April 2006
The Archives
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04.30.06Links for Sunday 30th of April 2006TechBlog: Dell offers to delete its junkware Techdirt: Spam King Rumored To Be In Jail As Spam Underworld Worries... Make You Go Hmm: » Attempted to drop DSL for cable for our offline business yesterday
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04.29.06Links for Saturday 29th of April 2006Night Flight Training Completed (by Jeremy Zawodny) jkOnTheRun: BitLocker Encryption in Vista: good for mobile PCs, bad for dual-booting Henner Malchert - artmac - Mac mini SATA mod Second Annual MySpace Stupid Haircut Awards Did Nintendo Punk Us with Wii? - Kotaku Mobile Desktop : MobileWhack.com Insecurity Assessment - The Daily WTF
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04.28.06Go Play with Your WiiWhat is in a name? When it comes to marketing a next generation console, I would imagine quite a lot. Nintendo's choice of name for its new console is certainly a popular topic around the Internet at the moment, but is this really a marketing blunder? Look at it this way, just because Nintendo chose a, in my opinion, ridiculous name, it is getting a lot of coverage for its new console. Not just on gaming sites, but there are blogs and news sites everywhere that are giving it hell for this. All of this is getting the Wii into the ...
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04.27.06Links for Thursday 27th of April 2006See into S60: Why some new S60 devices still using 2nd Edition? jkOnTheRun: Microsoft relaxing DRM on audio files Flock pre-Cardinal Update at D’Arcy Norman Dot Net Feld Thoughts YouTube - Tetris Final Game Challenge - A must see, this guy is incredible!
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04.26.06A SentenceSure Kent, I'll play. Here are the instructions: Grab the nearest book. Open it to page 161. Find the fifth sentence. Post the text of the sentence along with these instructions. Don't search around and look for the coolest book you can find. Do what's actually next to you. My sentence is: "We've seen conditional statements and loop statements in this book already, and they were introduced in Chapter 1, but this is the chapter where we nail down all the facts on these statements." It's a C++ book, and page 161 is the very early stages of the language. I haven't picked up the book in ...
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04.26.06Links for Wednesday 26th of April 2006Make You Go Hmm: » The change country trick to try out Yahoo Mail beta YouTube - Fast OS Switching
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04.25.06Links for Tuesday 25th of April 2006Palais Ideal - Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals) Get Your Blog Noticed! -- Alec Saunders .LOG SvenOnTech - Leopard to Run Windows Apps via API Just Like OS/2 Did Google Analytics and Feedburner Reports plugin for WordPress : tan tan noodles - msg free since 2005 Nokia N80 review - infoSync World
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04.24.06Links for Monday 24th of April 2006Fishbitt Ed Bott's Windows Expertise » Vista versions: maybe not so confusing after all Self-Stirring Cup Sidebar Geek : Windows Vista Build 5365 - Beta 2 Preview MAKE: Blog: DIY GPS tracking with Mologogo - review
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04.23.06Motorola’s Shock Alert - Prior Art?I received an email from Daniel Holth this morning, pointing me to this page on Halfbakery. It seems as though he described almost the same device as the Motorola shock alert system for mobile phones that was patented a couple of days ago, back in July 2004. See my article on MobileBurn about the patent here. I wonder if something like this can be used as prior art?
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04.23.06Does The Register Know it Sucks?I'll admit that I'm not the biggest fan of The Register - its style, ethics, or content - but I will also admit that this letter that was sent in to them is taking it a little far. Sure, write in to have your say, but keep it civilised. The thing that really strikes me as amusing though, is that The Reg just posts the letter, teases it a little, and invites more of the same. Is it just me, or should the folks over there be looking into the reason why they are receiving letters like this in the first ...