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Leopard's Finder Cover Flow: Yuck!

Leopard's Finder Cover Flow: Yuck!RE: Leopard's Finder Cover Flow: Yuck!I kinda like it. I'll click the other, familiar, view methods if I don't.good in iphone, bad in leopardCoverflow is only useful on the iphone and ipod touch. It's gestural--flicking through album covers with your finger feels natural, and there's a...

Tags: Cover Flow, Finder, Yuck, Finder Cover Flow, Leopard, CoverFlow

Discussion threads 2007-11-02

U.N. debate swirls around domain name power

U.N. debate swirls around domain name powerI like it too.Very easy to check spelling in the body of the text instead of having to copy/spell check/paste.Kudos to the Mozilla and FF team for always making the product better!US cooperation not neededUS: "I'm the leader, follow me."World: "OK"US: "It's all mine"World:...

Tags: Domain names, Leadership, Socialism, domain name, leader, yuck

Discussion threads 2006-11-02

Robin Williams yucks it up for 'Spore'

Robin Williams yucks it up for 'Spore'Can't wait.Been looking forward to Spore for a long time

Tags: Spore, Robin Williams, yuck

Discussion threads 2006-05-11

Additional Resources

Demystifying BIOS updates - The DOs and DO NOTs

Demystifying BIOS updates - The DOs and DO NOTsSome of this advice is overly-cautious ...[i]When there’s a darn good reason for doing the update (as a rule I find that if I buy a cutting-edge board then there can be a lot of BIOS updates released over a short period...

Tags: BIOS, BIOS update, motherboard

Discussion threads 2008-07-02

MobileMe: iPhone finally gets OTA syncing – for a price

MobileMe: iPhone finally gets OTA syncing – for a priceWith Apple's security record, no thanksIt appears that all of my files and information are stored on an Apple server. With Apple's security record (half gigabyte security patches, weekly iTunes / Safari / QuickTime exploits, only OS to fall within 2 minutes...

Tags: Backups, Apple Mac OS X, Apple iPhone, backup, Apple Inc., external disk, disk, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2008-06-09

User experience begins with the software installer

User experience begins with the software installerVerbal abuseOh, and yes, I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to verbally abuse the programmers... man, what a dream!!Too (*&*)$A# funny....I'm sorry, but your post has nothing on the original and accompanying comments. I'm still chucling and wiping my eyes. I love a...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Tools & Techniques, software installer, User Experience, Adobe Systems Inc., software

Discussion threads 2008-04-08

Defeating the Same Origin Policy part 1

Defeating the Same Origin Policy part 1ouh... That made my head hurt.Excellent post. I wasn't sure wither to laugh or scream. Worrisome, I will say that.And while this subject is, in fact, no laughing matter, the way you made it look so easy made me laugh anyway. ...

Tags: Same Origin Policy, attack, applet, JavaScript

Discussion threads 2008-03-14

(Photos: Ballmer the Monkey Boy is back)

(Photos: Ballmer the Monkey Boy is back)Dance Monkey Boy, Dance!!!What other company could have a manimal for their CEO and still be profitable. Only a monopoly could maintain such control. All hail, America's second favorite idiot. Homer Simpson being the first. Peter Griffin is third.RE: (Photos:...

Tags: Steve Ballmer, Monkey Boy, Homer Simpson, animation, Peter Griffin, photograph

Discussion threads 2008-03-07

ZDNet gets a facelift: The changes at a glance

ZDNet gets a facelift: The changes at a glanceJealous of Vista getting all the hate???Yuck - not digging the new design. Just because MS makes things needlessly busy and overcomplicated doesn't mean ZD should be emulating that approach.Bring back separate blog lists.The look is good, not sure I prefer...

Tags: Blogging, blog

Discussion threads 2008-03-02

MacBook Air Diary–Day 5: The packaging

MacBook Air Diary–Day 5: The packagingNicely done sire! nt.MacBook Air Diary–Day 30: The buyers remorse[i]"Bored of the MBA now. Fed up with having to put my DVD's into another machine just to burn / read them. Wireless is a bit shoddy. Oh I wish I had an Ethernet port. The...

