Kevin’s Blog

I’m writing this using Microsoft speech recognition. I will not make any corrections.

Windows vista was a pain to install. I started out by reformatting my heart goes. Then I inserted this to DVD, booted into the vista install environment, and reached the point where you select a partition to install to.

If you really have Windows XP installed, the nice investors. Clean install with vista alliance of the 60. I think this dictation software needs more technical vocabulary.

I’m getting other people’s emails. Click picture to go to get a better view.

I just installed Firefox 2.0 Beta 2 on my MacBook Pro a few seconds ago and I’ll post my observations here as they happen:

Smooth scrolling with trackpad gestures (two fingers) is actually smooth. It now behaves like it does in Safari and Camino!

Typing is more responsive!

Actually, the whole UI seems more responsive.

Fast-back is basically instant now, like Opera.

Suggestion boxes, the url entry line, and other tooltip-ish things have a fade out effect.

You can open all recently closed tabs at the same time using the history menu.

The Extensions and Themes menus have been combined into an Add-ons menu.

A few of my old extensions, such as DownThemAll and Adblock still work.

The stationary tab-closing button that used to reside on the far right of the tab bar is gone. Oh well, I still have cmd-W.

Underline-as-you-type spell checking!

It does sessions! And, it’s smart about crashes, offering the choice of a clean start or a session restore during recovery.

It has auto-suggest in the built-in Google search box.

It looks like Google Earth is going to have georeferenced movies, pictures, and blog postings. Content from professional sources such as the Discovery Channel will be included. This could (and that’s a very speculative “could”) be awesome for Photo Tourism.