04 · 17

The New Dell Dock, Huh???

Okay so I have a new Dell Studio Hybrid (Windows Vista). I ran an update the day before yesterday before I shut down. When I started the computer up yesterday, it was slower than a dog. Okay, I told myself, then it was taking forever to load programs and start up completely. So I waited for a while and finally it completed loading entirely. After loading, this "thing" popped up at the top of the desktop. What the heck is this, I said! Looked like some cheap, Mac OS X rip off. Did some research and sure enough it was the new Dell dock that came out with the updates that I had run.

My Experience So Far...

Well so far my experience is not to well. I played around with it for a while and there are some things that are lacking....to say the least.
  1. Some of the icons that are showing by default do not pull up the program, What????
  2. There is no animation when you roll over or even click on the icon.
  3. When you open the programs, they still minimize to the taskbar section.
  4. There is no interaction with the programs through the dock. Merely just a shortcut bar! You still have to use the taskbar to interact.

The ONLY advantage I like so far

There is only one advantage that I do like currently though. Although it doesn't over-weigh the dis-advantages to it, they do get my satisfaction. I like how the dock keeps the programs that you use most frequently in an organized manner. Currently on my laptop, I have about 15-20 icons that I use the most chilling on my screen. With this new dock, you can keep them in the dock section, therefore minimizing the amount of screen "real estate" that is being wasted. If you are like me, I don't like a lot of clutter on my screen. I am a very organized person and clutter just gets crazy for me.

So...

Has your Dell computer or laptop updated and has included this? What is your experience with the dock? Like it? Love it? Hate it? Leave a comment below and let me know! ~ Kyle Reddoch
04 · 15

Advertise! Advertise! Advertise!

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04 · 14

Does Your Business Need Help?

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04 · 13

Browser Shots - Site of the Week - April 13, 2009

This week's Site of the Week is a great tool for all web developers! Browser Shots allows you to check the sites you are developing for cross-browser compatibility. There are alot of great options for you to choose from! Head on over to Browser Shots and make sure that the websites you are developing are cross-browser compatible!
04 · 12

How-To Prevent Browser Caching of Web Pages

* As posted on Top Cultured * Awh, browser caching. What a great tool to have but what a pain for web developers! If you are a web developer you know exactly what I am talking about. If you don't know what browser caching is, here is a brief explanation:
When you go to a specific page in your web browser, the browser caches that page in its memory so that when you access it again, instead of loading the page, it pulls the cached version.
Can you see where this can be great? Well, caching allows the web page to load faster since the browser doesn't have load it from the internet, instead loading it from the cached file. But this can also be a pain for us web developers! In my experience (and probably yours too), when making updates to a client's website, 9 times out of 10 the client's browser is caching those pages. So when they pull up the page, it shows the older (cached) page instead of the newly updated one. You know what happens next... So how do you prevent browsers to cache web pages? Well the code below, when put on every page within the <head></head> section, will tell the browsers NOT to cache the page. Here is the code:
<meta http-equiv="expires" value="Thu, 16 Mar 2001 11:00:00 CST" /> <meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache" />
By putting the date is the past (which is already expired) the browser will not cache the page. ~ Kyle Reddoch
Kyle Reddoch

I am an aspiring Web Developer, Android Fanatic, Family Man, and all around Web Geek! I also do Freelance Development work.

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