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I want a paperback size clamshell with e-ink on one side and OLED color on the other (with the e-ink doubling as a touch sensitive keyboard)
- Simon Bodger
How many Apple Newtons does it take to change a light bulb? Faux!
- Q-tip
its about services vs. products. All services get run to the wayside. If you create a good product (Apple Microsoft Intel - all make physical products) you have a chance to stay around. Myspace, Yahoo, GoDaddy....any1 who just provides a service will eventually be ripped off and out done by a new company.
- echostreamer
The trend of services overtaking products has been the trend of the latter part of the decade. As an example, everything that's come out of Google, Squarespace, Citrix... Leo's sponsors. Products have been sparse, mostly smartphones and SFF PC's, and not necessarily more powerful PC's.
- Q-tip
from IM
Tease: The Google phone, the Apple tablet, and the future of tech.
- Leo Laporte
yeah, some people even use peanut butter too, like leo thought at first
- Chris Heath
Hi, I'm interested to know what app Leo used while he was talking about the Bono article
- Dan Lavie
either safari or firefox... it was on the new york times ... here's the article again (q-tip posted above) but this version is printable, all on one page, so you don't have to keep clicking through the pages http://www.nytimes.com/2010...
- Chris Heath
"I'll buy whatever Apple come out with" that about sums it up doesn't it?
- jccalhoun
OMGz why is everyone stuck with tablets being a laptop with a touchscreen. get away from that. tablets should've have been more like netbooks with touchscreens...perhaps they should be renamed to slates? why is it that peeps find it easy to find a netbook useful but tablets (slates) useless... frankly, I'd prefer a tablet (slate) over a netbook.
- Larry Ortiz
My Windows 7 experience thread (Clean install from Vista Home Premium 32-bit to Windows 7 Professional 32-bit, 1.73GHz Core Duo, 2GB RAM, Performance Index 2.9).
Installation actually happened this past Sunday. It's just as fast as you heard it is. LOVE that you can keep your old documents even for clean installs (they get put into a Windows.old folder)
- LANjackal
Yes, it's FAST. I feel like I got a brand new PC. Not kidding.
- LANjackal
Tip: If you can't stand the large icons in the Start Menu, download Ultimate Windows Tweaker here http://www.thewindowsclub.com/ultimat... and toggle the "Use Small Icons" in the Start Menu settings
- LANjackal
It still takes way too many clicks to determine your own IP address. That's just silly.
- LANjackal
Boot and shutdown times have been greatly improved for sure
- LANjackal
I cranked the UAC settings up to the max, since I prefer to be reminded when anything that requires elevation is happening (the warning lets me think about what I'm doing, which I like). In 7, secure desktop loads a lot faster than it did in Vista, so the annoyance is minimal.
- LANjackal
Graphics performance is superb. PCs without discrete GPUs will fly through Aero Flip 3D, which wasn't previously the case
- LANjackal
Another (major) pro tip: Get Windows 7 Inside Out by Ed Bott. Excellent, excellent resource. I've been using that series since XP SP1 and love it. It will save you a lot of Googling and searching. It also comes with a PDF version on disc so you can search it from your PC too
- LANjackal
Windows 7 now stores all your credentials (including server logins) under your Account Settings. Upshot: centralized management. Downside: If you're not aware of it, it can be annoying. If you enter the wrong credentials for a server, tell 7 to recall them and the login fails, all you'll get is an error message with no way to change the credentials from Explorer. You'll have to go back...
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- LANjackal
The above trend of centralization and simplification continues throughout 7. For example, you can't pin a shortcut to BOTH the Start Menu & the Taskbar. MS is really trying to eliminate redundancy not only in the OS but also in user behavior IMO
- LANjackal
Earlier I'd posted that PS3 Media Server didn't work. Wrong. The trick is to reinstall the entire app if it can't install the service. I'm switching back to it and dumping TVersity, which seems to bloated for what I want it to do.
- LANjackal
WMP 12 continues to be an unsung standout among media players. The newest development: the Play tab can now manage several playlists at once via its own back/forward buttons. What this means is that you can create instant playlists from searches WITHOUT losing the one you were listening to before, even if that one wasn't saved to a hard copy. If you prefer WMP folderize and rename your music files for you, ensure you change the Rip Music folder to where the tracks are actually located or it won't.
