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I know we’re not all technocrats but sheesh you’d think that the US patent office would at least be able to turn a fax right-side up!  How can they be expected to make informed determinations on the merits of technology patents if they can’t master a 180 degree rotation….  No, wait….  What am I thinking?…….

Someone Should Patent a Fax Rotator So the USPTO Can Read Upside-Down Faxes – USPTO fax – Gizmodo.

• Windows 7 not shipping before 2010 OFFICAL Well pop pickers, now it seems that we can all relax and enjoy OS X Snow Leopard safe in the knowledge that Winblows 7 isn't even likely to ship before 2010. I guessRedmondhas plenty of time to fire up its photocopiers. You can bet your cat's favorite toy that if......
• IBM's Papermaster finally gets to be Apple's iPhone master Apple can finally welcome one of its newest employees in waiting. Mark Papermaster is at last allowed to take up his position with the company. Much delayed by theshenanigansIBM decided to pull by claiming that his choice to join Cupertino in some way damaged their oh so buoyant CPU business.......
• Apple & Microsoft OS updates to use GPUs for more than graphics New technologies in Apple's upcoming OSX Snow Leopard and Microsoft's Windows 7 operating systems offer a way for the incredible and mainly untapped processing power of Graphic Processing Units (GPUs) to be utilized by the system for tasks that go way beyond rendering images. Both new operating systems offer some......

• The Benefits To Ireland Postcards Ireland is a beautiful county with lots of historical and famous landmarks and the postcards available show there, but they only seem to show the pictures that are already available on the internet, and after a while the postcards all seem pretty much the same except for the destination......
• how can i get the Canadian government to cooperate; are my being taken seriously? Dear Yahoo.com, I know that your News Room, is up to date on the most recent Senate Green Room, discussion over the Canadian Boarder breech case involving, a Marie, who is now recognized as a famed Mobsters Lady? Well, I myself might be a small fish compared to this great......
• Snowboarding Glossary Continued T Bolt - This is a term that is used to describe a small metal cylinder that is threaded inside and that has a disk attached to its bottom, which will prevent it from being pulled up and away from the snowboard. Technical - This is a term that is......

Government, Idiots, Technology

Wired has a nice little piece on the current turbine research going on at Jaguar (of all places).  Funded in part by the UK tax payer, Jaguar is looking at using a small axial flow turbine to power the car’s generator. The power train is all electric. This approach makes a lot more sense than Chevy’s Volt as these engines are lighter and a lot more efficient and reliable  than traditional reciprocating engines of the type proposed for the Volt.

Not Jaguar’s first dance with jet technology but hopefully this one will see a longer life span than the engineering test bed shown above from Rover’s earlier attempt at turbine power.

Jaguar Building a Turbine Hybrid | Autopia | Wired.com.

• SCI FI Channel to become Syfy; “Imagine Greater” is new message | SCI FI Wire Glad I'm not the only one who thinks this name change is simply moronic.  Check out the readers comments after the ridiculously blinkered self indulgent drivel of an article. What I'm just floored by is how in the hell they've managed to convince themselves that "SyFy" broadens perceptions.....  WHAT?  ......
• The day Twitter turned into a killer #iranelection #twitter With Iran exploding under their noses the major news networks (in the US at least) were powerless to do little but sit back and watch it happen.  With the activities of their correspondents cut short by the Iranian government all the likes of CNN could do was turn to social......
• Windows 7 - Horse Feathers! #tech #Windows7 So I know I'm going to get flack for this one, but Windows 7 bunnies, I'm about to burst your bubble. For months I've been reading one blog after another saying how much better Windows 7 is than it's pathetic and quickly ditched predecessor. "It works" they've said, "It's......

• *SECRET* {Get Top 10 Search Engine Placement} in 66 Mins. http://Video.ManifestMLMLeads.com Caryn: 816.399.4710. (Get Top 10 Search Engine Placement) in 66 mins. with these *SECRETS*. If you want to get top 10 search engine placement to dominate on Google, you want to know these free tactiques. How Search Engines Rank Web Pages - Search Engine Watch (SEW) In short, this......
• All About Hydro Power by markus highland Hydropower, as you may guess from the name, refers to the use of water to produce power. It is one of the oldest and most often used renewable energy sources, becoming popular when the paddle wheel was invented in the 1800s and accounts for almost 3/4 of......
• New Vertical Model Turbine Wind To Power New York Loch Sheldrake, NY - This fall marked the dawn of a new type of model turbine wind power, where Manhattan-based Environmental Technologies and Sullivan County College celebrated the introduction of their first 1.25-megawatt vertical axis wind turbine to be built on the campus grounds. Environmental Technologies' founder and president, Sam......

Automotive, Cars, Jaguar, Jets, Technology, Turbines

When your price collapses this quickly you know you’re not an iPhone killer.  A few short months after their well accepted launch, the Palm Pre family of smartphones are hitting the bargain bin with a thud.

Verizon is n a price cutting spree for sure but now the Pre is up on a buy 1 get 1 free deal.  Not the ld Pre, but the new Plus models.  Given the buzz at launch you’d have thought that these puppies would have held their price longer.

the iPhone shrugs…

Verizon Confirms Pre Plus and Pixi Plus Costs, Buy One Get One Free Offer – Palm pre plus verizon – Gizmodo.

• SlingPlayer for iPhone getting closer to release? For anyone who travels or likes to keep up with their favorite TV shows when they are on the go, SlingBox is a great solution!  Now the introduction of the iPhone client app is getting close and AT&T have backed down from their ridiculous position on video over the 3G......
• Apple Adds Chinese Handwriting. Could this be more proof of a Mac tablet? There have been rumors flying around for months (if not years) about the "soon the be released" Apple tablet computer.  The closest we've come so far to actually getting such a device has been the iPhone.  Portable, connected and pretty full featured, internet-wise and built on the cult of the......
• 50's SF Nike Missile Defense Site Unbelievably the Nike Missile Defense site that once guarded San Francisco from airborne attack has been kept in pristine condition, with most of it's original equipment still in working order.  Better yet, this facility actually holds guided tours (check the site below for more details).  This is a must see for any one with......

• Palm Pre Plus Review Part 1 This is part 1 of itb's review of the Palm Pre Plus available on Verizon Wireless. The Pre Plus features Palm's webos 1.3.5, which handles multi-tasking as well as any other smartphone on the market . The Pre Plus also features 512MB of RAM 16GB memory card, 3.1" capacitive......
• Gaming On The Palm Pre Plus (better than Iphone)? Demonstration of the gaming capabilities of the new Palm Pre Plus.......
• 10 cool new gadgets from CES [/caption] Las Vegas, Nevada -- Three-dimensional televisions, Internet-enabled TVs, touch-screen "tablet" computers, e-book readers and other fun new gadgets were scattered all over the enormous Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. CES, which ended on Sunday, is regarded as one of the best trade shows for spotting new technologies......

Apple, Communications, Internet, iPhone, Palm, Pre, Technology

More hair-trigger madness.  So an Xbox 360 in the hold is somehow more dangerous than 200 laptops in the cabin?  RIGHT…..

Maybe we should all just stop flying for a while until this industry gets its feet back on the ground (or at least its head out of the clouds – Sorry couldn’t resist)..

US Airways Saves Flight From Dangerous Xbox 360 Threat – usairways – Gizmodo.

