Another day gone and all I have done is… actually I did a lot today. I managed to restart my system almost three to four times, isn’t that great. I restarted the system twice in hope of patching up the “uxtheme.dll” to allow myself to be able to install and use third party themes. I did that successfully but en the eng I ended up installing “Vista Inspirat”.
Inspirat is actually quite cool. It provides me with all the visual effects I could possibly ask for and without the slow performance as “Windows Blinds” and other shell replacement things do and to top it all it’s free and doesn’t cause any problems except for ruining the Alt+Tab window. But it might be because I had “Windows Alt+Tab replacement installed before Inspirat pack and seems like it continued in the Inspirat and is not compatible. Anyway it’s not a big deal to have a slightly crippled Alt+Tab application, I could live with that.
It has made my Taskbar translucent and even has a Mac like “Dock”. But I don’t think I’m going to use the dock anytime soon. Simply put I love the task bar too much to put it away. Task bar to the rescue again, use “Win”+Tab and happy switching…
I had planned on getting myself an extra monitor but unfortunately I forgot to look for the monitor. Anyway that can be done any day.
In the meeting with the boss today we went over the feature enhancements we are supposed to do in the next release and from the look of it, it doesn’t seem like lot of work to me. Some import export business, some configuration changes and some UI elements being redesigned. The problem would be to maintain the interoperability between versions of Office and we will have to look for a way to do it.
Apart from the normal work I usually do (nothing as of now) I also tried on the competitor’s product and I must say that in spite of the other guy offering more variety (basically twice, each type further split into two sub parts and possible one or two more features) it’s a real put off because although it is supposed to be an add-in it doesn’t function like one. It maintains its own files and doesn’t use the container provided and used by the host. If that’s not lame I don’t know what is.
On the home front it’s only two more days to go (including today) till I leave the comfort of the A/C room provided by the company for my own rented apartment. I and Goli are going to stay in the flat. The flat isn’t too far from the office and I don’t really like it. I used to love it in Bangalore when every day I had to drive 8-10 KM to get to office (did I mention that I used to go against the traffic, so I didn’t have to face the jams and traffic problems, both ways!). Here I won’t get the time of place to drive out. But I think on Saturdays and Sundays I’ll venture out and will try not to lose out on the mileage I had accumulated over time in Bangalore (30+ KM per day, given the fact that my office run was barely 18 KM per day).
That’s all for now and I’m going to sleep now. Good night!
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