Scores of people have been complaining (Digg users mainly, no surprise there) about the 3D dock in Mac OSX 10.5 Leopard. Well, you whiners are lucky. According to MonkeyBites, there’s an option to use a “classic dock.” It’s not an exact replica of the Tiger dock, but close enough. It has a cool transparent-black [...]
Verizon is suing the FCC over the 700MHz open-access requirements. Verizon says “Imposing any such requirements in the competitive wireless market would reduce the revenue the government will receive from the spectrum auction and limit the introduction of new and innovative wireless services.” Yeah, and I’m Bill Gates. Who cares if the government is receiving [...]
The average consumer thinks of a computer as yet another appliance. To non-geeks it is another device similar to a TV or a CD Player. It’s used for gaming, email, and basic internet usage.
The computer is not an appliance though. It’s a medium. Computers are just another way of storing an manipulating data. You read [...]
Did you know the top 5 countries with the fastest broadband are Japan, Sweden, Latvia, Romania, and Bulgaria? How fast is your broadband? Your ISP may tell you that you’ve got “1.5mb/sec”, but that’s a theoretic maximum. It’s unlikely your speed is that fast. Also, that theoretic “1.5 megabits per second” is just the [...]
Will we all use thought-controlled computers in the future? I think not…
Thought-based input would be cool, but there’s no way it would work. Sure, you have some early attempts, like the Project Epoc game helmet, but there’s no way you could write an email/blog post/book/etc with your mind. If the text you’re putting onscreen comes [...]
What the heck is an “LOLCat”? Sometimes called “Cat Macros,” LOLCats are pictures of cats with captions, generally in that annoying chatspeek. There’s even a blog consisting only of LOLCats….and it’s the top blog on Wordpress.com. Yeah, kind of dorky.
Most LOLCats are really stupid, though they instantly become funny if they’re related to computers. [...]
YES! The Microsoft Empire isn’t about to double in size! Yahoo has turned down Microsoft’s offer for a $50 billion merger. Yahoo claims that competing is “more productive” than merging. It looks like The Tyrant’s outreach from the offline world to the web has been postponed. Take that, Microsoft.
According to Mozilla, we’ll be seeing Firefox 3 sometime in the last quarter of the year. Take that, Microsoft! It’s amusing that a group of volunteers can build an amazing browser (the best on the planet ) that quickly, while a team of paid engineers working for the World’s Biggest Software Company takes five [...]
In the future, will we still have desktops and laptops? What if we all had something different, something better(?). What if we all carried around, in our pockets, a device about the size of an iPod or Blackberry. What if this device was a whole computer? You’d be able to access the web at any [...]
In no particular order, here are 10 things you don’t want to hear Bill Gates say:
“The next Windows release will require a credit card number at activation, and will automatically bill you at the start of every month.”
“A name has been decided on for ‘Codename Vienna’. It will be Windows Mirage.”
“You don’t have to worry [...]
