Entries Tagged as 'Microsoft'

Microsoft isn’t cool enough for OS X

August 23rd, 2008 · 2 Comments

That’s why we can’t get the useless “Photosynth” app for our Macs. Maybe if they hired a comic spokesdroid from this century they could be cooler.
Dammit.

iPhone killer news:
Nokia N96 is reported as an iPhone killer in the India Times. Some of the features include…
A slide out numeric phone keypad (no qwerty)
16 GB of Flash memory […]

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Tags: General Detritus · Master Jobst Fimil · Microsoft · Scrabble · Vista sucks · iPhone · iPhone killer

Random Musings on the Day

August 22nd, 2008 · 2 Comments

An old AirPort Express that had been languishing in a box on a shelf now feeds an old stereo system and an old pair of speakers in the basement that had been languishing on other shelves.
Pretty cool.
As soon as I reauthorize my old MacBook, the basement will be reinvigorated as a rec room. Bitchin’.

The financial […]

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Tags: Gadgetry · General Detritus · Leopard · Microsoft · Operating Systems · Punditbots and Fundtards · The Stock Market · Vista sucks · iPhone · iPhone killer

iPhone Killer News

August 2nd, 2008 · 4 Comments

Nokia is going to launch yet another iPhone Killer.
This one is even better than the N95, so they put their branding geniuses in a high level meeting with their staff mathematician. They exerted the creative innovation of a proven world leader in mobile communications technology and named it (No. I’m not kidding) the N96.

You all think […]

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Tags: General Detritus · Malware · Microsoft · iPhone killer · iTunes Rivals

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July 30th, 2008 · 6 Comments

The news from Redmond is that Microsoft wants you to PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE try Vista. They promise it doesn’t really suck any more. Aw c’mon, really. Seriously. It can sit in a room now and … well okay … it might cause a couple of poorly installed windows to pop into the room, but mostly […]

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Tags: Gadgetry · General Detritus · Little Psystar · Microsoft · Punditbots and Fundtards · Vista sucks · iPhone killer

Last Mention of the Health of Steve Jobs on this Blog

July 29th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Shut up, half-wit, hit-mongering assholes. Okay? The fecking story is over. Go get a massage. Have a beer. Do some research and write about something real.
DOG Dammit all.

Microsoft has created a spherical computer display. It’s called (no, I’m not kidding) Sphere.
The notion that Microsoft doesn’t have balls has been dashed on the jagged rocks below. […]

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Tags: Gadgetry · Master Jobst Fimil · Microsoft · iPhone killer

Two Related Items (okay, three)

July 28th, 2008 · 13 Comments

Matt Asay, writing for C|Net notes that Steve Jobs doesn’t get near the whipping he deserves in the media. He called Joe Nocera a slime bucket and gets a pass. Matt opines that Steve Ballmer would have been drawn and quartered by the press for such a move.
He’s probably right.
The press wants review copies of […]

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Tags: Apple TV · Follies of Humanity · General Detritus · Microsoft · Operating Systems · Predictions · Punditbots and Fundtards · Vista sucks · Zune · iPhone