Computer thoughts and stories from Inside Chris’s head

MacBook Air, So Thin Your PC Laptop Will Get A Complex

Filed Under: Computers, Macintosh

A funny video that considers how your “big boned” PC laptop will feel when the MacBook Air is getting all that attention.

Inbox Zero and "Grocery Lists"

Filed Under: Computers

I enjoyed Merlin Man’s recent podcast on inbox zero from his visit to Google. The basic idea of inbox zero is that the best way to manage email is to clean out [...]

Origami Stumps CEOs in failed Jobs-style presentation

Filed Under: Computers, Macintosh

MacDailyNews points out in this article that not all CEOs are Steve Jobs and maybe some should just let someone else in the organization demo new products: “Samsung Electronics, Intel and Microsoft [...]

Windows vista delayed to 2007

Filed Under: Computers

Microsoft has delayed the release of its forthcoming Windows Vista operating system to 2007. And this is why they stopped putting the year into the name of the version of Windows. read [...]

Gates Mocks MIT's $100 Laptop

Filed Under: Computers

From Slashdot: QuietLagoon writes ‘Reuters is reporting that Bill Gates is making fun of the one laptop per child initiative to revolutionize how the world’s children are educated. ‘The last thing you [...]

Moore's Law… "I'm Not Dead"

Filed Under: Computers

For many years advances in computers and electronics have been driven by Moore’s Law that states that the number of transistors per square inch doubles roughly every 18 months. People have been [...]

Waterfall 2006

Filed Under: Computers

The traditional approach to software development is called a waterfall development model: code like crazy for months, test like crazy for a while, ship, collapse, repeat. That has been replaced in some [...]

Abbott and Costello do Windows

Filed Under: Computers, Humor

You have to be old enough to remember Abbott and Costello, and too old to REALLY understand computers, to fully appreciate this. For those of us who sometimes get flustered by our [...]

Is Commodore poised for a comeback?

Filed Under: Computers

Seriously, that is the title of an article on CNet.com. The once popular computer brand has been bought and a new company has been created with that name. A Dutch consumer media [...]

Spell Chequer

Filed Under: Computers, Humor

Eye halve a spelling chequer?It came with my pea sea?It plainly marques four my revue?Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.?Eye strike a key and type a word?And weight four it two say?Weather [...]