January 31st, 2010

Annoying Windows Installers (and Parallels for Mac)

Have you ever noticed a tendency for Windows application developers to assume that their software is the One True Reason that you have a computer? It puts an icon on your desktop, in your quick launch bar, at the top of the Start menu, and in a new program group in the Programs folder. [...]

January 29th, 2010

Starbucks recalls glass water bottles

Dear Customer:

In exchange for our product not lacerating your hands please accept a complimentary beverage of any size.

Starbucks Corp.

January 28th, 2010

Paying for all of these connected devices

If you are reading this on the Internet then you must know what the iPad is. Sure, there’s lots that could be written on that topic but really I’d like to write about mobile data.

We all have mobile phones, and almost all of them these days have data service. A lot of us [...]