Tags: Blogging, Notebooks, wireless, blog entry, MacBook Air, MacBook Air Diaryâ€, Day 5, MBA, Apple MacBook, blog

Discussion threads 2008-02-04

Bill Gates' unfinished business

Bill Gates' unfinished businessNot just DellLook at Jobs and Apple, too.Gate$ going back to M$....never!It's more likely that he might start a new OSS company than betting on a dead horse (that is M$).Ugh.I hope the authors cleaned their keyboards after writing this piece. Yuck.Master Joe Says...What Gates did is...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Bill Gates, unfinished business, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-01-09

BlackBerry user's nine requests for 2008-what's yours?

BlackBerry user's nine requests for 2008-what's yours?STORAGE!Dear Smartphone makers...Including Blackberry: In order to destroy the iPhone please include 80GB of storage in a smartphone now! A 80 and 160 GB model for around $150 w contract. Thanks...Menative windows remote access clientI would like a native windows remote access...

Tags: Handhelds, Good Mobile Messaging, RIM BlackBerry, BlackBerry user

Discussion threads 2007-12-30

News to know: Google mobile; Microsoft Sync; Mozilla Prism; Yahoo Kickstart

Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Google's big mobile splash: Handicapping the winners and losers. Computerworld: Google to unveil mobile platform; target: iPhone? News.com: Google to unveil Android phone software. Photos: Vintage Computer Festival right. Mary Jo Foley: Windows Live Calendar to...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Mobile, Yahoo! Inc., Google OpenSocial, Microsoft Corp., Mozilla Corp., Advertising & Promotion, Microsoft Windows, Fuel Cells, Marketing, Operating Systems, Software, Emerging Technologies

Blog posts 2007-11-05

Leopard's Finder Cover Flow: Yuck!

Cover Flow, the file picker interface in iTunes, is now a standard view option in Mac OS X Leopard. Some see it as a great leap forward and others want it banished, hidden deep in some preferences pane. Some users say Cover Flow's view, which presents the...

Tags: David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2007-11-02

T-Mobile Shadow first impressions; HTC and Microsoft reveal a refreshing UI

T-Mobile Shadow first impressions; HTC and Microsoft reveal a refreshing UIJust another Windows Mobile Phone...Yuck!!!!RE: T-Mobile Shadow first impressions; HTC and Microsoft reveal a refreshing UITwo types of users, two different phones. For me a phone first. I use HS@H all day and the BB CURVE (8320) is super. Shadow...

Tags: Operating systems, Handhelds, High Tech Computer Corp., T-Mobile Shadow, Microsoft Windows Mobile, phone, Microsoft Windows, T-Mobile, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-11-02

Windows working to get Windows on XO laptops

Windows working to get Windows on XO laptopsOh Boy!Nothing like the thought of a zillion cheap laptops throughout the third world country infested with virii and trojans... to hi-jack more and more... Windows is a flippin cancer!!!! When are the authorities going to realize this!too badfreedom.as i was trying...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, XO-laptop

Discussion threads 2007-10-26

F# becomes a first-class citizen

F# becomes a first-class citizenWhat about mono? NTNTShut up, fool.ntOn the other handAll the # languages are better than VB.Man, you really are WAY BEHIND.Can you say mono? How about Moonlght?another proprietary hook from M$OSS won't use any of the languages ending in #.They are wortless to begin with.F#!...

Tags: OOA/OOD/OOP, Microsoft development tools, .NET, Programming languages, Development tools, Middleware, Mathmatica, Mono, functional language, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-10-23

How much midnight oil do PCs really burn?

How much midnight oil do PCs really burn?Public ServiceYou are providing a public service. Burn the oil and get it over with.RE: How much midnight oil do PCs really burn?Disable "Wake for Ethernet network administrator access" and double check your power on/off schedule in the ironically named energy saver...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Monitors & displays, PC, computer

Discussion threads 2007-09-18

The homeowner's guide to systems development

The homeowner's guide to systems developmentProof ReadMurph, this really needs a proof read cause it's a bit nonsensical at the minute.Rules four and five:Rule four:You don't know what you want until you decide you don't like what you've done.Rule five:Ask: What will the neighbors think? Be sincere and...

Tags: Construction, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, homeowner, nail, wall

Discussion threads 2007-08-03

Facebook infltrating the enterprise: the ups and downs

My colleagues at Enterprise Irregulars are not your typical Facebook demographic. Heck, I can't even make the top end 40-49 age group. But that doesn't stop us from arguing whether Facebook and other forms of social media are appropriate for enterprise usage and if so, where they fit.Some of us...

Tags: Social networking, Social software, Enterprise applications

Blog posts 2007-07-29