BurningbirdFinal thoughts on Leopard: I’ve not seen universal happiness with the Leopard UI. Barely visible icons and menu bars, and excessive CPU required for unnecessary reflection/3D geegaws figures at the top of the list. Compatibility with applications, including ones like Apple’s own Aperture is spotty. The Ars Technica review was, hands down, the best. Though the language is […]
Philipp Lenssen posted on the new Google News commenting feature, where people can submit comments for news items that show up at news.google.com. The folks of Google describe this procedure, as soliciting commentary from those people ‘involved’: We’ll be trying out a mechanism for publishing comments from a special subset of readers: those people or organizations who […]
Another weekend, and another carefully calculated self-love link fest where some A lister makes a bold and basically useless announcement, and others rush to support. If you want to increase your link count, writing self-centered, arrogant, and useless posts with bald titles filled with hyperbole works rather well. What was particularly sad about this weekend’s […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Through the encouragement of my advisers, I decided to publicly announce the beginning of a new super-secret stealth project: Bitchrs. As pitched in comments, the premise behind the service is that …you can pay people to be mean to others for you. That way you can say what you want, without […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Like the rest of the world, I’ve been exploring the tutorial and examples for the new Google Gears. I was particularly caught by the addition of SQLite for offline storage–I never imagined a day installing a relational database on your client’s machine via the browser on the fly. It’s remarkably easy […]