Taskbar Overlord Hilarity

Posted Jun 9th, 2009 at 9:30 am in Technology

Since Taskbar Overlord, the small program I wrote to improve the Windows 7 taskbar has been linked to by LifeHacker, I’ve seen quite a bit of traffic to download the program.

A number of websites and forums on the internets have linked to the Taskbar Overlord post, and while some links are legitimate, many websites use an automated technology like an RSS feed to copy LifeHacker’s post verbatim. This is basically content theft, done in an attempt to increase their pagerank in search engines. People like this are disgusting parasites.

So when I’ve seen a link coming in, I’ve been checking them to see if they were real articles written by someone or stolen content. If the latter, they get deleted.

With this context in mind, another site linked to the Taskbar Overlord post this morning. Seeing that the page was in a different language, I was expecting the worst. It was however legitimate, and though I can’t read it, turned out to be one of the funniest things I’ve seen in a while.

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3 Responses to “Taskbar Overlord Hilarity”

  1. Thank you for legitimate the link
    I’m happy you found it funny ;-)

    The title translated in english is “Taskbar on steroids”

    I find Taskbar Overlord simple and very useful.

  2. Gracias Guillermo. I had seen that Google translated it as “Taskbar on steriods”.

    Un pregunta. ¿Como se dice en Ingles?

    el blog que siempre quiso tener Bill Gates

    Is it “The blog Bill Gates always wanted?” Or is it “The blog always wanted to have Bill Gates?” Something else?

  3. Both are more ro less correct, the second is closer…

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