• The London Times HATES The Web! #UK #web2.0 #tech Once thought of as a "serious" news outfit, it seems The Times has thrown standards to the wind and is resorting to taking cheap shots at technology they so obviously don't understand and lifestyles they so obviously can't afford. In a ludicrous but blistering "piece" (I won't give it the credit......
• Ubuntu 9.04 kicks Windows 7's ass! #tech #ubuntu #windows7 A few days ago I posted about my disasterous experiences installing Windows 7 RC on my TabletPC.  Then I promised I'd try the same expereiment with the latst Ubuntu distro and report back.  Here's that report. The title of this post has probably let the cat out of the bag. ......
• The Tao of Newton - Now Officially a Cult We've been called a lot of things, we who love Apple. Geeks, Fanboi's, etc. Well now it's official (at least as far as InfoWorld is concerned). The Newton is #7 on their Tech Cult charts. My first (for I've had several) Newton experience wasn't exactly theimpeccableout of the box Apple......

• 6 Things to Avoid When Turkey Hunting Here are a wide variety of little things that you need to avoid in order to turkey hunt successfully. Most turkey hunters learned these things through decades of turkey hunting, but now you do not have to. 1 - Limit movement. When turkeys see movement, they immediately know that danger......
• Staying on top of things We recently took a trip cross country to see family -- we had a lovely, lovely visit -- on American Airlines. Interestingly enough, we did not fly a single flight that we had booked and all of the seats were, of course, different. Granted, we might have taken the first......
• Evil Credit Cards We are in the midst of a backlash, people going from using their credit card recklessly to rejecting card use completely. Often, Dave Ramsey and his quote "there is no responsible use of credit cards" is cited as a source of inspiration to this cause. This week, in an insightful......

Flying, Microsoft, Morons, Terrorism, Xbox

In the spirit of fairness, after chastising the Brits for arresting someone based on a tweet (and a tweet alone) it’s the Americans turn to rush head-long into the over-reaction department.

A San Diego 11 year old gets humiliated in front of his entire school, has his home searched by the bomb squad and is told to seek counseling by his hysterical vice principle for what?  Threatening to blow his classmates to hell? Burn his school to the ground? To bring down the government?  No.  All this for showing how a gatorade bottle can explode as part of a school science fare…!   What?  Has this veepee lost his mind?  Haven’t kids been doing just this kind of thing at science fares for decades?  Isn’t this the kind of thing that the Myth Busters do on TV every week?

We need laws to protect the innocent from overzealous tin-pot dictators who are hell bent of stretching their pathetically small amounts of authority to ridiculous proportions.  I hope this kid’s parents sue the shit of the veepee and the school district.

11-Year-Olds Science Project Causes Bomb Scare, School Evacuation, Hilarity – Science project – Gizmodo.

• Twitter users are a fickle bunch! According to Neilsen Online, a company who measures internet traffic and sells the data to advertisers, Twitter users are a fickle bunch. They assert that 60% of people who sign up for Twitter don't return to the site after a month. Maybe someone needs to educate Nielsen about the nature......
• Advertising - Sci Fi Channel Has a New Name - Now, It’s Syfy - NYTimes.com WARNING - RANT AHEAD I'm stunned.  This is the kind of wrong-headed crap you get when you put two people (Messes Hammer and Howe) who care not for the genre they are supposed to promote in charge of the Sci Fi channel. These execs think it's just a peachy keen idea......
• Your next #tweet could be your last! What is going on in the UK?  The place is turning into a police state but its citizens don't seem to care. The latest Orwellian nonsense to come from my home country is the arrest and imprisonment of a frustrated airline passenger who no doubt like the rest of......

• A Decade of the Internet [/caption] The decade did not begin auspiciously for the Internet; it opened not with a bang, but a bust. However, the 2000 dot.com bust, far from signaling the end of the Web, served as a much-needed “reset” for an industry run amok. Gone were websites with great ideas, fistfuls of......
• Sam Querry Manages to Defeat Carsten Ball During Final Querry has managed to win a second title on the ATP Tour, and now he is saying that he also plans to come back next year for the same tournament. At least next year during the LA Tennis Open's draw, the defending champion is going to be present. Sam Querrey......
• Multiple Income Streams is the ONLY way to Achieve Extreme Wealth I have a very good friend, the kind of friend I have known for a little under 20 years and I am only 27, who owns a really nice boat.  Well, this past Sunday he took me, and another buddy out on it.  He launches his boat from Oyster......

What is going on in the UK?  The place is turning into a police state but its citizens don’t seem to care.

The latest Orwellian nonsense to come from my home country is the arrest and imprisonment of a frustrated airline passenger who no doubt like the rest of the country was going a bit stir crazy due to the relentless snow that’s brought life to a standstill in the UK for the past 2-3 weeks.

So this guy sends a tweet saying that if the airport isn’t reopened he’s going to blow it up.  Rather than do any actual police work, the cops just lock him up and confiscate his computers.  No evidence of any real threat, just a dumb tweet.  I know we’ve got to be careful about terrorist threats.  I grew up in the UK when the whole country was at the hands of the IRA so I get it, but come on people, at least search his house to see if he actually has or has handled any explosives before you run his life into the ground.

Amazing.

Frustrated Passenger Gets Arrested for Tweeting Airport Bomb Threat – Paul Chambers – Gizmodo.

• Brideshead - Relived So, yet again, back in the day (ie. the early 80s) there was a seminal event on British TV called "Brideshead Revisited".  Seminal not only for it's stunning narrative by Evelyn Waugh but seminal for it's stunning production.  Especially amazing as it was produced not by the venerable BBC but......
• Woz is set for his Dancing with the Stars debut - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)   [/caption] What is Woz thinking?  I guess the guy is bored or something because I can't for the life of me understand why someone in his position would want to cha-cha-cha around with a bunch of C & D list "celebs" (Sorry Kathy!)...   My advice to Woz is - Stick......
• Jackson dies, the web, Twitter and iTunes fail under the load #mj The second incident in a week that has strained the internet's infrastructure almost to it breaking point.  Following the Iran stories of last weekend, the news of the sudden death of Michael Jackson brought site after site to a grinding halt as fans and the public rushed to their......

• and lo, at the Outback they rejoiced The owner of a prominent small business in his small town had two sons. The younger son asked one day if the father could lend him a substantial amount of money. The father was a little bit puzzled, but he did it. The younger son took off for a distant......
• Violence Explodes: Honduras' 'Wannabe' Dictator Returns Sunday Paper - July 5th, 2009 Ousted, extreme leftist-leader and former Honduran president, Manuel Zelaya, was greeted by protesters and soldiers on the ground along with circling military aircraft as he tried to return to Honduras a short while ago.  After trampling on his nation's constitution by attempting to abolish term limits......
• Swiss Army Knife for the Office Warrior. I still remember my first swiss army knife my older brother handed down to me as a kid. I was always jealous of this one guy in my fourth grade class because he had one, and I forever begged my mom to get one for me. Of course trying to......

Police, Stupidity, Terrorism, Twitter, UK

I’ve been collecting and listening to Numan’s music for 30 years.  I had never even heard of this until recently.  I’m guessing it’s going to come as news to most other Numan fans also.  Well worth a listen.

YouTube - Gary Numan – Unreleased 7-UP TV Commercial Music! .

