Posts tagged as:

Windows 7

Application vs Document Focus in the Taskbar

10 February 2009

Microsoft has redesigned the Taskbar in a way that closely mimics the Mac OS X Dock, but in doing so Microsoft has ported some of the worst aspects of Mac OS X to Windows. With the default configuration on Windows 7, whenever I want to switch to what I want to do, I have an extra click. And, while rearranging items on the Taskbar is finally supported, there’s no way to rearrange individual documents.

Read the full post

Another WMP 12 Large Tag Bug

6 February 2009

When adding my collection of MP3s to the WMP 12 library, I found that some files were added without any of the metadata ordinarily read from the tags, like title, artist, and album. Further investigation showed that WMP 12 has a massive memory leak when reading tags from MP3s, causing it to chew up all available memory.

Read the full post