With the well developed Google Desktop Sidebar and the Vista Sidebar, putting all your gadgets and websites on a sidebar always visible might be quite tempting and can provide loads of information like email, RSS, weather, notes etc., but do you actually use these features? Does the usefulness outweigh the memory usage?
Personally I like sidebars, [...]
- Author: Daniel Pataki
- Published: Apr 22nd, 2009
- Comments: 19
Do you use a system sidebar?
- Author: Daniel Pataki
- Published: Apr 19th, 2009
- Comments: 10
Would the try & buy model work for games and movies?
I know you’ve all seen it, naughty people, you download a game for example, and the crack file says something like “Our cracker team does not support piracy, if you like the game, buy it”. So do you? I don’t know about you guys, but while I was “coming of age” I probably wouldn’t have [...]
- Author: Daniel Pataki
- Published: Apr 12th, 2009
- Comments: 25
Do you use your OEM operating system?
I just got my hands on a new Sony Vaio FW, and I’m really interested to know how you guys use the operating system on your laptop. My old one had XP installed, which I threw away, downloaded a fresh copy, and used my serial on that without any problems, and as long as I [...]
- Author: Daniel Pataki
- Published: Mar 31st, 2009
- Comments: 31
How do you read your email?
We’ve been learning a lot about you guys in the past weeks, and I think this will be one of my favorite questions, since productive emailing can reward you with a huge time advantage, perhaps you guys have some secret email management skills out there!
Basically what I am asking this time, is do you use [...]
- Author: Daniel Pataki
- Published: Mar 24th, 2009
- Comments: 14
How do you use instant messaging?
First we had a look at how you all use your browser, then how you listen to music and watch videos, now it’s time to find out about instant messaging! With all the IM apps out there you could be using any one, or any combination, from web based, to desktop based, from one service, [...]
Ask the Readers: Someone Gave Me a Laptop. Now What?
I had relatives from out of the country a little while ago and before they left, one of them decided to leave his laptop behind for me. It’s an old model from the Toshiba Satellite 2410 series but I’m not complaining since I got it free.
The current configuration of the laptop is a little slow [...]
- Author: Daniel Pataki
- Published: Mar 16th, 2009
- Comments: 44
How do you use your media player?
Following up on last week’s much commented article about how you guys use your Firefox, I decided to also take a look at how you use your media player applications. This is perhaps a bit more complex than last week’s question, since we are covering multiple applications. Nevertheless, which media player do you use, and [...]
