Why you will not win the Microsoft challenge, even if you do I heard about the Microsoft challenge where you would take your cell phone and try to do something faster then someone on a Microsoft Mobile 7 phone. If you can win, you get a laptop. Given that they are doing this in the first place, I figured that this is fixed and as such I… Read More
Why I hate Final Cut Pro X, plan to dump it, but may come back in the future This is not a new story, but most video editors I have talked to really hate Final Cut Pro X (FCPX). I started using it just as it came out and love and hate it at the same time… Mostly hate. My projects are normally not that complicated, and I publish to the web, so… Read More
What is SOPA? Watch this Video PROTECT-IP is a bill that has been introduced in the Senate and the House and is moving quickly through Congress. It gives the government and corporations the ability to censor the net, in the name of protecting “creativity”. The law would let the government or corporations censor entire sites– they just have to convince a… Read More
Funny Meme posters from the Ocean Marketing Fail This is so funny. First off, you need to know what this Ocean Marketing fail is in the first place. tl;dr This (1man?) marketing shop that represents a game controller failed to keep a customer informed about a shipment date miss. After 3 times the customer started to get angry about the lake of information. … Read More
How to move your domain from GoDaddy to anywhere else #SOPA I never really like GoDaddy so I do not have an account there, but if I did, I would move it. Why? Well if you have been keeping your eye on the interwebs, you have to have heard about the uproar over Rep. Lamar Smith’s bill to gives both the U.S. government and copyright holders the… Read More
Siri will not give you directions to an abortion clinic; purpose programming or bad dataset? Found this story from a tweet. Seems that when you ask Siri for an abortion clinic, it will say it can not find any, or send you to a CPC clinic, (Anti-abortion clinic). This has been reproduced many times so its not a glitch based on location or timing thing. The question now is; was… Read More
And yet ANOTHER Scam email, this time, Yahoo I do not know what it is about his week, but lots of scam messages seem to get getting through. Normally, I just report these things as spam and move on, but I thought I would post up about this one, not because its original, (heck this was going around last year) or something that… Read More
Email and phone scams are getting more sophisticated Yesterday I got an odd phone call that sounded like a credit card company that was trying to confirm something with me. I just activated a credit card that day, so I did not think much of it … but a few things did not add up; I was smelling a scam. First the recorded… Read More
Barnes & Noble cancels many orders for the $99 TouchPad This adventure never ends and the odds of me getting a touchpad for $99 is slipping to nill. I posted a bit ago that I was able to order a machine though Barnes & Noble. Well I just got an email cancelling the order: Due to unexpected customer demand for this item, our inventory was… Read More
HP TouchPad for $99! I am buying it! So we all heard about HP giving up the ghost on their webOS hardware unit. I was expected that there would be a sale to get rid of these units. But $99?? Wow, I’m sure that is pretty far below cost! Right now its live in Canada, but first chance in show up in the… Read More
Topify is now gone. Is there a reason to use to the Twitter API anymore? Another one bits the dust. Topify, a service that makes working with twitter and email much better decided to not to deal with the latest changes to the Twitter API. And I can understand some what because one of the services of TwittFilter ( developed by Yours Truly) has a similar service where it will… Read More
Video of the Nokia N9 I’m not sure this is the meego, but 90% sure it is. and again .. why? I guess they were so close with the phone, they released it anyway just to show Nokia was still making phones and committed to the smart phone market. Anyway, here is the promo video and a walk through video… Read More
There is no law in Mississippi to protect cyclists I’m astonded at this, and as a biker, I feel I have to try and pass the word and hopefully SOMEONE can pass this on to get more attention. I read this on reddit where you can get more information. Last month, Jan Morgan was hit while riding her bicycle training for an Ironman. It… Read More
Should you update to FireFox5? You may not have a choice. Firefox will no longer provide security updates for non current versions of their browser. … Read More
Color losing even more color after pulling its Android App Remember Color? I do. I remember it getting $41m in VC cash for what I though was a pretty weak idea. Then I tried it. And I was really puzzled. This seem more like a simple 20k app that really does not need more then 500k to launch.. and all in all, it was just… Read More
Never Tweet in anger, or you may just Nuke your campaign and career Love this. The new Duke Nukem FPS game came out a while back and the reviews are now coming in. And they are not good. In fact, most people who reviews the game have basically trashed it. Fair enough.. That happens, especially with a title that has so much history. If you remember, 3D Realms… Read More
How to keep iTunes from opening when you connect you iphone ipad I really hate that itunes launches every-time I connect my iphone or ipad. At first I thought it would be an easy fix, simply uncheck iTunes Summary “Automatically sync [this device] when connected”. Right? #FAIL Yes the iphone will not autosync, but iTunes will still launch! What is the fix? Turn on the setting ‘Allowing… Read More
Dont put an ‘upgrade’ button in your iOS app or you will get sued Yes, this is so messed up that it has to go into the WTF? file and be added to the Rant list. What a clue that the current patent system is woefully behind the times and relies on an approval system designed by 5th graders? Have a look at this story from PCMag.com. Seems that… Read More
Android Tethering blocked by Google and how to get around it I saw in the news a few days back that Google was going to do this, and based on a post in Venturebeat I guess they pulled the trigger. Google is now blocking Android tethering apps from the Store. Well not blocking per se. From VB – “You can still see it in the Android… Read More
iPhone 4 voice control sucks! #FAIL But here are some tips anyway Such FAIL that its almost epic. I have only recently started to play with iphone voice control after a VERY pleasant experience with Google Androids voice control, which work very well. With my Droid I could get directions, play music and even call people. And although calling people was not 100%, it was pretty good.… Read More