Posts Tagged ‘Software’

I told you so

Well, it’s not much of a secret that I’m an Apple Zealot. I admit it right away. Apple’s hardware and software far exceed that of any other company in the industry, no exceptions. A bit more recently this is starting to become a more common mindset. Hixie recently admitted how Mac [...]

Google’s got to get moving

Google supports a handful of file formats. Yahoo supports a fair amount of what I use on a normal basis. The biggest missing is Thunderbird and Firefox.
Now when is Google going to get updating? Are they going to let Yahoo come in and steal their thunder?

NVU 0.50 Released

NVU 0.50 has been released by Daniel Glazman. Awesome new build. Some cool new features. Spell Checking is my favorite (and hope to see it in Thunderbird soon).
My real pet pieve is this:

Spell checking invokes to early. It should invoke when you press space, or return, not when your still on [...]

Apple a Phone Service

Business Week’s Alex Salkever has an interesting article about Apple creating it’s own Skype like system. I’ve talked briefly about Skype before. I’m a huge fan. It’s a solid product. But Apple should take it to the next level. Allow me explain:
Ideally, for anything to become a good communication standard, [...]

The Politics of Tech

I’m not political, so here’s my political analysis geek style:
Republicans
Analysis

Prefer proprietary technology
Invalid HTML is universal across sites, minimal web standards)
Choice in media players (QuickTime, Windows Media, Real)

Cases
Republican National Committee
GOP
GeorgeWBush.com
Democrats
Analysis

Prefer Open Source (most of the time, especially DNC website)
Prefer Web Standards at times
Choice in media (Windows Media, Real, Quicktime)

Cases
Democratic National Committee
JohnKerry.com
Democratic National Convention 2004
Others
Analysis

Varied, platforms but [...]

Windows XP SP2

I installed Windows XP SP2 today (yes, a day early). More in a day or so, when I really get a chance to kick the tires.
So far, no issues to report.

Skype is pretty good

I rarely do software reviews, but thought I’d quickly give a mention to Skype.
Skype is not VoIP, but allows you to voice chat with other users. For free. But it’s better than it’s competitors.
AIM has “talk” but it doesn’t work behind any firewalls. Quality isn’t great. Yahoo works behind [...]

Firefox 0.9 Released

It’s out. Get it now.
Here’s an idea: everyone try and turn on at least 1 person to Firefox today. More if you can. Lets see how great M.O.’s FTP mirrors are! So come on, get someone who hasn’t used Firefox today to take the plunge. Tell them [...]

Finally, software for a great cause

Pizza via command line. Could it be any better than that?
Hopefully Domino’s in my area will support online ordering sometime in the future.
On the technical side, it’s written in perl, so it should run on most Operating Systems. I’m curious if someone will hook up a UI to it.
Yummy command line. I [...]

Thunderbird 0.6 is out

Title says it all. Download Now. Super good release, and it’s only getting better from here.
Now if only the new branding would make it into the trunk…