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

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"

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 your inbox at least every day. Those emails that can be deleted get deleted, those that need action either get immediate action or ...

Origami Stumps CEOs in failed Jobs-style presentation

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 have been promoting their joint project ‘Origami’ mini-laptop PC since they first showed it last month. In fact, the new PC proved to ...

Windows vista delayed to 2007

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 more | digg story

Gates Mocks MIT's $100 Laptop

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 want to do for a shared use computer is have it be something without a disk … and with a tiny little screen,’ ...

Moore's Law… "I'm Not Dead"

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 ready to give up on Moore’s Law. Numerous editorials have been written about Moore’s law being dead. In scenes that mimic Monty Python ...

Waterfall 2006

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 companies, particularly internet companies, by a more incremental approach: code one feature, test that feature, ship, go for coffee, repeat. I like the ...

Abbott and Costello do Windows

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 computers, please read on… If Bud Abbott and Lou Costello were alive today, their infamous sketch, “Who’ s on First?” might have turned ...

Is Commodore poised for a comeback?

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 company is hoping it can tap the power of the VIC 20, the PET and the Commodore 64 to launch a new wave ...

Spell Chequer

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 eye am wrong oar write?It shows me strait a weigh.?As soon as a mist ache is maid It nose bee fore two long?And ...