Drag n’ Drop to Save Images FireFox (Windows) [12 Dec 2006|08:54am] Something I really liked about Macintosh OS X is that you can drag and image from a browser window and drop it onto your desktop to save it. This is faster then right clicking, hitting ’save image as’ and finding a place to save it. Maybe…I just like being able to drag and drop. It’s more then possible this feature has been available before FireFox 2.0 and Vista but I am not sure, I’d love to know. Anyways, I just tried this and it worked. I am psyched. I know it’s just a little thing, but I love this little features that make using a computer faster and easier! post comment

Windows Vista on a PC vs. an Apple [12 Dec 2006|08:54am] I’ve been playing with the RTM of Windows Vista for a couple weeks now and I’ve actually enjoyed it quite a lot. The install process is quick and most of my drivers were installed. I think I had to install the latest NVIDIA drivers on my PC but other then that it caught everything else. It even worked when I plugged the machine into my TV. There was one thing that had a major issue. It was my sound. I have on-board nForce4 audio and it works really nice for the first 20 minutes or so. When I am in the middle of watching a movie it will start to sound really funky. I’ve looked all over the internet for a fix and asked all my friends who might know something about the issue. Apparently it was a known issue and that NVIDIA would release some Vista compatible drivers. I am not really sure what auto-installed when I initially installed Vista but they weren’t very good. I then tried to use my Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 PCI card and that was a complete failure. I read multiple threads on the Creative that talked about getting some other driver called kX and supposedly that was supposed to fix the issue but I couldn’t get it to work whatsoever. I then read about how the Realtek drivers might work, and without actually checking to see if my board was using the Realtek chip I download and installed the Realtek software and installed it. It didn’t work at all either so I was about to give up. My last attempt was downloading the RC1 drivers from NVIDIAs website. Un-installed my current drivers and re-installed with the RC1 drivers. I’ve been watching a movie in Media Center for 30 minutes or so now and I haven’t had any major issues. I did notice that the sound got distorted when I was moving the volume up or down. That was all on a PC. AMD Athlon64 3500+, 2GBs RAM, DFI LanParty UT nF4, SATA Drives. I would have thought that it would have worked with no hitches. Guess not. I have Vista installed on 2 machines, the one in the previous paragraph and this one; an Apple MacBook 2.0GHz Core Duo, 2GBs RAM, 80GB HDD. I installed Boot Camp and popped in the Vista installation DVD. Rebooted and installed Vista, no issues at all. I had made a drivers CD from the Boot Camp application, so after the Vista install I stuck that in and went through the drivers installation. No problem there either. There’s only a couple things I know that aren’t working. These things I didn’t even expect to work and seem more like extras. The iSight, Bluetooth, double finger scrolling, screen brightness and volume control via the F keys. It’s not like major things aren’t working. Sound, airport, some Apple keyboard functions, aero glass, ethernet, battery are all functioning. How is it that my Apple computer works 100x better then my PC? I guess it’s because Apple gives you the drivers you need and while some of them aren’t working, most of them are. There are too many PC devices, that’s always been an issue for Windows I think… I am sure NVIDIA will be releasing an update for Vista soon enough. Something I did read was that Creative dropped support of the Live! 5.1 card and have no intentions of updating them for Vista. Stupid. I’d love to hear if anyone else has had luck/no luck with using nForce4 audio or Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 card. post comment

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