Entries Tagged as 'Technology'

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

wow, Apple you tricked me again

There are three rules that everyone knows. Never Get Out of the Boat Never Get Involved in a Land War in Asia Never upgrade your Apple OS if things are working fine. I’d been on 10.4.8 on my main get-work-done machine for a while. There was no reason to upgrade. It was solid. I had [...]

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

Apple announces iPhone/iPod Touch SDK coming in February

Apple – Hot News Third Party Applications on the iPhone Let me just say it: We want native third party applications on the iPhone, and we plan to have an SDK in developers’ hands in February. We are excited about creating a vibrant third party developer community around the iPhone and enabling hundreds of new [...]

Sunday, October 14th, 2007

When automatic image concatenation goes wrong

It looks like I5 is the seam… It kind of messes with my head just looking at this picture…

Saturday, October 13th, 2007

Dear Radiohead and the rest of the music industry

I applaud you, Radiohead, for doing such a forward-thinking experiment with your distribution for InRainbows. However, you’ve unfortunately made sure that any data you receive from this experiment will be useless. Why? Well, because your website and ordering process are HORRIBLE. I had so many problems getting your website to work that I almost gave [...]

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

Amazon’s new MP3 stores has some onerous restrictions

High quality non-DRMed MP3s cheaper than iTunes! Amazon’s store has really been getting a lot of people excited (including me). While they aren’t DRMing, they have created some pretty crazy legal restrictions in their terms of use. Is this a problem? Not really. Unless they start trying to enforce them. Amazon’s contract says you “may [...]

Saturday, October 6th, 2007

Is Apple in trouble?

I was reading this great post from Scoble: Why doesn’t Microsoft get the love? « Scobleizer which was spot-on, but for some reason it got me thinking about Apple instead of Microsoft. I think Apple is in serious trouble. The Amazon digital download store is much better than the iTunes store. Not the design or [...]

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

Microsoft buys itself a Swedish Standard – Updated

It looks like the Swedish Standards Committee was going to vote “no, with comments” on Microsoft’s OOXML proposal. Then, in the 3 days before the vote, 24 new companies paid the fees to join the committee. The result being that the standard was passed. Of those 24 companies, 18 of them were Microsoft Gold Certified [...]

Sunday, July 15th, 2007

Second Life: on the decline

Virtual marketers have second thoughts about Second Life – Los Angeles Times At http://www.secondlife.com — where the cost is $6 a month for premium citizenship — shopping, at least for real-world products, isn’t a main activity. Four years after Second Life debuted, some marketers are second-guessing the money and time they’ve put into it. “There’s [...]

Friday, July 13th, 2007

Apple: No BS iPhone Review – Gizmodo

Apple: No BS iPhone Review – Gizmodo I think I’ve been a fairly restrained geek for pretty much ignoring it on my blog before now. No, I don’t own one. No, I don’t plan on buying one… yet. Like the gizmodo writer, there are some fundamental things missing for me: MMS being something I use [...]

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

wow, I crashed the tivo!

So our tivo decided to stop recognizing our wireless network AGAIN, so I did the stuff I’ve done before to fix it up, unplug the wireless adapter, reboot the tivo, restart the network, change the wireless setting, then finally voila, it connected and then rebooted TWICE! I’m realizing that the plus side to computer as [...]