If you have a Windows Mobile phone and an unlimited data plan, you have to get Dashwire like, yesterday. If you’re using anything else and/or don’t have an unlimited data plan, then I’m sorry.
Dashwire, recently out of private beta, lives as an app on your WinMo 5 or 6 phone (Symbian and BlackBerry support on [...]
Filed under: reviews, technology on July 11th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Adapted from school a project write-up from last semester — When you add several ingredients together, the result will either become nothing more than a hodgepodge of dissimilar ingredients, or something new and equal to much more than the sum of its parts. The latter case is a transformation. It’s the difference between the tacked-on [...]
Filed under: business, school, technology on June 17th, 2008 | No Comments »
You might (or not) remember Chevrolet’s concept car from a few years back, the Nomad. It never made it to production, but a similar car might thanks to Murat Günak, former design boss of the Volkswagen Group.
Günak co-founded a new auto company, Mindset and made the Six50, whose purpose is to buck the trend toward [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized, business, design, technology on June 10th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
So, at this year’s WWDC, the Apple folks announced that .Mac is being replaced with a new service called Mobile Me. They’re still charging $99 a year for 20 GB storage, push e-mail, and and over-the-air syncing between iPhone and Mac or (gasp) Windows PCs…you know, mostly the stuff that Windows Mobile and BlackBerry [...]
Filed under: advertising, business, technology on June 9th, 2008 | No Comments »
What began more than a decade ago with Florida’s landmark $11.3 billion tobacco settlement and subsequent (and successful) TRUTH anti-smoking campaign has become the Tobacco-Free Florida initiative.
Like the nation-wide spin-off of Florida’s TRUTH campaign, TheTruth, this new initiative is all about targeting teens, and therefore all about keeping up to date with social networking. [...]
Filed under: advertising, politics, technology on June 8th, 2008 | No Comments »
Here’s the proof in the form of a headline from The New York Times today: “Broadcom Co-Founder Faces Conspiracy and Drug Charges”. Apparently, the guy had a nasty habit of slipping ecstasy into executives’ drinks when he was meeting up with them.
Enjoy the read.
On a semi-related note: Now, the next time I’m trying to get [...]
Filed under: business, technology on June 5th, 2008 | No Comments »
My first inclination upon seeing a process whose description is ##Id_String2.6844F930_1628_4223_B5CC_5BB94B879762## in my list of currently running processes is to think it’s some kind of virus, spyware, or some other malevolent piece of garbage. My first inclination would be wrong.
A quick Google search found that it’s part of Apple’s Bonjour service, which gets arbitrarily installed [...]
Filed under: rants, technology on June 5th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday, I came across a site that does what one might think impossible: it simplifies Google’s interface even further. Someone—well, Stefan Grothkopp, according to the site—created a web-based command line interface (CLI) for Google. If you used computers before the GUI, or use a shell interface to FTP, this has got to bring a smile [...]
Filed under: technology on June 3rd, 2008 | No Comments »
The other day, I posted an unofficial video for Radiohead’s Weird Fishes/Arpeggi, and that got me thinking of one of my favorite videos, the de facto official music video for Radiohead’s Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors + Like Spinning Plates songs.
Filed under: music, technology on June 2nd, 2008 | No Comments »
I was just reading about the latest demo of Google’s Android mobile operating system. The Android Community site got an exclusive live preview of the latest version, and posted plenty of pictures and video, most importantly, this:
In a nut-shell, this system is already looking like it can do whatever the snazzy iPhone can dish out, [...]
Filed under: business, rants, technology on May 30th, 2008 | No Comments »