From the monthly archives: April 2008
Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke decided to open up a little on the band’s “pay what you want” experiment from last year:
“I think it was a one-off response to a particular situation… It was one of those things where we were in the position of everyone asking us [...]
Mozy, the online backup solution I use and have mentioned a couple times, is responding to HP’s Upline debacle in an interesting way. First, some background information:
Two weeks ago, HP released HP Upline, a service similar to Mozy that [...]
ExtremeTech has an article out today on “How To Fix PC Gaming Once and for All” that caught my eye. I may not exactly be a fan of PC gaming as it stands now, and although the author makes a lot of valid points (fix piracy problem, more PC gaming companies [...]
Slingvine is a free application that allows you to send files over the Internet. For me, it felt like a replacement to email attachments. Here’s how it works:
You download and install the client on your computer. Then you right click on any file or folder in [...]
After many years in a Windows world, I recently purchased a Mac Pro, and have been very happy with my choice. There were many reasons for this move, but suffice it to say that I think Apple has some great products, and I’m really not impressed with Vista.
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Human mind evolved for many millions years keeping the sense of risk that advice ed us stay alive running from predators and hiding from computer threats. On one side, this million-year experience makes our sense of risk a pretty good one, since it assistance ed us to survive during many millions years of evolution, but on the other side, the term risk sounds a little bit exaggerated especially when quoted by Net security expert engineer s of today.
I may be alone on this one, but I just noticed a small pattern in my CD shopping habits. Here’s an example:
Over the past couple years, I’ve come to love music from the band Muse. British rockers with some serious talent, they have a great sound that [...]
So I had an extra that Amazon gave me for buying an HD DVD player and was interested in getting a new mouse for my computer. For my day-to-day computing needs, I’m a laptop user all the way (and have been since 2001) but still prefer [...]
Market research firm NPD Group issued a report today explaining that Amazon MP3 is growing but not taking away customers from Apple’s iTunes. It seems that only 10% of Amazon MP3 shoppers in February were iTunes shoppers previously.
Video Comments Are Here: This Could Be Huge… Or a Flop
TechCrunch made the announcement today that all of its blogs will have the option for you to leave video comments via a service called Seesmic. It’s a powerful idea with a dead simple execution. As a result, comments are now a mix of text [...]