iSuck: “I go a little berserk when I try to leave you.”
So I was driving home from work late Wednesday night wondering why in the world all these teenage girls would be lined up three miles from the nearest Apple Store at 9 PM on a Wednesday night. My first thought was “Wow, females get REALLY pissed when their left hand interferes with the iPhone’s ability to be a phone.” Then of course I realized, after rounding the block (and with...
Read MoreHanging Out with the iPad
Shortly after the introduction of the iPhone, Steve Jobs said that the iPhone provided the best web surfing experience of any smart phone. What he didn’t say is that experience still isn’t all that great. When I first got the iPhone, even the slightest impulse to look up a bit of information from a web site would prompt me to whip out the iPhone and smack, smack, smack with my fingers...
Read MoreYoutube.com Fix: We’re sorry, this video is no longer available
For months now I’ve dealt with not being able to view videos from youtube.com. Every time I attempted to view a video, whether embedded in a neutral site or on youtube.com. In the past, at least for me, this would not have been an issue; I rarely have time to peruse random videos uploaded by random people I don’t know. Now, however, sites take advantage of Google’s free...
Read MoreNo one likes your dumb ginormous URLs; So shrink ’em!
Send or display an html link (via email, texting, twittering, etc.) and you can wind up taking a good amount of valuable visual space. They’re functional; they send your reader to the right place, but the freakish things can be a nuisance. Example: take the following URL I created in Google Maps of one of my favorite little cafes in San Francisco to share with a...
Read MoreWashington D.C. shoots Goo over the bow of Microsoft
Washington DC has recently decided to hang up the keys to the Microsoft Upgrade Closet and adopt Google Apps for its city employees. The choice Washington DC has made will help to cut their budget by $3.5 million in software licensing fees alone. That looks good for taxpayers; not for Microsoft. Of course this doesn’t necessarily spell doom for Redmond, but it doesn’t necessarily look fab...
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