Shiny Apples: Award-Winning Mac OS X and iPhone Apps
If you are an Apple fan, your software picks this month have to be the winners of the 2009 Apple Design Awards announced this week at WWDC.
Burn Music CDs the Easy Way on Windows
Let’s face it: sometime you still need to burn an old-school music CD. Digital [...]
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June Software Picks: Shiny Apples and Burnt CDs
Posted in Random Stuff on June 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Consistently Great: Why Pixar’s Up Is Another success
Posted in Random Stuff on June 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Recently I was looking for a show to go see, and came across some reviews about Pixar’s new film, Up. The reviews were all positive, with everyone basically saying that Pixar had managed to come up with yet another great film. Pixar is one of those amazing companies that has figured out how to not [...]
Windows 7, an 800 MHz Celeron, and a Kick in the Pants
Posted in Random Stuff on May 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Paul Thurrott writes about Windows 7:
Was it possible, even remotely, I wondered, that the Windows 7 RC had improved matters enough to make this OS usable on this old hardware, a machine that was slow and out of date the day I got it over two years ago? I didn’t think so, but I needed [...]
Think for Yourself
Posted in Random Stuff on April 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I like this guy. Don’t let other people tell you how to think.
Power to the People: Rackspace Cloud Files and Amazon S3
Posted in Random Stuff on February 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Amazon was first, but Rackspace/Mosso is giving them something to think about. Check out this quantitative comparison between the Rackspace and Amazon cloud storage solutions.
The Limelight metrics are especially awesome. CDNs used to be ridiculously expensive and difficult to use, usually requiring massive amounts of cash, lawyers, paper, and coffee. Now, all that power is [...]
