BlackBerry Storm review - Engadget:
Going into this review, we really wanted to love this phone. On paper it sounds like the perfect antidote to our gripes about the iPhone, and in some ways it lives up to those promises — but more often than not while using the Storm, we felt let down or frustrated. [...]
So, iPhone OS has been updated to 2.2, and along with it came some changes in the Safari UI.
Am I the only one to find the new dual-field address bar rather inelegant?
Of course, it makes some sense in that it more closely resemble the UI of the desktop Safari, and it seems lots of people [...]
Apple Web Server notifications:
Summary
This article provides credit to people who have reported potential security issues in Apple’s web servers.
Nice to see Apple giving credit to security experts, especially in a dedicated tech note…
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The Matrix Runs on Windows - CollegeHumor video:
Pretty funny, and it’s amazing the level of quality these made-for-the-web spoofs can reach.
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Microsoft aims Windows 7 for 2009 holiday season | Beyond Binary - A blog by Ina Fried - CNET News:
In a technical session on Thursday afternoon, Microsoft provided the clearest public indication that it is planning on getting Windows 7 completed in time to run on PCs that ship for next year’s holiday buying season.
Fire [...]
Daring Fireball: More Notes on Notes:
What many Apple apps do is take a screenshot of the current display when you quit, and overwrite the default.png file inside the application bundle with that screenshot. Then when next you launch that app, you immediately see the entire contents of the screen from when you previously quit — [...]
Multicolr Search Lab - Idée Inc.:
We extracted the colours from 10 million of the most “interesting” Creative Commons images on Flickr. Using our visual similarity technology you can navigate the collection by colour
Now this is a brilliant idea…
(Via kottke.org.)
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You may remember a post on this very blog a while ago, where Walt Mossberg earned the dubious honour of a “Spot the idiot” entry. Basically he was blasting the phone for the whole review, then concluding it was a good phone. Go figure.
Well, looks like maybe Google is shipping some powerful recreative drugs with [...]