I admire the Slate’s speed, but it still seems to sport a clunky Windows interface. For some reason, that doesn’t seem to go with the touchscreen paradigm. Whatever.
August 10, 2010August 8, 2010Microsoft Losing Ground to Apple on CampusLots of interesting stats (and graphs!) from the University of Virginia regarding students and their computer use. All students, 100 percent, now have computers at school. Nearly all those computers are laptops. Nearly half of them are Apple laptops. AOL Still Nearing DeathI’ve you’ve been visiting Wambooli for a long period of time, then you may remember my “Just Say NO to AOL” graphic I once had out front. I am not an AOL fan. Never was. Now, happily and according to their latest financial report, AOL looks like it’s going to die. Soon.
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August 3, 2010Where have all the recovery discs gone?Once upon a time, you received a Windows installation disc with your new PC. Then it became a “recovery” disc. Now you get nothing, though there may be a recovery partition on the hard drive. What good is that when the hard drive goes kablooey? Android phone OS poised to be #1The Android phone operating system is rapidly gaining ground, thrashing just about every other phone OS on the market. I agree: Android presents a logical way to operate a cell phone. As these gizmos rapidly replace low-end computers for most people, things are looking good for Google and Android.
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August 2, 2010A survey of operating system gamesFrom Technologizer, a review of those trivial, free games you find included with your operating system. Believe it or not, they are the most played of all computer games, yet they receive hardly any attention. August 1, 2010Spies in your computerI wrote a blog post about this topic a few weeks back. Apparently I wasn’t too far from the mark regarding “foreign spybots” in our technology.
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July 29, 2010iPornWho didn’t see this coming? From the article:
It’s called Facetime on the iPhone. There are more than just faces to see, apparently.
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July 27, 2010The war against useless anti-virus softwareBad things all around: The software is phoney. It generates false alerts. They charge people for it. And most folks are either too embarrassed or too ignorant to stop the charges. July 26, 2010Sexist retro Apple II advertisementIgnore the cheesiness of this antique computer ad and ask yourself this question: Why is the woman in the kitchen?
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