I’m a busy guy (hence the lack of updates recently). I don’t have a lot of time for recreational browsing - my time is spent writing/emailing or researching.Just this week I found a site that totally sucked me in. It was the first time in recent memory I had burned precious time on just about [...]
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Most of the attention offered the next step in web evolution is focued on websites. And rightly (or should I say Writely) so. New browser-based services are moving us from our PC’s to our Browsers. But that is only the top layer of the new Web 2.0 OS.
Services may come from the web, but User [...]
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Timing is everything, and as Microsoft prepares to release a new version of Office, old and new foes are making the overpriced, outdated suite a hard-sell.
OpenOffice.org is finally interesting. The Mac version is actually almost on-par with the Windows and Linux versions. The suites interface and features are standard on all three, provided you’re not [...]
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Google Reader is the first Google application that has disappointed me from the first impression. The slider does nothing for me and the interface is inefficient and buggy.
If you want to see an excellent implementation of AJAX in an online feed reader, take a look at the Gregarius project. It supports themes, plugins and runs [...]
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We can all hear the buzz of Web 2.0, as it storms upon us. Fortunately, we’ve got the experience of a tech bubble behind us, and this time we promise to be good, right? Well, sort of. The truth is that there is something intoxicating about tech buzz, powerful enough to infect the decision making [...]
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I just finished up Good to Great. Even though I haven’t read Built to Last, I found Good to Great an excellent read. I get so tired of spin and bad advice that Collins’ research-based approach was refreshing, and very applicable. Several notions, including the Stockdale Paradox and the Three Circles provide original insight into [...]
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These days it’s not at all out of the ordinary to come across a Mac in the Wall Street Journal, in fact yesterday’s issue had a color photo of Tiger on the front page of the Market section.
Well, a Mac is on the Market cover again, but this time it’s a PowerBook on display [...]
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It’s been a big week for podcasting. First, Warner Brothers agrees to sponsor a ‘cast. Now (scroll down for article), the establishment takes notice, as Clear Channel announces it will podcast some content.
And that’s okay. Competition is good, and so is money. Podcasting needs both the boost in quality and financial legitimacy. Now the only [...]
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I have been quiet the last few days. That has been due in a large part to the catching up I have been doing. Since getting a job offer, I’ve migrated to a new Mac, got my first iPod, installed Ubuntu Linux on a Dell Latitude and (now) migrated my blog to WordPress.
Aside from the [...]
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There’s been a lot of chatter about what the shuffle does and does not do. Many of the assumptions out there are wrong. Here are a few (btw, I learned all this by reading the support pages).
The shuffle and audiobooks: 1. Yes, even the 512 is large enough to hold more than a few books. [...]
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