- LANjackal
W7 just saved me $2K. How? Well, before I'd been planning to get a brand new high performance desktop from Alienware or the like. But my old laptop is so speedy after upgrading that I can comfortably shelve that idea and upgrading my LAN to 100% gigabit for under $200 instead
- LANjackal
The new taskbar really really changes the way you think about multitasking. Since shortcuts and open windows are now represented in the same space, you're no longer glaringly aware of how many windows you have open
- LANjackal
I love Win 7. I too saved money when I did a clean install on my four year old HP. BTW my PI is 3.1.
- Russellreno
TROUBLE IN DRIVERLAND: Took a picture earlier tonight with my Canon, inserted card into reader on laptop. Nada. Turns out 7 never recognized it to begin with. Fortunately the driver question seems pretty common - it's right on the Toshiba Support front page. I downloaded and installed it and the reader works now. Also installed a driver for my WiFi adapter, just in case since I haven't had to use it yet and don't wanna find out it doesn't work when I actually need it
- LANjackal
So, MS had publicly stated that all Vista drivers would work in Windows 7, and that's been mostly true from what I've seen. The fine print is that the installation process may not necessarily be the same & following the Vista instructions in 7 could result in some pretty odd - albeit reversible - problems. Such as this one: http://friendfeed.com/tech-su...
- LANjackal
Well it all started at the health-spa town of St Moritz, Switzerland by Caspar Badrutt. They use to modify the luggage sleds to ride the streets etc... I guess they use to race as doubles then the lycra came in an no one was game to say anything.
- Johnny Worthington
An I'm not even talking about anything sexual here... Basically, like the second and third guy in bobsled... are they just 'weight'? I'm fascinated :D
- Johnny Worthington
I am not talking sexual either, I just have to wonder how two grown men decided they should try riding the same Luge at the same time, And do Sumo wrestlers have a advantage if its really all about weight? Round is aerodynamic.. ;)
- Tony C (Unrated)
I would think it went a bit like this... Hans and Herman were on their way home from sinking a few steins when they pulled up at the lights... Fritz and Arnold pulled up along side them and started talking smack... Hans turned to Herman and said 'Ya, let us be doing this' and off they went... Kinda like The Fast And The Furious... but on snow... in sleds... with drunk Swiss guys... and beer, YEP, plenty of beer... That's sooooo how it happened :)
- Johnny Worthington
I could see how the sport might not be popular in Scotland, Going downhill like a bat out hell in a kilt might scare a few people, not to mention the cold draft.
- Tony C (Unrated)
But what if you were as pissed as I know my Scottish friends get...
- Johnny Worthington
*groan* Why do you have to put such images in my head??
- Roberto Bonini
So the guy who can't see does the steering? Awesome.
- Fred Yankowski
Fred... when you put it that way........ THAT IS AWESOME!!!
- Johnny Worthington
From the article I linked: "Mark Grimmette: On the double sled, I'm on top. Brian's underneath me. I'm seated on a seat and Brian sits right behind me. At the start, I'm holding on to the handles on either side of the track, and then I have straps that go from my hands all the way back so that Brian can hold on to those straps. So he's pulling straight through my hands on to the...
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- SuezanneC Baskerville
"That's right, humans -- Engadget has its very own Nexus One. You've seen leaked pics and videos from all over, but we're the first publication to get our very own unit, and we plan on giving you guys the full story on every nook and cranny of this device. In case you've been living under a rock, here's the breakdown of the phone. The HTC-built and (soon to be) Google-sold device runs Android 2.1 atop a 1GHz Snapdragon CPU, a 3.7-inch, 480 x 800 display, has 512MB of ROM, 512MB of RAM, and a 4GB microSD card (expandable to 32GB)."
- arnaldostream
from Bookmarklet
I thought it rhymed too. Guess it is a slogan only for Texans.
