Microsoft launches Soapbox; invitation-only Beta
Microsoft has just launched it’s answer to YouTube, called MSN Soapbox. However, it’s still in a limited by-invite-only beta, so all you’ll see is a dancing butterfly:
The Paris Hilton School of Blogging
So there I was, wide awake in my bed, wondering if the Crestor was keeping me from catching some much needed Zzzzs, when I decided to scramble over to my HP Media Center PC and check what was new on Digg. Over on my number two display, a trusty old 17″ BenQ FP731, my RSS…
Can Google News (or ESPN) predict the future?
A funny thing happened today… I was searching Google News for tennis, wanting to read up on Andre Agassi’s amazing five-setter last night against Marco Baghdatis at the US Open. Amazingly enough, second among the search results was the following text: “ESPN: On late Thursday night Andre Agassi bowed out of the US Open… ……
Solving the MacBook’s lack of a Right-Click Button
When will Apple embrace the right-click button? Even though Apple’s operating system supports right-click, their laptops notoriously lack a right-click button. I’m not a Mac developer (don’t even own a Mac yet) but I have an idea that could solve the problem: The Mac’s Touchpad already detects a number of events like scrolling, two-finger scrolling,…
Apple Stores should embrace XP
It’s a simple idea: every Apple Store should have one computer running Windows XP via Parallels Desktop software. Why? I believe it would help convince wannabe-switchers to take that final step and purchase a Mac. When the first MacIntels came out, I began seriously thinking about switching from my all XP set-up. Running the Vista…
Usability 101: Wasting the customer’s time
I’ll begin this series on usability mistakes with a perfect example of “how to waste your customer’s time and turn them away.” DADAmobile is a web service for downloading games, ringtones and other content to your mobile phone. I was trying to download a game for my Treo 650 mobile phone when I encountered the…
allSnap – Autoalign windows
allSnap is a small system tray app that makes all top level windows automatically align like they do in programs such as Winamp or Photoshop. When moving a window, it will automatically snap to screen edges or other windows’ borders.
Geotagging photos with Garmin’s GPSMAP296
If you’re using a Garmin GPSMAP296 to track your outings in order to geotag your photos later on, you should be aware of the following “feature”: Once you Save the Active Track to a Saved Track, ALL TIMING INFORMATION WILL BE LOST. This is by design (and has been confirmed by Garmin Tech Support), as…
Google’s Flickr Killer – Part 2
This is a follow up to my post: Google’s Flickr Killer. As I’ve already mentioned, a photo organizing and editing tool that runs on your computer (and not over the web) -such as Picasa- is an integral part of the equation. If I could upload straight from Picasa into Flickr, I would use my Flickr…
Google’s Flickr Killer
… or why Yahoo needs to buy a desktop photo managing app, pronto. I’ve been using Flickr for a while now – I even have a Pro account (I previously used smugmug). I also use Picasa to manage my photos (having tried several versions of Adobe’s Photoshop Album). I like Picasa’s simplicity, instant image fix-ups,…