Images resize tool

If you only need to quick resize images (for sending over email or instant messenger) you may find Image Resizer from Microsoft PowerToys more than convenient. It’s small, quick installing, and is at your mouse right button click. You can download it here.

You don’t need various applications like Irfan View, Batch Resize, XNView etc for this simple task only.

MS Vista: the A380 we don’t (entirely) need

I’m sure that all the analysts in Microsoft headquarters have agreed that it is mandatory to launch a bigger, more powerful OS from time to time. With each generation of OSs and software there is the need of more hardware power. And viceversa. And, of course, for the health of both markets and in order to keep the consumer demand at high levels, it’s good to force the evolution a little. And everyone is happy: more RAM demand, more powerful CPU, more storage, more applications, more and new documentation, more sales.

With MS Vista we’ve all seen that, at a point, things change. People don’t really want to adopt a new product that eats more resources but doesn’t bring new or better features/improvements. Oh, and the trend, well the trend is to minimize the size and consumption or to focus on the functionalities. At any of these we may say Google (as well as others) are a step ahead with their online free products, now also with the Chrome browser and tomorrow, as everyone expects, with a simple and efficient OS.

I think (could be only my opinion) that the next MS OS should be smaller, more resources consumption optimized and more stable then MS XP. And, of course, more configurable and customizable, so that in a few steps everyone should be able to have the best adapted OS to their needs: Multimedia entertainment, Text/Word/RichApplication processing, Software Development, Gaming, CAD, etc. Not everyone wants a shiny roaring monster he/she doesn’t (entirely) need.

Is A380 more useful than MS Vista?

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