Comments on: Links: Windows 7, visualizing complexity, Cruz http://dubroy.com/blog/links-windows-7-visualizing-complexity-cruz/ programming, usability, and interaction design Wed, 11 Aug 2010 20:40:29 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Patrick http://dubroy.com/blog/links-windows-7-visualizing-complexity-cruz/comment-page-1/#comment-20775 Patrick Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:52:13 +0000 http://dubroy.com/blog/2008/10/30/links-windows-7-visualizing-complexity-cruz/#comment-20775 <p>No idea what they're using for their thumbnails. Maybe they are just prefetching and snapshotting off-screen?</p> <p>The two-step window switching is a pretty big change. No more text on the taskbar -- you click on your app icon, then choose from one of the thumbnails.</p> <p>Jump lists look cool (right click on the icon, and get a list of frequent and recent docs opened by that app). Although, I'm curious how well that would work in practice.</p> <p>Adjusting the window size snapping seems like a useful feature; not that major I guess though.</p> No idea what they’re using for their thumbnails. Maybe they are just prefetching and snapshotting off-screen?

The two-step window switching is a pretty big change. No more text on the taskbar — you click on your app icon, then choose from one of the thumbnails.

Jump lists look cool (right click on the icon, and get a list of frequent and recent docs opened by that app). Although, I’m curious how well that would work in practice.

Adjusting the window size snapping seems like a useful feature; not that major I guess though.

]]> By: Anand http://dubroy.com/blog/links-windows-7-visualizing-complexity-cruz/comment-page-1/#comment-20756 Anand Sun, 02 Nov 2008 17:50:47 +0000 http://dubroy.com/blog/2008/10/30/links-windows-7-visualizing-complexity-cruz/#comment-20756 <p>Yo, Cool links. Stats on Windows taskbar are interesting.</p> <p>Do you know what Cruz is using for their thumbing of URLs in their "enhanced google search"? We wanna do similar in BumpTop. I've seen WebThumb API (down atm) and Amazon's thumbs but you gotta pay a micro amt for each thumb so I'd assume its not that. </p> <p>Also, what did you think was so major about the Win 7 UI? I was underwhelmed, pretty incremental I thought. Auto-Window mgmt is a cool start though.</p> Yo, Cool links. Stats on Windows taskbar are interesting.

Do you know what Cruz is using for their thumbing of URLs in their “enhanced google search”? We wanna do similar in BumpTop. I’ve seen WebThumb API (down atm) and Amazon’s thumbs but you gotta pay a micro amt for each thumb so I’d assume its not that.

Also, what did you think was so major about the Win 7 UI? I was underwhelmed, pretty incremental I thought. Auto-Window mgmt is a cool start though.

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