• #Numan Readies for "Pleasure" Tour There's a flurry of news from Gary Numan today.  The media finally seem to have buried the hatchet with him and are gushing over the upcoming Pleasure Principle 30th anniversary tour. After years of being ridiculed by the UK music press, Gary is now enjoying their adoration.  Shame it......
• 'Upload Video' Screen Suggests Video Capabilities in Next iPhone - Mac Rumors [/caption] We're coming up on the anniversary of the iPhone 3G announcement at last years WWDC.  It is understandable therefore that rumors are already starting to circulate about the next revision of the iPhone hardware. Macrumors via Engadget have a nice screen shot of a video upload feature that isn't live in......
• Beam me up Jobso! Are Apple FINALLY going to make my Star Trek fantasies come true? Any of you who've watched the TV show will know exactly what I mean. For years I've wanted a PADD like device. Something small enough to carry around easily, with enough functionality to do most of the things......

• Music Memorabilia Memorabilia -> Music Memorabilia -> Rock, Pop Music memorabilia has always been popular, and although we associate it primarily with today’s rock and pop musicians, the practice of collecting items for musicians and groups dates back many hundred years. In fact, in Japan, before mass printing was used on a......
• Innovation Stiffling Government Aids Groundbreaking Artistry To follow up on an earlier posting that contended that government sponsored initiatives are capable of producing innovation in broadcasting I thought it was also worth highlighting our CanCon radio requirements and the Canadian Music Fund.  I'll touch on CanCon in this posting and have something regarding the Canadian......
• Strangely No Fear, Perfect Balance httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z19zFlPah-o I didn't think it was possible to cycle along the top of iron railings.  Now I know it's possible.  I love the perseverance he shows. If he doesn't do any major damage to himself I see a long career in advertising and films, don't you? The music is singularily......

Commercial, Gary Numan, Numan, YouTube

This falls so far into the WTF bucket that I’m at a loss to understand why there’s even a question about whether this cop should be arrested or not.  How can anyone think it’s OK to taser a unconscious man suffering from convulsions? It’s even more unbelievable when the person doing the taser-ing is a cop who arrived on the scene with the paramedics in response to the call for assistance…

Not only did this jar head cross the line in such a stupendous way, he crossed 11 times in a minute…  WHAT?  I know cops have a tough job and have to put up with all kinds of abuse and dangerous situations but he was called there for a medical emergency for crying out loud!  To a man having convulsions!!  You’d think that he’d be expecting to see erratic and involuntary movements without interpreting them as an attack.  I’m speechless….

This the latest in an alarming list of ridiculous cop taser incidents.  Another that comes to mind is the recent cop taser-ing a 7 yr old girl who was throwing a temper tantrum….  Great parenting skills all round on that one!

All this begs the question – “Has giving cops non-leathal weapons just given them leave to be less objective and more blatantly aggressive?”  I sure as hell don’t feel safer..  Cops in the UK have carried non-leathal weapons for decades, the UK version of the Billy Club or Night Stick.  Those weapons haven’t given rise to a wave of assault and battery by Her Majesties finest.  Maybe there’s something about having to be within striking distance that makes them think twice.

Cop Tasers Unconscious Diabetic 11 Times – Crime – Gizmodo.

• Report: iPod touch generates more traffic than most phones | iPod | Macworld Here's some interesting data on mobile device adoption.  The iPhone and iPod Touch combined generate 6 times the amount of web traffic than Motorola's Razr, even though there are more than 6 times the number of Razr's in circulation. Goes to show, Steve is right.  The software IS the user......
• BBC buys, uses botnet to show dangers to PCs | Security - CNET News More on the BBC's new hacking career. I'm finding it interesting to read people's responses to the articles reporting on the BBC's recent illegal actions to create a piece for one of their TV shows. Opinions seem to be clearly divided into two camps: Those (who like me) think that......
• World's Fastest Teasmade This just begs the question "Why?".  I mean it's fun to go fast and break records and stuff, but steam powered?  Charles Barnett III hopes to break the previous land speed record for a beverage maker which was set back in 1906 by the US's Fred Marriott who scooted......

• How To Save Money On Printer Ink. A few months ago, I ran out of ink for my HP C4280 in the middle of a big printing job. "No problem", I thought, as I opened my supply drawer only to find that I had no new ink cartridges! This meant only one thing -- I was going......
• You might be a gamer if... You don't think of a Russian bazooka when someone says "RPG". You use game stats to describe things in a movie. (Well, Han just blew his Fast-Talk roll) You use game stats to describe things in real life. You laugh yourself silly when you hear the word "Gazebo". The......
• 500 More Useless Facts [/caption] Most American car horns honk in the key of F. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan." Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts. Every time you lick a stamp, you consume 1/10 of a calorie. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. Studies......

Pushed into lime-light’s harsh glare as the inspiration of  the multiple Oscar winner – “Rain Man”, Kim Peek put a very human face on “different” and “challenged”.  A face that we could all relate to.  A face that we all could like.

His incredible talent gave him total recall but left him unable to appreciate most of what he knew and its relevance to the world around him. A situation that would have made most bitter and angry, Peek still marveled in every fact like it had been wrapped just for him. A gift to be enjoyed.

Kim Peek passed away just before the holidays, victim of a heart attack at only 58.

Gizmodo’s link below patronizes the ludicrous NYT who expects to capture a pay-per-play audience, seemingly unaware that they compete for readership with a million other publishers a Google search away, none of whom suffer from those delusions. Witnessed here by The UK’s Telegraph.

Kim Peek

Remembering Kim Peek, The Uncanny Human Computer – Kim Peek – Gizmodo.

• Wtf: No One Knew Jesus Would Come Back As a Cookie [/caption] This is good mid morning fodder (one might even say 11ses...  :) Know I'll be quite candid here.  I have never understood the whole religion thing. Doesn't matter if it's Christian, Jewish, Hindu, whatever, I just don't get it. However this article made me think.  So it's considered blasphemy to use......
• #Numan re-releases "The Touring Principle" on #DVD - #musicmonday Numan's "Touring Principle Redux" is about to start in the UK (See you all at the Indigo2) and to mark the occasion Gary is re-releasing the video of the original Pleasure Principle tour back in 1980.  This time around we're not being subjected to all the gratuitous video effects that......
• Cli.gs Shutting Down - Sorrow Tiz a great shame when a really great idea and excellent execution isn't enough to make a business successful.  Like so many other promising start-ups on the internet the URL shortening service Cli.gs will be making its last snip at the end of October. This is particularly sad for us at......

• Golfer Anthony Kim is Disqualified for Using Broken Club in Shanghai Tournament Anthony Kim is currently the World number 8 golfer. During his first tournament as a European Tour player, his hopes were recently dashed in Shanghai when he found himself being disqualified from the HSBC Championships this past Sunday. Anthony Kim is a young player at only 23 years old, so......
• 450 Random Useless Facts [/caption] Most American car horns honk in the key of F. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan." Barbie''s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts. Every time you lick a stamp, you consume 1/10 of a calorie. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. Studies......
• Baby had his haircut from A Cut Above Over the weekend we went to Mid Valley to find a salon for baby's much needed haircut. We took a peek at Jantzen and I wasn't too keen. I remember there was a salon that had all these kiddy rides as seats for the children to sit on while they......

Proof that some people really have no shame.  The sign built from the Nazi propagandist slogan “Work will make you free” which stretched over the gate to one of the worst places on Earth was stolen from the Auschwitz site early Friday morning.

The UK’s Telegraph needs to do some fact checking.  The sign is made from tubular steel and can easily be carried by one person making the theft significantly less difficult than they make it out to be.  Also, with no trace of who actually took it, it might be a little premature to blame “neo-Nazis” for the theft.

