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No More Caffeine (for now) - November 10th, 2009

And now I have to change all my home pages back to regular Google.  

Tags: caffeine, google
Posted in google, news

 

Why Twitter Lists Don't Make Sense - November 5th, 2009

This week has been utterly ruined by the uproarious debut of Twitter’s new Lists feature, and if you can’t already tell — I don’t like them. Here’s the issue with lists: They’re unnecessary. A Twitter list is nothing more than a group column in Tweetdeck or Seesmic Desktop. Only, these are meant to be public, [...]

Tags: fail, ft. hood, mashable, media, ny times, twitter, twitter lists
Posted in fail, news, social-media, social-networking

 

Ubuntu Hits 9.10, 'Netbook Remix' Gets Interesting. - November 1st, 2009

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 [...]

Tags: linux, netbook, ubuntu, windows
Posted in linux, microsoft, news

 

CNN Expects You to Pay to Work for Them - September 29th, 2009

Today, CNN’s new app hit the App Store, and the world rejoiced. Mashable reported on it, and told masses of impressionable readers that it was impressive. I’m not going to disagree with Ben on this, but I am going to chime in a bit where he left off. What wasn’t talked about all that much [...]

Tags: app store, apple, cnn, iphone
Posted in apple, fail, news

 

@Names: The Internet's New Handles? - September 11th, 2009

[UPDATE]: Facebook’s “tagging” feature went live today (14Sep09), using the @mention format, and it seems to be nothing more than an autocomplete feature for mentioning people on your friends list. Once you choose a name, it simply substitutes the @name you’ve typed for the person’s full name, which is also a hyperlink to their profile. [...]

Tags: adium, AIM, facebook, fail, IM, pidgin, twitter
Posted in fail, news, social-networking

 

Thank You, Alan Turing. - September 10th, 2009

Today, British PM Gordon Brown issued a fully open and public apology for the treatment of Alan Turing, whom his own government betrayed and drove to suicide far before most of us were ever born. Regardless of the timeframe, Turing played a part in all our lives today through his work with early computers and [...]

Tags: Alan Turing, international, news, UK
Posted in international, news

 

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