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"I hope the interface is much better then their last laptop. Still it looks good although the price seems a bit unrealistic." - Ben McDonald

"Loads of open source applications have good UIs. Google Chromium and Android both have great UIs and they are open source. Of course even if you leave out company open source projects, that still leaves you with some great looking KDE applications, some great looking Gnome applications and some really decent media centre applications. "Because the default UIs/themes are created via collective thinking/collaboration, which results in the worst UIs imaginable, and the more people are involved, the worse the result." More likely it is because programmers are doing the designs and not people who are skilled at graphic design. If you asked graphic designers to program an application, I'm sure they wouldn't get very far. As open source distributions and apps get more popular they are gaining more less technical users which includes artists and designers." - Ben McDonald

"The new designs are a welcome improvement but more importantly Firefox 4.0 needs better threading. I'm finding Firefox 3.5 gets slower by the day and although I use a lot of extensions this shouldn't make my browser completely lock-up." - Ben McDonald

"If you own the DVD, what can stop someone burning it 100 times?" - Ben McDonald

"I get pizza from here all the time and they always tastes great. Personally I stay away from most of the dips, especially the Garlic one as it tastes more like butter. The BBQ dip is ok so that's…" - Ben McDonald

"I have a Facebook friend list called 'random-add' where I put anyone I don't know. This allows me to add anyone who wants to be my friend without letting them have anything I don't want them to access." - Ben McDonald

"The Internet is a big place and part of the problem is crawling pages over and over again. With the amount of links posted on Twitter this could help Google decide what has been updated and what is new on the Internet. You don't need to waste time crawling the Internet if the updates come to you." - Ben McDonald

"Try this link: http://www.google.co.uk/search..." - Ben McDonald

"It's meant to be possible but I can't work out how to do it." - Ben McDonald

"I can't even find Bing's real time search results." - Ben McDonald

"Shame about the Siverlight part, I will be avoiding like the plague." - Ben McDonald

"Google Search, Gmail, Google Docs, Google Reader, Android, Google Chrome and I could go on. However I'm guessing your comment might have been a joke?" - Ben McDonald

"Google Wave is good for a lot more then just companies but only if you have a use for it. For writing stories, reports, spec sheets, planning and organizing events; Any thing that has more then one person working on it and is text based could benefit from Google Wave. As for normal users, it's not really meant for them. You do know what Beta and Preview means don't you?" - Ben McDonald

"Could be quite useful for programming, just a shame it's so ugly." - Ben McDonald

"test comment" - Ben McDonald

I want one! - Ben McDonald from Bookmarklet

Add a comment - Ben McDonald

Add a comment - Ben McDonald

"There has been work on the Twitter API as well. http://darcsweb.mikenz.geek.nz/darcswe......" - Ben McDonald

"I think that is the most annoying thing I have ever seen." - Ben McDonald

Twoorl - An open source Twitter! - Ben McDonald from Bookmarklet

"Now if only it would work with wordpress.com." - Ben McDonald

"It was working a few minutes ago." - Ben McDonald

KDE 4.2 is going to rock! - Ben McDonald

Great backgrounds - Ben McDonald

A nice list of 10 additions to your mobiles contact list, I need a few of these. - Ben McDonald

A great read - Ben McDonald

"Great tips, which should be very helpful." - Ben McDonald

"Great tips, which should be very helpful." - Ben McDonald

DRM is evil! - Ben McDonald