- Yolanda
Okay, yeah, it'll rhyme for Texas because your "ten" sounds like "tin". :)
- Rochelle
It rhymes in my accent. :) Unless I specifically need to emphasize that I mean "ten" instead of "tin" or "pen" instead of "pin" those words all have the same vowel sound.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
It rhymes if you say it with a Kiwi accent.
- Mellissa
Christopher, some accents say "ten" like "tehn", with a distinctly short "e" sound instead if a short "i" one. Which is, after all, how it's spelled.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
from iPhone
so dialectness rhymes with feckless, right.
- Micah Wittman
I agree with Haggis, it's fascinating. It took me a minute to read all the comments and figure out why Rochelle thought ten didn't rhyme with win!
- Trish R
It seems to rhyme in Califoniaeese. I'm just hoping it be an acurate Motto.
- Brent - Loving Life
I don't think I've ever heard someone pronounce "ten" where it wasn't a homonym of "tin"
- Glen, Bespectacled Elder
Haggis it qualifies as a Slant Rhyme. In poetry as in bowling, close is ok. :) And Emily Dickenson thought it was ok, you qualify, too.
- Melanie Reed
All of the PNW? I've never heard anyone pronounce the two any differently.
- Christopher Harley
"Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all." - E D (soul/all are slant rhymed)
- Melanie Reed
happy new year Bret! But please, can you kill that pretty f***in' duck? Thank you so much :) I love you
- v per vitzbank
A good idea,relaxing.Let's be fair, and thank Bret .Biraz olumlu olsak bir şey kaybetmeyiz...Bardak doluyken de,boşken de kırılabilir.Önemli olan kırmamaktır.Sevgi-Saygılarımla...
- Dedegi
i dont love your present actually i hate it and i wanna kill it but it doesnt work. İts immortal. So could you please remove your fucking duck? And also its not lovely. By the way, Happy new year Bret, may it be the best for you
- özge gürçay
...................... Let's hope the intern you got to do data entry had a good night sleep
- Johnny Worthington
from IM
1/5 Tue 997: http://withings.com Withings Wi-Fi Scale Audible Pick: The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun UNABRIDGED By Gretchen Rubin http://www.audible.com/adbl...
- Leo Laporte
Congrats Dick and Leo... Just rememeber, today may seem like a let down but you are really just at the same level of kick-ass-ed-ness as always.
- Johnny Worthington
from IM
Screens update... I'm using the 1stshift "theme." I changed the Home screen background to the same one used for SMS. I still use Stack as a quick launch for most used apps and the rest are on a second page which are sorted by group into the program Categories which is accessed by pulling the gray tab(on the right) to the left.
"Ultimate Boot CD is completely free for the download, or could be obtained for a small fee. If you had somehow paid a ridiculous amount of money for it, you have most likely been fleeced. The least you could do is to make as many copies of the offical UBCD and pass it to your friends, relatives, colleagues or even complete strangers to minimize the per unit cost of your loss!"
- ovigia
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I thought I'd get this in early else I'll forget or run out of time. I have 4 more days of work before I'm off until 2010. I hope the 4 days go by very quickly, hehe. :-) What is everyone's plans for the holiday season?
- Kol Tregaskes
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My brother will be around for Xmas morning then a panto on the Sunday. Apart from that it will be a quiet one, which I kinda like. I hope we get more snow so I get a chance to go out and do some long overdue photography. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Merry Christmas, Kol! I'm hoping for some snow & a quiet holiday. What we have is rain, and we'll probably go out and get drunk. (Well, I don't really get drunk, but all this noise.. :)
- Citronella
Never seen a panto, but i hear they are absolutely hilarious... any celebrities in yours?
- T. Brent, technopeasant
My screens... I have a custom weather theme on my lock screen I got from a Youtuber(1stshifttrans), I hide all icons on my first/ only home screen. The most freq. used apps are launched with the Stacks app. All others are called up thru Search light...
Yes, from there and the jailbareak sources...
- Ron Thompson
Well, I may jailbreak my phone. But I will still pay for apps. I don't want to steal those after knowing the work that goes into them.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
from iPhone
There are "legit/ pay" stores within Cydia, not all apps are hacked/ stolen. There are also a lot of great free/ trial apps. Unlike the Apple app store... where you pay for an app/ install it and find it lacking features, Camcorder($0.99) comes to mind... I don't think you can "return" it and get a refund?
