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Now, most of the time – when I purchase a game or a movie, I like to have the disc it came on too. However, not to be totally closed minded to the game download services out there, I thought it might be fun to try downloading a game from the EA Store website. Overall, the experience wasn’t too bad.
When I last left you – I gave you a few of the things I could think of when it comes to naming the things that Windows Vista – Microsoft’s latest OS. Today I’m ready to bring you back up again with a few positives, and all around good details about the Vista experience.
The start menu is kinda like shoving everything in a junk drawer and leaving the most important stuff on top. I don’t say that as a bad thing, personally I like my junk drawers. I’ve used search on Vista in the past week more than I probably ever used it in Windows XP ever.
The Favorite Links in the folder view is probably my next favorite feature. I like keeping more than a few folders handy at all times and this does beat the left side menus that the previous version of the OS had.
While we are in my profile folder, the saved searches is nice too. As I said before, this is the first OS I’ve actually bothered to use search with all that much and I like it. Continue Reading →
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Mitch Keeler is nothing more than your average Joe trying to leave his mark on the world though both his professional work and his online projects, articles, podcasts and more.
A Not So Flattering Review of DISQUS
As you might of (or might not have, depending on how often you visit) noticed, I had DISQUS powering the comments on Mitchelaneous, the Web Hosting Show and Firefox Facts. However, “had” is the important word. This morning I removed DISQUS across the board.
Now I’ll cut to the chase, and tell you why. It seems that no matter how I tweaked around with WordPress, I could never get DISQUS to pick up on all my trackbacks and comments. One or two a day would get stuck going to the internal WordPress comment engine (which is practically blocked from you after you install DISQUS).
Having grown tired of checking two places for spam and comments, I decided things were simpler before DISQUS was brought into the picture. It might be an alright comment system for some, but for me – it was just a little more trouble than it was worth. Just my two cents here, so if you have an opinion that is either positive or negative about DISQUS post it in the comments.
Update: I have recently had a change of heart, and have decided Disqus is doing a much better job now, than ever before. Before you make up your mind, be sure to check out my re-review and troubleshooting tips of Disqus.