Archive for March, 2009

System7 Redesign

Mar 25

Posted by procload in system7 | 9 Comments

As some of you may have noticed, we have been experimenting with some new designs here at S7. For now, this is the current version until we officially relaunch in the coming months.

Upon our relaunch, we will bring back the old file and user system that many of you have come to love. Until then, please subscribe to our RSS feed and keep checking back for improvements.

In the meantime, if you notice any errors with the current design please comment below so we can fix any issues as soon as possible.

Thanks for reading and we look forward to bringing you the possible S7.

IE8 Released

Mar 20

Posted by procload in microsoft, news | No Comments

In case you haven’t heard Internet Explorer 8 was released yesterday. You can download it here:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/default.aspx

I played around with it a little last night. Unfortunately it’s the same user interface as IE7. Where IE8 really steps it up is with security and privacy. There’s a built in SmartScreen filter that notifies you if a page is known to be malicious.

You can also clear all of your browsing artifacts with one click. There is also a new context menu (right click) that lets you jump right to your blog or map an address. There is compatibility mode to render pages as IE7 — what would really be nice is IE6 which so many pages seem to still be built for. Also I noticed they more or less stole the improved Firefox address bar that doubles as a history search.

I recommend trying it at least to give you something to talk about this weekend!

Office 2007 and productivity

Mar 19

Posted by The Gunslinger in microsoft | No Comments

In case you haven’t seen or heard the new Microsoft Office 2007 includes a completely overhauled user interface dubbed Fluent. I’m been lucky enough at work to be included in our pilot program. Office 2007 features a new “ribbon” across the top of all applications. It is supposed to be a much more intuitive design to follow. Although there is a learning curve for any advanced Office user, there are reported productivity improvements after that.

Microsoft & Forrester Outlook 2007 Productivity Report

Wikipedia: Fluent UI

iPhone 3.0

Mar 17

Posted by The Gunslinger in apple | 1 Comment

Normally we don’t like to link directly to news articles but this one is worth a read. It describes some of the new features possible with the new version of the iPhone OS, 3.0:

http://i.gizmodo.com/5171796/iphone-30-os-guide-everything-you-need-to-know

Tags: apple, firmware, iphone