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Ubuntu made a minor leap this week to 9.10, and with that came a major upgrade to their Netbook Remix, which until this point has been interesting but less than spectacular. The UNR not only comes with a newly-refreshed look, but also a much-needed kernel upgrade to 2.6.31 — which along with the removal of [...]
I signed a twitition earlier, which is basically a petition signed by twitter account. The subject? Comic Sans: “These widespread abuses of printed type threaten to erode the very foundations upon which centuries of typographic history are built.” The twitition is currently being passed around, and is extremely low on signatures. I don’t expect it [...]
Image via Bing. Yesterday, I read in Mashable that big Redmond released the newest beta adventure for their upstart search engine, Bing. I wasn’t originally planning on posting anything about this, because it’s non-news, but it’s been irking me all day. So what was this release? They’ve apparently come up with a visual search. This [...]
Sound a bit harsh? Check out Gizmodo’s post on this seriously wrong move, the latest by Microsoft: This vile competition is on the level of tearing a teddy bear out of a child’s arms and then ripping it apart into a pile of fuzzy remains on the spot. – Rosa Golijan To sum it up, [...]
I received a message in Skype today, it went a little something like this: Let’s be honest, Skype is a great service with a valuable chat system built into it, but sometimes it kind of sucks. There’s just no better way to put it, but griping about Skype in general could take pages, so we’re [...]