Articles in the Computing Category

How Google Works
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Posted in Computing, Gadgets, Internet, Science on 12 October 2007
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While I personally believe Conde Nast should give up on trying to produce their new biz magazine, Portfolio (it is a train wreck of a design filled with clueless advertisers who think ‘metrosexuals’ are still a desirable category only to confuse those who actually attempt to read the train wreck of content as currently produced), […]

Pixelmator: The NOT READY FOR PRIMETIME Review
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Posted in Apple Mac, Computing, Design, Marketing on 10 October 2007
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The Pixelmator creators have gotten a lot of press in their attempt to knock a few pegs from the Adobe Photoshop Regime and yes, the app looks fine and has lots of cool looking Apple Quartz effects and transparencies but while they may have spent hundreds of hours writing code and prettifying Pixelmator, they either […]

Record Industry vs Apple vs Amazon vs Consumers
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Posted in Computing, Financial, Media, Mobile, Music on 1 October 2007
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Once upon a time in a land before time, the music industry was living on Cloud 9. Kids and teens saw the record labels as “their” entertainment and spent accordingly. Other than some summer movies geared towards them, only the music industry understood them – every week, there were new singles at $.39 to $.59 […]

Halo 3 Sales Huge On First Day Of Sale
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Posted in Computing, Marketing, Media, Video Games on 27 September 2007
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Die Wii scum!  Eat Plasma PS3ers! Microsofties are twirling their mustaches with their first day of sales for Halo 3 exceeding $170 Million.  In one day.  Industry analysts project hardware sales to spike accordingly over the next month for those that see the game as a ‘must have’ since it only can be played on […]

Amazon launches music download killer to challenge iTunes
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Posted in Apple, Apple Mac, Computing, Internet, Marketing, Media, Music on 26 September 2007
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But will it actually take much of a bite out of the Apple? More than 2 million songs – including those by Amy Winehouse, U2 and 50 Cent – will be made available for download from Amazon’s US site, with tracks costing either .89 cents or .99 cents, and albums between $5.99 and $9.99. The […]

Steve Jobs Can Now Erase That Pesky Woz From His Photo Collection
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Posted in Computing, Design, Media, Science on 25 September 2007
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIFCV2spKtg] This video blew me away. Can you imagine Mac users getting this resident on their Powerbooks? All I can say is, “Gimme!”  Seamless reality distortion is now a reality! “Seam Carving For Content Aware Image Resizing”…It may be so cool from a personal usage standpoint but it is downright disturbing to know that some […]

20 Years Ago What 1 GB Looked Like
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Posted in Computing, Design, Gadgets, Internet on 24 September 2007
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Whoa.  Amazing what just 20 years will do for technological developments.  That big hunking looking thing is a 1 GB disk drive for an old IBM mainframe computer.  The little chiclet is a 1 GB sandisk card.  Wow.

Cool Business Card Designs
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Posted in Advertising, Computing, Design, Marketing on 20 September 2007
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It is not always easy to find a cool business card design. Most are fairly pedestrian but on occasion you may obtain one that makes you say, “Cool!”. Here is a link to a site that has captured many examples of very cool business card designs. Here are a few to whet your appetite: Scratch […]

Media Companies Out of Shape & Style Fighting iTunes & the Illegal Boys
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Posted in Advertising, Computing, Financial, Gadgets, Internet, Marketing, Media, Mobile, Music, Retail, TV on 18 September 2007
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The current fight between the media companies versus the illegal boys versus iTunes is not much of a fight. The media companies stride into the ring, all prettified up – wearing satin trunks, doing exaggerated neck warm-ups and trying the intimidation stare … sure, they are still 6 feet tall but now they’re just 135 […]

Web Browser Shortcuts For Firefox or IE
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Posted in Computing, Internet, Media on 17 September 2007
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The top two browsers in terms of popularity are Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. There’s little argument that combined these browsers own more than 80% of the browsers market. Luckily for users from both camps who may have migrated one way or the other, both IE and Firefox users can use some common shortcuts. Here […]