IT Director for a non-profit in Washington, DC. Man About Internet.
As a longtime Windows guy who has recently migrated to the Mac, I think I'm in a pretty good position to try and sort out reality from fiction. Let's take a look at what you can really get for your money these days.
We've gotten copies of the full iPhone Training manual provided to AT&T employees that gives us a few more details about Apple's iPhone. This sales guide presents iPhone features and benefits, tips, comparisons, qualifying questions, and objectio...
Filed under: Software, Internet Tools
You either love or hate Twitter, the simple web phenom that asks, 'What are you doing?' We here at TUAW are unabashedly in the 'love' column, and our love for Twitter is greatly enhanced by the Iconfactory's free Twitter client, Twitterrific.We wrote about the Twitterrific 2.1 Beta not too long ago, and now the final version of Twitterriffic 2.1 is available for download. New in 2.1 are:
(Via TUAW.)
Filed under: OS, Software, Productivity
After teasing us by announcing a release candidate for beta testers (and a sale that is now over) and posting videos of Quake 4 - a very resource-intensive game - running impressively well in Parallels, this powerful new v3.0 of the leading virtualization suite for Mac OS X has been released. Offering significant new features like we already mentioned, such as the highly-anticipated 3D acceleration (XP for now, Vista to come) and SmartSelect for specifying files types to open in apps across virtualized OSes, this could easily be called the most significant release of Parallels since the advent of Coherence Mode.
(Via TUAW.)
Something Awful has a flat out hilarious (if somewhat long in the introduction) article on the nerd bias of wikipedia. The point isn’t to say that one article or another on Wikipedia has factual inaccuracies, but rather to show how much more attention certain topics get than others. They suggest opening up two somewhat related articles, where one appeals to the nerds and the other does not, and see how much longer and more complete the nerd-related entries are. Some of my favorites are below. If you want the quick results, just click on Lightsaber Combat and you’ll get the point (”The master practitioners of Form IV make extensive use of acrobatic maneuvers often thought physically impossible without the aid of the Force.”). People contribute to articles they care about. And Wikipedia’s community cares about light sabres, fantasy characters, video games and acne.
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(Via TechCrunch.)
Xeni Jardin:
Recently here on BoingBoing, my co-editor Mark has been chronicling an internet-wide crusade to improve the quality of representational popsicles.
Earlier today came proof that our collective will can change the edible world. We cheered as one, upon seeing this Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles treat in all its resplendent accuracy. At last, the MSM (mainstream sweets manufacturers) heard our cries!
Now, comrades, the time has come to take aim at cookie makers.
BoingBoing reader and fellow traveler Chuck7 sends the image above, and puts down his beer for a moment to type and testify:
Here is a hilarious well-frosted Johnny Depp cookie I found at the local 7-11 last night when I went up to get more beer: Link. They had 6 or 7 uniquely frosted Johnny Depp pirate cookies. I thought this cookie captured his essence pretty well.
These cookies we shall overcome, and when we've overcome, we will nom nom nom.
Previously on Boing Boing:
• Popsicle parody ad
• Bugs Bunny popsicle
• Tweety Bird popsicle doesn't look like Tweety Bird
• Turtle popsicle reflects pride in workmanship
(posted from the road in central america / xeni)
Reader comment: Nathan Seven says,
I thought the one looked rather gay myself, so I positioned them next to one another :) Link.
(Via Boing Boing.)
Our home-integrated and multi-monitor workspaces have their winners, and it looks like yesterday's top workspace is Jake Arakelian's Contrasting Colors workspace. Today it's time to pick a winner from our Battle of the organizers—a theme very near and dear to our hearts.
Hit the jump to check out the innovative organization-based workspaces and vote for your favorite.
Voting on this contest will close in 24 hours, so get your votes in. The winner will join Sunny and Cacti, the Cross Platform workstation, and Contrasting colors in Thursday's final vote-off to determine the winner of the $500 Amazon gift card.
If you're playing catch-up on the Coolest Workspace Contest, here's where we've been so far:
For more details on how we're narrowing down our winner, check out last Thursday's vote-off. Good luck contestants, and vote on!
(Via Lifehacker.)
via Techdirt.Over the past few years, the FCC's been increasing its efforts to regulate "indecent" programming -- both in terms of what it wants to regulate on broadcast television, but also by expanding the scope of its regulation to include cable. The FCC's indecency push (which it tries to justify with complaint stats inflated by form letters from activist groups) has been met with a lot of resistance from broadcasters, but also by courts who aren't happy with the Commission's vague guidelines and inconsistent policies. Yesterday, the FCC got a pretty significant smackdown from the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, which upheld the broadcasters' argument that its policy on "fleeting expletives" was invalid because it was "arbitrary and capricious". Essentially, the court said that the FCC can't simply change its stance without offering valid justification, and reversing 30 years of precedent requires a "reasoned basis" -- apparently "because we can, and 'cause we feel like it" isn't sufficient. While the court limited its ruling to the question of fleeting expletives, it added that it was skeptical the FCC could craft an argument that could pass constitutional muster, while also noting, like previous courts, that plenty of tools exist for parents to protect their children from objectionable programming. It seems likely that the FCC will appeal the case to the Supreme Court, but given the depth of the Circuit Court's opinion, a favorable outcome doesn't seem likely. As Adam Theirer notes, should the the wider constitutional issues come up in the appeal, the FCC could lose all of its powers to regulate indecent programming on public airwaves.