Impulse development blog

Published on Saturday, November 8, 2008 By Brad Wardell In Personal Computing

We're hard at work with the next interim build of Impulse.  We still have a lot of work to do but here's a status of where we're at.

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Cleaner. 

We have made Impulse's minimum size down to around 600 x 400. You can resize it but now it can use even less space for users who are running on lower resolution desktops.

We've also removed a number of icons from the display to reduce the clutter. Now it's only the help icon.

Another change is that the store has been re-named as "Explore" in preparation for its expansion to support mostly free content.

 

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Easier

The Impulse start menu is now a lot simpler and a lot faster. In fact, performance all around has been substantially improved to make the app feel a lot snappier in use.

What's next?

We're going to be adding a feature to hide tabs, change the skin and more.

If you have any suggestions or ideas, let us know!