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A yellow smiley because it's yellow. Just sayin'
Posts by Michael Stepniczka
3 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Jan 2010
Hackers plant Firefox 0day on Nobel Peace Prize website
Google borgs 3D desktop
Monday 3rd May 2010 23:40 GMT
How do you find documents in the pile?
A Google search, obviously! ;)
Yeah, lasso to select could be handy in some cases where square selection picks up items I don't want (on the standard computer desktop), but watching the video left me thinking "so where's the improvement?'. If I move an icon across my desktop, I generally don't want physics knocking around other icons - you know, like when I move a piece of paper to place it on a real desk, I generally don't slide it across everything else to watch the amazing physics effects? And as plain 'pdf' icons... yep, I can see what's in on my current 2d desktop better. If I want a bunch of documents in a 'stack', I can, say, put them in a folder? Quicklook them? Lots of options with less complicated gestures anyways.
On the other hand: Congratulations to the developers if they had technology Google wanted - it has the money to pay for it and it's always nice to at least see someone trying something different whether I personally think it would make my life better or not. I've been wrong before - I mean, Bush DID get re-elected to a second term which I thought was impossible.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
