You Looked.

Working at the Application Support Center (ASC) at the University of Florida, I have come across a number of Mac users. One thing that has always surprised me about them is that no matter what, they always vehemently swear by the Mac. I have, till date, never met even one disgruntled Mac user. And its for this reason that even though I love the Windows Operating Systems (including Vista), I have made up my mind to buy a Mac for myself one of these times, and see what the fuss is all about.

I love Windows 7 and its awesome new taskbar. However, as intuitive as many of the things on this new taskbar appear, I think missing the feature of letting include separators between pinned items on the taskbar is a big oversight. It is quite obvious that to exploit the Windows 7 taskbar and its purposefulness, one must pin as many of their most commonly used applications onto it. However, what that leads to is a whole list of seemingly unorganized icons in your taskbar.

With this clutter, it is only natural for someone who likes an organized desktop (pun intended) to be able to categorize the things he lays on it. I, not being any different tried to do the same but only drew up a naught. There is no such feature in Windows 7.

Here is my take on what the taskbar could have looked like -

Microsoft doesn’t want you to use the vertical taskbar in Windows, or so it seems.

As the number of widescreens in the computer market increases, more and more people have begun experimenting with ways to make most of their screen estate. The easiest method to accomplish this is to drag your taskbar such that it lines up vertically along the left/right edge of the screen. This simple trick helps the purpose because most websites (including this one) have a limited width and thus fit on one’s screen perfectly despite the taskbar taking some extra space. At the same time, it gives your document some extra “height” providing more readability. Elegant and effective. If you haven’t tried it yet, you must (if you can put up with some annoyances; read further).