April 2009
90 posts
horror stories from the field: threw gear bag on my back this morning, hadn’t zipped it entirely, MBP15 falls out … onto the hotel bed.
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i want a mac where, when you eject a usb thumb drive, it ejects the drive out onto your desk with a satisfying ‘click’
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Perfect summary of why Twitter is useful →
went to hotel business center to print some things. came back to room with RavMonE worm and W32/RJump.worm on it. glad i’m using the mac.
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WatchColbertNation interview with Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter
#twitfiction Teen boy at home, opening first new laptop. Squeak of styrofoam, sweet smell of technology, first boot! Mom calls, dinnertime.
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Is iTunes App Store the first managed freeware?
Just realizing that the iTunes App Store may just be the first mass-market delivery mechanism for freeware that actually tracks - in one location - each and every download of the software.
Up until now, whenever someone downloads freeware - say for Windows, the Palm, or Series 60 phones - they’ve been free to share it with others without notifying the original author. Sure, some...
twitfiction: Rainy day, Joe working at Netflix warehouse, feeling lonely. But people leave notes in returned DVDs. Finds hope, finds love.
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Only in Silicon Valley: I’m in Best Buy on phone with deeply technical friend re: 801.11g subnets. Guy overhears us, works with the Airport team at Apple. We proceed to have a 15-min conversation re: solution to dbl NATs, XP SP3 connection sharing, Latin America freq bands, and 802.11-n thruput.
Inside a firetruck driver's mind - CNN.com →
fighting expensive software and none to happy about it
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OS X can use a keyboard shortcut to change to the Spanish keyboard, but it doesn’t change the spellcheck language. That’s in a panel. Grr.