New "Hide Your Desktop" app

A few days ago Al posted his "Hide your desktop and desktop icons" app online. I thought I'd add to it some of our discussions on this project.

This project started off as another app that Al wrote many years ago to help with his blog writing. He created what he called a "curtain" that would swoosh in behind the main window of his app. We both thought this was pretty cool, and then discussed how to make it a general-purpose "Hide your desktop" app.

Beyond that, we started talking about Guy Kawasaki's DICEE acronym, and how that applies here. Either Al or I will write more about this in the future, but I think those are the two clear points for today: 1) Where this "Hide your desktop (and desktop icons)" idea came from, and 2) the DICEE concept.

Linux share of netbooks increasing

I just read this Computerworld article that says the Linux worldwide netbook market share is increasing, and currently stands at 32% of the worldwide market, while Windows runs 68% of the netbook computers internationally.

To me this is very, very interesting, because it appears that Linux may be installed on as few as 4% of netbooks in the U.S. market. Really, this amazes me to see such a disparity between netbook sales in the U.S. verses those international sales numbers. In short, internationally people seem to be embracing Linux on the desktop with no concerns. Why is it so different in the United States?

I feel a trip to Best Buy coming on, lol.