Gmail
Remember back when I said I didn’t have a Gmail invite and it was all ok? Well now I got me one and I’m Gmailing - ha!
And to the rest of you without one: suckers.
Oh wait… you mean a free email account, doled out from a pool of infinitely-replenishing bottomless invitations, on top of all [...]
DRM and you: this is important
DRM: digital rights management. On the off-chance that you’re reading this and you’re not a geek you probably just had a very strong desire to skip this post upon reading that acronym. But wait! This is important, for all of us. Honest.
Digital rights management is not some new geek thing you can happily ignore.
Technically-speaking [...]
Trapped In
For some reason I can’t stop listening to this song: “Trapped In” by Division Of Laura Lee. Damn it’s good.
Oh so Daring
John “Daring Fireball” Gruber has made a contribution request to Daring Fireball’s reader in the hopes that he’ll be able to continue writing the site full-time as opposed to operating it as a hobby. But even more importantly: he’s selling t-shirts.
These sorts of shenanigans are nothing new in the blog world; it seems that most [...]
Confessions of a Microsoft Mac developer
A great blog entry from Rick Shaut, a Microsoft developer who worked on Word for Mac, that explores why Word 6 was the legendary piece of of malfunctioning bloatware that it was:
Mac Word 6.0 was a crappy product. And, we spent some time trying to figure out how not to do that again. In the [...]
100 Gig notebook drives
Yes please: Fujitsu begins 100GB notebook hard drive production
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Oh Anne, you’re just silly
Bill O’Reilly and Anne Coulter go head-to-head and these choice gems come out:
O’REILLY: I’ll tell you. Here’s what he thinks has gone wrong. Not enough troops on the ground, number one.
COULTER: Yeah, but that’s not a problem. That’s something that can cause a problem.
and
COULTER: But it’s pretty darn safe over there.
O’REILLY: Our Fox correspondents in [...]
Gmail
I know there are some people our there quite worried about not having yet been invited to join Gmail. I’m here to tell you: neither have I. It’ll be ok.
Airport Express
Hot damn! AirPort Express.
No hands, no music
RIAA wants your fingerprints
Ahh hahahahahaha… yeah, right:
Not content with asking for an arm and a leg from consumers and artists, the music industry now wants your fingerprints, too. The RIAA is hoping that a new breed of music player which requires biometric authentication will put an end to file sharing.
Established biometric vendor Veritouch has teamed [...]