More Impulse screenshots

Sunday, June 15, 2008 by Draginol | Discussion: Personal Computing

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Impulse doesn't care where you got the programs, you can keep them side by side.

 

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Minimizing Impulse to the Impulse dock I can quickly access all my stuff.

 

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Impulse's community features are extremely advanced. Friends lists (which work back and forth with games), blogs, tracking, user ranking, etc.

 

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My Friends list. Also coming soon: Facebook integration.

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Live chat features about your favorite games, apps, or whatever else.

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Impulse is a digital distribution platform. But its store also supports sending users a boxed version too (for participating publishers).

PurrBall
Reply #1 Sunday, June 15, 2008 1:20 AM
Awesome
skybright
Reply #2 Sunday, June 15, 2008 1:28 AM
Brilliant!!!  
Phazon88
Reply #3 Sunday, June 15, 2008 2:54 AM

Looking good!

Drengin
Reply #4 Sunday, June 15, 2008 3:59 AM
The only trouble i have had with it is that it doesn't recognize games installed via SDC and just shows them as available to download! I also miss the display that shows you what d/l speed you are receiving as you only get a minimal d/l bar under the title.

For the time being i am sticking with the good old SDC, but the interface does show promise
zakai1369
Reply #5 Sunday, June 15, 2008 9:25 AM
Impulse doesn't care where you got the programs, you can keep them side by side.


Does it let you choose which tab to put the programs under?



ArileenDesign
Reply #6 Sunday, June 15, 2008 9:52 AM
Sounds cool   
GhoS
Reply #7 Sunday, June 15, 2008 1:07 PM

I really like the direction of Impulse though I am not a gamer so all that part means nothing.  The rest of it though certain is looking interesting.  I only wish it didn't use the IE engine in the browser.

Frogboy
Reply #8 Sunday, June 15, 2008 1:10 PM

zakai1369
Impulse doesn't care where you got the programs, you can keep them side by side.Does it let you choose which tab to put the programs under?

 

Yep.  You can organize your programs any way you want.

zakai1369
Reply #9 Sunday, June 15, 2008 3:49 PM
Yep. You can organize your programs any way you want.


Great that'll cut down on the number of forum complaints from people who don't like certain programs being listed under Desktop instead of Tools
PurrBall
Reply #10 Sunday, June 15, 2008 4:54 PM
Yep. You can organize your programs any way you want.Great that'll cut down on the number of forum complaints from people who don't like certain programs being listed under Desktop instead of Tools


Still seems like DriveScan is under Desktop
zakai1369
Reply #11 Sunday, June 15, 2008 5:29 PM
Still seems like DriveScan is under Desktop


But what he's saying is once we have the full release of Impulse you'll be able to organize apps under any tab you want. I do believe.
Frogboy
Reply #12 Sunday, June 15, 2008 9:11 PM

Exactl. I could move DriveScan to tools or create a new folder called Disk utils.

PurrBall
Reply #13 Sunday, June 15, 2008 10:50 PM
Exactl. I could move DriveScan to tools or create a new folder called Disk utils.


Shouldn't it be there in the first place though?
ins11
Reply #14 Monday, June 16, 2008 9:39 AM

I really like the direction of Impulse though I am not a gamer so all that part means nothing.  The rest of it though certain is looking interesting.  I only wish it didn't use the IE engine in the browser.


Well, the alternative would be to write their own browser rendering engine. And since IE is already pre-installed on all XP/Vista computers it would be silly not to use it.


(Had to use HR since Opera 9.5 decides that all carriage returns should put the cursor at the top instead of below the text I currently wrote..)

ZJBDragon
Reply #15 Monday, June 16, 2008 12:14 PM
Sorry for not joining the praise bandwagon, but I'm heavily concerned about performance and resource use. This looks like a bloated program that attempts to usurp many of the features already built into Windows when it comes to managing programs in particular. Performance and memory use concern me, not pretty interfaces and excessive versatility.

I already don't like that Steam doesn't want to comply with my OS's native look and feel (which is a theme called Visty for XP -- the y instead of a is intentional). Impulse also looks to do the same. I don't want someone else's theme -- I want mine. I hope that there is a way to address that with Impulse. The performance overhead on custom themes and all these different tab pages could be excessive, so that concerns me. Also, the dock thing also concerns me. I don't want my system looking/functioning like OSX.

I'm one of those people who only authorizes 4 or 5 things to start up with my machine out of a pool of 30-something programs that think they should start on start up and waste memory. More developers need to take into consideration that computer resources are still finite. I wouldn't even use steam (I haven't used it in months and it hasn't been allowed to start at start up in years) if I weren't forced into it.

Hopefully the above is viewed as constructive criticism.
Philly0381
Reply #16 Monday, June 16, 2008 12:41 PM
I've been using Impulse since it was given to us to test. I'm on an XP Home 32 bit system with a P4 2.6 processor and 2GB of memory. Works fine and I see no descreas in performance or high resource usage.

In reading peoples comments about Impulse most if not all deal with how Impulse works and the need for more or less functions. You know, the normal comments that are made when a new program is being released.

Bottom line, it is worth looking at, you can then decide if you want to use it.   
ZubaZ
Reply #17 Monday, June 16, 2008 12:45 PM
I already don't like that Steam doesn't want to comply with my OS's native look and feel (which is a theme called Visty for XP -- the y instead of a is intentional). Impulse also looks to do the same.
Optional.
Also, the dock thing also concerns me. I don't want my system looking/functioning like OSX.
Optional.
garion333
Reply #18 Monday, June 16, 2008 9:40 PM
Very impressive. You guys sure do some amazing work.
PurrBall
Reply #19 Monday, June 16, 2008 11:07 PM
I only wish it didn't use the IE engine in the browser.


I agree, WebKit or Gecko (which are quite small) would be very smart to integrate in to Impulse.
ZubaZ
Reply #20 Tuesday, June 17, 2008 8:23 AM
I agree, WebKit or Gecko (which are quite small) would be very smart to integrate in to Impulse.
But the target audience is likely to have a working version of IE with nothing extra involved.  It's a hard line to follow.

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