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Entries from March 30th, 2010

More Idiocy

March 30th, 2010 · 8 Comments · Apple Tablet, Follies of Humanity, Gadgetry, Leopard, Master Jobst Fimil, Movies, Predictions, Punditbots and Fundtards, Safari, Snow Leopard, Tablet, iPad, iTunes

Forbes has reported that Asus is going to introduce a tablet. It won’t be a knock-off of the iPad, though. All of the tablets that will be introduced after the iPad won’t be knock-offs of the iPad. You should believe it because the CEOs of the companies making the subsequent tablets say they’re not knock-offs [...]

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Randomness

March 29th, 2010 · No Comments · General Detritus

Random observations on the parade. There was an article I read this weekend that said Windows 7 is more secure than Snow Leopard. So I entered “Windows 7 viruses” into the search engine. I got 88,300 hits. I got 18 hits for “Snow Leopard viruses.” Most of them were selling something. The “security expert” who [...]

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Bad Monad

March 26th, 2010 · 4 Comments · General Detritus

Hey. I don’t usually review software, and I hate to do new things. So. If you use your computer to produce any sounds, you should go check out Rogue Amoeba. Their software works really well. It does all the stuff you want software that deals with sound to do. Bokay? … There’s this really idiotic [...]

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The Apple-Google Feud

March 22nd, 2010 · 4 Comments · General Detritus

AppleInsider reports that Valleywag reports that Steve Jobs thinks Eric Schmidt is a prick. This is news. This sounds like a conversation in the junior-high boys room that might be interrupted by somebody bumming a cigarette, and a fart joke. … Boys and girls, this is all about the illusion of competition. Steve Jobs doesn’t [...]

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Flash

March 19th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Tablet

Apple cash on hand: $24 Billion Adobe market capitalization: 18.74B Apple can buy Adobe and have money left over to buy every employee a new Prius. When Apple says, “Shit,” Adobe should ask, “How much and what color?” … RIP Jerome York. … It’s humbling to note that when Harry Chapin was my age, he’d [...]

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WTF (What’s that for?)

March 18th, 2010 · No Comments · Madonna, Serious Stuff, Windows 7, iPad, iPhone, iPhone killer

The innertubes are abuzz with news about all the tablet computers that will give the iPad a run for its money. I can’t find a name for the HP Tablet. There was a prototype at CES, right? There has been a new version of Safari since then. The frigging thing should at least have a [...]

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