Any touch typist recognizes the sequence in the title. They are the “home-row keys,” the ones you rest your fingers before typing, the ones you come back to after typing. They are taking over the cell phone world. According to an AP story in today’s Norfolk Virginian Pilot, cell phones with QWERTY keyboards are the […]
Craig’s List has certainly had more than its share of bad press lately. From the Wall Street Journal, here’s the latest: The full story is here. I’ve been to Amityville. I saw no horrors. I think, however, I will give Hauppage a wide berth.
Brought to you by Gotoassist Express. Get a 20 day free trial On May 15th, 2008 – Carl Icahn stepped up to the plate and officially announced his bid to proxy Yahoo so he could work with Microsoft on getting a deal out. A couple days prior, Eric Jackson decided to pull his bid for […]
Not too many movies can get away with rewriting the franchises’ history without people grumbling left and right. JJ Abrams did just that. And best part – it made sense. I didn’t go to the IMAX . I decided that it was best just to see it in the theater. I wasn’t dissapointed. Yeah, at […]
Scientific Blogging reports that a warp drive may be possible. Read the full story here. I’m skeptical on two counts: It’s highly speculative and the “massive amounts of energy” (quoting from the story) may be such as to make it theoretically possible and practically impossible. But my gut leads me to think, “cold fusion.” An […]
For those who don’t know, tonight I am going to the Madison Area Music Awards. I was nominated for 3 awards including cover band of the year, country song of the year (which was weird) and Unique song of the year (a remix of a song by another artist). It’s pretty exciting that I was […]
We see the value in Earth Day. We recognize the importance of World Peace Day.In deference to our wife we think even Mother’s Day is OK.But Twitter Day? Somehow Oprah coming online and saying “Hello Twitter World.” (or whatever) is not quite up there with the wizard of Menlo Park (Edison) calling one of his […]
The Guardian has a slide show of Windows 7 screenshots here and an article about what’s new in Windows 7 here. If you are curious, they are worth the while.
Computer security. Not. From the Guardian. Highly sensitive details of a key US missile defence system have been found on the hard drive of a computer that was disposed of in California. (snip) The computer, which has been turned over to the FBI, was bought online as part of a global research project conducted by […]
Commandment #1 – Thou shalt maketh thine iPhone App compatible doth 3.0 versions…. OK, it does make sense – If you make an iPhone app or if you want to keep the iPhone app in the store, you must update it for the new version of the software. For some, it may not need any […]
YouTube has established it’s name for the last 4 years as the place to post your videos. It didn’t matter what they were – as long as they were not of adult or copyrighted material. They’ve also seen some growing pains attached to pushing out home made content. The Baby dancing to a Prince song […]
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There is an iPhone Challenger, if not an iPhone Killer. From Reuters. Full story here.
Brought to you by GotoAssist Express – FREE 30 Day Trial Torrents can be really helpful, however, they can also be used for passing of copyrighted material. MP3’s movies, programs, all plague torrent sites. Some with keygens to break the program keys. Others with malware installed to steal data from your computer. Some say to […]
The Guardian reports that some scientists are concerned that the internet is consuming too much electricity. Read the story here; I’m not even going to try to excerpt it. I guess it’s time for all of us to go back to chipping out our bitstrips on the walls of the cave.
The New York Times theorizes that Google killed it. The full story, which is worth the five minutes of time it takes to read, is here.
Bloomberg considers the effect of the new Apple iPhone OS 3.0 on the apps store and predicts more apps and fiercer competition amongst developers. Read the full story here. See the apps store here. Now, I do not have an iPhone and wouldn’t get one on a bet. I don’t like Apple’s walled garden. (Heck, […]
About 5 minutes back from Chicago and am I taking a nap? No. I’m back on the site. What am I, crazy? What a great time with Andy McCaskey and Kara Karsten putting together 2-3 days worth of content. Lots of video uploaded and produced. Also learned a lot about CMS systems. Most people there […]
You only get 140 characters. How do you get your point across in that amount? Well, sometimes, you have to make some sacrifices. Great becomes Gr8. Punctuation sometimes is taken out. message names and hashtags are implemented. Proper grammer is – well, not proper twitter. This weeks Bitstrips takes us to Twitter U, where you […]