December 2009
15 posts
Daring Fireball: The Tablet →
Great writeup about the upcoming Apple Tablet. This isn’t about competing with netbooks or redefining the tablet industry, this is about redefining computing. Think big. Think different. I’ll add that Apple has some incredible top notch OS and interface designers. However, I haven’t see any major OS X interface updates since Leopard was previewed at WWDC in June 2006. After that...
Dec 31st
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“Despite fearful rhetoric to the contrary, terrorism is not a transcendent...”
– Bruce Schneier (author and technologist who specializes in security)
Dec 30th
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Lehrer's Rules of Journalism →
Great list. I wish the major news outlet would follow at least half of these.
Dec 24th
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Is it Ballmer's fault? →
A stupid question… Of course it is the CEO’s fault. A CEO is in charge of strategic thinking and planning. He/She also heavily influences the culture of the company and sets expectations for new products/services. Ballmer has only led Microsoft to mediocrity.
Dec 22nd
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“Smart businesspeople focus on the things they have the power to change, not...”
– Seth Godin
Dec 20th
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Deus Ex Machina →
Love xkcd. Hilarious (if you understand the tech lingo).
Dec 17th
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Microsoft China rips off Asia’s No. 1... →
Microsoft’s biggest innovation in the past 10 years is a big copy machine.
Dec 16th
“Strength and struggle go together. The supreme reward of struggle is strength....”
– Ralph Parlette - Author of “University of Hard Knocks”
Dec 13th
Grammar lesson with Rob Enderle →
A great post dissecting (just a few lines) Rob’s latest post on tgdaily (no link because it isn’t worth your time). Here’s a quick snippet: The concept of a large tablet device capable of doing many interesting things goes back to before the Apple Newton, but it was the Apple Newton that first captured our imagination gave us the first inkling that a device like this is was...
Dec 11th
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How a Web Design Goes Straight to Hell →
Hilarious
Dec 7th
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ClickToFlash →
A plugin for Safari that disables Flash by default. I love it. Here are some of the features. Block evil Adobe Flash. Flash only when you want it. One-click Flash loading. View blocked Flash with just one click. Higher quality YouTube. Play videos in QuickTime, not Flash. Website Whitelist. Allow Flash on certain websites. Lowered CPU usage. Browse the web more quickly. Better battery...
Dec 6th
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Dec 5th
"The iPhone Will Fail" →
A great collection of people predicting the failure of the iPhone. Hard to believe how many times these people have been wrong and yet still manage to have jobs giving advice.
Dec 4th
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Dec 3rd
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Dec 1st