Jan

21

Pogue on Office 2007

January 21, 2007 |

David Pogue takes a look at Office 2007 and I have to say I mostly agree with him. Here is one issue I take with his assesment (which is mostly positive), though: 
In Office 2007, the only thing you can customize is something called the Quick Access Bar: a tiny row of unlabeled icons, awkwardly jammed in […]

Jan

21

Automatic Ad Creator

January 21, 2007 |

An automatic ad generator, mixing real slogans with Flickr images. Via TechCrunch:

The ad generator is a generative artwork that explores how advertising uses and manipulates language. Words and semantic structures from real corporate slogans are remixed and randomized to generate invented slogans. These slogans are then paired with related images from Flickr, thereby generating […]

Jan

21

Plutoed - The Word of the Year Nobody Ever Used

January 21, 2007 |

Apparently, the American Dialect Society decided that ‘Plutoed’ is the Word of the Year, which is utter nonsense. Here is what it supposedly means:
To “pluto” is “to demote or devalue someone or something” much like what happened to the former planet last year when the General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union decided Pluto did […]

Jan

21

The Non-Existent RSS Reader Problem

January 21, 2007 |

Lots of talk today about RSS readers. Dave Winer, the god-father of RSS, argues that
One of the first rules of software design is also the primary rule of business — “The user is always right.” Most RSS readers remind the user, all the time, how wrong he or she is. Or inadequate or lazy or […]

Jan

18

Joost

January 18, 2007 |

I may or may not have been beta-testing Joost for a while now. I really couldn’t tell you. According to the NDA I may potentially have had to sign when I, maybe in a dream, signed in said I couldn’t tell anybody about the non-existent beta test… Shame really, if I had been testing it, […]

Jan

18

Skype Raises Prices: Phonecards are Back in Business

January 18, 2007 |

Skype today announced a rather useless new pricing scheme, now with a connection fee of 4 cents per call, and is trying to sell it as an improvement.
Skype, the global Internet communications company, today announced its new global pricing structure which offers a simple, convenient and cost-effective way for consumers worldwide to call landlines […]

Jan

18

Some Thursday Fun

January 18, 2007 |

Four minutes of pure agony:

Jan

17

Le Grand Content

January 17, 2007 |

Sometimes I can be sceptical of ‘user-generated content’, but the following presentation on the meaning of life, why you drink beer, puppies, pop balads, raw potatoes, water, love, butts and virgins with poor social skills is just pure brilliance:
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Here is the quicktime version and a link to the website with some more info.

Jan

16

Where is Steve Gillmor?

January 16, 2007 |

Looking through my feeds, I was happy to see Jason Calacanis bringing back the member of the Gillmor Gang, but then I read this:
Life hasn’t been the same since Steve Gillmor passed away suddenly last month, and we all had a great time remember the good old days. We miss ya buddy, and we’ll see […]

Jan

12

Cisco’s iPhone Trademark Invalid?

January 12, 2007 |

And once again we hit another twist in the daily (hourly?) iPhone saga. According to ZDNet reporter Ed Burnette, Cisco’s trademark for the ‘iPhone’ name might be declared invalid because it wasn’t used for six years after registering the name on 11/16/1999 and the documentation for the use of the name in those years was […]

Jan

12

Ads On Airport Security Trays?

January 12, 2007 |

This must surely be the dumbest idea I have heard of in a long time. Apparently, the Transportation Security Administration is going to release formal guidelines for ads on the gray trays you use to put your laptops, shoes etc. in when you go through airport security.
By all means, who would want to advertise to […]

Jan

11

Apple TV’s Intel Processor

January 11, 2007 |

While it has been confirmed that Samsung is producing the processor for the iPhone, not much information has been released about the Intel processor that powers the Apple TV. Intel has been as secretive about this as Apple is.
I assume it is a very low-powered, very cool running version of the single-core Core 2 […]

Jan

11

Why the Apple TV Will Succeed

January 11, 2007 | 1 Comment

I see a lot of bickering on online forums about the Apple TV. Seems the $299 price tag is too steep for some given that an Xbox360 isn’t that much more expensive. Others think they can build this on their own with linux and mythTV and others don’t like the specs.
But, geeks are not the […]

Jan

10

Cisco is Suing Apple for iPhone Trademark

January 10, 2007 |

While Apple apparently thought it was safe, Cisco is now suing Apple for the iPhone trademark. According to the AP, it looks like Cisco is not playing nice at all, but going to sue to protect its trademark:

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Cisco Systems Inc. said Wednesday it is suing Apple Inc. in federal court over […]

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