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Hmmmm.  A row of tabs at the top that you can rotate like a fruit machine?  Hmmm.

slapfish: nice, I have something similar, only I don't use the bookmark bar, and I've shrunk the tabbar and addressbar down to be really narrow, no vertical space around components.

As for tabs, If I knew of something that was better, I'd be rich, rich, RICH!
Tabs work fine for separating UI, and when you only have a few tabs.  When you have 30-50+ open (I had well over a 100 once), and several seperate 'groups' of tabs that have related contexts, then I'm not sure tabs are ideal.  I often leave web pages open as a 'todo' list, or because they are relevant background to another tab than I'm working with, for example.

Multiple rows of tabs, colour-coding related tabs, all these things help, but I'm sure there must be something better.  I often resort to the pull-down list of open tabs to get a decent overview, and to find tabs quickly, but even that only holds 40 at a time, and needs to be multi-column instead of just a list, at least.  The ability to search for open tabs in the 'awesome bar' will be a great help.
I suppose multiple windows, each containing task-related tabs is the answer, but how do you manage, organize, re-arrange, tabs like that in firefox?  Drag and drop to some extent but it's not easy.  If tabs were at the window manager level, I'm sure it would be more refined, and on top of which there would be all kinds of utilities to do stuff for you.

Still, we have the exact same issue when it comes to managing windows, and the solution is tabs, aided by multiple workspaces.  Perhaps there is no better way, but I see things like Apple Expose is quite popular.  I suspect a more fluid version of a zooming interface will replace it at some stage, especially with touch interfaces making navigating this kind of space so much easier and intuitive than with a mouse/kb.

There is already some discussion on tabs, for example, here http://jboriss.wordpress.com/2008/06/08/improving-tabs/  The sketches are for a 'tab management' window, which I think is sorely needed (but again, should be at the WM level - too late now though), but something along these lines could actually replace tabs entirely for some people.

scroogles main benefit to me was listing 100 results on a page, and highlighting search terms.
Regular google is just on a par with the others, like bing.
In fact, I prefer bing, and have switched.
Bye bye google, way to shoot yourself in the foot.

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What I need is this :

http://commons.princeton.edu/kellercent … m_2009.pdf

Except it seems to be research vapourware.

Toolz, yes what I want is very similar to Opera turbo mode, but I don't want to use Opera!

Yes, with everything being much more dynamic now, caching whole objects doesn't work as well as it used to.  That's the beauty of an rsync type approach - instead of re-sending the whole object, you send the changes, and with rsync or a similar 'blind' update, you don't need to maintain a version history at the server; I don't know how much an rsync type approach saves in reality, as I suppose it's mostly just text html that changes when, for example, a news site gets a new story - all the images are whole objects anyway, and should get cached.

The other thing I ought to try is a local squid proxy or something like that.  I have quite a big firefox cache set, and I assume that does a good job of caching on the local machine, but perhaps an 'external' cache like squid or polipo might do better?  It seems to me a lot of sites don't play nicely with cache anyway, and seem to want you to re-download objects even when they haven't changed - again this is where an rsync style update would save big.

I use scroogle for google searches.
Not only does it prevent tracking (I assume, I'm not actually all that fussed), but it presents results 100 at a time, colour-codes matches, and strips out all the graphics, adverts and so on, for a lean text based result.  Not having to page through results is marvelous.

Being rich doesn't make people happy, being richer than their circle does.
Hierarchical societies are just great.  Unless you're low down.
So actually you could say that money is hope, a way of circumventing what would otherwise be a rigidly hierarchical social structure.

I'm actually writing this on my main machine, a macbook.

It wasn't clear to me from the article what a "touch oriented user interface" actually consists of, when it comes to ubuntu

I guess this is what I'm trying to say about UI:
http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/05/john-d … big-thing/

IMHO the UI breakthrough for the idevices is multitouch - which only a few months before the iphone was launched was drawing gasps from a TED audience when Jeff Han (sp?) was presenting it.
The all the 3d-ness, TV-style scene changes, etc, which for a phone was very new, and even for PC's hasn't been well implemented yet.
Things like inertial scrolling seem to be a massive improvement in usability, and could have been implemented on the Palm, and any number of linux tablets, iPAQs and so on.  But weren't.

I don't see the gnome 'paradign shift' as being any such thing.  It's simply a WIMP refinement, and indeed many aspects looks suspiciously similar to Apples 'expose', to me.  Even the term 'Desktop' is becoming outdated, in these days of mobile work forces, drop-in desk areas and so on.

In contrast, I think the idevices will mark the end of WIMP, when we look back in history.

Is the C16 the same as the machine sold in Britain as the VIC-20?  I think they had to rename it for the German market, as V is pronounced F, and you can probably guess the rest.

@papparonny Have a look at this article, maybe you're already aware, but there seems to be a technology museum in St Petersburg.
http://boingboing.net/2009/07/26/soviet … s-fro.html