December 2008
15 posts
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What Carriers Aren’t Eager to Tell You About... →
SMS’s implementation is a double-edged sword. You can send them from areas of sketchy coverage, but in return, you’re crowding out users trying to place calls on that tower.
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I genuinely like Verizon, but if I’m going to get a new phone, I’m going to...”
– Marco.org: Justifying the iPhone
BlackPearl - VLC Player Vol. 2 by ~cYPoHirogen on... →
Via a post on Ars Technica’s Macintoshian Achaia, here’s a VLC UI redesign that gives the app a much-improved look and feel.
Property Rights →
As I read The Economist’s articles on developing nations, whether it be in Asia, Africa, or Europe, a common thread jumps out at me: Property rights are the key to economic development. People want…
“Maybe the nagging edge of despair is the only thing that keeps us alive.”
– Cat and Girl » Archive » Feeling Hard or Hardly Feeling
Firefox 3 loads tabs from cache when you “reopen closed tabs”. It also does this on relaunch. It even remembers your scroll position and history within the tab.
I once questioned my switch to Firefox 3 from Camino. Seeing as Camino just got draggable tabs, I don’t think I’ll ever go back: mainline browser development is too full-featured to live on a branch.
Questionable Content: A Comic →
There’s newer ones than what I linked, but this made me literally laugh out loud:
“An Apple catalog?”
“I only read it for the benchmarks, I swear.”
“I don’t think I want to know what this can of WD-40 is for.”
Addendum: Logitech Control Center Software →
So, I tried the Logitech software. I really gave it a shot, I swear. It did well for the most part: it didn’t brick my machine at boot, or break any apps that I could tell in the few hours it…
Attack of the Mice! →
I just went out and bought a Microsoft Bluetooth something something 5000, and a Logitech MX Revolution. I’ve grown tired of this old Logitech two buttons plus scroll wheel, corded optical mouse,…
Silent World by Michael Kenna →
Gorgeous black-and-white snow landscapes, via bad banana blog.
This is why I miss back home: heavy snowfall coating everything in a sound-deadening layer of white.
My Brain's Mapping of Keyboard Layouts
I’ve switched from Qwerty to Dvorak and back twice, once (in high school), back in college, back to Dvorak again in college, and back to Qwerty a couple of years ago.
When I first switched, it took me a couple of weeks to fully switch, and once I was up-to-speed on Dvorak, I lost my Qwerty muscle memory altogether. A year later, when I made the switch back, it took far less time to...
“At the outset of Apple’s iPhone initiative, there was a heated debate within...”
– Daring Fireball: Executive Scuttlebutt