I’m more than a little stunned that anyone is cold hearted enough to desecrate the memorial to one of the biggest human atrocities of the 20th century.

Auschwitz sign stolen ‘by neo-Nazis’ – Telegraph.

[UPDATE]:  So this just keeps getting stranger.  Today the BBC reports that Polish police have found the stolen sign in the North of the country.  It had been cut into 3 pieces (presumably they were more interested in easy transportation than resale value) by 5 men who are now in custody.  This is where it gets strange, the BBC goes on..

Five men in their 20s or 30s were detained and were being taken to Krakow for questioning, a police spokeswoman said.

Krakow no less!  Himmle!  Whilst we’re glad that this WWII artifact has been recovered, we’re hoping that they don’t suffer the same fate in Krakow as so many innocents did during the 8 years of the war.  Irony abounds!

• Want an iPhone 3Gs from AT&T? - Forget it! #mac #iPhone AT&T have already sold out of their initial shipment of iPhone 3GS units.  If you haven't already placed your pre-order (and received a confirmation) then try Apple instead as it'll be a while before AT&T have them back in stock. It's hard to believe that after 2 full years of......
• The day Twitter turned into a killer #iranelection #twitter With Iran exploding under their noses the major news networks (in the US at least) were powerless to do little but sit back and watch it happen.  With the activities of their correspondents cut short by the Iranian government all the likes of CNN could do was turn to social......
• Numan adds dates. #Numan #Music Gary Numan has added live dates in the UK throughout the Summer.  Fans were notified via his NuMind network today of the appearances in advance of their public announcement on his web site. The new dates are July 19 - The Lovebox festival, Victoria Park, London Aug 1st -......

• Save Time, Money and Space in Over 80 Ways If you're looking for handy gadgets, tools and various items that can save you time, money or space (or all three!) this list of more than 80 top products is just what you need. Everyone's got saving money on their minds these days. Some of us are always looking to......
• Soccer Memorabilia Sports Memorabilia -> Autographs Original -> Soccer While the United States may not share the same love for soccer as the rest of the world, it is clear that everywhere else soccer and soccer memorabilia is big business. During the last World Cup a cumulative 4 billion people turned into......
• Are Your Finances a Wreck? As the housing crisis worsens and the economy looks increasingly weak, most Americans are facing the reality that their finances are in a bit of a wreck. Chronic overspending, a lack of savings and too much bad debt has left many in a financial condition that they would prefer not......

Germany, Jewish, Nazi, Poland, WWII

This story is just the other side of ridiculous but given the players not really that surprising.

Microsoft (the un-”do no evil” company) maybe offering large content providers cold hard cash to demand that Google stop listing their content in search results.  I guess if you can’t beat ‘em, cheat..  is the norm in Redmond these days.  Kinda pathetic really just few days after Ballmer was spouting how well Bing was doing to a bunch of downtrodden shareholders.

So MSFT’s never ending nerve notwithstanding the amazing part of the story on Giz is that Murdoch might actually be considering this! Apparently he wants to cripple his web ratings and has been thinking about shutting out Google unilaterally for a while.  Now MSFT is willing to fill his pockets to actually throw the switch.  How can he lose?

At first I was appalled by this blatant tampering with the internet’s live blood (content) but then I got to thinking..  Google ain’t going to miss the ad revenue for one source of content.  It’s not like it isn’t going to get replicated in a million other places anyway.  If Microsoft wants to squander untold millions trying to hold back the sea then let it and getting News Corp’s hideously biased un-news off the front page would be a generally good thing all round for humanity.

So this blogger says – GO FOR IT!  (morons).

Microsoft Might Pay Murdoch to De-List From Google – Microsoft Bing Google Rupert Murdoch – Gizmodo.

• Woz is set for his Dancing with the Stars debut - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)   [/caption] What is Woz thinking?  I guess the guy is bored or something because I can't for the life of me understand why someone in his position would want to cha-cha-cha around with a bunch of C & D list "celebs" (Sorry Kathy!)...   My advice to Woz is - Stick......
• Apple & Microsoft OS updates to use GPUs for more than graphics New technologies in Apple's upcoming OSX Snow Leopard and Microsoft's Windows 7 operating systems offer a way for the incredible and mainly untapped processing power of Graphic Processing Units (GPUs) to be utilized by the system for tasks that go way beyond rendering images. Both new operating systems offer some......
• Microsoft: Lots to turn off in Windows 7 | Beyond Binary - CNET News This feels a little like snickering up my sleeve, but is Redmond really finally admitting that Winblows has been a bag of bloat-ware for years??  All those services that they so strenuously defended now, apparently, can be turned off quite safely after all. Amazing what a little competition and the looming wide scale  deployment......

• Windows Mobile, iPhone, Android - Marketplace Comparison Detailed comparison between Windows Mobile Marketplace, Apple's iPhone AppStore and Android Market from developer point of view. By: Predrag Tomasevic (Click for bigger image) Introduction The article you are about to read is my compilation of thoughts on three currently most popular and talked about mobile platforms, sparked by whole......
• Google’s Chrome OS Wounds Windows, Undermines Android and Lets Apple Advance Product Description The launch of Google’s Chrome OS will not be a Windows killer, although it will hurt Microsoft. In fact, it will actually hurt Google’s own Android. The biggest winners will be Apple, which is poised to benefit from the war brewing between Google and Microsoft, and the consumer,......
• The Power of Contentment Warning: This is an excessively deep post that could cause a life-altering amount of self-reflection. Read at your own risk. A reader recently wrote to me and asked for some advice on breaking her addiction to spending without turning to food. As an overweight blogger myself, I'm not sure I'm......

Google, Internet, Microsoft, Morons, Murdoch

It’s a very strange thought for me to realize that the space shuttle program in about to end. After watching the Apollo 11 moon shot when I was 6 I’ve been fascinated with the US space program. It seems like the shuttles have always been with us. From test flights strapped to the back of a 747 to starting full operations in 1982 they have been the backbone of the space program. We have so much to thank the shuttle program for it’s not going to be easy to see it end. Read more…

• Apple Adds Chinese Handwriting. Could this be more proof of a Mac tablet? There have been rumors flying around for months (if not years) about the "soon the be released" Apple tablet computer.  The closest we've come so far to actually getting such a device has been the iPhone.  Portable, connected and pretty full featured, internet-wise and built on the cult of the......
• Who do you trust with your data? #mozy #backup #tech #mac As home computer use grows from playing DOOM to the occasional email and the casual 5 min session of web surfing into something more intrinsic to what we all do all day it becomes critical that the state and the data stored on that computer be protected.  As most of......
• Apple hasn't lost its appetite for chips! It's becoming clear that Apple has a growing interest in chip technology. Since it's partnerships in the late 80s and early 90s resulting in advanced versions of the ARM family of CPUs Apple has continued to dabble in chip design. Recently this "hobby" has become a more tangiblestrategyfor Cupertino, with......

• Consumption Smoothing - Spend 'til the End I have read (and continue to read) many books on retirement planning. Most of them have been on the money and financial aspects of retirement. Lately, I have taken more interest in the mental and emotional parts of retirement. I am reading a book now that addresses those specific issues.......
• Obama axes NASA moon plan in new budget [/caption] CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida - President Barack Obama wants to end NASA's moon program, turn over space transportation to commercial companies and jump-start technologies needed for future human exploration of Mars and other destinations, officials said on Monday. The plan is part Obama's budget for the fiscal year to September......
• Broadway Souvenir Programs Memorabilia -> Theater Memorabilia -> Playbills For fans of Broadway, musicals, specific plays or actors, or entertainment in general, Broadway souvenir programs are a great collectible item. We've all been to a play or concert, maybe a production filled with school kids, where programs are handed out at the door.......

