life:/straightup » Windows 7 http://lifestraightup.com less gloss_more real Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:02:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Windows Live Writer… http://lifestraightup.com/posts/windows-live-writer/ http://lifestraightup.com/posts/windows-live-writer/#comments Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:20:46 +0000 John Kingsley http://lifestraightup.com/posts/windows-live-writer/ I’m writing this post from Windows Live Writer on Windows 7. My first impression is that it is relatively impressive for a free piece of blog posting software. I am writing this in the “Editing” window, and when I switch to preview, it shows me what it will look like when I actually post the story, and much too my surprise it has downloaded my handmade theme and it looks exactly what it will look like, well it looks right insofar as It moves old posts down and renders my css correctly. I can’t say it’s pixel perfect but it seems good enough for government work. I will have to add a photo and try other more advanced features but so far I am impressed. Let me try to post this and see if it actually works and I can give you a real opinion on it soon.

]]> http://lifestraightup.com/posts/windows-live-writer/feed/ 0 New Design Update http://lifestraightup.com/posts/new-design-update/ http://lifestraightup.com/posts/new-design-update/#comments Tue, 05 May 2009 23:21:13 +0000 John Kingsley http://lifestraightup.com/?p=271 Okay, here’s the deal, the new design is close to being done. I ran into some issues with both my testing WordPress installation as well as this WP as well. My testing server was shredding my design when I added a “read more…” link. I tried the theme on here, where there already is read more links and it seemed to work fine so hopefully tomorrow I will get the design finished. Second, it is not Evan who has been writing these last posts, it has been me, John. For some reason when I write posts it does not allow me to specify that I am the author. I will investigate this more thoroughly soon.

Finally, I am preparing to install the Windows 7 RC in a few minutes. I apologize I never posted a thorough review of the beta, I will post a through review in a few days. So that’s it for now, I’m off to try Windows 7!

]]> http://lifestraightup.com/posts/new-design-update/feed/ 0 Windows 7, What Vista should have been. Part 1 http://lifestraightup.com/posts/windows-7-what-vista-should-have-been-part-1/ http://lifestraightup.com/posts/windows-7-what-vista-should-have-been-part-1/#comments Thu, 19 Feb 2009 01:55:35 +0000 John Kingsley http://lifestraightup.com/?p=37 This will be a short post but this has been setting in my drafts folder for too long.

Windows 7, there is a free beta, or at least there was. I’ll have to check and see if the beta is still open. Though I have several keys so if you want to try it out send me an email or leave a comment. My first impression are positive. I really like it.

As you can gather from the title it is what Vista should have been. By that I mean not complete complete crap. It runs fast and looks good. There are many good things going for it. But there still are some problems. I wont go into extensive detail, that’s what part two is for.

Well have a good night all.

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