- Ron Thompson
I agree. And the themes have improved alot since I last jailbroke my iPhone.
- Fox
Great app and review!! You da man Patrick! ;o)
- Ron Thompson
Ha - thanks Ron. This one really is an outstanding app - one of those 'never give up your jailbreak' types :)
- Patrick Jordan
I'd like to note that ProSwitcher was a memory hog on my iPhone 3G. Not sure how it works on the 3GS but this app ate up a lot of memory. Previously I tried Multifl0w, didn't notice a memory issue with that so I might return to it. Haven't done so yet because I want to try out Kirikae first.
- Corvida
If you like these apps you should also check out Backgrounder, Orbit (Expose-ish) app, and SnowCover
- Corvida
This one relies on Backgrounder for enabling the background-running of apps. All the app switchers I've seen so far rely on Backgrounder for that part.
- Patrick Jordan
It seems more and more that the JB community has some great apps/ hacks for these devices... Slowly but surely some of these are making it into the Apple's sanctioned "app store" Video on 2G and 3G's...? What's next? "Backgrounder, ProSwitcher" Only time will tell? I hate to think 'the Android invasion" has anything to do with the sudden "openness" from the app store?
- Ron Thompson
Yup - I think for some time now - ever since back in 1.x firmware days really - a lot of innovation and improvements are driven by the great work of jailbreak devs. I guess this is far from shocking, since Apple ties things down so tight on the App Store side (though it's loosening a fair bit lately). Even something as simple as search within Contacts was done on the jailbreak side a good year before we ever got it within the 'legit' app.
- Patrick Jordan
FriendFeed should be faster again. We were had some network issues which caused a lot of slowness this past week, but I think it's fixed now. Let me know if you are still encountering any extreme slowness.
Mainly just had problems with email posting and the bookmarklet. The rest seemed fairly okay.
- Jason is Sassy
I've been told that I'm extremely slow much of the time, but I don't think that's what you meant. Thanks for taking care of the issue, Paul.
- Jim Iz Not on Ur List
Meanwhile, Dad's kids with his new wife get what kind of toys?
- Matthew DeVries
Matthew, FriendFeed users have no reason to complain about our toys. And even if we did, bitterness doesn't help.
- Bruce Lewis
FriendFeed is dying for me. In fact. it's just about gone. I use it as a control room and discussion space for my Twitter feed, and a searchable archive. Discussion threads are down about 80 percent. "Likes" are off about 90 percent. There's no real time feed in from Twitter any more. Sad.
- Jay Rosen
Agreed, Jay. My personal life is in a bit of an upheaval right now, which hasn't helped, but the FB acquisition took the wind out of the sails for me. It feels like there's no future, or worse, a future wired up to the "friending" criteria of my Facebook account. I use the services COMPLETELY differently, however. Inbound updates continue, since they're automatic, but this is the first comment I've posted in weeks. Sad, indeed.
- Ken Kennedy
I am using Twitter and FB more and more lately. On the plus side, it's strengthening some real world connections. I'm missing out on the cool new stuff but I think I had gone overboard on that front.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
I like FriendFeed, but I happen to find myself using Twitter and IRC more as of late. I guess I've probably just burnt myself and others out, given that I don't seem to have much in the way of compelling content and commentary these days, and that I just don't feel as motivated as I'd like to. :(
- Tyson Key
Thanks for throwing some love over to FF :)
- Susan Beebe
Is there currently an issue with posting from FF to update Facebook -or is Facebook broken after the re-design ? i dont get anything posted to FB anymore which worked fine before yd
- Del_
Hi Paul, I know it has been a while since this post. But over the last 48 hours my Twitter updates have quit showing up in FF. I tried manually refreshing. Then I removed the account so I could just add it back in. When trying to do that I get the following message: "We could not find the given account" I haven't changed anything. Any thoughts on why this is happening? I haven't had any trouble until now. Thanks.
- Mary-Lynn
My Twitter feed is coming into FF much faster now - thanks! *Edit - Blog feed, too!
- Kurt Starnes