Google Blog Search vs Technorati 
When searching Google Blog Search I’m amazed how much more accurate the searches are
compared to technorati. I add my tags to technorati but it still doesn’t index my posts. Meanwhile Google
Blog Search already has many of my posts. I feel like I’m wasting my time with technorati.
Vista file association dialog boxes
They are poorly designed and they removed some features that were rather useful under Windows XP.
The problem with this dialog is that it only list Microsoft apps and nothing from other makers. It would be nice if you
could make changes to other software as well.
This dialog doesn’t look to bad at first but there is no way to edit the extension at all like in Windows XP and to
make matters worse it’s slow, make a single change and it will sputter for 30 seconds and then finally complete it’s task.
Perhaps the dumbest and probably least used, it makes no real sense.
You have three types, Microsoft Windows, Non-Microsoft and Custom. Sadly it’s not really useful and as
you can see below it doesn’t even work properly. I would like to set the browser to firefox but it does not show
up on the list.
It’s not all bad though, the autoplay dialog is pretty and effective but often apps are missing from it as well and there is no
way to manually to add them.
Is there a better way…….YES.
Change Icon Dialog Box
I cannot begin to say how much I hate Windows dialog boxes:
What was Microsoft think when they created such small fixed size dialog boxes. Is it really that hard to create better dialog boxes then this.
Couldn’t the dialog box have:
1. Ability to set a default size.
2. Ability to set list, details, icons, thumbnails, etc
3. A better places bar, kinda like the ones that Office 2003 has.
4. Double Click the title bar would maximize the dialog box.
5. Resizeable not fixed.
