OT - Internet Explorer 7

Anybody installed it yet? Any issues? Anything good?

(Anybody pre-ordered EQ6 yet?)

Kay Ahr in NV

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Kay Ahr
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I have used ie7 since its begining beta... I love it. Tabbed browsing is awsome :) The only issue I have had is that on occasion, when shutting it down, it will say it encountered a problem and asks if I want to send the info to Microsoft. But it has only ever happened when I shut it down, so it has never been an issue. Otherwise I love it. Tabs are so convieniet. Ooo and you can have more than 1 home page too lol

Carissa

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Carissa

I agree... tabbed browsers are awesome! I've been using Mozilla Firefox.... and I love it! NO PROBLEMS! No shutdowns. I still have IE installed because some sites won't work on Firefox. But my default is Mozilla Firefox.... you should give it a try!

Kate in MI

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Kate G.

Kate, have you tried using the IE tab add on for Firefox? It works for almost all of those IE only sites.

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there are some great extensions for Firefox at the Add on home page
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NAYY, just a long term. happy MF user.

chris :-)

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chris

I've never looked at the add-ons.... .I'll check them out? Which have you found particularly helpful?

Kate in MI

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Kate G.

Thanks for your review which I think is spot on. With respect to patch draw which I would say is the feature that most urgently needs attention, like a complete rewrite, they don't seem to have done much. I have pretty much given up on patch draw and use Microsoft Visio for my designs which is far more powerful and gives many more options. Perhaps I should try a bit harder with patch draw but when you have a more powerful alternative available it is a little difficult to find the incentive.

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Edward W. Thompson

I use Patchdraw as a quick and easy drawing tool for many applications other than quilting (most often jewellry and digital embroidery design). It also does everything I want to create very complex and detailed applique designs, and combined with other EQ functions I find it much easier and quicker to test design layouts and colours than using any of the other three "more powerful" drawing packages I have access to, including Corel Draw and engineering/architectural software. These are certainly more flexible once you start dealing with 3D imaging, but since most quilts are essentially 2D for design purposes . . . . . .

EQ's most appealing feature to me is speed. I just created a detailed Jacobean Tree of Life design and printed out the cartoon (and its reverse) 80" X 72" in a few hours. To do so in my other drawing packages would have taken me significantly more time and effort, and would have required that I also create the quilt settings from scratch. As it is I could test dozens of layouts in a matter of minutes.

I look forward to seeing what further improvements they have made.

I cannot comment on Visio as I try to avoid Microsoft software except for basics such as Office Pro, and even that I use only because of its almost universal acceptance/accessability. After reading your comments I took a look at the spec's, but cannot see myself ever wanting to use it for quilt design.

As I said before - horses for courses. But on the subject of Patchdraw I will simply agree to disagree. I find it a quick easy powerful drawing tool, and one I am happy to use all the time.

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Cats

PP ran an EQ design contest a few months (?) ago. I think the "bonus" is a CD of the winning design files.

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Cats

Well, the IE tabs and stumbleupon are all I'm using at the moment, but we have just reformatted the computer and I'm still getting round to adding things. I really need to go look see what there is. Some of the themes are fun and make a nice change.

chris :-)

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chris

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