February 16th, 2008The most useful Vista feature?
My girlfriend just found the most useful Windows Vista feature. Which one? The live taskbar thumbnail.
How can it be that useful? Well, she does her job on her Vista laptop, but sometimes she wants some fun as well. Today I saw her doing some accountant job in Excel, while watching TV in the same time in the taskbar thumbnail. Of course using USB-plugged TV tuner. I would never though it can work as PIP, but the world is full of surprises.
February 18th, 2008 at 11:38 pm
OS X can do the same since Tiger version :)
February 19th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
No doubt it can. But have you ever thought of using it as PIP for watching TV?
I mean, we create the software with some uses in mind, we optimize it to be used in those ways. Then a user comes and says “hey, that’s cool, I can do X with it” - but you would never though to do X with your software. I’m sure everyone can think of some examples - like using Open Office with some plugin for converting image formats. We should learn from our users :)