Numan’s “Touring Principle Redux” is about to start in the UK (See you all at the Indigo2) and to mark the occasion Gary is re-releasing the video of the original Pleasure Principle tour back in 1980.  This time around we’re not being subjected to all the gratuitous video effects that mostly ruined the original release. Read more…

• Telekon - Reduxed....... I will always love Numan..... But why? OH Why???? Did Gazza only use that fab LED recreation of the original TeleTour set for only 5 of the songs???!!!! I mean I could understand it for the lesser numbers, but We Are Glass and I Die: You Die??? That was......
• Ex-punk’s role at Broadmoor - News - getbracknell - Bracknell Forest Standard   "preciousness and wonder in the mundane." - Kinda leaps out at ya, don't you think?     Ex-punk’s role at Broadmoor 15/12/2008 The former drummer with 70s punk and New Wave band Tubeway Army has a new role – as a chaplain at Broadmoor Hospital. More than 30......
• Windows 7 not shipping before 2010 OFFICAL Well pop pickers, now it seems that we can all relax and enjoy OS X Snow Leopard safe in the knowledge that Winblows 7 isn't even likely to ship before 2010. I guessRedmondhas plenty of time to fire up its photocopiers. You can bet your cat's favorite toy that if......

• Golf Tournament Recap: US Tour Championship Phil Mickelson takes US Tour Championship Win, Tiger Woods Walks Away With $10 Million Dollars. Phil Mickelson managed to ge the best of Tiger Woods during the US Tour Championship, but he still saw the World no. 1 player take the larger pay check, to the tune of a $10......
• 'So Close!' Edition of Green Fairways Carnival Welcome to the 'so close!' edition of green fairways carnival. Much thanks to those bloggers who submitted for this second edition. If you have a golf blog and want to submit posts to the next carnival edition we would love to have you. Green Fairways Carnival is also looking......
• Follow These Steps To Improve Traffic Any website owner who starts down the path of internet marketing will soon discover how many "guru's" are out there all claiming some secret trick to boost your search engine rankings. The reality is there are a few things to really pay attention to, but most of it really comes......

Now we all love Twitter.  How else would I know when half of you are eating dinner or walking the dog?

Time (the magazine) has obviously stopped taking its meds.  They are trying to decide between Twitter and “the economy” as “person” of the year!  Ok, now they’ve done many oddball things in the past to give  this meaningless but attention getting stunt more impact. I don’t mind them redefining the language to allow a social networking service as a “person” but it would be nice if they’d pick one that at least didn’t fail like a whale (or in Time’s case, maybe it should be jump like a shark?)

Twitter: Time’s ‘Person’ of the Year? | Epicenter | Wired.com.

• Nukes: 93-Year-Old Japanese Man Certified as Double A-Bomb Victim WOW.  I actually thought this was a joke when I first read it but it seems to be true.  Just goes to show that old wisdom about carrying a bomb onto a plane might not be such a good idea after all.  I hope this guy gets some kind......
• Kevin Rose leaks Tesla Model S pics via Twitter | The Car Tech blog - CNET Reviews The Prius is dead, long live Tesla! If, like me you've decided that gas powered cars are no longer for you then you're in for a treat.  Kevin Rose has broken all good faith with whoever let him take a look at the New Tesla Model S and has posted pics......
• The day Twitter turned into a killer #iranelection #twitter With Iran exploding under their noses the major news networks (in the US at least) were powerless to do little but sit back and watch it happen.  With the activities of their correspondents cut short by the Iranian government all the likes of CNN could do was turn to social......

• 5 Twitter Tools for Better Blogging Are you already familiar with the micro blogging platform known as Twitter, and what it can do for the online marketing world, especially when it comes to blogging? Twitter is taking off so swiftly that it offers its own language, with tweeps/tweeples being followers of tweeting, or making posts in......
• Social Media Marketing in This Upcoming Year - 2010 Social Media Marketing in This Upcoming Year - 2010 By Hillel Porath Lets get started! Facebook: Facebook will only be getting better. Facebook has created the ideal situation of an online community. I believe we will see better and improved ways for interaction between Facebook users in this upcoming year-......
• Give Yourself A Mid-Year Paycheck Increase. Now that we are about 1/2 way through 2009, it's time to adjust the withholding numbers on your paycheck, says Kiplinger.com Most of us pay the majority of our taxes due in the 1/2 half of the year, which means that if you leave your withholding at the same level......

Time, Twitter

Our good fried Ina Fried over at c|net posted a nice story about Microsoft’s latest innovation.   A tool created to help install Windows 7 on netbooks apparently mysteriously ended up being based on the ImageMaster open source project.  Yup, now their passing open source code off as their own (guess Apple didn’t have anything they could rip off for this one).

I’m sure that MSFT would have done the right thing even if the blinding light of the tech press hadn’t been pointed at them but they are deflecting blame onto some anonymous “third party” who is supposed to been contracted to develop the tool in question. No names, natch.

Having been caught realized their terrible mistake, Microsoft have claimed that they are going to do the right thing and released the source code for the USB/DVD tool back into the open source community (hope someone is going to track that!). Strangely enough, the original ImageMaster project is now no longer to be found on CodePlex – Hmmmmm. Innovated out of existence.

Microsoft: Windows 7 tool used GPL code | Beyond Binary – CNET News.

• Windows 7 the most anticipated bug fix of the year - Computerworld Blogs According to some who read the tea-leaves in the whacky world of Windows, version 7's release candidate is just days away from public availability.  Whilst I think it's nice that my Windows friends have new toys to look forward to I think it's odd that there's quite so much excitement......
• Another bad day for #Microsoft - Apps in tights! First they have the Danger/Sidekick user data loss and now I'm sure their branding police are going to be hiding under their desks with the release of a ridiculous TV ad that confuses the crap out of their new "brainchild" - Windows Phone. Windows Phone is meant to be the......
• Microsoft's worst third quarter ever - Computerworld Blogs So MSFT's lack of ability to keep their eye on the ball is finally catching up with them.  Now I know times are hard, etc, but for MSFT to actually see a decline in revenue, not just a missed goal is pretty darn significant. Maybe this will be a......

• Gifts for the DIYer It can be hard to choose a gift for the person in your life who is known as a DIYer; a do it yourself individual who makes repairs themselves, tackling home projects all around the home and garage. There are many tools and supplies that the DIYer would find useful,......
• Open Source: The Importance in the New Millenium What is Open Source? Generally, open source signifies any program for which the source code is available for modification or change by the developers according to necessity. It is chiefly available for public use and therefore people are free to use it. As a Certification Mark: Open Source is regarded......
• Microsoft CEO Unveils Windows Phone 7 Series Software [/caption] Microsoft unveiled the next version of its operating system for mobile phones, Windows Phone 7 Series, featuring a move away from applications and towards functions. "It's all about the phone and how consumers react to the device," said Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, opening a news conference held outside the......

Microsoft, Open Source, Windows 7

If, like me you’ve been chuckling more than a little about the fact that a Sr Microsoftie Simon Aldous came clean was horribly mistaken earlier this week when he admitted inaccurately told the press that Windows 7 owes its look and feel to Apple’s OS X. You’ll be relieved that Microsoft has now settled the matter officially stating that Me Aldous’ comments were “Totally inaccurate”.

