It was almost 14 years after the initial introduction of the Start button and menu that Microsoft signed off on the latest Windows client containing a revamped Windows Aero graphical user interface. It was on August 24, 1995 that the Redmond-based company released Windows 95, taking the Windows GUI to another level, ... |
25 August 2009
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Dockland Software has released Fantasktik 1.4, the latest version of its taskbar application for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. The new release adds the ability to close windows from the taskbar, launch Expose on any open application directly from Fantasktik, the capability to exclude apps through the right-click menu, and m... |
29 June 2009
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How much does it take to close a bunch of applications minimized in Windows taskbar? It is a simple operation requiring just a right-click routine and picking the “Close” option. But closing multiple apps at once has never been among the choices. JustCloseSomeTasks gives you the possibility to automatical... |
30 January 2009
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As an integral part of the move from Windows Vista to Windows 7, Microsoft has introduced a new model of interaction (the Natural User Interface), and delivered changes to the graphical user interface to accommodate the NUI. On the surface of the next iteration of the Windows client, one of the first traditional Wind... |
21 November 2008
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One of the elements of the Windows graphical user interface that is evolving past what end users have come to traditionally associate with it is the Taskbar. The GUI evolution delivered by Windows 7 is designed to bring what Microsoft is internally referring to as the Superbar, or the enhanced Taskbar. The new Taskba... |
4 November 2008
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Microsoft is laboring to deliver a new level of personalization, choice and control with the Windows 7 desktop, according to Senior Vice President, Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group, Steven Sinofsky. The new graphical user interface designed for the next iteration of the Windows client made its first appeara... |
3 November 2008
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Despite the fact that Windows 7 pre-beta build 6801 was showcased and subsequently released at the Professional Developers Conference at the end of the past month in Los Angeles, Microsoft still has some aces up its sleeve when it comes down to the next iteration of the Windows client. In this context, there are disc... |
3 November 2008
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Microsoft is gearing up to detail the evolution of the Windows client graphical user interface, in just one month, at the Professional Developers Conference 2008, and then at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference 2008. One of the aspects under the microscope will the taskbar, a Windows 7 desktop item on which M... |
30 September 2008
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Fantasktik, a very useful piece of Mac software coming from the folks at Dockland Software, has made it into our Mac-driven hearts thanks to its offering a dock for application windows. Having been updated to version 1.1 just recently, we decided to let more readers in on this app, and the enhancements it has receive... |
18 September 2008
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"Fantastic" is probably the first adjective that comes to mind after using Dockland Software's app for OS X Leopard. As soon as I downloaded the free trial version, my desktop, as well as my mind, suddenly became more organized.This Dockland Software-developed app, which lives quietly in your System Preferences,... |
20 August 2008
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Microsoft has sort of timidly started to share a couple of rather anodyne details about Windows 7, the next version of the Windows client due by the end of 2009, according to the company's Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer. Christopher Flores, Director Windows Communications even made available a video demon... |
29 May 2008
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In future versions of the Windows operating system, users should expect a completely reinvented Windows taskbar. Microsoft has already evolved the strip of desktop real estate at the bottom of the screen in accordance with various versions of Windows; still, the taskbar has remained essentially loyal to the same conc... |
24 July 2007
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