This absolutely blew my mind (and cost me 20 minutes of work): multi-display wallpapers! Of course it stands to reason that such a thing would exist, but those featured at mandolux are of an unbelievable quality. My favorites?
Now all I need is a couple more monitors on my desk…
So I’m installing Internet Explorer 7 on my PC so I can test Common Kitchen on a multitude of browsers, and the first time I run the program I see one of those little bubbles pop up from the system tray:
WHOA! What just happened? Microsoft tried to underhandedly change my default search engine (to Live.com no doubt), and then Google thought they would help me out by monitoring attempts to change that setting. I appreciate the sentiment, but I honestly don’t remember telling Google they could do that.
Turns out this is part of the “Google Toolbar” package and I missed it in all the fine print. In my book, both companies are awfully close to evil here…
I dislike MS Office, both because of the price and the bloated feature set, and have tried and hated most of the alternatives, including OpenOffice, Google Docs and Spreadsheets, and Zoho. OpenOffice is free, but poorly constructed, and thus solves the wrong half of the problem. Google D&S (and all the other online html-based office suites) make efficient working impossible and simply don’t export well.
That leaves iWork, which I can no longer ignore because Apple just added a spreadsheet app. The price is right at 5 licenses for $99, and if this new “Numbers” is anything near what Scoble is hyping it up to be I think I may finally settle on a productivity suite.
Founder of Common Media, Inc., a web development company.
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