Methinks that our friends in Redmond doth protest too much.  After all, the fact that Windows 7 has an alpha blended UI at last is total coincidence and that the new task bar highly resembles Apple’s Dock is just a perception issue. Anyone thinking that Windows 7’s new thumbnail view for running application looks anything like Apple’s Stacks must have mud in their eye.  Not forgetting that Windows 7 now supports multi-touch (oh what innovation!) is in no way influenced by the fact that Apple brought that technology to market over 3 years ago. Lastly be mindful that the brand new Microsoft retail stores look almost exactly like in no way resemble the Apple stores we’ve all been packing into for years.

Most importantly know that Microsoft thrives off innovation……  just not their own innovation!

Microsoft denies employee’s comments about copying Apple | Mac OS X | MacUser | Macworld.

• Stupid #Murdoch just might go for #Microsoft money - #Google This story is just the other side of ridiculous but given the players not really that surprising. Microsoft (the un-"do no evil" company) maybe offering large content providers cold hard cash to demand that Google stop listing their content in search results.  I guess if you can't beat 'em,......
• Microsoft can't even get it right for big bucks! If you, like me, think that Microsoft is so off course that it's going to take a reboot of it's mid 90's IE proportions to turn it around then you're going to get a giggle out of this. Not only do they have the gall to charge $17K for their......
• Microsoft - Sticking it to the little guy again. #Security #Apple #Mac Well Redmond's panic over Apple's increase in market share, both in the USA and overseas seems to be spilling over and clouding its judgement on issues that it needs to be seen as being very cooperative on.   Microsoft's latest elephant in the room is security.  It used to be......

• Weekly Thoughts: Santa Baby It's nearly Christmas, and with that comes all the interesting and sometimes conflicted thoughts of the season.  I've been thinking quite a bit about Santa this season, and more specifically, what I'll tell my children (when I hopefully have them in the not too distant future) regarding Santa's existence.  On......
• Microsoft set to launch Microsoft class="stripstr"> Microsoft Windows Mobile 7 [/caption] The Mobile World Congress is expected to be the launching pad for Microsoft's refreshed mobile platform. Anticipated for months, Microsoft's Windows Mobile 7 is expected to be unveiled by CEO Steve Ballmer at the Mobile World Congress February 15 - 18 in Barcelona. Ballmer has scheduled a Monday press......
• Google Nexus Offers Little Competition to Apple iPhone [/caption] Whether the marketplace is ready or not, the Big Guns in consumer electronics are about to make their move at the dawn of the New Year. Next Tuesday, Google is expected to announce its long-rumored Nexus One smartphone. It is undoubtedly designed to run the Google Android operating system......

Apple, Mac, OS X, Technology, Windows

Thanks to TUAW for running this piece.  It kinda made my week.

I almost feel sorry for Steve Ballmer.  Not only does he get his great pitch spot for Windows 7 ruined by Matt Lauer constantly asking him questions about Apple and the iPhone but the wags in NBC’s graphics dept stuck MSFT’s Windows 7 logo on the screen of a MacBook Pro…!   Way to go guys!

No wonder Ballmer looks like he’s just been stabbed in the heart, after all NBC is a partner with MSFT in MSNBC….  ROFL….

It don’t get much better than this.

Steve Ballmers Windows 7 pitch features MacBook Pro in the background.

• #Windows7 is nothing like #Mac #OSX - "Trust us", #Microsoft If, like me you've been chuckling more than a little about the fact that a Sr Microsoftie Simon Aldous came clean was horribly mistaken earlier this week when he admitted inaccurately told the press that Windows 7 owes its look and feel to Apple's OS X. You'll be relieved that......
• Windows 7 not shipping before 2010 OFFICAL Well pop pickers, now it seems that we can all relax and enjoy OS X Snow Leopard safe in the knowledge that Winblows 7 isn't even likely to ship before 2010. I guessRedmondhas plenty of time to fire up its photocopiers. You can bet your cat's favorite toy that if......
• Neo Scene for Mac allows editing of AVCHD video | Macworld Ahhhh.  I love the smell of marketing BS first thing in the morning.  The title of this piece is misleading as to almost be a flat-out lie.  It impliesthat this software lets you edit AVCHD directly.  Of course it doesn't as editing compressed video without first decompressing it in some......

• Google Nexus Offers Little Competition to Apple iPhone [/caption] Whether the marketplace is ready or not, the Big Guns in consumer electronics are about to make their move at the dawn of the New Year. Next Tuesday, Google is expected to announce its long-rumored Nexus One smartphone. It is undoubtedly designed to run the Google Android operating system......
• $2,164.89 for a large piece of brick Ryan purchased a Macbook Pro for about $2,164.89. But when he got home, he found that inside is nothing but just a brick (wow! an iBrick) packed nicely with bubble wrap instead of Macbook Pro. Poor Ryan, I hope he would make a good use of it. In what's possibly......
• Find the Best Computer Repair Company in Your Neighborhood Computer repair companies are hard to find. They come in many different shapes and sizes - some are local computer repair shops and some are remote computer support stores.If your laptop is broken or desktop needs fixing, you have a few options:-Fix the PC yourself - hopefully it's not......

There’s a flurry of news from Gary Numan today.  The media finally seem to have buried the hatchet with him and are gushing over the upcoming Pleasure Principle 30th anniversary tour. Read more…

• Ex-punk’s role at Broadmoor - News - getbracknell - Bracknell Forest Standard   "preciousness and wonder in the mundane." - Kinda leaps out at ya, don't you think?     Ex-punk’s role at Broadmoor 15/12/2008 The former drummer with 70s punk and New Wave band Tubeway Army has a new role – as a chaplain at Broadmoor Hospital. More than 30......
• World's Fastest Teasmade This just begs the question "Why?".  I mean it's fun to go fast and break records and stuff, but steam powered?  Charles Barnett III hopes to break the previous land speed record for a beverage maker which was set back in 1906 by the US's Fred Marriott who scooted......
• Depeche Mode - Sounds of the Universe - The iPhone App If, like me, you're a fan of 80's music you'll know, unless you've been living under a rock, that Depeche Mode have just released their long awaited follow up to "Playing the Angel" called "Sounds of the Universe". I've got to admit that the album is still growing on me......

• Divorced Woman’s Husband is Broke – Now What? The following post is from Neal of WealthPilgrim.com. After reading the article, be sure to sign up for free at Wealth Pilgrim to receive more from Neal. It seems like divorced couples still have problems even after the divorce. That’s something I’m going to have to deal with next week.......
• MagicJack Phone Service Will Eventually Win You Over How does 20 dollars a year for phone service sound? Not bad right? But is it really possible? Does it really work? Is it too hard to setup? Yes. Yes. And no. There you go, now you know. Those seem to be the main questions about MagicJack and now......
• Top 10 Defining Moments of the 2000s [/caption] Having reached the end of the first decade of the new millennium, it’s time to look back at all the things that helped shape the cultural heritage of our ever globalizing society. It seems amazing that it was nearly ten years ago when the entire world rang inthe new......

