Office 2007 is a sloth.

A big fat harry sloth.

After playing with the Beta’s I was somewhat excited. Somewhat…

It seems they took a reasonable interface and made it something that is simply cumbersome, and as confusing as hell to use when it comes to things like Word 2007.

Excel isn’t so bad.

But Outlook 2007? It’s the pits, not the interface, that’s mostly unchanged, but damn is it slow.

During the beta’s I just kept telling myself; “Hey, it’s beta, it’s bloated with debug code and what not, it has to get better”. Boy was I wrong.

I have a pretty snazzy Dell D820 running XP with 2 gigs of RAM, a 7200 rpm hard drive and Outlook 2007 simply sucks.

I’ve done some digging on the web and tried a few tips and tricks to speed it up, all to no avail.

Words to describe Outlook: slow, apathetic, dilatory, heavy, fat, snaillike, dallying, laggard, and sluggish. I’m going to hang with it for a bit, but if something doesn’t break soon, I will have to roll back.

Perhaps it’s Windows search which is killing my whole machine, even though I’ve pretty much suspended indexing until I’m nowhere near it.

If you know what I’m talking about and have a fix, please comment.

Written by datapoohbah on November 28th, 2006 with 3 comments.
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Kuler [ adobe Labs ] Wow

Wow,

Not sure when this was released or how I missed it. But this is pretty much the ultimate color/theme tool.

FREE at http://kuler.adobe.com/

Simply wow.

Written by datapoohbah on November 28th, 2006 with no comments.
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Truer words were never spoke. [PS3 | Wii]

VGCats hit the nail on the head here.

I simply don’t understand all of the hubbub.

The Christmas selling season, aka Black Friday, the day after thanksgiving, isn’t a secret. It hasn’t been a secret as long as I’ve been alive.

There are a couple of issues, people seemed hell bent to compare the two systems and they cater to completely different markets. Certainly if you can’t get one you’d probably take the other.

In fact I will probably own both in due time, but I’ll be damned if I’m going to pay over inflated prices simply because the manufacture can’t deliver the quantity.

Obviously I’m part of the minority as there were 300+ people outside our closest BestBuy to try and get a handful of each. Prices on ebay are also amazing.

But neither Sony, nor Nintendo earns any points from me for not having enough of these in the channel.

It’s simply ridiculous.

Written by datapoohbah on November 28th, 2006 with no comments.
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