Category Archives: Technology

Best comment about the Droid X

A comment regarding the use of words being cut off because of length: Adam 22 Jul 10 – The person who buys a phone that looks like HAL 9000 from hell is unlikely to give a shit about language details. via Photo: Motorola’s new Android… – 37signals. One Word: Awesome.

That’s a lot of users…

Via The New York Times: “Facebook, the social network created in the dormitories of Harvard just six years ago, said on Wednesday that it now has 500 million members.” http://nyti.ms/cfxkb6

John Gruber on John Battelle on Apple Banning Google Ads

Bullshit. Google started this. It was Google that turned its sights on the iPhone. If AdMob had remained independent, they could still sell in-app ads on iOS. If AdMob had sold itself to Apple instead of Google, they could still sell in-app ads on iOS. If Google hadn’t declared war against the iPhone, AdMob could [...]

You’re doing it wrong Adobe

The battle between Apple and Adobe is heating up yet again. Adobe today released their online ads saying how much they love Apple. In addition, they released a quote about the issue: We believe that consumers should be able to freely access their favorite content and applications, regardless of what computer they have, what browser [...]

Homemade 16TB NAS

Via Engadget

I think I will want this book

A Book Apart, HTML5 For Web Designers: (Via .)

Thank God for meat

Sales of CJ Corporation’s snack sausages are on the increase in South Korea because of the cold weather; they are useful as a meat stylus for those who don’t want to take off their gloves to use their iPhones. It seems that the sausages, electrostatically speaking, are close approximations of the human finger. Here’s the [...]

Nice way to start a new OS war.

The iPad is nothing more than a large iPod Touch. It’s lacking a 16:9 screen and while the bezel has to be of a reasonable size to allow for holding the device with your hand without your thumb poking the screen all the time, it’s simply too big. Finally those few people who’ve already used [...]

An interesting point about the iPad

Well done sir, you have harped on a particular piece of the puzzle that was starring at me the entire time. The iPad isn’t the future of computing; it’s a replacement for computing. It’s the payoff to all the work done by multiple industries over the last 20–30 years. It’s the subtraction of 20lbs of [...]

Godwin’s law takes a horrible new turn

Thanks to my uncle Greg for pointing me to this one One word… Awesome