OK, I like BMW. I’ve owned 3.  This however makes me want to run the other way.  I can’t believe that Engadget thinks this thing looks sexy!  It’s one f’ugly MoFo. Read more…

• #NBC laughs down its sleeve as #Ballmer pitches #Windows7 ON A #MAC Thanks to TUAW for running this piece.  It kinda made my week. I almost feel sorry for Steve Ballmer.  Not only does he get his great pitch spot for Windows 7 ruined by Matt Lauer constantly asking him questions about Apple and the iPhone but the wags in NBC's......
• HypnoCube - Pretty Electronic Basket Weaving Meet HypnoCube! I first saw a version of this device online about a year ago. It was put together by some folks in Japan I believe and if my failing memory serves me I think it was an 8x8x8 matrix. Anywho, a couple of bright sparks in the US......
• Is Your Cat Worth It? - Crystalline Silica Normally I blog about tech, gadgets, gizmos, music or politics..... This post is different, I'm an avid cat lover, currently lucky enough to have 4 of them living with me. This post is about them. Before I tell you this story I must point out to you that these are......

• Social Marketing Social Order Social Marketing Social Order By Matt T Foster The network marketing home business opportunity is one of the most promising concepts in the world of business today, especially in the midst of the business standing. Still relatively new, social marketing has suffered from being related to pyramid/Ponzi schemes that are......
• Dealing with Exercise Injuries Exercise can definitely make us feel pained or out of sorts at times, but there are good pains and there are bad pains. Good pains tend to occur post workout, and they feel like dull aches in our muscles. The bad kind of hurt, the kind that signifies the presence......
• Animal Communication Can Help You Identify Your Animal's Role. by Soo Winter Animals like us need a purpose in life. They love to help us, and through learning animal communication and conversing with your animal you can find out what their purpose is. In a multi-animal house there are sometimes problems for all sorts of reasons; a clash in......

First they have the Danger/Sidekick user data loss and now I’m sure their branding police are going to be hiding under their desks with the release of a ridiculous TV ad that confuses the crap out of their new “brainchild” – Windows Phone. Read more…

• YouTube - Stock Market Manipulation - Jim Cramer If anybody wonders how in the hell we got into the financial mess we're in now, all you have to do is listen to this guy.  Jim Cramer is the sleaze-bag who got dragged over hot coals on The Daily Show just the other night. It's sobering to hear this clown......
• #Windows7 is nothing like #Mac #OSX - "Trust us", #Microsoft If, like me you've been chuckling more than a little about the fact that a Sr Microsoftie Simon Aldous came clean was horribly mistaken earlier this week when he admitted inaccurately told the press that Windows 7 owes its look and feel to Apple's OS X. You'll be relieved that......
• Trixbox & Message Waiting (MWI) [/caption] Having spent many hours over the last weekend trying to figure out why I could not get the message waiting indicator lights on my Linksys SPA941 phones to work with my Trixbox PBX, my frustration levels were just about to get the better of me. I've read literally over......

• Washing Windows 101 Washing windows is one of those household chores that no really looks forward to. But cleaned windows can really give the appearance of your home, both inside and out, a boost. If you've been spraying window cleaner and rubbing away with paper towels, or hosing off those upper floor windows,......
• Windows Phone 7 Series Demo See what happens when you push the envelope. Check out this video to get a first-hand look at the latest Windows Phone that brings your people, photos, music, and video into an unrivaled mobile experience. With a holistic design that brings together web content, applications and services into a......
• Windows Phone 7 Here is an introductory video tour of Windows Phone 7 Series.......

Tiz a great shame when a really great idea and excellent execution isn’t enough to make a business successful.  Like so many other promising start-ups on the internet the URL shortening service Cli.gs will be making its last snip at the end of October.

This is particularly sad for us at NoOneDriving as we’ve been big supporters of Cli.gs over the last 9 months, using it exclusively as are shortening service. We are now transitioning that role over to bit.ly and as such will update previous posts over time to ensure that they are still available via a short URL.

It’s our hope that Pierre will be able to find a backer or buyer to keep the service going.  We wish him all the best.!

The Blog of Cligs – » Cligs Shutting Down.

• #Numan Readies for "Pleasure" Tour There's a flurry of news from Gary Numan today.  The media finally seem to have buried the hatchet with him and are gushing over the upcoming Pleasure Principle 30th anniversary tour. After years of being ridiculed by the UK music press, Gary is now enjoying their adoration.  Shame it......
• Kindle II now just "Mini Me" to Amazon's new Kindle DX The newspaper business has been in trouble for a while. Unable to keep up with the changes in internet technology and the switch in reader's behavior about how they want to get their news. Their subscriber base has eroded dramatically. Amazon might be a white knight for the press boys.......
• Brits want Google Street view shut down | Web Services | Macworld This is typical British back-asswards thinking at its best!  Don't kick up a fuss about random searches: don't kick up a fuss about being on CCTV from the second you leave your front door: don't kick up a fuss about traffic cameras every 100 yards: don't kick up a fuss......

• SEO Tips for Bloggers on WordPress There are several million WordPress blogs that you can find on the internet, but unfortunately the majority of them are not properly optimized for search engines. This article is going to touch on some SEO tips for bloggers using WordPress to host their blog, because with the right tips it......
• Tiny URL Part 2 In Part 1 we talked about the main tinyurl.com and about Craig Haywood and his URL shortening and tracking services. Those are both good to use when you are an affiliate marketer and want to get people to your site before they go shopping on another site where you are......
• SEO Tips for Bloggers on WordPress There are several million WordPress blogs that you can find on the internet, but unfortunately the majority of them are not properly optimized for search engines. This article is going to touch on some SEO tips for bloggers using WordPress to host their blog, because with the right tips it......

Internet, Technology

Cloud computing is the current darling of the IT business.  Companies all over are looking for new and exciting services to bring to market with no or low client footprint. Read more…

• 'Upload Video' Screen Suggests Video Capabilities in Next iPhone - Mac Rumors [/caption] We're coming up on the anniversary of the iPhone 3G announcement at last years WWDC.  It is understandable therefore that rumors are already starting to circulate about the next revision of the iPhone hardware. Macrumors via Engadget have a nice screen shot of a video upload feature that isn't live in......
• Is Your Cat Worth It? - Crystalline Silica Normally I blog about tech, gadgets, gizmos, music or politics..... This post is different, I'm an avid cat lover, currently lucky enough to have 4 of them living with me. This post is about them. Before I tell you this story I must point out to you that these are......
• Report: iPod touch generates more traffic than most phones | iPod | Macworld Here's some interesting data on mobile device adoption.  The iPhone and iPod Touch combined generate 6 times the amount of web traffic than Motorola's Razr, even though there are more than 6 times the number of Razr's in circulation. Goes to show, Steve is right.  The software IS the user......

• Top 5 Smartphone development of 2009 As smartphones further paved their place in the enterprises, Apple, RIM Blackberry, Sony Ericsson, Nokia, Motorola and Google Android are eying for the spotlight. In the last quarter, Gartner said that Smartphone sales had surpassed 41 million units, a 12.8 percent increase compared to the same period last year.Today, Smartphones......
• Installing a New Medicine Cabinet If your medicine cabinet has seen better days, or you would like to add one where there is only a mirror, there are a few options available to you. It is easy to find prebuilt medicine cabinets at any home improvement store, so this article will focus on installing these.......
• Review of the Garmin Forerunner 310 XT Having a GPS enabled training device is a good thing. Having a training device offering GPS that isn't afraid to get a little wet is even better. The rugged Garmin Forerunner 310 XT is an indispensable training tool for any triathlete because it is a swim proof, GPS enabled trainer......

