Archive for the 'Rants & Raves' Category

David Pogue reviews the Blackberry Storm

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008, by moose

State of the Art - BlackBerry Storm Downgraded to a Depression - NYTimes.com:
But I’ve got a better name for it: the BlackBerry Dud.
Even the title is pretty funny…

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iPhone OS 2.2: changes to Safari’s UI [UPDATED]

Friday, November 21st, 2008, by moose

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 [...]

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What if? “The Matrix Runs on Windows”

Monday, November 10th, 2008, by moose

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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Google Android: some kind of psychedelic drug?

Thursday, October 16th, 2008, by moose

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 [...]

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Spot the idiot : Why 7?

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008, by moose

Windows Vista Team Blog : Why 7?:
So we decided to ship the Windows 7 code as Windows 6.1
Makes sense, uh?

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The uncanny valley has finally been crossed…

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008, by moose

… and it gives me the creeps.

(Via photoshelter .)

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Afterthought

Friday, August 22nd, 2008, by kurisu

What’s with the funny title, since I haven’t been posting here in two years, you ask ?
Well, I’m referring to Japanese language support on the iPhone.
Back in the days of iPhone OS 1.1.4 (in Japan, available on the iPod Touch), the only way to input Japanese text was through the qwerty keypad interface, which was [...]

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MobileMeh [UPDATED]

Thursday, July 24th, 2008, by moose

So, mobileme…
I really wanted to like it… the idea is good, it looks nice… but it seems to be .Mac all over again.
I don’t care about the issue of the “push” not being real push and taking 15′ to propagate from my Mac to the “cloud”.
My problem is the sync with my iPhone. I subscribed [...]

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