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- Why Twitter's failing
- Right now, Twitter is a mess. Most of today, European users have experienced outages of varying length and even hard core Twitter fans are saying they've had enough. Some have talked of jumping ship to Pownce or Jaiku. Louis van Proosdij, in answer to TechCrunch France's Ouriel Ohayon offered: ...
- Tags: Twitter, Marshall, Joyent, Rod Boothby, Patience, Manufacturing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-01-31
- It pays to wait before jailbreaking
- In the never ending cat-and-mouse game of iPhone jailbreaking there's always that tough decision to make after Apple releases an iPhone firmware update. Do I drop all of my luscious third party applications, skins and themes so that I can make my icons jiggle? Is the new Google maps really...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple iPhone, Firmware, Problem, Patience
- Blog posts 2008-01-29
- T-minus 14 hours and counting: seven reasons why Torrents are buzzing with illegal Leopard seeds
- Always clued-in David Kravets of Wired.com THREAT LEVEL blog has been noticing detection of BitTorrents that seem to be carrying illegal files of Apple's new (as in being released in 14 hours from time of this post) Leopard operating system. Not only is...
- Tags: Reason, Apple Inc., Leopard, Patience, Productivity, Internet, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-10-26
- 180solutions' S3 technology broken?
- According to Ben Edelman, the answer is yes. Ben has blogged about another nonconsensual installation of 180's Zango software at an unnamed website. There's a video, too. The install goes something like this - Ben is surfing around and clicks on an ad that redirects him to...
- Tags: Zango, Ben, 180Solutions
- Blog posts 2006-02-20
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- What can we do better?
- I'm collecting data from teachers across my district (using a Google Form, of course), trying to get a handle on issues we still haven't addressed, ways we can use technology more effectively, and what their wishlists might be for the coming year. Here's the questionnaire that went...
- Tags: Classroom, Teacher, Notebooks, Productivity, Telephony, Projectors, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Networking, Components, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Microsoft to slash price of Xbox 360
- Microsoft to slash price of Xbox 360Xbox 360 reduces cost by $50.Wow, and I've just spent 200 bucks on the console just last week. I doubt the reduction will stop Sony out-selling their consoles though.Awww...nobody wants your Xbox 360s??So sad. :( I thought they were already selling...
- Tags: Game players, Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft Xbox 360, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-04
- Google-Yahoo to Washington: We're moving forward.
- I've been watching this battle for a couple of years now - this arm-wrestling match between the Washington suits and the Silicon Valley geeks to see which has more power. Tally one up for the geeks this week, who basically told Washington, "Yeah, you really don't matter." ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, Washington, Yahoo! Inc., Government, Corporate Law, Vertical Industries, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- "Why do you hate Vista so much?"
- "Why do you hate Vista so much?"Reasons that Vista bothers me...1) I have now spent over 4 hours trying to get SP1 installed on a new box.... the BSOD's are blurry (kind of funny huh?) The same box, XP installed with less heart ache and fewer issues... while I am...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, SP1, Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- How the world watched the Olympics online
- How the world watched the Olympics onlineI got sick of itI live in Germany, and the experience sucked big time. For those of you who don't know, in Germany you pay a TV and radio tax of about 26 dollar per month to subsidize public channels. The rule is: if...
- Tags: Taxes, Web site development, Free trade, Web technology, Corporate communications, Advertising & Promotion, Olympic Games, NBC, Microsoft Silverlight, CBC
- Discussion threads 2008-08-26
- Belkin GoStudio
- If you're a musician, amateur podcaster, or college student looking for a way to capture CD-quality recordings on your iPod, the Belkin GoStudio is an all-purpose solution with some impressive bells and whistles. The GoStudio is not without its flaws, but at $120 you're likely to take its shortcomings with...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Apple iPod, Belkin Corp., Belkin GoStudio
- Product reviews 2008-08-22
- Apple's MobileMe: Why don't we just call it a beta
- Apple announced another 60-day freebie extension for MobileMe customers. MobileMe is the synchronization service that launched along with the iPhone 3G and App Store and you could argue that going 2-for-3 with a strikeout isn't bad. But this isn't baseball. MobileMe has been a black eye for Apple and the...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Beta, MobileMe, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- MobileMe subscribers get a 60 day extension
- The following email was sent this evening to MobileMe subscribers detailing a free 60 days extension of their service. This extension is in addition to the 30 days that were given back in July. We have already made many improvements to MobileMe, but we still have many more to...
- Tags: Subscriber, Extension, MobileMe, E-mail, Online Communications, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Campaign 08: H1-B questions for candidates
- Campaign 08: H1-B questions for candidatesThis one gets me...[i]Will you seek to increase the H-1B cap so that employers can hire tech workers who are in low supply and high demand in the U.S.?[/i]Mr. Meltzer forgot a word [i]junior[/i], as in [i]junior tech workers[/i]. There is a shortage of...
- Tags: Strategy, Koman, H-1B, H-1B visa, tech worker, job, immigration system
- Discussion threads 2008-08-13
- The Unix sysadmin salary premium
- The Unix sysadmin salary premiumThe non-obviously conclusions I draw...The non-obviously conclusions I draw from this is that organisations looking fron Windows admins could do well by bring in guys with Unix experience.(I can hear someone say "No self respecting unix guy would take the job", to which the answer is...
- Tags: Operating systems, Unix skill, Unix, salary, Oracle Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-13
- Supporting the long tail of open source
- Supporting the long tail of open sourcePerhaps a good start......would be for "good developers" to not consider people with questions as "stupid".Carl RapsonMixing modelsIt depends on what "model" or paradigm or whatever you want to call it produced the piece of OS software.Was it the IBM / Redhat "we'll professionally...
- Tags: Development tools, open source, WAS IT, developer, software, Carl Rapson, long tail
- Discussion threads 2008-08-12
- Supporting the long tail of open source
- Few good developers have patience for stupid people with questions. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Long Tail, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-08-12
- iPhone black screen of death (updated)
- iPhone black screen of death updatedWaited 2 hours to boot...In reply to this story's update - I waited more than 2 hours the first time that this happened while I scoured the Internet looking for help. After finally giving up, I found the way to force the phone into restore...
- Tags: iPhone black screen, iPhone Black, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-07
- iPhone's black screen of death (updated)
- I received an email from an iPhone user greatly concerned about "either an unaddressed issue with both 2.0 and 2.01 software - or a rogue apps that is taking down the entire OS." After visiting the App Store from his iPhone "nothing loaded, the screen just stayed...
- Tags: apple iphone, apple inc., black screen, btl, e-mail, online communications, jason d. o\'grady
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- Cuil.com (Gallery: Cuil searches--hits and misses)
- Cuil.com (Gallery: Cuil searches--hits and misses)Cuil - We'll Be Back SoonJust checked out Cuil. This is what I got.We’ll be back soon...Due to overwhelming interest, our Cuil servers are running a bit hot right now. The search engine is momentarily unavailable as we add more capacity.Thanks for your patience.Don't...
- Tags: SEARCH, Cuil
- Discussion threads 2008-07-28
- Cuil trips over its Web index in early going
- Cuil trips over its Web index in early goingLOLI tried a simple search and was greated with:We’ll be back soon...Due to overwhelming interest, our Cuil servers are running a bit hot right now. The search engine is momentarily unavailable as we add more capacity.Thanks for your patience.CNet's article is also...
- Tags: Channel management, SEARCH, Web, Well Let, Cuil, Web index, early going
- Discussion threads 2008-07-28
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