can just look at it. Here’s the link to the half-off goodness.

Zune HD

Microsoft has officially announced and released details/pictures of the Zune HD, which looks to be a complete iPod Touch ripoff. It’ll have an OLED touch-screen, much like that of the rumored 3rd gen iPhone/iPod Touch. It’s expected to be released in the fall. Details on it are sparse, so I’ll avoid criticizing it until I actually see it released.

Kumo Bing

In a very Microsoft-like way, Microsoft has officially renamed Live Search to Bing, rather than Kumo. While I try to be unbiased, Bing sounds like a rather idiotic name for a search engine that’ll clearly be poised to take on Google. I’ll do a full review/feature-by-feature comparison of Bang Bong Bing and Google in a few days, when Bing officially replaces Live Search. 

…Microsoft ripped off Apple’s website? I was wondering the same thing today, and being bored out of my mind, I decided to put together a mockup of that in Photoshop. It took me about 2 and a half hours, but it turned out quite nice. Behold:

Click on it to see all 1440 × 684 pixels of goodness.

New Theme?

It seems that just about every web designer out there has released WordPress themes, so I thought it would be interesting to have a try at making one. It will most likely be a minimalistic theme, which I feel are lacking amongst all the fancy themes out there. I already have a name for it, and a pretty good idea for the design. I won’t reveal too much today, so stay tuned for a full post about the upcoming theme. And before all you cheapskates ask, yes it will be free. 

First of all, I can already predict that the switch to Digital Television will be a complete disaster. Half the people in the country probably don’t know that it’s coming.

The next topic is about media formats. There are literally hundreds of them. Almost every company has, at some point, released a proprietary format. Microsoft is the worst offender here, as it still uses its own formats. WMA and WMV come to mind in particular. I say all the proprietary formats should die. There should be two formats for music- one lossy and one lossless. Same with video.

That’s all for today’s post. It’s a little bit short, as I’m not in a writing mood.