I agree with Mr. Jobs: Having a CD icon for iTunes is anachronistic. It’s almost as moronic as the floppy disk icon the persists on Save buttons in programs all over the world. When will our icons enter the 21st Century?
September 3, 2010September 1, 2010Multimonitor Adapter GiveawayCirago is sponsoring a Workspace In Need Of A Makeover contest. Submit a photo of your workspace to win a new multimonitor adapter. Access Facebook (below) to enter.
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The Rolling Shutter
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August 30, 2010What Did He Say?Computer games are so realistic these days. In Day of Defeat and Call Of Duty: World At War, the enemies speak German and Japanese. In Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2, the characters speak Russian, Portuguese, and Arabic. But what are they saying? August 28, 2010Where is the Lincoln Memorial?Today tea party activists and Radio/TV host Glenn Beck are meeting at the Lincoln Memorial for a rally. The left is hard at work trying to change the location of the Lincoln Memorial on Google Maps. Fail. August 27, 2010No blog post today!I’m busy with several projects, so I’m skipping today’s regular blog post. Or am I?
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August 26, 2010USB Drives are the New Virus VectorApparently there are worms (malware) designed specifically to be carried on and spread by USB thumb drives. Up to 25 percent of the drives could be infected. August 25, 2010When Computer Books SuckI am a professional computer book author. I’ve been working in the field for over 30 years. While I strive to make all my books the best that they can be, I recognize that I’m in an industry that routinely publishes a lot of crap. August 24, 2010LOST Apple II-plus SellsThe Lost auction is over. The Apple II-plus computer ended up selling for $16,000, which is pretty steep for 30-year-old technology. The moral of the story is that when you slap a Dharma logo on your old junk, it can rack up lots of money at auction. I think.
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August 23, 2010A Line, By Any Other NameWord users can become massively frustrated by something a simple as a line. Not a line of text, but a line like this:
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