Seriously, who STILL instructs you to quit ALL other applications while you install software.
– Wil Shipley on Twitter, 12-30-2008
Entries Tagged as 'Personal Computing'
IS Quote of the day
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December 30, 2008 at 7:11am
by thecodepounder
Personal Computing · Quotes · Technology
Why Microsoft and Intel tried to derail humanitarian efforts
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August 15, 2008 at 8:55am
by thecodepounder
Bryan Appleyard, writing in The Sunday Times, Why Microsoft and Intel tried to kill the XO $100 laptop:
“I had wildly underestimated,” says Negroponte, “the degree to which commercial entities will go to disrupt a humanitarian project.”
Education · Personal Computing · Social Commentary · Technology
Apple sells 1 million iPhone 3Gs in first weekend
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July 14, 2008 at 9:08am
by thecodepounder
Compared to about 270,000 original iPhones in it’s first two days of sales last June.
Apple · Insanely Great! · Internet · Personal Computing · Technology · Wireless / Mobile · iPod / iPhone / iTunes
Sure are a lot of reports of iPhone problems…
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July 13, 2008 at 10:06am
by thecodepounder
So much for the “Apple is just a media darling” claim that I keep hearing about from the haters and the Microsoft apologists. There sure are a lot of reports of horrible, devastating problems surrounding the release of the iPhone 3G. Well, that’s what the headlines say, anyway.
Me? No problems to speak of. But then, I’m not one [...]
Apple · Insanely Great! · Internet · Personal Computing · Social Commentary · Technology · Wireless / Mobile · iPod / iPhone / iTunes
Macalope: A sad message, indeed
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July 9, 2008 at 1:42pm
by thecodepounder
The Macalope on Microsoft’s proposed pro-Vista/anti-Apple marketing campaign, announced yesterday by company VP of Vista marketing, Brad Brooks at a Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference:
Microsoft made its bed by over-promising for six years and then delivering an OS that forced a lot of uncomfortable decisions. Marketing isn’t going to clean this mess up. The horny one [...]
Apple · Personal Computing · Technology
iPhone 2.0 software to go “gold master” today?
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June 27, 2008 at 8:08am
by thecodepounder
Gizmodo says “highly probable,” citing “sources inside the Cupertino’s iPhone software development effort.”
Apple · Can't Wait! · Entertainment · Games and Gaming · Internet · Movies · Music · Personal Computing · Technology · Television · Wireless / Mobile · iPod / iPhone / iTunes
In case you haven’t heard, there’s a new iPhone…
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June 10, 2008 at 7:15am
by thecodepounder
Oh, and in case you haven’t heard, there’s a new iPhone! It’s called the iPhone 3G and will be available July 11th. The nearly universal opinion seems to be that it’s pretty awesome (I’d give links, but there’s too many… hello, Google?). Oh, and it’s only $199… Did I mention that?
Check out the [...]
Apple · Entertainment · Humor · Insanely Great! · Internet · Movies · Music · Personal Computing · Technology · Television · Wireless / Mobile · iPod / iPhone / iTunes
Microsoft announces touch-screen Windows
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May 29, 2008 at 7:19am
by thecodepounder
Microsoft CEO Steve “Monkeyboy” Ballmer unveiled a touch-screen Windows Tuesday at The Wall Street Journal’s “D: All Things Digital” conference. The touch-screen feature will be part of Windows 7 slated for release in late 2009, but realistically expected by 2014…