Hey, hello gang!! [waving]

Wow this place has changed!  Hope I'm posting this in the right place... So many forum categories... and sub-categories.

So, who's still around from way back when? :)

Hello everybody!
I haven't posted in a long while, but i still come around and read regularely.

Anyway, about the reason of my post. I bought my laptop last year, and could only affort a very basic laptop with an integrated chipset, no real videocard. Therefore, as far as Vista is concerned, I could only run the Home Basic version. So, is it worth the upgrade? Or should I stick with XP until I buy a new computer in 2 or 3 years?

From what I've read so far, the upgrade doesn't seem worth it. What's your opinion on this?

I am on the final tweaks of a desktop address book widget I've been working on for the past few weeks. Here is a preliminary screenshot:


It includes a larger view for more details about the contact, of course an edit/add contact dialog, a search function, etc. It's a standalone address book, as it doesn't integrate with any other software. But I did program an import feature that will import from a LDIF file. LDIF export is available from Mozilla or Netscape adress books. I have no plans to inclide an Outlook import tool.

I will probably be ready to send it to beta testers in a couple of days. I just want to fix a few last things here and there first. Would anybody be interested into beta testing it then? I'd like to have a few people test it on different machines before I make it totally public on WC.

Just post here if you're interested. The only requirement is that you have DesktopX 3. Thanks.

What was already in my opinion the best desktop search engine on the market got even better with the recent release of version 1.5. New Features: Mozilla Thunderbird and Eudora email search Smart indexing of network drives Improved metadata indexing for pictures, music and videos New information pane listing additional categories with matching results Buttons to instantly seek to highlighted search terms Previewing of found pictures, music, videos and contacts Improved usability New COM API allowing third-party developers to create plug-ins enabling new file type indexing Other Improvements/Changes: 20 file types have been added to the default list of types to index Wildcards can now be used to add custom file extensions to index

The site is in Chinese, but the images speak for themselves.
This just totaly blows my mind.

As I don,t have Corel Draw but Adobe Illustrator, I was Googling around to find information on the use of the gradient mesh in Illustrator, and I fell upon this... Just go ahead and check it out. These are NOT pictures, but 100% vector work using the gradient mesh tool. Ooouch!

I want to know if there is a software that can slow down my Internet speed so it can simulate a modem. I'm on cable and when I make web sites, I'd like to be able to feel first hand how slow the sites are for modem uses. Is there a software I can install that would allow me to temporarily do that?

Don't be surprised if you get no answer for your Firefox extension thread, it's impossible to add any comment because your have a second submit button in your post that has the same name than the submit button to add a comment (name='submit').
So, in answer to you post, here is what I wanted to add:

I made a few custom search engines that are added to the list in the search dropdown box. They're easy enough to make. I can make one that would search the Forums and one that would search the Gallery.

For the past few months, I have a new job teaching to grade 11 students in a local high school, and I have quickly become good friends with my co-workers. For some reason, the other 2 grade 11 teachers there are also guys. No women in grade 11, strange since teaching is usually a mostly female job. Anyhow, as I said, I have become good friends with the other guy teachers (age around late 30's, early 40's) and lately we've been talking American Football and had a few friendly arguments (I'm an Eagle fan, they're Patriot fans). So, one of the guys had the idea of inviting us to his place Sunday night to watch the Superbowl with some pizza and beer.
LOL This will be fun. Watch football with the guys. No wife, no kids.
Man, haven't done anything like that in AGES. Almost feels like I'll step into a time machine and be 20 something again. :)
Go Eagles! :)

Is there a way to set an object to detect when it's beeing "dragged over"?

I'm making this widget and I have an object that you drop files onto. I'd like to have the object's opacity change from say 70% to 100%.  onMouseEnter doesn't work. It works if you have nothing on your mouse, but if you are dragging something, it has no reaction. I also tried onSetFocus. No go there either.

Anybody knows?

OK, somebody explains this to me please...
Say I have this code:

Sub Object_OnScriptEnter
  Object.SetTimer 9882, 5000
  Object.PersistStorage("current") = 0
  Object.PersistStorage("WPNum") = 15
End Sub

Sub Object_OnTimer9882
  If Object.PersistStorage("current") < Object.PersistStorage("WPNum") Then
    msgbox Object.PersistStorage("current") & " is smaller than " & Object.PersistStorage("WPNum")
  Else
    msgbox Object.PersistStorage("current") & " is not smaller than " & Object.PersistStorage("WPNum")
  End If
  Object.PersistStorage("current") = Object.PersistStorage("current") + 1
End Sub

Now, the output of this would be msgboxes like this:
0 is smaller than 15
1 is smaller than 15
2 is not smaller than 15
3 is not smaller than 15
etc.

Now, how is that? There is something I don't understand.  I've already checked that the returned values were numeric with the IsNumeric function, and they are.
I really need help on this please.