Apple, iPhone, Microsoft, Mobile, Sidekick, T-Mobile, Technology

If, like me, your professional life revolves around IT then you’re probably more familiar with Las Vegas than the rest of the planet.  Conventionville has me hostage again this week and, as now seems to be the norm, I’m entombed in The (chapter 11 friendly) Venetian resort, hotel & money funnel.   Read more…

• BBC buys, uses botnet to show dangers to PCs | Security - CNET News More on the BBC's new hacking career. I'm finding it interesting to read people's responses to the articles reporting on the BBC's recent illegal actions to create a piece for one of their TV shows. Opinions seem to be clearly divided into two camps: Those (who like me) think that......
• Who do you trust with your data? #mozy #backup #tech #mac As home computer use grows from playing DOOM to the occasional email and the casual 5 min session of web surfing into something more intrinsic to what we all do all day it becomes critical that the state and the data stored on that computer be protected.  As most of......
• Microsoft - Sticking it to the little guy again. #Security #Apple #Mac Well Redmond's panic over Apple's increase in market share, both in the USA and overseas seems to be spilling over and clouding its judgement on issues that it needs to be seen as being very cooperative on.   Microsoft's latest elephant in the room is security.  It used to be......

• Weekend Personal Finance Review - Movie and Drinks Edition Last night could have been one of the most fun and interesting nights of my life, but for some reason I just wasn't in the right frame of mind. It started off with a trip to see American Fusion, a new independent film showing only in select cities. My wife......
• Movie Review: Twilight directed by Catherine Hardwicke by Captain Lyaf Yarr Title: Twilight Director: Catherine Hardwicke Run Time: 122 minutes Rated: PG 13 Summary: Bella Swan moves to the little town of Forks and meets a handsome boy named Edward Cullen. But what she doesn’t know is his secret, that he and his family are vampires.......
• Free Summer Movies and Equity Indexed Annuities Free movies and equity indexed annuities? That's admittedly a strange combination. So be it. The frugal side of Mr. ToughMoneyLove is briefly emerging again today. I like free stuff just as much as the rest of you, as long as I don't have to embarrass or inconvenience myself trying to......

Theater, Trade shows, Vegas

Lately I’ve noticed a depressing plumet in half-way objective blogging about Apple on certain “mainstream” web sites.  All too often are they rushing to beat the drum on how Snow Leopard is just like Windows 7 – a bug fix…  Dream on people.

Read more…

• Apple now scrubbing for iPhone 3.0 support Apple's shiny newversion of itsiPhone OS is getting close to release. Beta builds are coming more frequently and WWDC is just a few weeks away. Coincidence? I think not. Developers are now being asked make sure their new App Store submissions are iPhone 3.0 ready. Hopefully we'll see a good......
• Apple storms the UK! OK, call me a fanboi if you like but data is data and it's hard to argue with numbers like these. PC sales in the UK slid by 5.1% in the first quarter of 2009 while Apple's sales grew by 6.6% during that same time. This trend really puts into......
• Beam me up Jobso! Are Apple FINALLY going to make my Star Trek fantasies come true? Any of you who've watched the TV show will know exactly what I mean. For years I've wanted a PADD like device. Something small enough to carry around easily, with enough functionality to do most of the things......

• Misspelled Search Engine Keywords In the past, people that were trying to rank their website in search engines would make use of misspelled search engine keywords because they wanted searchers to find them even if they were incorrectly entering certain keywords. Today, most search engines now automatically offer suggestions that are designed to correct......
• iDon't - Google Android Ad Takes Aim At Apple In case you haven't seen it, Google has created a pretty clever ad aimed at Apple's iPhone: The ad highlights all of the chief complaints people have with Apple's iPhone.  In my mind, this is the first pretty decent advertising response to Apple in recent years.  Microsoft, with their "I'm......
• Apple Looking to Bring iPhone OS to More Devices Apple Looking to Bring iPhone OS to More Devices // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ var shared_object = SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Apple Looking to Bring iPhone OS to More Devices", url: "http://mashable.com/2010/02/22/iphone-os-devices/" }, {button:false,onmouseover:false}); shared_object.attachButton(document.getElementById('st_sharethis')); shared_object.attachChicklet('email', document.getElementById('st_email')); // ]]> A recent Apple Inc. job posting has revealed that the company intends......

Apple, Bigots, Exchange, iPhone, IT, Microsoft, Technology

As home computer use grows from playing DOOM to the occasional email and the casual 5 min session of web surfing into something more intrinsic to what we all do all day it becomes critical that the state and the data stored on that computer be protected.  As most of us know, having a hard disk fail or a motherboard die can not only be a buzz kill, it can wipe out your financial data, irreplaceable family photos and that Dylan collection you’ve spent half your life amassing. Read more…

• #Sidekick ed into touch. #iPhone still on cloud 9 Cloud computing is the current darling of the IT business.  Companies all over are looking for new and exciting services to bring to market with no or low client footprint. Our dear friends at Microsoft along with their partners in crime at T-Mobile have managed to trash all the personal......
• Twitter users are a fickle bunch! According to Neilsen Online, a company who measures internet traffic and sells the data to advertisers, Twitter users are a fickle bunch. They assert that 60% of people who sign up for Twitter don't return to the site after a month. Maybe someone needs to educate Nielsen about the nature......
• Ubuntu 9.04 kicks Windows 7's ass! #tech #ubuntu #windows7 A few days ago I posted about my disasterous experiences installing Windows 7 RC on my TabletPC.  Then I promised I'd try the same expereiment with the latst Ubuntu distro and report back.  Here's that report. The title of this post has probably let the cat out of the bag. ......

• Free Internet Security Suite FREE Avira Premium Internet Security Software 6 month license Avira Internet Security Suite 9 is a comprehensive extremely high performance and detection internet security suite complete with a virus scanner and more which offers protection from both known and unknown malware threats. With built in GameMode, Backup and RescueCD you......
• Successful Telephony - A Best Practice Guide Start with what you haveA spot check on your existing telecoms strategy and current infrastructure will focus you on what you have now, and lead you onto what you need to do next. Design a simple scale (for example poor, average, good and excellent) and use it mark the......
• Ever slip into bad spending habits? I'm sure this happens to people a lot better than myself.  You're doing well, putting away a lot of money, making your lunch, keeping the air conditioner temperature a little higher, rolling down the window on your commute, resisting highly-packaged foods.Recently I've been a little bad with regard to my......

Backup, Mac, Mozy, Support, Tecnology

Our Friends over at Giz’ have a nice piece on the latest incarnation of Android smartphone OS (as opposed to the Android fictional netbook OS).

What leaps at out me is that all the “gee whiz” features are things that the iPhone has had since 3.0 if not earlier.  I’m at a loss to understand the excitement over Android.  It’s not ground breaking. It doesn’t have the ease of use of iPhone OS X and it seems that all it’s hopeful of doing is replacing the truly hideous WinMob garbage from our friends in the inspiration and innovation starved North West.

It’s kind of the Linux of smartphone operating systems.  Everybody’s talking about it but nobody is really using it.  Like the Zune, I’ve still yet to see one being used on the street (maybe I just don’t get out enough).

So whether it’s a Donut or a Cupcake, I still ain’t buying it.

Gizmodo.

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Android, Communications, SmartPhone, Tech, Technology

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80's, Music, Numan, Tour

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Internet, iTunes, Michael Jackson, Music, Twitter

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Communications, Iran, Politics, Technology, The Internet, Twitter