Archive for the 'Computing' Category
I’m 26% addicted to Apple!
Thursday, January 3rd, 2008Apparently with three iPods and a PowerBook I’m only 26% addicted to Apple Products.
26%How Addicted to Apple Are You?
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- Posted by Ryan at 9:33 pm
- Filed Under: Computing
Safari’s Irony
Monday, June 11th, 2007Isn’t it a little ironic that Microsoft gave up on developing IE for the Mac when Safari came out, but even with IE7 released to the market Apple announced that a Beta of Safari is available for Windows? Apple is a small fish in the big pond of browsers for Windows, let’s see how [...]
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- Posted by Ryan at 8:02 pm
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Plus Confusion
Friday, May 26th, 2006In their infinite wisdom, the IE team thinks it’s a good idea to differentiate the versions of IE7 for XP and for Vista. It is a valid concern to have; especially for support calls. But, since they run on different operating systems, they needed yet another modifier in a product name, because saying you run [...]
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- Posted by Ryan at 2:09 pm
- Filed Under: Computing, Software
Shorter Mobile URLs
Thursday, May 11th, 2006Does it make sense for a URL for a web page designed for a mobile device to be something like:
http://www.newsgator.com/ngs/subscriber/mwe/fldr.aspx/258127/xxxxxx
When it could be something like:
http://mobile.newsgator.com/258127/xxxxxx
It would at least be a little shorter to type in on my SP5 that way.
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- Posted by Ryan at 10:13 am
- Filed Under: Annoyances, Computing
Microsoft iPod Packaging Paradoy
Monday, February 27th, 2006Oh, what if… lol
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- Posted by Ryan at 10:43 am
- Filed Under: Computing, Humor
Beta Invites
Friday, January 13th, 2006Well, I have some beta invites for the taking, if people want them. Here’s what I’ve got to offer:
Blue.us - Social networking site (10 Invites for @u.washington.edu e-mails)
Newsvine - It’s in private beta. Site is all about news and user promoted news stories (20 Invites)
MSN Messenger Live - In Beta. (8 Invites - must be [...]
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- Posted by Ryan at 11:09 pm
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CES Videocasts
Monday, January 9th, 2006If you’re interested in gadgets, you’ve probably heard of CES. If you haven’t already been keeping up on all the greatest and latest gadgets on sites like Gizmodo, then you might want to check out some of the work being done by the folks at Digital Life TV.
I just finished watching about two and half [...]
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- Posted by Ryan at 8:54 pm
- Filed Under: Computing