The Ultimate Windows Vista Screensaver
section: microsoft, for your questions: KezNews forum, 25.8.2007
A top notch Windows Vista screensaver is coming to your desktop, not from Microsoft's Ultimate Extras website, but courtesy of the design firm Jackson Fish Market.
You have been able to read recently of a new Microsoft search project and experiment dubbed Tafiti. Essentially, Tafiti is a marriage between Live Search and Silverlight and an interesting approach all the way. In terms of an alternative perspective over search, Tafiti offers users the Tree View. A fully animated tree environment with orbiting search results. And believe it or not, this is the best that Microsoft has to offer in terms of screensavers for Windows Vista since the launch of the operating system. Because the Live Search/Silverlight Tree View is designed to act as a dynamic desktop screensaver.
"In the simplest terms, the Tafiti tree view is a screensaver. We haven’t done the work (yet?) to wire it into the machines actual screensaver mechanism, but we think about it as a passive way to browse more deeply into search results. (...) As the tree spins, the leaves start to turn fall-like. And as each leaf turns from orange to red it finally reaches an end point, turns green again, and the next web result shows up. In this fashion you can leave the tree running for some time as it browses very deep into the search query specified. The longer you let the tree run, the deeper you are browsing into the result set," revealed Hillel Cooperman, one of the founders of Jackson Fish Market.
You might have noticed that I keep referring to Microsoft although the tree view is in fact the work of the Jackson Fish Market. Well, first off, Tafiti is a Live Search and Silverlight combination, and in this context its connection to Microsoft cannot be denied. And second, the Jackson Fish Market reeks of Microsoft. Hillel Cooperman for example is a former Microsoft design director. And the design firm also features Tjeerd Hoek, former Design Director of Windows User Experience (UX) at Microsoft and Jenny Lam User Experience Designer both of them heavyweights during the Windows Vista development.
"If you have two monitors you could set up the Tafiti tree to run on the second monitor while you do your main work on your first. After several minutes you’ll be deeper into the result set than 99.99% of users ever go. And of course, when you get to something interesting you can check it out. I know this is kind of an esoteric feature, but we think there’s something interesting there in terms of browsing the Live Search index in a deeper way than most users ever do. It was also cool that Microsoft was willing to let us experiment with a feature that’s a little different than what people might expect. Anyway, that’s the intention of the Tafiti tree view," Hillel concluded.
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Comments(27)
hardly anyone uses screensavers anymore, they just tell their monitor to turn off after a
certain time, it saves more power, plus a screensaver uses some memory when it is not
active and processor if it is active and animated.
microsoft are wasting their
money on this shit now when they should be doing other things, anyone can create a
screensaver on their own in less than a day.
lol i'm telling my monitor to turn off, but it doesn't listen lol
i just wish that we could get rid of the fluff in xp and vista and have an ultra fast -
100% working o.s. screen savers.... other visual crap... a waste of time...
...a nice x-mas tree in december :-)
hey jake you always seems to speak for the rest of us. how about you speak for yourself.
all the interesting topics i click on i see you have left a heap of rubbish that has fell
out of that foul mouth. sh.ut the fu.ck up you gay tw.at. we aint interested in your view
anymore pi..ss off and use another website that might wonna listen...
heads up guys, let the sad bastard have his fun.
who gives a flying fsck about screensavers unless leo laporte is part of it.
i don't think i need to upgrade, i think my 3gb of ddr2 4-4-4-15 ram, intel core 2 duo
e6600, 2x radeon x1950xt does pretty well.
no one cares about screen savers,
simple as, screen savers were originally intended to stop screen burn, monitors
manufactured prior to 1998 do not get screen burn, in the end screen savers waste power
and use some of the computers resources to run.
setting your monitor to turn
off after 15 minutes or so instead of leaving it on a shitty screensaver saves a lot of
power, even for lcd displays.
so how about, you fail and don't comment again
if you have not got anything smart to say?
do you mind not swearing.......lol i must admit who really does want a fuc.king
screensaver in 2007? no cu.nt lol
yes screensavers do use memory and processor cycles, go and actually look for yourself
dumbass.
at "u cheap prick" you are most likely the guy above that comment
since you have no friends to back you up, seriously, if you are too dumb to understand
simple things, go back to school you fag.
it is amazing how many dumb fu.cks
wash up on this site.
keep pumpin those internet muscles little man. if you were in front of my that core2
piece of shit would be stuck up your asshole along with your head. start a new movment d
ick head ( save the processor cycles) you can be the founder...get algore to sponser you.
douche bag!
and your right ! jake is an asshole who thinks he speaks for everyone.
go
screensavers !
listen jake and u cheap prick. your both right, jake you are an asshole...u cheap prick,
screensaver do use cpu cycles and waste energy, but you are like me you dont give a shit !
jake when you finish school you need to try and get into the goverment and become prime
minister. then and only then can you speak on our behalf (or your own as the case maybe)
jake quotes "it is amazing how many dumb fu.cks wash up on this site" you
speak for yourself sh.it breath.
also why (if its true lol)have such a high
spec pc ?? thought you had only just discovered the internet thats why you are on here?
the internet been available for quite a while now!!! but then again you would have been in
nappies
jake please respond ...englighten all of us dumb f ucks who like to look at something
other than a blank screen when we leave our pc and return after 10 minutes.....
he said "so how about, you fail and don't comment again if you have not got anything
smart to say?" you see jake thinks he's smart because he can state the obvious ...that
is screensavers use cpu cycles and memory. what a friggin shit head...no shit sherlock !
i'm sorry that powerhouse core2 sli rig you got can't spare the cpu/mem to run a
screensaver. dude it must be a dell !
the internet is full of assholes so they are hard to miss. however jake seem's to be
helping us all narrow down our search with out the use of any live or silverlight
technology! thanks jake!
jake, did you even read the f'ing article? it says ""in the simplest terms, the tafiti
tree view is a screensaver. we haven’t done the work (yet?) to wire it into the machines
actual screensaver mechanism, but we think about it as a passive way to browse more deeply
into search results." which means it's not a screensaver as such. it's actually a
websearch result browser.
johnny castaway ftw!!
chill pill!
zzzzzzzz... grow up!
if you really want to save your screen just set up the display to shut off, exctly like
on a cellphone ;) the method saves both crt and lcd displays :) and the cpu can chill out.
who gives a mother f.uck...
1. organize before they rise!
2. they feel no fear, why should you?
3. use
your head: cut off theirs.
4. blades don’t need reloading.
5. ideal protection =
tight clothes, short hair.
6. get up the staircase, then destroy it.
7. get out
of the car, get onto the bike.
8. keep moving, keep low, keep quiet, keep alert!
9. no place is safe, only safer.
10. the zombie may be gone, but the threat lives
on.
now now children, lets play nice.
remember if there is a nasty person
spouting his/her fowl mouth all over, it's best not to imitate them lest you appear to be
a nasty child too.
-who's your daddy!
arguing on the internet is like running in the special olympics... even if you win,
you're still retarded.
that goes for both of you... jack and jake!
mshkoo rmirciiiii
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By Jake on 25.08.2007 - 12:08