When Apple launched the Mac mini in January, it was done amid all sorts of speculation that it was going to be the “iHome” – – an Apple-branded media center. (Apparently, this is now an annual-ish thing.) Given recent events (i.e., the new iMac with FrontRow and now Microsoft’s Xbox360 launch) I think it may […]
Weird. Almost a week after discussing tags in an Amazon context, I see that they’ve got just such a feature in place. And it seems to be almost exactly what I was talking about, too. Can’t seem to find its release date though, doesn’t seem to be mentioned in the recent press releases.
Forget thieves and blackhats out there pilfering your SSNs, credit card numbers, and all that. Put your fear in the very same institutions that legitimately ask for, need, and SSL your info. A couple years ago I’d had a problem with a particular bank. We’d signed up through MS Money to auto-sync the account details. […]
Via Slashdot: a quickie round-up on Microsoft’s beta release of Office 12, including screenshots, a link to the PC Magazine review and more. …Office 12 introduces a new interface based on tabs that organize sets of functions under headings such as ‘Write,’ ‘Page Layout,’ and ‘Review,’ plus a combination toolbar-and-menu called the ribbon, which displays […]
A nice round-up of the WSIS news/happenings over at Sampo.
This post is one of those gems that simply needs reiteration: Not that beer and the future are incompatible, heaven help us if they were, but it’s not just cell phones. Clothes, music, a whole generation of young people who, like people who think nothing of heading off to another country for a weekend techno […]
A comment made by False45th’s Flatlander, in addition to some other recent ruminations had me thinking lately about the coming(?) era of programmatic serendipity in our socially aware apps. This is something I keep hearing about in the context of Web 2.0 esp. w/r/t/ apps like Flickr, del.icio.us, and even /shudder/ things like Friendster and […]
Via MeFi: This Google Maps Risk game may be the coolest use of their API yet. No, really! currently playing: Frankie O “Acid Man”
The recent re-tooling here at F_D left us with some pleasing results which (unfortunately?) illuminated Internet Explorer’s PNG-display bug. My troubleshooting searches led me to the Lovitt Methods re: dealing with PNGs and IE. Tonight, I finally got it working. Well, more/less working. It always looked good in Safari and Firefox & Mozilla — now […]
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